Nokia are making their way back from the wilderness of poor mobile phone design much like Boy George finally realising that those large hats are only suitable for Glastonbury.

The forthcoming Nokia 6630 Smartphone packs in the best of Nokias mobile technology without looking like an edam cheese, which is a great relief to everyone at Lordpercy.com who remembers when Nokia were the undisputed leaders in mobile technology.

So what technology makes the 6630 smart, well for starters there's a 1.3 mega pixel camera which also boasts a 6 x digital zoom, images can be stored on the phones onboard memory or the reduced size MMC slot, a bit of a shame that we have to use the non standard MMC cards but at least there is a way to increase capacity which is essential for a smartphone.

The 6630 is a series 60 smartphone and as such benefits from the rich development history of symbian which is now at version 8.0s and includes full Java support which means that many 3rd party developers are wiring for Nokia mobiles, the Nokia 6630 will be a real platform for these guys to write applications for due to both its size and capability. This is the first WCDMA/EDGE mobile from Nokia to make it production, supporting GPRS, EGPRS and WCDMA it is winning friends in the business community who are firm blackberry fans at present, all the hooks are there for the 6630 to be fully secured as part of a corporate network.

Plus measuring 110 x 60 x 20.6 mm and weighing 127 grams it doesn't suffer too much with the "I'm talking into an eighties pocket calculator effect" that everyone with a Blackberry has to endure when they try and make a call. Ergonomically it seems Nokia have got it just right and the 6630 is a pleasure to have in your mitts, despite it being larger than your average phone it doesn't feel unwieldy and still houses the 176 x 208 pixel resolution screen which is capable of a nice bight 65k colours. Nokia have also blessed this smartphone with a video capability presumably to make sure it appeals to leisure users as well as businesses, like the Sony Ericsson S700 you can store video direct to the MMC card capture is at 174 x 144 pixels or 128 x 96 pixels (QCIF or Sub QCIF) and the unit is capable of a maximum clip length of 1 hour.

Of course as a 3G phone (one of the few Nokia have made) you can hook the camera up directly as a 3GPP streaming device or store as MPEG-4 or Real video both of which are supported by the supplied software.

As a Smartphone the Nokia 6630 scores highly with SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 email support, plus a full HTML browser as well as a WAP browse, you can now access web forms correctly which makes mobile GPRS much more useable without a PDA connected. The arrival of EGRPS on networks will find the 6630 one of the few devices ready for the 236.8kbps download and 118.4kbps upload speeds.

Connectivity aside from the tri band and data capabilities include both Bluetooth and USB (pop port) which when combined with PC suite or Sync ML will allow easy synchronisation of our outlook and office utilities making the 6630 a possible PDA replacement.

The battery will last for a claimed 11 days on standby and give a 3 hour talk time, of course and smartphone will eat batteries when used in anger especially with a screen burning away and wireless connectivity like Bluetooth open.

All round the Nokia 6630 Smartphone looks like a tidy package and one that may be able to achieve two remarkable feats, first convince the business sector that they can ditch the corporate blackberry and secondly make smart phones cool enough to be seen on the street.

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