Our Nokia 6670 is a bit of a strange fish its a re work of the very popular 7610 which although popular as a fashion phone put off many buyers due to its sweeping keyboard and outlandish design. The 6670 is a more conservative design although it does stick with the re-sited  answer, yes/no buttons alongside the keypad rather than above.

Weighing 120g, this 109 x 53 x 21mm 6670 is 2mm thicker than the 7610 and it feels quite wide when held in the hand but not as wide as the Sony P800 / P900, plus you get a good sized screen thrown into the bargain. That 178 208 active TFT screen is essential for navigating the improved Nokia menus and also for accessing the multimedia functions, the only downside is hat the keyboard is a little cramped and may be tricky for those with big fingers.

The tri band phone offers very good RF performance hanging onto signals like a digital terrier and providing a very clear and loud handset speaker, plus a very useable speakerphone system which we've started to use for calls that would have previously been made clamped to our ears.

The Nokia 6670 is a symbian series 60 phone which opens the way for a whole host of applications from the expected calendar and contacts through the NetFront browser and onto a Real Player and series of trial applications.

We had a bit of a fight getting the Nokia to sync using its SyncML client software with Microsoft outlook, after downloading the latest version (6.5) from the Nokia website we managed to easily sync contacts by both the supplied USB pop port lead and also via Bluetooth connection.

The Bluetooth connectivity is also used for pairing with headsets and other audio extension devices, plus a range of data enabled systems like some GPS SatNav systems. Using the data connection over Bluetooth and the Nokias PC suite you are able to upload and download files to the 6670 this is essential for collecting the high quality images taken with the phones camera.

The camera is a 1 mega pixel unit taking images with 1,152 x 864 pixel resolution which if taken in good light really produce some very acceptable images, these can also be stored on the reduced size MMC card which sits under the phones battery. A 64mb card is supplied in the package along with an adaptor so it can be used in full size slots on your PC or other devices, the phones 8mb standard memory is a bit stingy and you'll soon be using the 64mb card.

Battery life is excellent as we've come to expect of any new phone on the market today, standby is rated at over 240 hours and 140 minutes talk time which is an improvement over the 7610.

There are the first attempts at some rather innovative software from Nokia, first up there's positioning which is like a freebie GPS system. It uses triangulation of phone cells to give you your position within 300 meters, which while not accurate enough for street maps will enable you to pinpoint local services like the nearest taxi rank.

Second up there's Nokia much trumpeted life blog software, this allows users to capture their thoughts in either images, sounds or text and blog them into their device where they can be directly unloaded or saved for later and then pushed to a users PC. We found this software to be very buggy at the moment and quite a chore to use, its a shame as we like the concept but its got some work yet if mobile blogging is to use Nokias software.

priced at £229 SIM free the Nokia 6670 is a talented phone which is suited to the corporate user who wants a bit more than a standard phone but can't work with the over stylish over complicated models. Nokia's menu system is not quite as simple as it used to be but given the extra number of functions that's hardly surprising.

Overall a very good all round phone that isn't overly complicated by features you won't use.

Published - 14/05/2005

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