An Office folder brings up welcome icons for the various Quickoffice components, plus Adobe PDF viewer and Info Print, a HP utility to print PIM data to one of their Bluetooth printers. A generic IM client is useful to have, but will depend on the specific support offered by your network provider. These progress fairly slowly, but would be pitched at about the right level for a beginner. There's a rather good Tutorial application, divided into dozens of slideshow lessons. While this does slow up if you store too many items on the smartphone, most people are going to be archiving new pictures off onto their PC using the 'Image store' feature of PC Suite, so this is unlikely to be a big issue. Gallery is (mainly) your centre for images and videos, presenting them all in a carousel arrangement of thumbnails. This is probably your 'home' on the smartphone, presenting you with the essential telephony status (network, strength, date and time, etc), plus shortcuts to your five most used applications and a summary of your Calendar entries for today. As ever, it's easy to shuffle icons around and put the application shortcuts exactly where you want them.Īs with the 6680 before it, there's an 'Active standby' screen. Interestingly, third party applications that you install appear in a new folder 'My own', an innovation for Feature Pack 3 that stops the top level application list becoming unmanageably large. Clock and File manager will also be useful to many. Contacts, Calendar, Notes, Tasks and Messaging, all syncing nicely over to Outlook using the latest PC Suite. The core S60 applications are here, of course. The icons and general presentation have been improved (again) with Feature Pack 3 and, as ever, it's fun to apply a different theme (four are supplied, but there are dozens more on the Internet) and get a whole new, fresh look to your phone. Still, the S60 interface looks prettier than ever. The N70 runs Series 60 v2 Feature Pack 3, which means it has all the latest OS support for different, higher screen resolutions, landscape mode, new input methods, and so on - except that it doesn't take advantage of any of them, which seems something of a waste. The N70 has a virtually identical slide, with similar observations. Yes, it protected the lens and provided a quick way to launch the Camera application, but it also added quite a bit of extra bulk. In addition, the 6680 introduced a sliding camera cover that was very much a personal taste thing. Nokia adapters had become so ubiquitous in the modern world that we've taken their presence for granted, but you're going to have to stop and think from now on. Of course, there's an adapter in the box, so that you can use older adapters than you come across in your travels, but it's a bit of a pain having to remember to bring this with you.
The familiar Nokia charging socket, common to every phone of theirs since the dawn of time, has been changed to a thinner pin size. And the N70 is arguably smaller than the 6630!Īll is not completely sweetness and light though, as there have been some changes which are perhaps not so welcome. The N70 is the current state of the art (amongst shipping devices, at least), bringing the spec up to date with 32MB (count 'em!) of free RAM, 21MB of free flash storage in its internal disk, a 2 Megapixel camera, near-VHS video recording and an FM radio. The Nokia 6630 was perhaps the base for the modern generation of smartphones, being the first with 3G and stereo music output, but the 6680 refined the concept further, at the expense of gotchas like having less RAM to run programs in. Mono sound has given way to stereo, keypad design has become more and more traditional, cameras have become higher and higher spec, GPRS has been augmented with 3G data, and so on.
Starting with the 3650/7610 generation, with their ugly and non-standard keypads, there has been a gradual refinement of what you and I want in a Series 60 phone. As has been noted elsewhere, there's a real pattern in the evolution of Nokia's standard 'candy bar' smartphones.
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