MESEDILLA STUDIOS v9.0

Nokia’s latest 3G phone offers video call… Nokia 6680.

It feels and looks similar to a Nokia 7650. Since it is a Symbian phone it doesn’t have much difference to other Nokia Symbian phones except for the video call.

My friends and I have been playing with it especially with the two cameras. They said it was not so much different to my old Nokia 7650. And I agree, I don’t see any new development except for the MMCard and the video call. However, we were quite impressed with the quality of the photos despite the low lighting. The sequence shots with complimentary flashes really help a lot.

You don’t have to buy this phone yet. Why? Most telcos don’t have 3G capabilities yet for the video call. It’s a nice phone to have but not a necessity.

Some Features

• Two integrated digital cameras: 1.3 megapixel back camera and a 0.3 megapixel front camera
• Two-way video calls and see face-to-face as you talk in real time
• Video sharing capability
• High-resolution, 262,144-color display
• Capture quality images and video
• 10MB built-in memory
• Hot-swappable MultiMediaCard (MMC) capable
• Bluetooth wireless technology
• Fast WCDMA and EDGE connections for broadband-speed browsing plus tri-band GSM phone with global roaming capability
• Music player with stereo audio

Sample Night Photo:

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My company gave me another phone to test, Siemens S65. According to Howie Ticzon, our Handsets and Sims Expert, this is one of the first phone to have an integrated 1.3 Mega pixel digital camera. He gave this phone to me so I can test the camera features and its usability.

It is quite big compared to the other phones I’ve been testing. However, it does fit in my palm. And it looks quite impressive. More like a yuppie type of phone.

I am not impressed with the phone’s large 65,000 color display. The images are distorted. Okay, the images are sharp and you won’t probably notice the distortion much. But what made me notice was one photo I had with Katrina Halili, my left eye looked half the size of my right eye. And I know my eyes are of the same size.

The 1.3 Mega pixel digital camera is VERY DISAPPOINTING! Nokia 7650 captures better photos than this. The Nokia 7650 may not sport a 1.3 Mega pixel camera and it might be a little blurry, at least the photo is smoother. The Siemens S65 captures photos full of dots. I wouldn’t take photos with it including take videos.

Games, now this is THE ONLY phone that has a built-in game that I truly love… WORMS! I have always spent a lot of my college time just playing this simple game. It is very addicting. Now that I can play it in a mobile phone means I can relive my past gaming addictions. Oh yeah, Siemens also added 2 built-in games, Battleship and Siemends 3D Rally. Both are equally good.

The Siemens S65 can also be fitted with the packaged 32MB external memory card. Now that’s plenty of space to put data into.

Messaging is quite acceptable. You can even send to multiple recipients in one sending. It just doesn’t have an outbox. There is an unsent folder but it doesn’t use it the way I hoped it would. So if sending a message fails you have to manually send it again.

It has the basic organizer feature set like calendar, tasks, notes, calculator, world time, voice recorder, and appointments.

Overall, the phone is acceptable. It has a lot of good functionalities that balances the bad ones. But if these good functionalities can be found in other phones with exceptional features, then why buy the Siemens S65? Well, it’s probably because you want to look great like Brad Pitt who used it in his latest movie, Ocean’s Twelve. Hehehe! But that’s another story.

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