Nokia 6680 was introduced in 2005 Q1. All About Symbian reviews the Nokia 6680 and writes about Operating System, “the 6680 uses Symbian OS 8.0a and Series 60 v2.6. Like the 6630 before it, the 6680 supports ‘Themes’, skinning the entire user interface in just a couple of seconds, which is great fun and doesn’t seem to slow anything down. Although on the face of it, Series 60 doesn’t seem to have changed much over the last three years, it’s a salutary experience going back and playing with an early model such as the Nokia 7650, the 2001 equivalent of the 6680. A good proportion of the things we’re now taking for granted on modern smartphones simply aren’t there on the earlier version. Nokia don’t make a song and dance about the bits they’ve added, but they’re very obvious to anyone playing with a unit for more than a few minutes (active Standby screen, wrap-around menus, ‘Go to’, ‘Transfer’ ‘Connection manager’ and now ‘File manager’ come to mind).”

My Symbian reviews the Nokia 6680 and writes about hardware, “Just like 6630, the 6680 is equipped with a 220 MHz ARM9-based CPU, which makes them both the fastest Symbian OS based smartphones released so far. The size of internal storage memory (disk C:) is 10 MB and it can be expanded using Reduced Size Dual Voltage MMC cards (64 MB card is supplied with the phone). Cards are hot-swappable and you can access the slot without having to remove the back cover or battery like in many other Series 60 phones - just open a small metal door on the right side and slightly push the card for the spring mechanism to eject it. The 6680 has 20 MB operating memory of which about 9 MB is available.”

MobileBurn reviews the Nokia 6680 and writes about phone functionality, “The 6680 delivered excellent voice quality during calls. I did not experience any dropped calls or poor reception. However, the volume of the earpiece was a little too soft for my liking. Even at maximum volume I had a hard time hearing the other person - especially in noisy areas. The speakerphone function suffered the same problem, rendering it quite worthless. Funny thing though, it played MP3s and ringtones at deafening levels. This might be a firmware problem, and hopefully can be fixed easily. The 6680 is capable of video calls (if you are subscribed to 3G services), with the ability to share video clips during a call. I was not able to test this function, as I had no access to a 3G network.”

The Register talks about camera, “The first major and noticeable improvement is a forward facing camera in addition to the 1.3 megapixel camera on the back. Now you can make video calls without having to buy an additional cradle - or developing wrist-strain from trying to flip the 6630 round to see and be seen. The rear-facing camera is also protected by an active slide - opening it turns on the camera. As I discovered after taking numerous images of the inside of my jacket pocket, it remains active even when the keypad is locked. It may be useful for getting to the camera function quickly, but the option to turn it off would be helpful. There’s the addition of a flash and at short range, it’s actually quite effective. Another nice enhancement to the camera is the ability to change the white balance - surely one of the best things about digital photography and a rare feature on a camera phone up to now.”

Phoneyworld.com reviews the Nokia 6680 and writes, “The 6680 is literally loaded with functionality, I could begin the technical jargon by stating that The Nokia 6680 is a tri-band handset as shown on the right and comes loaded with Bluetooth wireless technology v.1.2, WAP 2.0 XHTML/HTML multimode browser, RealPlayer Media Player, Java MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1 etc. In case you could not make sense out of that then read on for easy explanations. ”

You can find an excellent Nokia 6680 mobile phone review at Pocket-lint.co.uk. Pocket-lint writes about nokia 6680 camera, “The first major and noticeable improvement is a forward facing camera in addition to the 1.3 megapixel main imaging unit at the rear. So now, you can video call without having to buy an additional cradle (or developing a nasty RSI in the wrist from trying to flip the 6630 round to see and be seen!). The rear camera is also protected by an active slide, which, I discovered after taking numerous candid images of the inside of my jacket pocket, remains active even when the keypad is locked. It may be useful for getting to the camera function quickly, but the option to turn it off would be helpful. There’s the addition of a flash and at short range, it’s actually quite effective. Another nice enhancement to the camera is the ability to change the white balance - surely one of the best things about digital photography and a rare feature on a camera phone up to now.”

CNET reports about “Oddly-sized buttons; VGA front camera; no radio; occasional menu slowdowns.”

3G writes about screen, “On the screen quality side, the 262K colour display with a resolution of 176 x 208 pixels works really well and gives a good experience. There is a light sensor ( ambient setting ) to automatically adjust brightness levels when the phone is not in use.”

Mobile-Review reviews the Nokia 6680 and writes, “The Nokia 6680 is a reworked version of the Nokia 6630, the models are based on the same hardware platform. We’ll discuss the differences starting with the design. The phone is available in two colour solutions - Light Bronze and Blue Silver (for the Nokia 6681 the colors are - Electric Blue, Pearl White, Light Silver). As different to the Nokia 6630 the body edging has a classical rectangular symmetrical drawing with rounding on the corners, the bottom expansions are absent (so called Nokia 6630’s “ears”). The keys rows are placed terrace-like resembling an arc. They are placed between the two vertical rows of silvery side buttons. We consider the design well-taken and one of the best among the smartphones with no touchscreen. Those not accepting the Nokia 6630’s design will certainly like the Nokia 6680. As smartphones take more and more place in the company’s line their design will become more consistent. Such models as Nokia 3230, Nokia 6680 and Nokia N70 are the examples.”

InfoSync talks about memory, “Like the 6630, the 6680 comes equipped with 10 MB of non-volatile memory, which is sufficient - but nothing more - in this day and age. A bundled 64 MB RS-MMC card provides additional storage and is also loaded with several high quality applications; we would certainly have preferred for several of these to be loaded into system memory, but expect most users will simply offload images and video periodically to a PC negating a potential memory crisis.
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