Is there a better 3G phone than the 6630???

i voted No.. but im looking now at Sharp 902 and it looks astounding!!

2 Megapixel Camera
TFT screen, 256K colors
Second external display 72 x 12 pixels
180 degree swiveling display

i kinda regret that i didnt get that, cause 6630 isnt that great looking and not terribly different than my 6600

Symbian OS is the main reason I think it's great smartphone 😊

up until now most 3g phones have been too big,bulky & ugly, imo the 6630 looks good has excellent features and of course Symbian OS, it would bee nice to have the 2nd camera for video calls though 😃

Right now I don't think the 6630 has any competition. The only thing that comes close is the Motorola A1000, but (in the UK at least) it's crippled by 3's software customisations and walled garden. And it looks like Anne Widdecombe's arse chewing a wasp.

The 6630 has its faults (bad ergonomics, iffy looks), but at the moment it's the best all-round package.

Although not a smartphone, the E1000 is a nice 3G phone. Has a decent camera, better quality screen than the 6630 and better video playback. Featurewise the E1000 is a packed phone. I personally choose the 6630 because I want a S60 3G phone and the 6630 fits the bill spot on.

I looked at this 1 and feature wise it looks impressive but 2 things, 1 is its sharp and thats not something that makes me enthusiastic about it and secondly the user interface is not great. I dont think anyone other than symbian and microsoft can make as powerful and customisable operating system. I do honestly believe that before long Microsoft will take over the mobile phone industry with their mobile operating system and when they do it will be a very sad day!!

drchris wrote:i voted No.. but im looking now at Sharp 902 and it looks astounding!!

2 Megapixel Camera
TFT screen, 256K colors
Second external display 72 x 12 pixels
180 degree swiveling display

i kinda regret that i didnt get that, cause 6630 isnt that great looking and not terribly different than my 6600

mikeday83 wrote: I do honestly believe that before long Microsoft will take over the mobile phone industry with their mobile operating system and when they do it will be a very sad day!!

Nah, if they really pushed it a couple of years ago whe the first Series 60 and MS Smartphone devices were appearing then they might have had a chance, but Symbian has a massive market share now and there's no sign of the tide of Symbian devices receding.

But that's for another forum.

As for that Sharp phone, yes it has a great screen and a 2MP camera with optical zoom... and that's about it. Someone that's used a smartphone before will get bored of it in 3 seconds flat.

I'm now on my 7th (!) 6630 on t-mobile. My first one went great for about 3 weeks, then powered down when I was listening to some music and sending an mms at the same time. I gave it the benefit of the doubt that in some way I'd slightly overloaded the processor, gave it a couple of seconds and attempted to power it up. To no avail. The 'Nokia' screen would come up as it attempted to boot, then would 'cream out' before trying to reboot again. It could quite easily have kept doing this until the battery drained. I took it back into the t-mobile store the next day and they were very helpful and gave me a new one, whilst I retained my original memory card. After putting my SIM, MMC and original battery into the phone, I, naturally enough, attempted to boot the phone up. To no avail. This one wouldn't go past the 'Nokia' screen and started to 'cream out' as the first one had. Luckily, this was still in the shop, so the store manager presented me with another phone, but this time giving me a new battery instead of the old one. I turned it on in the shop and there were no issues and I headed for Starbucks before going to work. Over my latte or whatever, I decided to restore the phone from the MMC, which tragically caused the phone to cream out and reboot instantly without restoring. It then booted up alright, but I wasn't prepared to take the chance again. Also, I couldn't text or get into some of the phone's apps, such as notes or calender. So back I went to t-mobile. This time I was given a completely new MMC and the other one went to t-mobile. I was prepared to accept that maybe some of the installed programs (Blacklist, the odd theme, Autolock, all for the 6600) might have played some part in the buggering up of the previous phones and genuinely didn't want to believe that it was an inherent fault with the phone as when it works, it's very, very good. So I was given another phone, which pretty much was OK for two weeks, although it had rebooted itself on the second day of having it, but again, I gave it the benefit of the doubt, partially because I wanted to believe but also because I thought that the t-mobile bloke must have been thinking that I was taking the piss in some weird way that he couldn't fathom. However, that 6630 also failed in much the same way, but this time, taking my spare 6600 with it, after trying to put the 6630 MMC with the adaptor into the 6600 and trying to restore to the phone from it. It now sits dormant, as any attempts to put a SIM into it results in a 'system error' message and nothing else. Back I went to t-mobile with the 6630 and was given a new phone, new battery, new MMC. That phone failed to let me send texts, open my notes, view my contacts etc and, in a new twist, would reboot as soon as I acheived a bluetooth connection with my lady's Samsung D500. So, back to t-mobile, less than an hour later. There were no 6630's left in the shop by now, so he asked me to hold onto it and come back on Tuesday, so that he could talk to his area manager and see what could be done. With t-mobile, I can really only keep getting the same type of phone, rather than a better one and I wasn't really up for downgrading, as it's not really my fault if the phone's issues mean that I have to keep replacing it, over and over. On the Tuesday, I took the duff phone back and was given another 6630, but we agreed that the one constant in all of this, the SIM, should also be replaced and another one was ordered, rather than take one there and then, which meant that I kept my number, rather than lose it. At the moment, the newest phone is sitting inert in my bedroom, the old SIM symbolically sitting atop it. I haven't dared to put it in to the thing and I'm still waiting for the new card to arrive through the post but we appear to have The Worst Postman who seems to take a lot of my mail back to his house and keep it there for, oh, a week or so before getting round to delivering it (I had to complain to the Royal Mail recently). T-mobile waived the �10 charge for replacing the SIM< which was good of them, but it's 8 days now since the penultimate phone shat the bed and I haven't been able to use any of their services since, even though I'm still paying line rental, which sucks. I have been given the option of upgrading to a Sony Ericsson P910, which I'm grateful for, as t-mobile aren't known for the flexibility, from what I understand and I'm almost 100% positive that this new phone will fail on me but I so want it to work as it's a fantastic piece of technology and the broadband-esque speeds really are the cherry on top, but godamnit, I'm getting a bit over with all this back and forth rigmarole. The guy in the shop swears blind that they have sold 'loads' of these phones and that I'm the only one to return one or have problems but I have trouble believing that after doing a bit of research on the 'net and it's slightly heartening to know that it's not my actions that are causing the phone to fail.

Surely Nokia should have diagnosed these myriad problems prior to releasing the phone?

dude.......i thin i can correctly diagnose youre problem......you just have a really really bad case of bad luck!!!

fixxlevy wrote:I'm now on my 7th (!) 6630 on t-mobile. My first one went great for about 3 weeks, then powered down when I was listening to some music and sending an mms at the same time. I gave it the benefit of the doubt that in some way I'd slightly overloaded the processor, gave it a couple of seconds and attempted to power it up. To no avail. The 'Nokia' screen would come up as it attempted to boot, then would 'cream out' before trying to reboot again. It could quite easily have kept doing this until the battery drained. I took it back into the t-mobile store the next day and they were very helpful and gave me a new one, whilst I retained my original memory card. After putting my SIM, MMC and original battery into the phone, I, naturally enough, attempted to boot the phone up. To no avail. This one wouldn't go past the 'Nokia' screen and started to 'cream out' as the first one had. Luckily, this was still in the shop, so the store manager presented me with another phone, but this time giving me a new battery instead of the old one. I turned it on in the shop and there were no issues and I headed for Starbucks before going to work. Over my latte or whatever, I decided to restore the phone from the MMC, which tragically caused the phone to cream out and reboot instantly without restoring. It then booted up alright, but I wasn't prepared to take the chance again. Also, I couldn't text or get into some of the phone's apps, such as notes or calender. So back I went to t-mobile. This time I was given a completely new MMC and the other one went to t-mobile. I was prepared to accept that maybe some of the installed programs (Blacklist, the odd theme, Autolock, all for the 6600) might have played some part in the buggering up of the previous phones and genuinely didn't want to believe that it was an inherent fault with the phone as when it works, it's very, very good. So I was given another phone, which pretty much was OK for two weeks, although it had rebooted itself on the second day of having it, but again, I gave it the benefit of the doubt, partially because I wanted to believe but also because I thought that the t-mobile bloke must have been thinking that I was taking the piss in some weird way that he couldn't fathom. However, that 6630 also failed in much the same way, but this time, taking my spare 6600 with it, after trying to put the 6630 MMC with the adaptor into the 6600 and trying to restore to the phone from it. It now sits dormant, as any attempts to put a SIM into it results in a 'system error' message and nothing else. Back I went to t-mobile with the 6630 and was given a new phone, new battery, new MMC. That phone failed to let me send texts, open my notes, view my contacts etc and, in a new twist, would reboot as soon as I acheived a bluetooth connection with my lady's Samsung D500. So, back to t-mobile, less than an hour later. There were no 6630's left in the shop by now, so he asked me to hold onto it and come back on Tuesday, so that he could talk to his area manager and see what could be done. With t-mobile, I can really only keep getting the same type of phone, rather than a better one and I wasn't really up for downgrading, as it's not really my fault if the phone's issues mean that I have to keep replacing it, over and over. On the Tuesday, I took the duff phone back and was given another 6630, but we agreed that the one constant in all of this, the SIM, should also be replaced and another one was ordered, rather than take one there and then, which meant that I kept my number, rather than lose it. At the moment, the newest phone is sitting inert in my bedroom, the old SIM symbolically sitting atop it. I haven't dared to put it in to the thing and I'm still waiting for the new card to arrive through the post but we appear to have The Worst Postman who seems to take a lot of my mail back to his house and keep it there for, oh, a week or so before getting round to delivering it (I had to complain to the Royal Mail recently). T-mobile waived the �10 charge for replacing the SIM< which was good of them, but it's 8 days now since the penultimate phone shat the bed and I haven't been able to use any of their services since, even though I'm still paying line rental, which sucks. I have been given the option of upgrading to a Sony Ericsson P910, which I'm grateful for, as t-mobile aren't known for the flexibility, from what I understand and I'm almost 100% positive that this new phone will fail on me but I so want it to work as it's a fantastic piece of technology and the broadband-esque speeds really are the cherry on top, but godamnit, I'm getting a bit over with all this back and forth rigmarole. The guy in the shop swears blind that they have sold 'loads' of these phones and that I'm the only one to return one or have problems but I have trouble believing that after doing a bit of research on the 'net and it's slightly heartening to know that it's not my actions that are causing the phone to fail.

Surely Nokia should have diagnosed these myriad problems prior to releasing the phone?

It looks like everything is caused by your MMC card? :tongue:

gauravdc wrote:dude.......i thin i can correctly diagnose youre problem......you just have a really really bad case of bad luck!!!

i couldnt agree more,sorry to hr about yr problems 😡 i have 3 x 6630 😃 2 on voda & one generic & have not had any problems at all 😃

Any that work. Had nothing but problems with 6630. OK for 1 month then rejected memory card Wouldn't accept it till reformatted. Told common fault. Next it crashed and wouldn't restart. Offered new 6630 but told em would stick with my good old 6600 till offered me a phone i could trust. Still waitin. Lost loads of data, pics etc cause of 6630. Stored everything on card until crashed then stored everything on phone and it crashed. Hadn't got round to backing up on pc.