Nokia 6230

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Nokia 6230

Gagan Gupta, Apr 27, 2004 0000 hrs IST

Nokia has come out with a phone that may not only turn out to be the most successful phone this year

Excellent functions in a great sized phone, Great Multimedia functions

Some may find the screen a bit small

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Camera and Multimedia Functions
The functionality of this phone is so broad that I have to categorize it in different sections. One of the most appealing aspects of the phone is of course its inbuilt VGA camera, capable of shooting photos and also video clips with sound.

If you are a photography enthusiast who wants to make a masterpiece of every picture he clicks then a phone camera is definitely the wrong way to go. But if you're the type who likes to keep a camera handy to capture the random ridiculous moments happening around you, then the camera in the 6230 is more than satisfactory. The camera shoots at 640 x 480 pixels in three different modes. There's a standard mode, good enough for most situations except for lowlights. That's where the Night mode comes in, which greatly enhances the pictures taken in lowlight conditions as can be seen in the example below. Lastly there's a portrait mode (80 x 96 pixels), which is perfect for taking small sized facial shots via MMS.


Standard Mode	Night Mode

Video shooting is definitely one of my favourite features of this phone. To begin with, this one doesn't have the ridiculous 10 second video shooting limit that was there in the Nokia 6600, which means that you can easily shoot up to 4 minutes of video with sound on the 32 MB bundled MMC. And speaking of sound, the sound recording is just excellent on this one. Every video I recorded with people's voices was clear and perfectly audible. The videos can be sent via MMS or can be stored on your PC in 3GP format, which you can playback on the free Philips Platform4 player.

Other multimedia functions include an MP3/AAC player and a stereo FM Radio. You can store music files either on the 7 MB internal memory or the 32 MB MMC. Of course if 32 MB is not enough for you, you can always upgrade your MMC to 128 MB. The audio player comes with a preset graphic equalizer with options like Rock, Jazz, Pop, etc. to enhance the sound quality of the files.

The FM Radio requires the headset to be plugged-in at all times even if you intend on listening to it on the phone's loudspeaker, since the headset doubles up as a receiver.