While mobile phones keep changing their skin and interiors like they’re some kind of bizarre robotic alien life form, there’s something to be said for good old-fashioned quality design. It’s true that technological advancement is the name of the game nowadays, especially with all sorts of changes leading to newer and better platforms that are capable of cramming nigh-unlimited functionality into tinier and tinier frames. However, all this technological posturing is pointless if the phone at its core isn’t what the user truly needs. Thankfully, there are phones of all shapes and sizes out now, and there truly is something for almost everyone.
Nokia has been in the business of producing quality handsets for a variety of budgets and user types over the years. From music-centered handsets that have great speaker quality and high storage capacity for loading up on your favorite music, to business handsets endowed with powerful processors that allow for fast processing, quick contact and solid call and internet access from almost anywhere, to the basic handsets with a nominal base of features for users who don’t need all the bells and whistles, Nokia has had almost every type of user and budget covered. What’s more, their lower-end units are typically of the same quality as the higher-end ones.
However, the Nokia 2660 doesn’t quite score so well on that last note, and is more of a mixed bag than anything, really. It eschews the camera that almost every current phone model has – and throws most other features out the window at that, in favor of being a standard call and message package. While it has a great user-friendly design that fits Nokia’s standard MO and its call quality is serviceable, it’s not particularly study and it’s a good deal slower than it should be. Still, with reasonable audio quality, Bluetooth support and the typical Nokia handset’s ability to do its core job well, the 2660 isn’t a bad purchase on the whole for users who only need a phone for its basic features.
Even the phone’s appearance is as standard as it gets – the Nokia 2660 is a basic black and silver clamshell, retro even in its design, but nevertheless manages to be stylish, compact and portable as well. Its compactness may work against it though as it’s a little on the flimsy-feeling side and has a tiny external display with basic blue/white resolution. However, it’s serviceable – that’s quickly becoming the word for the phone in general – with basic date/time/signal strength/battery life indicators. The same can be said for the 160×120-pixel resolution of the 1.8-inch internal display, which is about as much of a throwback to older Nokia models as it gets these days. The interface is signature Nokia – intuitive, straightforward, simple.
The phone can hold 400 contacts, assign up to five numbers and an email address each along with a list of name notes, birth date and a street address. The phone book can match photos with contact names, which is something of an oddity on a non-camera phone. Aside from this, the mobile phone’s basic functions are represented in the 2660 – calling, texting, alarm clock, calendar, and so on, although Nokia have managed to include Bluetooth and a voice recorder with this model, as well as [somewhat clunky] instant messaging and mobile email via AT&T. Call quality is fairly good all in all, and signal strength is consistently good, so reception is also reasonably sound.
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