Nokia 1606
Phone Design
This feature-packed phone is light with its 76-gram frame. It has a clamshell design with two phone displays – the internal display is 262k colors TFT with 128 x 160 pixels, while the external display is a monochrome TFT with only 96 x 32 pixels.
Productivity Features
The voice recorder allows for a number of useful productivity features. It can voice-dial in the speakerphone mode and users can create voice recordings to insert into the calendar feature or use them as alarm clock tones. Users can save these recordings in its built-in 8 MB of memory.
Other Phone Features
It offers no camera or video, just good old messaging services such as SMS, MMS and instant messaging plus web browsing. Its voice recorder and hands-free speakerphone offer convenience when talking with your friends. It also converts into a handy flashlight even when it is turned off - very useful feature when in dark areas.
Connectivity Options
The Nokia 1606 phone is a novel entry in the CDMA market. It supports quad band CDMA, which means that it will work across four different mobile frequency bands: 800, 1700, 1900, and 2100 MHz.
Pros
- Rigidly designed
- Reliable
- Focused on the important basic services: voice and data messaging
Cons
- The phone has a limited talk time at 3.5 to 4 hours with about 10 days standby time.
- Voice memo recordings are a bit wavy in quality.
- Although the phone design is sleek and stylish, the phone graphics and fonts are not that good and are just mediocre as compared to other similar phones in the market.
Overall
This clamshell phone has a sturdy yet sleek design. It houses the basic necessities in mobile service in a time when everybody seems to go agog for special features. A useful phone to have if you are content to have the basics.
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