Similar to Nokia 7650, the Nokia 6260 is the latest in a long line of Symbian series 60 phones. Nokia 6260 has the lid not only flips, but with a quick twist, it swivels round and folds back on itself. This is nothing new in PDAs and Laptops, Sony have been doing it on high end Clie's for years, but it’s the first time I have seen it on a phone. You can also stop the swivel halfway, and with the camera lens being on the side, the 6260 can be used like one of those mini video cameras with a flip out screen.
6260 - not too long, not too short
Tilted 75% - good with a keyboard in front of it
Camcorder mode
Flipped back
Under the battery cover on the back we find another first for Nokia, the reduced size memory card is hot swap-able, no more removing the battery to change cards. The phone is supplied with a 32mb memory card, and although Nokia only specify up to 128mb cards can be used, it would swallow a 512mb card and worked perfectly. Everything can be installed to a card, Ring tones, MP3 files, Video files, Images and Applications, so the internal memory can really be left well alone. The SIM card slides neatly under the memory card, but you do have to remove the battery to change this.
Camera functions are still the same as before. Again there is no exposure compensation available, so users can't tune too bright or dark pictures. The 6260 model features 2x digital zoom only, a possibility to choose small pictures format to a directory and it allows you to take pictures in night mode. Photos can be saved either in the internal memory or on the memory card. It's possible to select three quality levels; the highest level has produces extremely big files (low compression).
Normal picture taken
With 2x digital zoom. Now you can differentiate what is optical zoom, what is digital zoom in cameras
Nokia 6260 is a standard Series 60 mobile phone, the same as the 7610 model, and with some small exceptions is identical to Nokia 6600. But phones often differ from each other by sound quality during telephony. Nokia 6260 is not going to get good marks in this subject, because it can be heard quite strong noise of higher frequencies in the earphone. It's worse than Nokia 7610 which can be compared it straight to. Call volume is sufficient but loud handsfree is also well heard.
Nokia can play polyphonic melodies with 48 voices, but it's more impressive to use an MP3 file as a ringtone.
One of the key innovations comparing to the previous models is the choice of music functions. Nokia 6260 features an integrated stereophonic radio and headphones are delivered straight in the package. The headphones must be connected also if you listen to the radio over a loudspeaker because they work also as an antenna. It seems that the Pop-port connector is not well designed because it's not holding the plug really steady and sometimes the sound comes from the one earphone only. You can tune stations in range from 87,5 to 108,0 MHz, and you can save your favorite frequencies; tuning can be set to manual or automatic and a function for saving all accessible stations is also available.
I am sure you want to know more about the MP3 playback. The first point is that both earphones play and the phone doesn't take those as an unsupported accessory. That wasn't possible with previous Nokia 7610 and 6670 models. Neither the integrated RealPlayer nor the Ultra MP3 program was able to play MP3 files in stereo - just mono. It's a pity, but the important thing is that in case of Ultra MP3 the sound quality is good enough. So, Nokia 6260 isn't still a full music phone, but the radio is useful and we can rate the MP3 Player as usable.
As common in today's mobile technology, users can write SMS, MMS, emails. Instant messaging and T9 dictionary are also available. It's interesting that the email client supports some of the office formats. Word documents and PowerPoint presentations can be open straight thanks to the new QuickWord and QuickPoint applications. Also you can read PDF files, but the PDF+ application is just a trial version in the phone - after the third run you have to buy and register it. Attachment in ZIP format can be done by installing a ProfiExplorer that handles ZIP files.
Also available in sleek black
In the mobile's memory, on the card and even on the delivered CD there is not an Opera Internet browser which Nokia added to its smartphones lately. The internal WAP browser can handle web pages but it can't reach the quality of Opera or NetFront, which would appear with next Nokia phones, such as the Nokia 6670.
It's a very good phone - maybe the best in the class. Against other models it misses only a megapixel camera, on the other hand it features an integrated radio and it can be used as an MP3 player, partially. Nokia 6260 is a very good mobile phone for users, who are interested in functions and design as well, but it comes at a price.
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