Nokia 6600 - Opinion Please!

LegacyUser · 11-12-2003 06:20PM

Didn't think it'd take that long between ireland and the UK. I presumed it would be a quick electronic check like through the machines in a petrol station. Oh well, looks like I won't be getting it til Wednesday now. Still though, can't be much worse than the length of time cd-wow.com and play.com are taking to deliver — of five packages from cdwow ordered eight working days ago, i've received two, and neither of the two from play.com. Dunno if its them or the desperate Irish postal service.

I'll expect explicit details on Monday of how you've gotten on with your new 6600.

dynamic.ie · 11-12-2003 06:30PM

The check in the petrol station and the check they do online when you input your credit card only does a couple of things:

1. is there enough money on the card
2. has this card been reported stolen
3. who is the issuer of the card

and a few more. It doesn't do an automatic check of name, address, etc. You have to actually ring the bank to get these. It's all to do with protection.

If I own a petrol station and you buy from me with your credit card, you sign a slip. If I receive a chargeback, I give that slip to the bank and they can't take the funds from me (most of the time).

If I own a online store and you buy from me, you don't sign anything. If I receive a chargeback, I have nothing with your signature to prove you actually made the purchase. However, by getting an authorisation form signed and getting copies of the card and statements OR by checking every detail you have given me, I am covered (most of the time).

Will tell you how I get on with the 6600 anyway. It better arrive tomorrow!

smiles · 12-12-2003 12:41AM

Getting mine next week,

score score score score score.

I dunno, I was a bit aprehensive, I love my 7650, but seems like a similar phone with **** loads of good stuff attached... so yeah.

<< Fio >>

LegacyUser · 12-12-2003 11:14AM

I'm still waiting for the card to clear.

I've just read about the Commodore 64, N-Gage, MSX etc emulators for the Symbian 60 series (hopefully I'm not treading on thin ice with this topic), presumably I need the nokia data cables (or data suite, whatever its called) to download them.

My questions are: How much do the cables cost?

Are they compatible and is the software compatible with my iMac?

BArra · 12-12-2003 11:29AM

they are £30 on expanys.com

but ebay has them waaaaay cheaper

dynamic.ie · 12-12-2003 04:03PM

Wahoo!! I got it!!

Arrived today at 12. That was good shipping time from www.mphone.co.uk. Ordered on Wednesday afternoon, card processed on thursday morning and arrived here today (friday). Class! Well impressed with that.

Only getting to grips with the phone and playing around with the features but it is class. Here's a quick run down but will give a more detailed one over the weekend:

- phone is cool, has os styles (like windows), loads of features
- pictures are better quality than 7650 and the digital zoom works very well.
- video works well and plays them using real one player. has sample videos too. I'm sure you can transfer different pc videos to it and play them on the phone. Will try over the weekend.
- pc suite works great. quick set up of 6600 to it via infrared and laptop. backed up my 7650 contacts and all that to the pc suite and then restored them to 6600. Hassle free transfer... cool! loads more on the pc suite but haven't played with it all yet.
- 32MB card with loads of free stuff and demos on it. There's a cool pinball game and mapping service so you can maps downloaded to the phone.

ok, got to go play with it some more. Give a more detailed review after the weekend.

First impressions... deadly!

Cheeurs, Dave

trap4 · 15-12-2003 12:53PM

Another Series 60 to give serious consideration to is the Siemens SX-1. Check out this enthusiastic AllAboutSymbian review.

Things I like about it are the hot swappable MMC and the Stereo FM Radio. Its release has been delayed on a number of occasions so I'm presuming that's an indication it's had the s***e tested out of it. Which should be good

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Jim.
http://mmsmemo.blogspot.com

rymus · 22-12-2003 06:33PM

I'll just drag up an old thread here.. don't mind me

Following suit with Dave's example, I finally ordered my 6600 this afternoon. A kind of christmas present to myself I suppose

Ho ho ho

dynamic.ie · 22-12-2003 06:35PM

Where did you buy from ryan? More importantly - how much?

rymus · 22-12-2003 06:43PM

My past experiences with them not withstanding... I decided to get it from expansys. It cost me €523. I would have gone into town and got one out of Carphone warehouse but after trying to contact any of their 4 outlets in Cork and being repeatedly hung up on I started to sour somewhat on that option.

I was going to order it from a cheaper supplier but at the end of the day the quicker fedex shipping sold it for me. I ordered it at 15:00, it shipped at 16:02 so the race is on to see if I'll have it by Wednesday evening...

(I'll have to re-register my fecking VAT number

)

smiles · 22-12-2003 11:49PM

Originally posted by Buckfast
ok, i've found it for 428 euro now on:

http://www.mobilefly.com/shopbag.php#rates

presumably there's no reason why this wouldn't work in ireland?

According to Carphone Warehouse, the wont be released here until Feb. maybe March (and that'll be sim free) at around 540euro.

Reason being that they're designed for WAP 2 which vodaphone doesn't support. (they didnt mention anything about O2)

Any issues with that lads?

<< Fio >>

rymus · 23-12-2003 12:05AM

I was told by Carphone Warehouse "order by phone" staff this morning that the sim free 6600 was now available in their stores, albeit in limited numbers.

Somebody is right...

No vodafone don't support WAP 2, at least not yet. If I'm going to be overly optimistic for a second, they'll have to update sooner rather than later if they want the newest phones with all their bells & whistles to work on their network, keeping them competitive. First quarter of 2004, if it's any later than that I'll be blaming the Irish telco gremlins.

ednwireland · 23-12-2003 12:54PM

whats the battery life like on the 6600 how does it compare to a 6310 for instance just wondering (hopefully the price will fall after christmas)

LegacyUser · 23-12-2003 01:18PM

In reply to the last question, I have mine from expansys for about a week. The battery is faulty and has to be returned ... with the phone before next Saturday. I asked them if the replacement might be faulty too, and the plain and simple answer was yes. Apparently, Nokia released a whole batch with batteries that show a full charge (after being charged) and then die for no reason.

I was on to Voda tech support last week, and they won't support it until "the end of February at the very earliest". GPRS works, but MMS, email etc won't (for me at least).

Rymus ... have u had any probs with the battery?

dynamic.ie · 23-12-2003 01:39PM

My battery is fine. There is a lot of functionality that kills the battery quiet quickly compared to other nokia models.

I got the following working: GPRS, EMAIL but not MMS. It must be the old wap causing the problems!

dynamic.ie · 23-12-2003 02:32PM

Found this on the Nokia Website... It might help:

http://www.nokia.com/phonesettings

Scroll down the page a bit and you can have settings sent to your phone for MMS, GPRS, EMAIL, etc. for your network.

6600 isn't on all the lists but try the 7650 settings as they will work for GPRS and EMAIL.

Cheeurs,

Dave

rymus · 23-12-2003 03:05PM

Originally posted by Buckfast
Rymus ... have u had any probs with the battery?

Not yet... but that's probably due to the fact that I haven't actually gotten the phone yet

I'll be waiting for the FedEx man all day tomorrow I'd say.

rymus · 24-12-2003 04:04PM

Well, FedEx turned up earlier and my spanking new 6600 has been charging since exactly 12pm. I did notice that when I plugged the phone in, the charge indicator took ages to appear. Also, the battery indicator only took about 80 mins to report a full charge on the battery. Erring on the side of caution, I'll leave it on charge until at least 12am tonight or sometime tomorrow afternoon.

Well it's here.. I just hope I don't have a wonky battery

flywheel · 24-12-2003 08:48PM

Originally posted by Buckfast

I was on to Voda tech support last week, and they won't support it until "the end of February at the very earliest". GPRS works, but MMS, email etc won't (for me at least).

is that GPRS ISP works - but MMS and WAP doesn't?

if you can conenct to the GPRS ISP youl should be able to pop/imap email using that connection, you should also be able to try HSCSD on the handset with Voda (as long as you are already set up for the Voda High Speed Data service)

BrianG

eirebhoy · 06-01-2004 12:39AM

Originally posted by dynamic.ie
Phone: GBP 297
Delivery: GBP 19 (Fedex)

SubTotal: GBP 316
VAT: GBP 0 (I gave them my vat number)

How did you get away with VAT?

pablo21 · 06-01-2004 09:25AM

try Rc Cellular . Works out at €358.15. Cheapest so far I think. Not sure what the situation is with VAT but I'll check it out.

there in Hong Kong. (Is there anything you cant get cheaper in Hong Kong???)

dynamic.ie · 06-01-2004 10:21AM

Originally posted by eirebhoy
How did you get away with VAT?

I gave them my vat number... if you are importing into ireland from the eu, you can supply your vat number and not pay vat. It has to go through your company/sole trader books though and show up as an asset!

LegacyUser · 07-01-2004 04:08PM

1. Battery seems to be okay now (I didn't send it back). However, something that seriously worries me now is a low hissing noise coming from the charger whether its plugged in or not. On the expansys nokia forum, another guy had the same prob. I've just gone back to using my old charger to be on the safe side.

2. Recently downloaded the Series 60 version of MAME and ROMs for the likes of Dig Dug, frogger, bomb jack. Not all of them work, none have working sound, and some are very slow. However, its only an early version of eMAME.

3. Still haven't found anywhere to download Truetones (a site that actually works, that is), remember, I can't use the 6600 PC suite, because I'm on the Mac, so I can only borrow the bro's laptop the odd time to send stuff through the IR port.

4. Dave — have you gotten MMS working yet through the nokia site's settings?

All in all, an amazin phone, and I'm shocked at the high quality pics it takes.

flywheel · 07-01-2004 04:13PM

Originally posted by Buckfast
remember, I can't use the 6600 PC suite, because I'm on the Mac, so I can only borrow the bro's laptop the odd time to send stuff through the IR port.

have you a MAC running OS X10.2+ with Bluetooth?

BrianG

dynamic.ie · 07-01-2004 04:23PM

Hi,

Didn't get the MMS working. Sure it has to do with WAP 2.0. Been on to o2 but no joy yet. Waiting for them to approve the phone but they won't do that until they upgrade the network. When you see o2 and vodafone selling these phones, it will work then but not before... I'll bet on that!

Had some fun with the phone over christmas. Tis a great phone. Well impressed with it. Opera is a cool browser for the phone. Got email working, internet but not the modem and not the MMS. Bit head wrecking cause don't get to use up my free MMS messages this month. Arse!

Find any good software for the phone yet? Games? I have a few from the nokia site... bounce, triple pop, reversi and stuff. There not bad. Would love to get a chess game or something that challenges you but can't find any.

Pics are deadly with the phone. Has anyone checked out www.phonepiks.com yet? Top class website. Thinking of setting one of these up myself for the hell of it!!

Cheeurs...

rymus · 07-01-2004 04:28PM

Originally posted by dynamic.ie
Pics are deadly with the phone. Has anyone checked out www.phonepiks.com yet? Top class website. Thinking of setting one of these up myself for the hell of it!!

Cheeurs...

Do sure... I got some great candid photos & video over the silly season that I could contribute

dynamic.ie · 07-01-2004 04:37PM

Originally posted by rymus
Do sure... I got some great candid photos & video over the silly season that I could contribute

Well, if I am going to do this, I going to want all you proud owners of your 6600's to promptly start posting pics and telling your friends!! Who's in??

cheeurs.com

Cheeurs,

Dave

rymus · 07-01-2004 04:55PM

im in definately. I'll pitch in with the tea & coffee making*

*or anything else that needs doing to get the site going

edit #1: cheeurs.com - sheeeeeeeit, that was fast!
edit #2: ah, it was already registered... lying in wait for such a festival of multimedia to grace it.. velly guut.

jesus_thats_gre · 07-01-2004 05:44PM

Was gonna create one of these web sites about a year ago but never got around to it.

Was gonna get the URL www.mmsboobs.com, a mate suggested www.flufforbuff.com too...

LegacyUser · 07-01-2004 06:09PM

Brian — nope, all i've got is a sh!tty old iMac running 9.2.

Dave — try downloading this http://www.harmonicode.com/EMame/ arcade emulator. The ROMs are readily available (but obviously, only if you already own the game, otherwise they're illegal) if you do a google for 'mame roms'.

Anyone know where to get an NGage emulator?

Nokia 6600 - Opinion Please!

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