Nokia 6288 Review

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Nokia 6288 Review - Nokia 6288 is a 3G phone, which supports UMTS and EDGE. The phone has a larger than usual 2.2" QVGA TFT bright screen, with 256k colour having 320 x 240 pixels resolution. The screen can be read even without the backlight in the dark. The backlight strength cannot be adjusted in this phone.

The Nokia 6288 features a miniSD slot, 4.5 MB of internal storage, Bluetooth 2.0, IrDA, 2 mega-pixels camera with flashlight, a VGA video-for video recording and for making video calls, FM Radio and PTT. The phone measures 100 x 46 x 21 mm and weighs 115 g and the battery provides 3.5 hours of talk time in 3G mode and extends to 4.5 hours on 2G. The stand by time of the battery is 280 hours.

The first impression that you have is that, Nokia 6288 is a bit bulky, being thicker in size, with its width and height being completely normal. It is a slider phone with smooth slide operation. When you slide open the phone, the keyboard is exposed, and it feels solid and very easy to type. The miniSD slot, the speaker and the PTT button are located to the right side of the phone.

You also have the camera and the volume rocker button on the right side, with the Pop-port and the power port located at the bottom along with the IrDA and the On/Off button. The phone supports a 512 MB memory card for storage of music, which can be further extended if desired.

Nokia 6288 comes with all the necessary basic applications, such as, Contacts with picture support, speed dialing, voice dialing, comprehensive Call Log, SMS, MMS, email, WilressVillage IM, Notes, tasks, Calendar, voice recording, voice dialling, Nokia Xpress audio messaging, Alarms, media player, calculator, stopwatch, countdown timer, an XHTML web browser, world clock, a converter and three 3D games. It has a music player which can play back various music files, like, mp3, eAAC+ and AAC, but not WMA. The phone has a top notch hands-free operation. It has good sound quality and the audio equaliser has 6 to 7 presets.

The video player in Nokia 6288 does not have fast forwarding feature but can go full screen. The phone supports playback of 3GP and MP4 video at QVGA resolution without having to drop any frame. Nokia 6288 has a very fast 3G connection, and supports EDGE for high speed data transfers.

As far as ring tones are concerned, Nokia 6288 has MP3/AAC/eAAC+ ring tones and 64-voice polyphonic ring tones as well.

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