The 6220 Classic that Nokia announced this morning completely baffles me. It has mostly the same features as the high-end Nokia N82, with a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, Carl Zeiss optics, and Xenon flash. It’s sporting S60v3, HSDPA, TV-out, and GPS. But it’s not an Nseries. It will, however, be available in both manly black and womanly purple.

I’m really curious to have a chat with the Product Manager of the 6220 Classic to find out some more background on this particular handset.

• S60v3
• Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) and dual-band HSDPA (900/2100MHz)
• 108mm x 47mm x 15mm (4.2″x1.85″x0.6″) compared to the N81’s 102mm x 50mm x 17.9mm
  (4.0″ x 2.0″ x 0.7″)
• 90g (3.2oz)
• 900mAh battery
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR and A2DP, 2.5mm audio port with TV-Out
• 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, Carl Zeiss optics, and Xenon flash, with sliding lens protector, secondary front-facing VGA cam for video calls
• AGPS (with automatic geotagging support)
• microUSB (no word on charging quite yet)
• 2.2″ QVGA display with 16m colors
• 120MB internal memory, microSD card slot
• XXXMB of RAM
• Comes in Black and Purple
• Available Q3 2008 at EUR 325 ($474)

You can view the full datasheet here (PDF warning).

The 6220 Classic is an odd fish, really. I’m amazed to see the 5 megapixel camera and Xenon flash already expanded to non Nseries product lines, and worried about those teeny-tiny S60 buttons. I’ll be interested to see how this one takes off when launched. Also that paltry 900mAh battery isn’t going to live very long with a 5 megapixel camera sucking juice and GPS running to tag all those photos.

Dotsisx’s Take

This device is clearly a camera and a phone, it isn’t meant to be a good music player, nor a good gaming device. Yet it does so much better, spec-wise than any non Nseries device and remains affordable. Expect rocket sales, just like the 6120.

Categories: Mobile World Congress 2008
Tags: 6220 classic, multimedia phones, nokia