The Nokia 6280 marks Nokia's first return to the sliding-keyboard design. The handset offers very comfortable numerical buttons, a 2 megapixel camera, digital music player and radio. Incorporating a 262Kcolour screen with a resolution of 240X320 pixels, the Nokia 6280 scores high in the display part. A striking feature of Nokia 6280 is its video calling application which offers an informative user interface. The 2 megapixel camera can take excellent snaps of stills of good quality in daylight and of adequate quality in dark environments.



The Nokia 6280 mobile phone is one of the three new handsets running the third edition of Nokia's Series 40 OS, providing support for Java games and applications as well as a music player. The Nokia 6280 offers WCDMA (3G), EDGE, GPRS and HSCSD for high-speed data transfers. The phone operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz networks. Also there is a FM radio, a miniSD card slot and a bundled 64 MB miniSD card, as well as operator-dependent features like Push-To-Talk and Visual Radio. Java MIDP 2.0, MP3 and polyphonic ringtones, SMS and MMS messages, Bluetooth 2.0, Infrared and USB 2.0 via Pop Port as connectivity options are also supported. The miniSD slot takes care of the storage and the 64MB mini SD card included in the box stores a few MP3s and 2MP snapshots comfortably.

The phone offers approximately 2 hours of talktime and 4 days of standby time and the reception and voice quality are good. The main specifications of Nokia 6280 are MP3 player, MP3 ringtones, 6 MB of onboard memory, miniSD memory card expansion, 64 MB card bundled, USB 2.0 connectivity with PictBridge support, Stereo FM radio, 3G with video calling support, Tri-band GSM with EDGE support.

So the most capable Nokia Series 40 handset to date is Nokia 6280.

Nokia 6280