The 6220 from Nokia is a bit of a wolf in sheep's clothing. It looks like a standard mid-range candybar mobile phone, but behind its ordinary looking fascia there is a pretty strong range of features.

For starters there is a 5-megapixel camera. Now, these aren't exactly rare these days, but nor are they everywhere to be found. The camera here comes courtesy of Carl Zeiss and there is a mechanical cover that protects the lens from scratches. When you slide the lens cover away the camera software starts running and you are ready to take some photos.

The Xenon flash does better than LED can indoors, though you still shouldn't expect it to illuminate subjects that are more than a couple of feet away.

During testing we found photographs to be of good quality and certainly perfectly good enough to share. This is particularly important where this mobile is concerned as it comes with a TV-out cable. You can use this to send photos - or anything else you can display on the handset screen - to a television. This means sharing your snaps with friends and family is easy and fast.

You can geo-tag photographs and this is achieved thanks to the built-in GPS antenna. Nokia Maps is also built in and there is 3 months worth of voice guidance for point to point navigation bundled with the handset. An odd side-light comes on when GPS is running. We aren't sure why; it seems to be an unnecessary battery drainer but nothing else.

More useful is the sidekey that takes you straight to Nokia Maps making it easy to get to the navigation functions at speed. You'll be making data connections when you use Nokia Maps, and for this and Web browsing the HSDPA connection comes into its own. You can also use the front-facing camera for two-way video calls.

The build quality is a little lacklustre with plastic the main material used. We're not sure this phone will withstand too many falls from high places. The number keys felt a little low grade' under the fingers and we've certainly come across others with a better quality feel.

The screen measures 2.2 inches and is par for the course, its 320 x 240 pixels offering a clear and sharp display but nothing outstanding. Still, the phone weighs just 90g and is small for the pocket and hand at 15.2mm thick, 108mm tall and 46.5mm wide.

We aren't overly pleased at the 2.5mm headset jack, as we prefer 3.5mm jacks so we can use our own headphones. And to do that here you'll need a converter because the provided headset is one piece. But there is 100MB of built-in storage and a microSD card slot for adding more, so you can carry plenty of music around should you want to.

Verdict
Deceptively plain in looks, the 6620 Classic from Nokia has a good range of features. Its build quality left us a little nonplussed, though.

Company: Nokia

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