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Nokia 6682As the first smart phone with support for Yahoo Go Mobile, the Nokia 6682 provides a fun way to stay connected and in touch. Price:
$199
by Steve Horton 
 Nokia's latest smart phone—the sexily named 6682—is the first cell stateside to support Yahoo Go Mobile, a smooth interface we were eager to get our hands on.
Cingular customers can download Yahoo Go Mobile, a suite of applications that sits on the OS. It syncs Yahoo mail, pictures, and numbers to your phone, plus it publishes photos online, creates voice IMs, and receives Yahoo e-mail reminders. Go Mobile even saves contact information on its network (in case the phone loses it). In our tests, the application easily imported our address book and e-mail archives from our Yahoo account. We also liked that we could compose e-mails offline to send later. Visually, the 4.6-ounce 6682 is exciting. The 176 x 208 screen (with a dazzling 262,144 colors) takes up half of the frame (4.2 x 2.2 x 0.9 inches). The keys are clear plastic, and the phone has a silver finish. Unlike the Treos and BlackBerrys of the world, the Symbian-powered 6682 forgoes a QWERTY keyboard to embrace phonehood. Too bad the tiny, close-together keys make typing for any length of time a chore. The phone supports wireless keyboards via Bluetooth, however. Nokia includes a 64MB RS-MMC card to augment the 10MB of internal memory. This Symbian OS phone has easy-to-remember shortcuts for everything, though it's illogical that pushing the scroll key activates the Web; instead, you access the main menu through the dedicated menu button on the lower left. You can easily synchronize your contacts, calendar, tasks, and other info using the included software and USB cable. You can also view PDFs and Microsoft Office documents using Quickoffice, whether they're synched over or downloaded as attachments. The 1.3-megapixel camera on the back has video capability and an LED flash. Pictures looked crystal-clear on the Nokia's high-res screen. Nokia bundles some rudimentary image manipulation software. Once you're happy with your pics, you can use multimedia e-mail, multimedia postcard format, or Bluetooth to send images, or attach images to outgoing messages using the built-in e-mail client. You can also print directly with PictBridge or Bluetooth. The 6682 offers native support for the RealVideo format. The included bare-bones RealPlayer app doesn't include any video links but can play MP3s and AAC music files natively. Audio was fine while streaming video, but the video frame rate stuttered over Cingular's EDGE network. Web surfing was speedy but limited using the Nokia Wap 2.0 browser. We prefer the Opera browser, which is a free download and delivers the full Internet at a pretty good clip. When making calls, audio quality was crystal clear, and the phone has a loud speakerphone and support for Bluetooth handsets. The 6682 gave us about 4 hours of talk time and up to 11 days standby. At $199 with service, the 6682 is the same price as Cingular's 2125, which runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 and also features a 1.3-MP camera. Business users will likely gravitate toward the 2125 for its integration with Outlook and smaller size. However, if you're a Yahoo user and want a powerful and fun phone, the 6682 is a worthwhile investment. Compare Prices | Nokia 6682 Specifications
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