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back cover bit scratched.excellent phone and in good condition.
Features
One of the star features of the 6280 is the 2-megapixel camera on the back with a tiny flash and self-portrait mirror built-in next to it. There's also a secondary VGA camera on the front for video calls.
Nokia allows you to assign video ringtones to profiles for incoming calls, either a master video for all incoming calls or one for individual contacts, which you can add at the same time as you enter a new phonebook entry.
Navigating around the new Nokia Series 40 interface shows off the 6280's snazzy high-resolution QVGA screen (320 x 240 pixels), which can display up to 262,144 colours. We had no problems reading text messages outside on sunny days, nor did we ever struggle to hear calls as the volume of the speaker can be set quite high.
Using the built-in music player, we were able to listen to MP3s and unprotected AACs (sorry, no WMAs), either stored on the 6280's meagre 10MB of internal memory or on the hot-swappable 64MB miniSD card Nokia provides in the box. Although we managed to squeeze about 16 songs on the memory card, 64MB is hardly enough to use the handset as a portable video player, even though it supports 3GP with H.263 or MPEG video files (QCIF resolution), has the same resolution and can display more colours than the video-capable iPod. There's also an FM radio tuner onboard, but this requires the supplied headset to be connected to act as an antenna.
Performance
Sending a six-minute MP3 from a MacBook Pro to the 6280 via Bluetooth took under a minute (at an average of 120KB), after which we could set the song as a ring tone or listen to it through the built-in media player.
The stereo headset Nokia supplies in the box is average in sound quality and its tangle-prone lanyard design won't be to everyone's tastes. Unfortunately, the 6280 uses Nokia's proprietary Pop-Port connector for the headset so you're stuck with the fairly low-end supplied set for music. There is, however, an inline remote control with a volume switch, a single button for changing the song, radio station and answering the phone, and a microphone for voice calls.
A thoughtful addition Nokia bundles is an adapter to use standard Nokia chargers with the 6280, although it's sad to see the number one phone manufacturer changing its signature power plug after all this time.
Battery-wise, we consistently got three full days use out of the 6280, but much less with frequent use of the radio and MP3 player.
