The Nokia 2630 started life as a business class phone that like those grainy photographs of athletes in the 1930s training on cinder tracks and drinking Bovril were the best of their generation but have gradually been overtaken by modern ideas and methods. It includes now regular features including a (VGA) digital camera video recorder and MP3/AAC music player with a decent active TFT colour display with 65 536 colours. However the screen resolution is relatively poor at 128 x 128 pixels.

The camera is easy to use with the phone display used as a viewfinder and includes useful features such as a self timer function 4 x digital zoom a choice of standard portrait and night modes and a choice of three image quality options: high normal and basic. Another feature is Bluetooth wireless short-range connectivity and EDGE for fast Internet downloads.

Further features of the triband 2630 include Polyphonic ringtones downloadable Java games and applications 6 MB shared memory speed dialling and voice dialling a voice records built-in stereo FM radio handsfree operation and WAP (with GPRS as well as EDGE).

Battery standby time is rated at 150 hours and talktime at three hours minimum.

- Fast data download

- VGA camera

- FM Radio

- SMS MMS email and Instant Messaging