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The 6280 does, however, offer very comfortable numerical buttons, accompanied by action buttons and a navigation pad of similar build and quality. While the buttons also offered low audible feedback, the slider-mechanism of the 6280 unfortunately turned out to be a little sloppy.The large screen also enables the introduction of a concept dubbed the ‘active standby’ screen by Nokia, where shortcut icons, recent notes and FM radio status are neatly displayed and rapidly accessed.

The Nokia 6280 also features a 2 Megapixel camera, snapping stills of good quality in daylight and of adequate quality in darker environments. Aiming to assimilate the functions of a dedicated camera, the phone’s display, which acts as a viewfinder, automatically switches to landscape mode when the camera is activated. Both stills and videos can quickly be added to MMS messages from within the camera application.

As for phone-centric features, the Nokia 6280 operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz networks, and offers up WCDMA (3G), EDGE, GPRS and HSCSD for high-speed data transfers. Furthermore, we find an FM radio, a miniSD card slot and a bundled 64 MB miniSD card, as well as operator-dependent features such as Push-To-Talk and Visual Radio. As for video calls, our tests maxed out at approximately one hour.