Introduction

Give yourself a pat on the back if you can provide the exact number of models Nokia have come up with ever since the Finnish mobile phone maker started producing mobile phones. If you’re not able to, you’re most probably as confused and lost like many people out there. As it stands, Nokia is probably the only mobile phone manufacturer to pump out new models within the shortest product cycles. While it is good marketing strategy to provide consumers with a wide array of phones to choose from, the four digits model stepping used by Nokia inadvertently caused quite a bit of model recognition problem for consumers. Adding to the growing models from Nokia today is the 6220.


At first glance, the phone looks like a crossbreed between the 6610 and 7250. Well, to be honest, if you feel that nearly all newly launched Nokia phones of the 6000 and 7000 series look closely identical to one another, you’re not alone.

The unit we have here comes with a black/silver Xpress-On cover, but if this color combination isn’t for you, there’s a selection of Gold, Green and Rose colored Xpress-On covers offered by Nokia for you to mix and match with. The display screen of the 6220 comes in the form of a 128x128, 4,096 color Passive-matrix screen with 11 adjustable levels of brightness. Passive-matrix displays are cheaper to manufacture as compared to the higher-end Active-matrix displays. However, this cheaper form of display has a much sluggish response time and will give a lagging sort of feeling when one is scrolling through the menu subsystem. To top it off, colors produced by this form of display are generally washed out and lacklustre as well. The most advantageous point of using Passive-matrix displays however, is its low costs and low power consumption - which we’ll touch on when we cover the phone’s battery life in a while.