The Nokia 6600 is still available at a great price considering its features. Slate just published an excellent review of the 6600 by Paul Boutin where he touts it as almost the antithesis of the Motorola RAZR V3:
So, why am I telling you to rush out and get a cheap, ugly phone? Because the Nokia 6600 lets you add the cool features you want without paying for the ones you don’t care about. For the price of a calling plan, you’ll start with plenty of gadgetry you’d think they would have saved for the glitzy, high-end models. There’s a speakerphone, voice dialing, an audio recorder, a serviceable 640-by-480 pixel camera, a (silent) video recorder, RealPlayer for playing back audio and video clips, an infrared port, and a flash memory slot that comes loaded with a 32-megabyte card.
The folks at T-Mobile lent me a Nokia 6600 over the summer. It’s a great phone. If you want a mobile phone that does phone tasks well, is inexpensive, and has some of the extras you’ll pay a lot more for in a cuter model, you’ll like this one. For all the talk about how fat it is, it fit in the back pocket of my jeans with plenty of room to spare; I’m in shape by the way.