The Nokia 6638 is the CDMA version to the 6630. Well this isnt something new and Nokia has done this before - introducing CDMA counterparts of successful GSM phones. Funnily though, they usually announce the handsets at the most within a few months of each other. In this case thought the gap is unusally large. Another thing that strikes us is that the 6630 was never that popular; perhaps a CDMA version of the 6600 would have been nice.

Whatever the case, having a Series 60 phone for CDMA is a great idea. CDMA as such is a great technology but suffers greatly because of the apathy of manufacturers to debut new models for these users. Hopefully with the 6638 we should see some changes and newer models should be debuted as near as possible with the GSM launch if at all not together. The 6638 will certainly be state of the art and will carry a megapixel camera (1.3 Megapixel camera). Video recording will be permitted through 3 GPP format. The display (176 x 208 pixels - Series 60 compliant) will have 65,000 colors. The handset has one chief difference from the GSM phone, it has an antenna which can be extended for better reception (Most CDMA phones have this option). There is provision for extra memory as well by means of SD , MMC card slot.

The data was made available on the FCC website, which however does not make any mention of release dates, something that Nokia will announce when it publicly announces the 6638. Verizon and or print should probably be offering it to you before the end of the year.

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