Nokia 6500 Slide Phone

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Another great phone Nokia has released is the Nokia 6500 Slide phone. It is supposed to be a phone to revolutionize the mobile phone market. This is an attractively designed up-to-date unit that belongs to the upper medium class, featuring the well-known Series 40 user interface, enabled to operate in 3G networks, and disposing of a 3.2 megapixel Carl Zeiss optics camera.

The 6500 is a slider with a semi aluminum exterior. It has a light sensor and a small camera situated on the front next to the earpiece, with the main camera and flash module on the rear. The speaker is also located at the rear, towards the bottom of the handset. Looking and holding the handset, you can feel that it’s the perfect size.

At only 89g (3.1oz) in weight and measuring 110mm x 45mm x 10mm (4.3″ 1.8″ x .4″) in size, the Nokia 6500 Classic is quite a compact little candy bar handset. The Classic’s design, reserved and elegant, makes use of simple lines and curved surfaces. The 6500 Classic’s 16 million color display may only be 2″ in size, but its QVGA resolution makes for some very sharp looking images. The display is also brighter than that found on the 6500 Slide, and is also quite readable even in harsh sunlight conditions.

The slide has a 2.2” QVGA screen with a resolution of 240×320 and supports 16.7 million colors. One of the main features of this phone is a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. The camera also comes with a powerful double flash. There are also the usual options of white balance, effects, self timer, night mode and image sequence.

As for its camera’s performance, the 6500 is really good. Even with its 3.2 megapixel camera, the images were passable when compared to phones with the same camera as this phone does. Overall the camera on the slide is ideal for taking snapshots but like most phones it cannot match the quality of a standalone camera.

The 6500 slide is one of the first nokia phones to come with S40v5. The differences between this and previous versions of the S40 operating system are minimal. The main differences from this phone and the 6300 are that the message editor now has an extra bar at the bottom. This allows you to insert pictures, videos, contacts etc directly into the message.

The media player has been changed with better support for playlists, along with new skins and now when you receive a message the picture of the sender will also show if you have a picture saved for the contact. Overall it’s pretty much the same old S40 interface which we all know and love.

Nokia has designed its 6500 Slide with a 64 chords ringtones engine, ready for you to add tons of ringers. If you want a customizable phone you will appreciate to know that the 6500 Slide supports custom themes.

The gaming system included in the Nokia 6500 Slide runs on J2ME, providing cool little games. Not surprisingly, being a standard in the industry, the 6500 Slide supports both SMS and EMS.

The phone is equipped with a 900 mAh Li-Ion battery which lets you talk for about 6.00 hours and gives in standby 320 hours. Its creators incorporated a 20.0 MB memory, a good quantity for a regular use. An attractive option of the Nokia 6500 Slide is the speaker phone, being a useful tool anywhere. The large screen lets you insert wallpapers of 240 x 320 px.

All in all, the 6500 is a decent phone. The camera is good enough for the job and the added features of S40v5 are handy. Its not really one of the best, but it is a good phone which does a good job of what it’s designed to do.

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