If you are the sort of phone user who likes to make a statement with a brightly coloured phone, then it just may be that Nokia are about to launch the device for you. Expected in Q1 2010, the Nokia 6700 Slide comes in six bright, vivid colours – Pink (there’s always a pink), Red, Petrol Blue, Aluminium, Lime and Purple. You’ll certainly get noticed with one of those! Thankfully, there is more to the Nokia 6700 Slide than just a few garish colours.
The Nokia 6700 Slide is the latest ‘non-smartphone’ Nokia running on the S60 operating system. This operating system is traditionally used in all Nokia Nseries and Eseries handsets, but Nokia have a clear focus on bringing smartphone technology to a wider audience, who are perhaps slightly put off by the marketing of such devices. So, whilst the 6700 Slide has the facility to add features to the phone in exactly the same way you can on a smartphone device, you won’t often hear of that feature being talked about. The idea being, as the ‘ordinary’ mobile phone user becomes more accustomed to the S60 layout, the more likely they will be to ‘upgrade’ to a real smartphone.
The 6700 Slide is a good size and weight for a mobile phone, measuring 95 x 46 x 16mm, and weighing in at just 110g. The screen is a bright, crisp, 16 million colour TFT display, QVGA resolution but a bit on the small side at just 2.2 inches. The phone slides up to reveal a traditional 12 key alphanumeric keypad, whilst underneath the display is a large 5-way D-Pad, flanked by 6 other keys; two soft option keys directly underneath the display, followed by a home key on one side and a cancel button on the other, with finally a send/end call key.
One of the stand-out features of the 6700 slide is the camera, a 5.0 Megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash, and Carl Zeiss lens, which added together should equal some pretty impressive snaps. Although the quality of the camera isn’t in doubt, for what it offers, I still can’t help feeling a little underwhelmed, it seems as if the 5.0 Megapixel/Carl Zeiss Lens/LED flash combination is about as far as Nokia can go with cameras, it has become the default for so many of their devices these days. Whilst other manufacturers can offer 8.0 or 12.0 Megapixel, and features like Best Shot, Face and Smile detection, Nokia just keep churning out the same old thing.
Media does feature well on the 6700 Slide, with the media player supporting a whole host of formats, such as MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, AAC and M4A for music plus MP4, RV, WMV and 3GP for video. A good line up, but native DivX or XviD wouldn’t go amiss. The handset only offers 45MB internal memory, not much for a modern day mobile device, thankfully there is a slot for memory card expansion, with the 6700 able to operate with 16GB MicroSD cards. There is also a stereo FM radio which is a useful option to have, but disappointingly the phone has a 2.5mm audio jack, so unless you invest in a suitable adaptor you will be restricted to the Nokia headset the device ships with for music playback.
The 6700 Slide is a capable web browsing device; the standard S60 web browser has always been one of the best on the market, and as we know the OS is S60, you can also take advantage of either Opera Mini or the full Opera S60 browser. The phone supports HSPA web browsing, with up to 10.2Mbps downloads and 2Mbps uploads supported. EDGE, HSCSD and GPRS are all included, but there is no place for WiFi.
It’s good to see Nokia rolling out their smartphone platform to a wider audience, even if most people who purchase the 6700 Slide would be unaware of the extra features that you could use on the device. Whilst there is a lot to like about the phone, there is a deep feeling that we’ve seen this all before, there’s nothing new. But for a fun, vibrant looking bright coloured device with a half decent imaging capability, you could do worse than the 6700 Slide .
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8:31 pm
I'm really liking the look of the 6700 slide! I think I've just found my next phone.
8:28 am
I really love this one, I'm waiting for this phone, is it out now, if not any idea when?
6:02 am
I like this phone, what will be the price of this phone in INR.
5:08 pm
I've had the Nokia Slide for 4 weeks and I hate it! I swapped it for my c905 which I loved but it had a fault that couldn't be fixed. This phone is very basic in a lot of ways and quite complicated to use the camera on it is ok. I dont use it for the internet so I cant comment on that but this has to be the worse mobile Ive had in years my advice is don't buy it!
1:07 pm
What a disappointment? I waited so long for the 6700 slide and couldnt find the colour i wanted in any of the shops so bought it from nokia direct. Only thing i liked about it was the colour! I am a texter and am not fond of the touchscreen phones as i dont think i can text fast enough with them but the keypad on this 6700 slide was really flat! Took a while to get used to and then 2 weeks later the battery kept draining out?! sent back and waiting for a replacement, not sure i want it now
6:12 pm
Its just been 8 months since I got the 6700, and I'm having to charge the batt 3 times a day!!. Most of the time it dies in my pocket. It is the most frustrating experience I have had using any phone. I purposefully looked for Nokia then because of the generally long battery life, but because of this model my regards for Nokia has gone few notches down!
9:39 am
Camera keeps coming on, what can I do to stop this?