Nokia 6500 and 6500 slider review

Nokia have announced the new Nokia 6500 Classic and 6500 Slide mobile phones.

Both phones offer similar features, but with different form factors.

The 6500 classic is a standard candybar design, while the 6500 Slide is, er, a slider!

Pitched at the mid-range, this pair of phones actually have some pretty nifty features that you'd expect to find on a Nokia N-Series phone.

Quad band GSM and dual band 3G come as standard, while the 6500 Slide even features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens.

More details and pictures of the Nokia 6500 mobile phones after the jump.

Nokia 6500 Classic overview

The Nokia 6500 Classic is a standard candybar phone with the traditional Nokia look and feel. Nokia reckon it's a thing of superb craftmanship, though, with a case crafted from 360 degrees of anodized aluminium, and diamond polishing being used on the bevelled display aperture. Just looks like a normal Nokia to me! For thin-phone lovers, it's only 9.5mm thin.

More impressively, the 6500 Classic comes with 1GB of internal memory as standard, which should help the phone hold more pictures, music and video clips than its competitors.

The 6500 Classic is also equipped with a USB cable that not only syncs the phone with your PC's applications (email, contacts, playlists etc.), it also enables the 6500 Classic to be used as a high capacity flash drive, as you can transfer files of any type between phone and PC.

Nokia 6500 Classic Specifications

Main features

• Sleek, seamless case crafted from 360 degrees of anodized aluminum
• 2 Megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom and dual LED flash
• Extra-large 1 GB internal memory for music, images and more
• Unified MicroUSB port for charging, data and audio
• Music player supporting MP3, AAC, eAAC+
• Video player
• Hands-free speaker
• Bluetooth
• Dual-band 3G technology

Technical Profile:

• System: WCDMA 850/2100, GSM/EGSM 850/900/1800/1900
• User Interface:Series 40 platform
• Dimensions:109.8 × 45 × 9.5mm
• Weight:94g
• Volume:47 cc
• Standby time:Up to 12,5 days
• Talk time:Up to 5,5 hours
• Display :QVGA 320×240, up to 16.7 million true colors.
• Battery:BL-6P Battery (830 mAh, Lion)

Connectivity

• Data Services:WCDMA
• Max download 384 kbits;
• upload 128 kbits
• GPRS multislot class 32, up to 53.6 kbps
• EGPRS multislot class 32, up to 296 kbps

Camera

• Resolution of images: 1600 × 1200 pixels
• Resolution of videos:QCIF (176 × 144 Pixel)
• Image capture:JPEG
• Video capture:MP4

Nokia 6500 Slide Overview

The Nokia 6500 Slide is the better phone of the two. Although thicker than the 6500 Classic (16.5mm compared with the 6500 Classic's 9.5m), the 6500 Slide features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, VGA-quality video recording (640 × 480), TV-Out for viewing your pics and videos on the telly, and built-in apps such as Flickr and Adobe Photoshop.

The 6500 Slide also supports microSD cards up to 4GB in capacity.

Summary

What's really impressive about these two phones is the quality of their features, despite their mid-range price. For example, both phones come with QVGA screens capable of showing 16 million colours, as well as supporting quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G.

If these phones were released last year, they'd come with N-Series branding for sure. What we're seeing, then, is Nokia's advanced technology used in its high-end N-Series phones trickling down to its lower range phones over time, which for the consumer, is excellent news.

The Nokia 6500 release date (both phones) is the third quarter of 2007, with the Nokia 6500 Classic set to cost 350 Euros, and the Nokia 6550 Slide 370 Euros.

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