The Nokia 6700 Slide – High-Value Budget Phone
Nokia just unveiled last November 24 a couple of slider mobile phones that will see the light of day this coming new year. One of them is the Nokia 6700 Slide optimized for the fashion conscious and socializing crowd. It comes in different trendy colors that make it pleasing to the eyes and a stand-out without calling attention to itself. The market will have a choice of six vibrant body colors: aluminum silver, red, pink, petrol blue, lime green and purple.
With a compact aluminum body measuring 95.2 x 46.1 x 15.9mm and weighing a light 110g, the new handset is also pleasing to the pocket. Wait till you hear it price tag. Nokia is pricing the handset at friendly price of '160 SIM-free before taxes and subsidies. We can expect network carrier to offer this free on a short-term contract.
Value Features For '160
You get no WiFi but it's a 3G/3.5G smartphone with HSDPA/HSUPA on top of its quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE radio. You also get high speed wireless data transfers and synching with Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and A2DP for wireless earphones. Running on the old reliable Symbian S60 operating system under version 9.3 release 3.2, the handset features a host of apps and games pre loaded into its. It has integrated messaging and internet browsing that supports video streaming, RSS feeds, YouTube Flash and video streaming. You get instant access to your favourite social networking sties as well as Windows Live and Nokia Messaging, Ovi Share and Nokia Music store right from the homescreen.
About the only thing that tells you this handset is cheap is its small 2.2-inch LCD TFT display with QVGA resolution that nonetheless gets 16 million colors. But it's par for the course among entry level smartphones. There's a modest internal memory of just 60 MN usable for data storage outside of its system memory and applications. But there's a microSD slot for up to 16 Gb of external memory. There's stereo FM radio with RDS, micro USB 2.0 and a 2.5mm AV port. Its 860 mAh Li-ion battery gives up to 27 hours of music playback time, talk times of 4 hours on 2G and 3 hours on 3G and standby times of 12 days on 2g and 10 days on 3G.
Saving the Planet on the Side
The new Nokia 6700 Slide takes part in the save-the-planet movement with eco-friendly features starting with its power saving mode. This uses its ambient light sensor to turn off or dim the LCD backlit depending on lighting conditions or turn it off automatically when not in use. It also alerts users to unplug an energy-efficient AC battery charger when charging is done.
