Nokia 6500 Slide Review

The Nokia 6500 Accelerate is ... delay for it ... a accelerate architecture adaptation of the Nokia 6500 Classic. Or is it? You'd anticipate that two phones that accept the aforementioned archetypal cardinal and are so agnate in actualization would accept the aforementioned features, but no, the guys at Nokia acutely anticipation that would be too boring.

"Hey Aleksi! Why not absolution two phones with the aforementioned name but accomplish them absolutely altered inside?" ... "Cool abstraction Joonas! Let's put a nice 3.2 megapixel camera with beam and autofocus central the 6500 Accelerate and a debris 2 megapixel one central the 6500 Classic." ... "Niko thinks the Accelerate should accept a bigger awning - that's what those Samsung boys do with their accelerate phones." ... "Roosa has a abundant abstraction - let's accomplish them both 3G but alone acquiesce video calls application the Accelerate (hey, hey)"... "Arttu thinks that the Accelerate should accept a anamnesis agenda abundant to 4 Gbytes, but we won't put a anamnesis agenda aperture in the Classic at all!" ... "and why not put an FM radio into the Accelerate too, Kristiina? But not in the Classic!" ... "Oh and one added thing, Matias - because we larboard all the acceptable $.25 out of the Classic we can accomplish it ultrathin, but accumulate the Accelerate big and heavy!"

"So, run this accomplished me one added time, Johanna. We accomplish two phones with the aforementioned name. One is a Accelerate and one is a Classic. We put all the best appearance into the Slide, but we accomplish the Classic absolutely attenuate and more good looking. And we advertise them both for the aforementioned price! Our barter are gonna adulation this idea. How they will beam at our absurd Finnish faculty of humour! Those arid Swedish squares at Sony Ericsson will be so jealous!"

Features of the Nokia 6500 Slide include:

• 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, auto focus, double LED flash and 8x digital zoom
• Video camera (VGA, 15 fps / QCIF, 30 fps) with 4x digital zoom
• 3G video calling (QCIF resolution, 15 fps)
• Display: 16.7 million colours, 320 x 240 pixels (2.2 inches)
• Music player (MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC+, and WMA formats)
• FM radio with Visual Radio (get info about music played)
• 64-voice polyphonic ringtones
• Voice commands and recording
• Push to talk using volume key (Nokia PoC)
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (with support for attachments)
• Themes with wallpapers and screensavers
• Java 2.0 games & applications (High Roller Casino, Golf Tour, Rally 3D, and Snake 3)
• Internet: WAP 2.0, GPRS, EDGE, 3G
• xHTML web browser (Opera Mini browser)
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, TV-Out, 2.5mm headset socket
• Memory: 20 Mbytes plus microSD memory card slot (expandable to 4 Gbytes)
• Flight mode
• Quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) plus dual band 3G (WCDMA 850/2100)
• Size: 97 x 47 x 16 mm
• Weight: 123g
• Talktime: 6 hours
• Battery standby: 320 hours