Nokia 6500 Slide Preview

It was on a provincial tour over the weekend and one of the guys on board was toting the 6500 slide phone. According to him, this was the end of May 2008. Some sites have marked this particular model as an Nseries telephoning to the N6500 - but it is not like using the new Series 40 platform. The 6500 slide comes with a 3.2MP camera (the site of Nokia claims a 2MP camera but he has 3.2MP - I honestly have to confirm this) and a new user interface. As can be seen in the pictures, the menu screen is located at the bottom of the LCD. They also changed some parts of the menu SMS like the screen, but for the most part - is really aesthetic.

The 6500 is rather slide by hand and fine. It is a comparatively little edgier version of the classic slider phones from Nokia, perhaps because the aluminum trim. It comes with the usual bravado - 1 GB of internal memory, Bluetooth, 3G and music player. Overall a good phone because it is both practical and elegant, and I must add an updated model for Nokia slider.

// May 16th, 2008