Preview: Nokia 3600 Slide Phone
Last but not least of the three handsets announced a couple days ago, is the Nokia 3600 Slide. It's not a whole lot different from the Nokia 6600 Slide, and it's 75 euros cheaper too.
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Last but not least of the three handsets announced a couple days ago, is the Nokia 3600 Slide. It's not a whole lot different from the Nokia 6600 Slide, and it's 75 euros cheaper too.
The Nokia 6600 Slide is the counterpart to the 6600 Fold that was unveiled yesterday. High spots include a decent camera (3.2 megapixels, 30 fps QVGA video, autofocus, double flash), accelerometer, 2.2" screen, and a whopping 18 megabytes of internal memory.
A new day, and three new Nokias to drool over. First up, the 6600 Fold, a sleek handset that's definitely a looker. Throw in two OLED displays, a little dash of quad-band connectivity + WCDMA 850/2100, some newfangled "tap commands", and an "electromagnetic opening mechanism" and you've got a recipe for sexiness indeed.
So the funkified cell phone that you see here is none other than the Nokia 5220, or the new XpressMusic kid on the block. It's a cheaper alternative to the Nokia 5320 XpressMusic but still manages to maintain some street cred.
News flash for today: there's two new XpressMusic phones on the block: the Nokia 5320 and the Nokia 5220. More about the 5320 XpressMusic inside.
The last classic phone to grace the cell phone market was the Nokia 6220, which to everyone's surprise (okay, maybe just my own) had some of the most cutting-edge features in a classic handset: 5 megapixel camera with Xenon flash, A-GPS, geotagging.
So the Nokia 6212 sort of brings it back to basics, at least compared to the monster classic phone that is the 6220. However, the 6212 does feature some cutting-edge technology in its own right, thanks to the addition of NFC (near-field communication).
Nokia hasn't exactly been much of a presence in the North American CDMA world. The latest attempt to change that sad fact has resulted in what I'd call the absolute quietest phone announcement ever, with the only noticeable mention of these two phones on Nokia's press bulletin board. First up: the Nokia 3606 CDMA clamshell.
Three other phones were announced along with the Nokia 7070 Prism last week. They were the (in descending coolness order) Nokia 5000, Nokia 2680, and Nokia 1680 phones.
Normally the Prism series is meant for higher-quality midrange phones that look and feel classier than they really are. They're affordable (the 7900 Prism is available for a price in the 250-300 range), flashy, and weird enough to be cool.
And it looked like the whole Prism series was moving up in the world, with the most recent Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism getting the 8800 Sapphire star treatment.
Then came the Nokia 7070 Prism.
Nokia's latest triband phone is aimed squarely at the VoIP crowd. At 175 euros, the Nokia 6300i is a pretty affordable budget phone with WLAN, Nokia Maps, and a 2 megapixel camera wrapped up in a Series 40 interface. What, you were expecting Symbian?