A stylish and durable steel housing, compact size and skill smartphone, the Nokia 6700 slide looks strong enough to place them in a modern world. Touchscreen, Android, and so on have forced a radical change, and many fear Symbian have lost some of its charm. It still has its strongholds, of course – it seems that the Eseries and Nseries never will appeal to users. But where does that leave an affordable mid-range smartphone, as the blade 6700?

Affordable can be the key word here. We seek a simple, catchy phone that wants to use the masses. It has some big shoes to fill though – his brother-shaped bar is one of the most popular Nokia mobile phones last year. Add smart phone that is pretty cool if it seems the next logical step. But we will see if the 6700 slide is the right package for the right market.

Key Facts

Quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE /
3G tri-band HSDPA and HSUPA 2Mbps to 10Mbps
Solid metal casing
2.2 “QVGA 16M color display, excellent readability in sunlight
5 megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash
VGA video recording at 15 fps
Symbian OS, S60 3.2 UI
Accelerometer Sensor
Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual Radio
Bluetooth (with A2DP)
Standard micro USB port (charging)
microSD card slot (16GB, 2GB included)
Rich package installed application
Smart Dialing
2.5mm audio jack
Great audio quality
Major drawbacks
No WLAN
No GPS
Small Screen
No Document Reader installed
2.5mm audio headphone boundaries third choice
Memory card slot under the back cover

The Nokia 6700 slide offers updates enough to justify its existence – skills smartphone, an audio and video are here to some of the main complaints we had answers to the classic 6700. Gaps in the data sheet are pretty good leads. GPS is perhaps nothing to do with target users, but wireless will be missed.

Unfortunately, somewhere along the path of the 6700 translation of classic form factor slider something should go wrong with the language of design. Perhaps the only way to say we would have liked better if the slide was more like 6700 Slide 6600i and less like Wall-E. But the design is always a subjective thing that we get out of the biting aside for the moment.
Instead we will focus on the Nokia 6700 slide ergonomics just after the break.


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