Nokia 6500 slide Review

Organizer:

The organizer includes the following: calendar, to-do list, notes, аlarm clock, stopwatch, countdown timer and calculator. The alarm clock offers the following settings: alarm time, alarm tone and snooze time out, and except for a single alarm, you can set the phone on an alarm, which goes off on certain days of the week. The calendar can be viewed by months and weeks, as you can add new notes with options for meeting, call, Birthday, memo and reminder. You have at your disposal also a standard, loan and scientific calculator. The rest of the organizer’s options are the standard ones and are not going to be discussed.


You can use voice commands for some of the functions, as well as a voice setting for the contacts in the phonebook. For this purpose it is not necessary to record them with your own voice because the text can be recognized as speech and it is necessary only to press and hold the lower part of the volume key in order to make the voice settings/commands active.

Nokia 6500 slide have 30 MB internal memory and additional microSD slot supporting up to 4GB cards.


Messaging:

The messaging menu is exactly what you can expect from Nokia. T9 helps you enter text faster and there are a few templates by default in the phone. You can create text, multimedia, flash and audio messages. Additional features are Instant Messaging and Email Client.



Connectivity:

Nokia 6500 slider is a quad band GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and dual band UMTS (850/2100 MHz), which allows for its usage worldwide. Our readers in the USA will be glad to learn that they will be able to make use of it in 2G as well as in 3G networks – an advantage to be appreciated by many.

The internet browser supports HTML/ XHTML and WAP 2.0. A status bar is being displayed at the lower part of the screen during download. It shows the percentage of current page loading – a very convenient extra, especially when trying to acquire content with plenty of information. We tried to load www.phonearena.com but the browser couldn’t visualize the page correctly: pictures were arranged in a way, different from the real one. Had we not known how our site looked, we would never have got on the right track and been able to understand which item was after which.
For local connectivity you can use both the Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and the microUSB port. The transfer speed via Bluetooth can actually be as high as 75 KB/sec, which means that recording a 7 MB song will take about a minute and a half.