Nokia 3600 slide User Reviews

Ive had 2 of these and for a good while I stuck with a Fly SL600..as it suited me and done what I wanted..till the screen broke thru' my noncelance.

Anyhow this came along and it wasnt long till the battery lasting came of note. Its THE single item of this phone that noticeable..& read that its to do with the slider and nokia haven't had a good record with them...

In 2006 I had a Panasonic that lasted a week - how can technology go, effectively, backwards. Somethings seriously amiss.

Either way, away from the battery standby times; the features are pretty and good; maps, mp3 player - good quality headphones, good radio, reminders, txting - mms'ing, calls - ok. Alarms very ergonomic... Themes are wide and far available to multiple of tens of thousands available. The screen is outstanding 16 mill. colours - what more juh want other than an AMOLED variant.

In Nokias the 'software' that runs the phones are either S40 (the S meaning series) with subsequent editions ie s40 3rd edition (like this is) or S60 which populate hones like the 5800 (which is S60 5th edition).. The editions are VERY different in appearance and operation..S60 is sort of intricate and quite difficult to get hold of or understand typeofthing ie the display settings are tucked away in the settings whereas on this S40 3rd Edition its easily 'logically' accessible. This Nokia UI (user interface/platform) is or was critical with phones but then touch-screens came along & that went out the window (lol)...I wonder what Nokia are gonna do next with their 'normal' phones and the software editions...

Camera 3mp is good quality: cannot complain !

In all a great great fone yet the battery....

To sum up = its a phone for someone who's got a car and a cradle for charging it at whim - thats what i've came to feel about it as the battery just can't justify the absolutely excellent features & userbility of it, itself.

REVIEW PART 3:
The buttons are all responsive and work just fine.  I find the outer buttons (the soft keys and the open/end call) to be a teensy bit loose now but nothing bad.  The backlight is nice and bright.  You can see the screen in daylight unlike the Razr.  The colors might wash out completely in direct sunlight but you can still see the screen.  Vast improvement on the Razr when I couldn't see the screen at all even in indirect sunlight.  
You cannot adjust the brightness of the display. The brightness itself is not a problem.  It is very bright and clear.  The only problem I see with that is if the battery is getting old and it drains it faster down the road but it is not a problem now.  
Hmm . . oh and one time it accidentally dialed someone while in my pocket but that can be resolved by locking the keypad which it will ask you when you close the slide while on the main screen anyway. Or you can just as easily make a shortcut for that.

And I don't know for sure but something else to throw out there is that it might not send a picture message with more than one picture attached.  It seemed like it just took the last picture and that was the only one the recipient received.  I still have to play with that though to see if that is the case or if there is a way around that.
I was not a fan of the idea of a slider but I really needed a phone and settled on this one.  It has definitely worked out for the best for me.  Technically there are complaints but they mostly fall into personal preference territory.  As far as actual function, the phone is just fine the way it is.  There is no 3G but I have no problem with an internet connection.  I am not a heavy user though.  But if you are, you most likely would be getting a different phone than this one anyway.
It works for what it is supposed to do.  You can make and receive calls with good clarity.  The ringer volume is fine.  The menu is easy to use and you have a couple options for how to arrange it.  The feel of the phone and the keys are very nice.  It fits well in hand. In my experience, Nokia has been very reliable (I had a Nokia before my Razr).  All in all, this is a very good phone.  I give the design an 8 out of 10 just because I personally would like a bigger screen and the fact that it scratches a teensy bit at the base of the keys.  I give the features an 8 out of 10 because you do have a good variety and things seem to work well but some things I personally will never use and there are features on other phones that would be nice here.  I give the performance a 9 out of 10 because it works great with the exception of sometimes resetting itself if it is "thinking too much."  
If you read this far, thank you. I hope this was useful. Have a great day!

REVIEW PART TWO:
The music player works well.  You have to tell it to stop because it will just keep playing and going through your songs if you don't.  This is meant to be for multi-tasking so you can do other things on your phone while the music still plays uninterrupted.   
Hmm, I know this is a long review already but I am just trying to be thorough for anyone that wants to know about this phone.  I went from a 2.2" screen on the Razr to a 2" screen on this phone and while it is noticeable if you hold them next to each other, it is not that noticeable when you look at the Nokia itself.  Screen size was a big deal for me.  I wanted a large screen because I personally can't stand the small ones but the dimensions of this phone make the screen feel larger than it is so that is nice.  

Oh, sometimes the camera button on the side of the phone might not respond right away.  You do a short press and it is supposed to open the still-shot camera.  If you press and hold it for a second or two, it opens the video camera.  I don't use this button at all.  I just designated a shortcut with the navigation key so that I press "up" and it opens the camera.While the camera is in use, you can switch from still-shot to video very easily by pressing "left" or "right" on the navigation keys.  That will also depend on the mode the camera is in such as landscape or portrait.  When in landscape, you hold the phone sideways so technically "up" becomes "left" and "down" becomes "right."  You have lots of options for the camera and for the photos or video you take. The camera works very well by the way.  There is a night mode to help in low light.  It works very well.  Your pics will still most likely be a bit fuzzy or have off colors somewhat but given the fact that you might not get any picture at all otherwise it does fine.  And when you have plenty of light the pictures are amazing.  Nice and crisp and you have a variety of resolutions to choose from as well as effects like grayscale, sepia, and negative.  
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REVIEW PART ONE:
I have had this phone for a couple of months now and it is a nice phone.  It feels very smooth and fits well in your hand.  The keys are all a nice size and even the top row is easy to use.  The slide mechanism is nice as well.  The only issue with the slide is that you will get slight scratch marks on the bottom of the phone and perhaps on the keys.  You can try different ways of pushing it to avoid it but you will probably end up with some scratches anyway.  The scratches I have on mine are not overly noticeable though so it is up to you if that matters or not.  And the phone is designed to be opened by pushing on the bottom so you are mostly limited to that which adds to your risk of scratching.  The slide is very sensitive too.  You barely have to touch it and it can move slightly.  It won't open fully but it moves a little. The menus are arranged nicely and fairly easy to operate.  The ringer volume is nice and loud.
Call clarity is nice as well.  I have not had any problems with that at all.   Battery life is good.  An issue with operation that I have come across is that if you go through some of the functions too fast for the phone to "think" it will reboot itself.  For example, I would try out different themes.  When I would go back into the gallery and go to the next item I wanted to apply, the screen would go white then black and then when it came back on it would be at the main screen.  It is not too much of a problem but sometimes it is tricky to know how much time the phone wants or needs.  And when you are in the themes gallery in particular and you have one of the selections highlighted, after a moment it will demonstrate for you what that theme looks like so you can decide if you want to apply it or not (which is nice).  If you select it while the phone is preparing to do the demonstration, the screen will go white and reset.  That really is the only problem that I have had with this phone the entire time and that really isn't that big a deal.  Just be patient and give the functions a few seconds and you should be fine.  
Something else that might bother some users is that it is a fingerprint magnet.  Before this phone I had a Razr so I was used to constantly wiping away prints and it is the same with this phone.  If that bothers you, then yes you may be bothered by this phone.  
Otherwise this is a lovely phone that is very easy to use.  I had no trouble at all setting it up for internet use and to receive multimedia messages.  It came with a 512 MB memory card preinstalled (it can hold up to 4GB).  If you store a lot of pictures on your memory card you may have trouble going through them all.  You have the option of creating folders on the phone's memory but that memory is limited to about 30 MB (I've found that it is really more like 25 to 27) and so it might get used up quickly depending on if you add other applications.  You do not have the option of creating folders on the memory card and being able to select the folder directly in which to save a file.  You can choose either a folder from the phone's memory or the memory card itself.  You can create a folder on the phone's memory and then move that folder to the memory card but it can be a lot of trouble that some people may not want to go through. And depending on the size of that folder you might not have the memory space to do what you want.  I also found that I could rename all of my files and create my own system that would work for me (such as alphabetically).  Then I can set the files to be sorted by name in ascending or descending order (you have the option to sort files by date, name, size, and format).  So if you sort files alphabetically, you can just click through until you get to the letter you want and find the specific file you are looking for.  But again, some users may not want to go through the trouble.
The music player works well.  You have to tell it to stop because it will just keep playing and going through your songs if you don't.  This is meant to be for multi-tasking so you can do other things on your phone while the music still plays uninterrupted.  
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