Despite the best efforts of its competitors, Nokia still holds the fort in terms of phones as fashion accessories. And we’re not even discussing Nokia’s ridiculously expensive Vertu brand here. Sure to cause confusion is Nokia’s naming convention for this phone — this looks nothing like the Nokia 6500 Classic. The phone is also pretty solid, with its brushed steel jacket, but it can get pretty sweaty in your hands on a hot day.
There is a small, and easy to miss, ‘Eject’ button on the top of the phone which loosens the backplate. The Nokia 6500 Slide is a 3G phone with a simultaneous multimedia and business focus. You get a tonne of video features, including video call capability, a video-out cable, and a really quite useful camera. Storage is courtesy of a 256MB mini-SD card, which is pretty small for a multimedia phone, but the slot will handle up to 4GB.
Our first problem arose when we tried synching the phone to our PC. Our second largest bugbear was using the phone for messaging. Thirdly, locking the phone was also difficult unless you had just finished a call or were already in the main menu. Like a lot of Nokia’s new “style” phones, the 6500 Slide generates an initial “wow” reaction — but unlike the Nokia 6300 in particular this quickly wears off. What you’re left with is a fairly good phone — if a little clunky — that is only relatively useful and user-friendly.
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