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The Nokia 6600 slide screen supports QVGA resolution and up to 16M colors on a 2.2″ diagonal. A Nokia trademark, sunlight legibility is great. The plastic keys with pleasant metallic finish are amply sized, well defined and solid to press. On the top side of Nokia 6600 slide you’ll find the data/headset port under a neat plastic cap and the battery cover latch. Nokia 6600 employs the Series 40 5th edition user interface, FP 1.

The standby screen of Nokia 6600 slide features the pre-selected wallpaper with the usual status readings, such as signal strength, battery status, ringing profile icon and time in the top bar. There are six predefined ringing profiles on Nokia 6600 slide. The phonebook of Nokia 6600 slide stores up to 2000 contacts and that sounds more than enough. Each contact can be assigned a variety of fields but the phone numbers are limited to 6, including a video-call number.

Caller image is different for incoming and outgoing calls. There are three available view modes for your contact list: Normal Name List, Name-and-Number and Name-and-Image. It can display the SIM card contacts, the phone memory contacts or both at the same time. A nice extra is the Find-on-Map option which locates the contact’s address on the new Nokia Maps for S40 application if it is entered correctly.

The Call Log in Nokia 6600 slide is the well-known S40 application. It can display Dialed, Received and Missed calls separately, as well as all of them in bulk. Signal reception and in-call sound are no concerns with Nokia 6600 slide. The handset is pitched for the so-called Background Noise Cancellation. One thing Nokia forgot to say though is that almost all current S40 midrange phones also feature this feature called Voice Clarity.

We carried out our traditional loudspeaker test to find out Nokia 6600 slide is bellow-average performer. Nokia 6600 slide is capable of handling all the common message types including SMS, MMS and email, as well as flash and audio messages.   Message length is limited to 1000 characters with both the count of typed characters and the number of parts the message will break down into displayed on the screen. Audio messages have a separate editor, which can either record the message on the fly or use a previously recorded sound clip.