Nokia 6600 Slide Review

Nokia’s ability to churn out five new phones per day makes already makes things a little confusing for the phone buyer, but now it’s recycling its old phone names. Back in 2003, the 6600 was the Finns’ flagship mobile thanks to its astonishing VGA camera. And now, five years later, we welcome the 6600 Slide – a fashion phone with very different ideas.The 6600 Slide isn’t the brainiest Nokia we’ve seen. Like its sibling, the 6600 Fold, it’s a Series 40 handset, so lacks the IQ of the forthcoming N96. But it crams a lot into its tiny, gleaming steel case, including a very high-res screen and a 3.2MP camera.

Quality camerawork
The camera is proficient, as you’d expect from Nokia, and handily packs autofocus to improve image quality further. There are limited special effects and video recording too, but otherwise it’s a straightforward, point-and-shoot snapper.

It’s also a quad-band phone with dual-band 3G and, like most high-end Nokia phones, packs an FM radio. Since this is a Nokia Series 40 operating system, everything is very speedy and responsive too.

The banana-fingered may find the keys a little too diddy for comfort, but at least they’re regularly shaped, if not widely spaced. The 6600 Slide has a great, smooth sliding mechanism, and its size, though small, fits in the hand perfectly.

Direction pad woes
The keys on the front of the phone are two rocker switches, which work well, and an aluminium direction pad, which is less successful. You’re fine when you want to push up, down, left or right but pressing in to confirm a selection is less reliable.

This is far from the only phone direction pad to suffer from this and you get used to it, but it’s not ideal.

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