Nokia 6700 slide Disadvantages

Nokia 6700 slide review: Braving the odds

Introduction

A stylish and durable steel body, compact size and smartphone skill, the Nokia 6700 slide looks strong enough to hold its own in a modern world. Touchscreen, Android and whatnot have forced a sea change and many fear Symbian to have lost some of its mojo. It still has its strongholds of course – it seems the Eseries and Nseries will never fall out of users’ favor. But where does that leave an affordable midrange smartphone like the 6700 slide?

Key features

·                 Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support

·                 Tri-band 3G with 10Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA

·                 Solid metal casing

·                 2.2" 16M-color QVGA display with excellent sunlight legibility

·                 5 megapixel autofocus camera with Carl-Zeiss lens, dual LED flash

·                 VGA video recording at 15fps

·                 Symbian OS, S60 3.2 user interface

·                 Built-in accelerometer sensor

·                 Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio

·                 Bluetooth (with A2DP)

·                 Standard microUSB port (charging)

·                 microSD card slot (16 GB supported, 2GB included)

·                 Rich preinstalled application package

·                 Smart dialing

·                 2.5mm audio jack

·                 Great audio quality

Main disadvantages

·                 No WLAN

·                 No GPS receiver

·                 Small display

·                 No preinstalled document viewer

·                 2.5mm audio jack limits third-party headphones choice

·                 Memory card slot under the back cover

The Nokia 6700 slide brings enough updates to justify its existence – smartphone skill, an audio jack and video-calling are there to address some of the main grudges we had with the 6700 classic. Gaps in the spec sheet are prominent enough though. GPS is perhaps irrelevant to the intended users but Wi-Fi will certainly be missed.