NOKIA 3600 SLIDE

Friday, January 16, 2009

The Nokia 3600 Slide is a stylish new offering by Nokia. It features a sleek slider design whichs aero-dynamically styled with smooth and rounded edges. It is powered the tried and tested S40 user interface which has been Nokia's favorite for id range phones. The 3600 Slide has a varied mix of features and doesn't lack in any department. It has most of the features anyone would want in a phone and excels in the multimedia department. It is almost surely going to be a bestseller and is intended to replace the better S40 based phones. It does lack out on some features like 3G and Wi-Fi, GPS, etc but the features seem to be fairly justified in this price range.







The Nokia 3600 Slide is a sleek phone which sports a very stylish slider design. At dimensions of just 97.8 x 47.2 x 14.5 mm it is very compact. It weighs only about 97 gms which makes it easy to carry as well. On top of the slider, you get the 2" TFT display and the earpiece. It also has a 5 way Navigation key , two select keys and the standard Call and End keys. Below the slider you get the alpha-numeric keypad.




All of the keys have a very good feel about them. The keypad backlighting is nice and subtle. No complaints with the keypad. On the top of the phone, you find the charger socket, the Power key and the 2.5 mm audio-jack. The left side sports the covered micro USB slot while the right side sports the volume rocker and camera key.






All the buttons and ports blend in superbly with the design and impart a great balanced feel to the phone. The back of the phone sports the 3.15 MP camera and the Dual LED Flash. The phone is mostly made of plastic. The build quality is superb and feels sturdy as with most Nokia Phones. It can easily withstand light bumps and falls. The slider action is smooth and fluid, the whole body has a refined feel. It has one of the best combinations durability in this range.


The 3600 Slide sports a nice little 2" 16 M colour display with a resolution of 240 x 320 px. It offers superb brightness and contrast. Sunlight leibility is awesome, way better than most phones in this range. A bigger display would have most welcome as this is primarily a multimedia phone. It captures images at a max of resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels. It features the standard connectivity features like GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE.









The 3600 Slide offers great signal reception and superb call quality, better than most other Nokia devices which is quite an achivement. There is also some background nosie cancellation which works cool. The loudspeaker volume and vibration strength is also improved.

The Nokia 3600 Slide comes bundled with a standard charger, USB data cable and a set of stereo haedphones. You also get a user manual and a quick start guide in the box. It also ships with a 512 MB micro SD Card.
It is powered by a Li-Ion 860 mAh battery - BL- 4S. it has a rated talktime of about 6 hours and can power the phone for about a day half with moderate usage.




SPECIFICATIONS:

• Weight : 97.3 gms



• Dimensions : 97.8 x 47.2 x 14.5 mm



• Display : 2.0" TFT, 16M Colors, QVGA 240 x 320 px.



• Memory : 30 MB Internal memory (expandable upto 8 GB Micro SD)



• Bluetooth : Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP



• Camera : 3.15 MP Camera (2048 x 1536 pixels) with LED Flash, Auto-Focus, Video VGA at 15 FPS



• Connectivity : GPRS Class 32, HSCSD, EDGE Class 32, USB 2.0



• OS : S40 User Interface



• Battery : Li-Ion 860 mAh (BL-4S)



• 5 Way Navigation Key, Stereo FM Radio with RDS, Java MIDP 2.0, TV out.