Nokia 3600 Slider

Nokia 3600 Slider: A Smart Looking Phone with Great Features

The Nokia 3600 Slide is an entry-level camera phone which packs most features that you could demand from any other midrange mobile phones. It's a compact and very smart looking phone that feels comfortable in the palm and looks kind of cute when closed. It is available in two color options including a sleek black and gorgeous burgundy which allow you to choose your favorite color to suit your personal style. Its slide-out keypad is positioned at the right size, quite smooth to open and easy to use.

The phone sports a 5-way navigation key with 2 soft keys and it comes with a 2.0 inch QVGA screen which displays a whopping 16million colors with 240 x 320 pixels. The display is sharp and clear, though not especially bright and is difficult to see under sunlight. Measuring 97.8mm x 47.2mm x 14.5mm and weighing 97.3g, this mobile phone is really a cute and compact little phone that you could slip into any pocket with ease. And it can provide up to 5.5 hours of talk time as well as up to 280 hours of stand by time.

Feature-wise, the Nokia 3600 Slide has all the standard messaging services including SMS, MMS, emailing and instant messaging. The emailing service supports IMAP4, POP3 and SMTP allowing you to keep updated with work as well as keeping in touch with the work place even when you are away from the office or the home.

This phone is also an entertainment-feature phone, sporting a 3.2 megapixels camera, a music player and a stereo FM. The camera performs pretty good with autofocus and a bright double LED flash as well as 8 x digital zoom feature. It takes good quality pictures and has video capabilities too. The music player can handle all popular music formats such as MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, and WM. Sound quality is pretty good through the built in speakers, and is also excellent when played through headphones. Unfortunately there's no 3.5mm headphone jack, so you cannot plug into other high quality headsets. The user memory is limited to 30 MB, which is far enough to store large quantity files. Luckily the phone supports a microSD memory cards, and a 512 MB card is included in the sales package. You can extend this card to 4 GB, if you want extra storage for music, video and files.

Connectivity is good too, with Bluetooth & USB available. It's a quad band phone, so you could be connected to networking anywhere in the world. But there are no WiFi and 3G, so internet speed will be a little bit slow. Interestingly, though the Nokia 3600 Slide doesn't feature a built-in GPS chipset, it does come with pre-installed Nokia Maps. So you can use GPS services after buying a Bluetooth GPS receiver and pair it with this phone. There is also an Opera mini browser and WAP 2.0, allowing you to surf the Internet on the Nokia 3600 Slide to access your favorite online stores and websites.

The Nokia 3600 Slide is an attractive and well performing mobile phone, ideal for anyone who likes to have a good slider which incorporates many of the features that we have come to expect of a good phone.

Specifications:

2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced	2008, April
Status	Available. Released 2008, August
Dimensions	97.8 x 47.2 x 14.5 mm, 60 cc
Weight	97.3 g
Display Type	TFT, 16M colors
Size	240 x 320 pixels, 2.0 inches
	- Five-way navigation key
Sound Alert types	Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone	Yes
Phonebook	2000 entries, Photocall
Call records	Yes
Internal	30 MB
Card slot	microSD, up to 8GB, 512MB included, buy memory
GPRS	Class 32, 100 kbps
EDGE	Class 32, 296 kbits
3G	No
WLAN	No
Bluetooth	Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port	No
USB	Yes, v2.0 microUSB
Camera Primary	3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Video	Yes, VGA@15fps
Secondary	No
Messaging	SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (Opera mini 4)
Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games	Yes
Colors	Charcoal, Wine
GPS	No
Java	Yes, MIDP 2.0
	- MP3/AAC/eAAC+ player - TV-out - Nokia Maps - T9 - Voice memo/commands
Battery	Standard battery, Li-Ion 860 mAh (BL-4S)
Stand-by	Up to 280 h
Talk time	Up to 5 h 30 min