Nokia 6500 Slide Mobile Phone

Sorry folks but I am only a Mr Average user who this phone is not really designed for. However, only really had the Motorolla Flip type phones in the past like the Razr etc.
I thought, to hell with it, Im going to own the latest flashiest phone in the market place. Well how do I find it. Its a great little package, with just about all that most people will want from a phone, young or old alike. The keys are nicely placed, even for those ham fisted oldies like myself! Texting, once I found it! Was relitively easy, although initially locating Send a Message was a little awkward if hidden. Hey, remember that Ive been used to the Motorolla Set Up and not Mr Nokia's latest. From memory, its bassically the same as the dear old 2810 range of phones! Nothing changed other than you now get loads of extras and games.
Incidently, the camera on this is second to none. Im a bit of a camera Buff and this little package meets my needs superbly with quality and clarity that is not in some cameras costing the same as this phone/camera package. On a negative point, it would have been handy to have taken the memory card out and taken it to Mr Tesco or similar,who would kindly download it and produce and convert the memory into those lovely items known as photo's! This may still be possible, because you can download the memory to your PC. Just not sure if it can be done directly at Mr Tesco's place? The Flash is brilliant too and left on automatic, it decides if the Flash is needed or not, thus saving your dear old battery.
The music and sounds are amazing for such a small package, the clarity and bass are just fine for my rusty old ears. This is well capable of playing the local Hip-Hop bands stuff through to Pink Floyds latest remix. How they put such a superb package together is beyond me.
The Phone seems to run on fresh air! The Battery on the 6500 Slide seems to carry on for ever, without a charge. Never, have I known a phone work so hard in testing and getting used too without deminishing the battery. What are Nokia making them from? I expect this to easily last me a week between charges, whereas my dear old Motorola would be needing intensive care after only two or three days average use! Oh, it also can be fully charged after only one and a half hours pluged into our glorious 230v system.
There is so much on this phone, I have had it three days now, and I still have not found my way around it! There is so much on it that it will take me at least one or two months to get to grips with it all. If thats your 'Bag' then this is the phone for you. Quality abounds, from its stainless steel case, through to its positive feeling buttons. It is really the phone for the future thats ready today. Perhaps its a bit too over the top for the likes of me, Old Fart who has just passed the 50 mark! But for those gadget concious go getters out there who want to make a statement, then this phone not only has it all, it all works superbly too.
Please note, I dont work for Nokia and I have never completed one of these reviews before. Mind you, its been easy as it is similar to what I used to do for a living.
Hope that you find my review informative, honest and interesting. Best wishes to you all. Jon. PS> Sorry about my spelling, but my fingers work faster than my brain these days!

THE PHONE WAS RUBBISH AS IT WAS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY NO ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONS OR NOT EVEN AN ENGLISH CHARGER SO I SENT THE ITEM BACK AND GOT A REFUND

The Carl Zeiss optics are brilliant. What I really like is the fact that the 6500 has Nokia software, I think its the BB5 like the 6300.(not Symbian like the N series phones)
Overall functionality is very good & much quicker in general compared to the N73 I had. The sound quality is exceptional.Its rather heavy but feels good in the hand. Battery life seems quite good.
All in all, a very good mobile with the added advantage of an exceptionally good camera.

Camera on phone is the best feature and why I bought it. I had the exact same phone and lost it so this purchase is an exact replacement - must be good if I didn't want to change!

I used to have a Samsung E900 this had an 80KB internal memory plus you could insert a memory chip to add extra memory, maybe its my fault for not reading the specifications properly but I now have a phone with only 20 KB internal memory although you can insert a memory card and they are very inexpensive. Also my bluetoothe device will not pair with this phone (probably incompatible) but again I had no problems with this on my old phone wish I hadn't changed now. Maybe I could ask my sister for my old phone back in exchange for this LOL

loved the nokia and super fast delevery great ebeyer. would buy from this person again and a credit to ebey wish there was more out there like him

Always wanted a slide phone and the nokia 6500 meets all my needs a stylish phone with a lot of features decided to buy a nokia because I always find the nokia format very user friendly the camera feature is excellent

my friend has the same phone its simple but stylish great phone a1 everything very simple but has great technology on board a must have phone in my eyes, will be buying the girlfriend one

it looks lovely in the picture but cant tell you what its like as seller has taken my money and ran leaving me with no phone to review

Its gr8 mobile , well worth the buy has a gr8 sturdy look to it and i love the slick black look.It has most the features you want on a nokia phone , a must buy for me and its also averaged priced.

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I bought this mobile for my youngest son, who goes through mobiles more than anyone. He is very impressed with the mobile and he is normally very critical of his mobiles.
The fault highlighted with the camera shortcut was no problem to him as he worked a way around it, and the item was very accurately described.

This is a great phone. Love the camera, great software. More a boy toy, recommend the regular Nokia 6500 for women.

I've had this phone for a couple of months now so I think that I have had time to form a balanced opinion about the phone. when I got it out of the box I did like the nice solid feeling it had as I held it in the palm of my hand and I found it asthetically pleasing. I bluetoothed a nice mp3 over from my old samsung D600 and listened to it a few times at which point my phone crashed! so much for the increased stability of a non-smart phone I thought but since that first day I have had few problems. The phone takes good pics but you will not get the best from it unless you spin the phone around and start to use it in landscape mode using the side mounted camera button which then activates the Auto focus function on the camera, which works quite well (took me a while to work that out, duh.) I am not a big texter but when I do send a texts I am impressed by how quick they seem to be transmitted. I have a nokia bluetooth handsfree car kit which was inherited with the car I bought and as I hoped the 6500 works seamlessly with this kit having enabled auto answer. One thing I have noticed is that the keyboard seems much less tactile than my old samsungs, I was hoping it would soften up but it hasn't happened yet. One thing that is bugging me about the phone and I cant be the only person that has had this problem, is that it often traps strands of hair between the black piece of plastic that runs along the top of the front of the phone and the steel casing!! in fact today I found a strand of my daughters hair lodged in the front of the phone! Nokia take note, the fit really should be more flush, this should not be happening fullstop. Overall this is a very good phone but I fell that the build quality could be better, why are the charging points so small? this seems to ensure that the charging pin is needlessly fragile, nokia must be doing a roaring trade in new chargers due to these pins snapping. At the end of the day it does what it says on the box and it does it quite well with what I would call decent battery life as well, lasting a couple of days on a full battery before needing to be topped up.

wife got a 6500 slide, i'm jealous, it was £70 cheaper, £222 for tocco...£145 for Nokia... and better quality/camera/ etc

very good phone very good camera stylish nokia easy to use would recommend to anyone asking for a phone the price was very good

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Picture quality is excellent, media player sounds great and easy to use. Screen needs to be protected! I had my contract 6500 stolen and no doubt that I wanted the same mobile.

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If, like me, you are as blind as a bat or deaf as a doorpost, this phone is for you. Easy to use and load as you like with the ability to change the font sizes to an easy to read size. I love this phone, looks and feels nice, and easy to use.

Recommend it to anyone!

Great phone.. but due to the fact it is new, anyone wanting to get the fixed network unlocked may have difficulties finding the expertise to do this at the moment.

I have decided to buy this phone after reading some reviews on the web and seeing some pictures of this phone. I fell in love instantly with the simple but very clean and powerful design all housed in quality materials.

This phone comes in choice of two colours - silver and black (I have the black one and love it). Nokia 6500 slide feels solid in your hand and the slide mechanism feels very precise and sharp - just the way it should be. You will love the phone if you text a lot as the keys are large enough and the phone sits nicely in the palm of your hand.

I have been using this phone for couple of days now and everything works 100%.
Playback quality is excellent (get a 3.5mm to 2.5mm jack adapter for couple of quid and can use virtually any high-end earphones with it), bluetooth connection fast and trouble-free, software provided by Nokia is also very good and connecting this phone with PC couldn't be easier. I have expanded the memory with an 8Gb sandisk SDHC micro-SD card so I have plenty room for pictures, music and videos. Only downfall is that this phone will only recognize 3.6Gb of memory (hope that Nokia will change this in one of the future firmware updates). The Nokia 6500 slide also features 3.2 Megapixel camera with built-in flash and the pictures look really great.

If you decide to buy this phone, bear in mind that this is not a smart phone based on S60 software. It is the S40 v5 software, wich in my opinion runs much smoother than the S60 anyway and I haven't experienced any crashes or freezes yet(this was quite common on previous nokia I had - based on S60 software)
I can only recommend this phone, it is really good. If you are looking for a stylish phone with decent features that is simple to use and won't cost you fortune, you should definitely consider Nokia 6500 slide.

I like the phone,becouse is from the new generations,small,comfortable and easy to use it.I like it.

so here it is nokia's sleek brushed steel phone...... well unfortunately nowhere near as good as it should be. having been a nokia fan for years i was then temted away by other makes with funky designs but found myself still wanting more so when the 6500 slide was released i couldn't believe it sleekness and its a nokia.the problem is that it only has a 2 megapixel camera,the battery only lasts 24 hours if im lucky and when calling people i lose all my incall features from the display, ie loudspeaker however it still works just not displayed. and i can spend a good 30 mins personalising my ringtones etc then the next day the phone has reset its self to factory settings. rather annoying ringtone and a plain blue wall paper.so my overall verdict dont waste ur time with this phone get a samsung!

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