Nokia today announced a new mid-tier S60 handset - the Nokia 6700 Slide. A key characteristic of the phone is its sleek design and aluminum finish. It will be available in six colours (pink, red, petrol blue, aluminum, lime and purple), in Q1 2010, at a cost of €160 (before taxes and subsidies). The phone runs S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, features a 5 megapixel camera (with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash), 2.2 inch QVGA screen, FM radio, tri-band WCDMA (HSDPA and HSUPA) and an emphasisis on the ability to share media to friends and the web.
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I would buy this phone...... if it had WLAN.
2.5mm this was a buy until that came up in the spec...
Looks like nokia is trying to hard to be like apple (those phones looks like ipods)
x2. look:
Picture is so much like 4th gen nano's promo picture...
The text is saying that it's S60 3.2, though the images are showing what seems to be a different / new home screen.. Am I just not up to date with the current version of this OS, or is there more to this particular phone?
It'd be interesting, too, if some of these advancements are integrations from Symbian^2, Symbian^3, etc.
Not for me, but my sister would have loved the pink version if it had a 3.5mm jack. Would have been a perfect bday present for her in march too.
well a lot of colorful products are presented that way if you look around. Apple is not the originator of those colors or the way it is represented. It is just that it is what we are familiar lately.
I agree with the 2.5 jack. It seems thick enough to fit one but they didn't. Perhaps it's just so it won't cannibalize their own XpressMusic or Xseries phone. I personally don't like this approach.
It looks like a customized S60 with a bit of Xseries touch on the homescreen.
Overall very attractive from the pictures.
Dual LED flash! Hurrah! More weak and blurred low light shots! Woo hoo!
[sits and waits patiently for next Nokia Xenon flash phone, refusing to buy another handset until Xenon is restored]
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That homescreen has already been used in S60 3.2 XpressMusic phones (e.g. 5630) for quite some time now.
Nokia always had colourful phones. Way back before the iPod Nano days.
Didn't know Apple invented colours... *rolleyes*
Apple fanbois do like to make up their history, don't they?
Nokia 5110 - released in 1998. I remember this well because my partner had this phone and bought multiple Xpress Cover for it.
Also, the Nokia 252 (1997), 3210 (1999), 8210 (1999), 3310 (2000), 8310 (2001), 7250i (2003) etc. were all available in a variety of colours.
The homescreen is similar to the 5630 and 5730 - the extra customisation was introduced with S60 3.2.1.
I think this has the potential to a be a hero handset for Nokia (e.g. like N95 / E71 / 6300 etc.)... maybe not quite so big, but the phone people will point to as representative of the start of the Series 40 / S60 switch over?
Be very interesting to see one of these in person.
BTW the 2.5mm jack is based on the headset that the phone is compatiable with. Seems a real shame. GPS / WiFi I can understand on cost grounds, but 2.5 rather than 3.5 mm jack seems less explicable. I imagine it is about artificial product differentiation or segmentation.
On colours - expect to see this happening more often. Aluminum is much easier to colour / anoidse than other previously used metals (see also E52). Nice o see someone pointing to colourful Nokia's from the past - my first thought on this was this is the slider version of the 5110 for 2009.
Does it have integrated GPS?
Baw, the S60 swirl is being replaced by the little house icon even on numbered phones 😞
The 6700 gets a 2.5mm jack but the much lower end (and better looking) 7230 gets a 3.5mm jack? I just don't get it at all. 7230 also gets a better screen. The 7230 hardware with the 6700 internals (and camera) would be a cracking low-mid range little phone. One i'd happily use myself (despite my Symbian fall out).
What are you up to Nokia
I don't see thew point of a Carl Zeiss lens on a Nokia S60 phone, since the flashes that go off, needed or not, are ruining all pics regardless.
Here is my routine for taking a picture with a Nokia phone.
- Take a picture.
- See how it is either over-exposed if the subject is near, completely spoiled if the subject is reflective (like a sheet of paper when I am trying to take notes), or else the colors are just horrible because of the color of the LED flash.
- open the menu to EACH TIME manually turn on the flash
- Now trying to take the picture, except that you unintentionally open the settings menu again (It was left where the center button triggers it when I turned off the flash)
- Close the menu you just opened
- Wait a few seconds until the selection bar disappears from thje screen, and the camera can again be operated with the center button.
- Now taker the picture.
go through the steps every time you want to take a picture.
When I saw a Carl Zeiss nokia for this price, I was about to jump on. Until I remembered why I NEVER use the camera on my E71. In the time it takes to complete the steps above I will have retrieved a compact camera out of my backpoack, and end up with a much better picture.
Seriously. Why is there no option to turn off the flash by default? Is there any way to just kill it? Drill it out?
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Here is my routine for taking a picture with a Nokia phone.- Take a picture.
- See how it is either over-exposed if the subject is near, completely spoiled if the subject is reflective (like a sheet of paper when I am trying to take notes), or else the colors are just horrible because of the color of the LED flash.
- open the menu to EACH TIME manually turn on the flash
- Now trying to take the picture, except that you unintentionally open the settings menu again (It was left where the center button triggers it when I turned off the flash)
- Close the menu you just opened
- Wait a few seconds until the selection bar disappears from thje screen, and the camera can again be operated with the center button.
- Now taker the picture.
go through the steps every time you want to take a picture.
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Here's what I do to take a picture with my N97
-press camera button (I leave my lens cover open.. ironically, this provides better protection than actually using it..)
-Press camera button again to take photo.
If you really don't want flash, here it is again:
-Press camera button
-click on large flash icon
-double click on 'no flash' setting
-Press camera button again to take photo.
And Here's what I do after several days without a reboot
-Press Camera button
-wait for 5 seconds
-camera app appears, but no exit or options menus appear
-camera app freezes
-curse for 10-15 seconds
-kill camera app on task manager
-try run again, same issue
-reboot phone (haven't timed it, usually overlap this task with more cursing)
-start camera app
-realise the moment is long gone
-put phone away
-hope that this doesn't ever happen on a flagship phone again.
oops, i swore I wasn't going to rant about the n97 again..
RollerSMB wrote:Here's what I do to take a picture with my N97
-press camera button (I leave my lens cover open.. ironically, this provides better protection than actually using it..)
-Press camera button again to take photo.If you really don't want flash, here it is again:
-Press camera button
-click on large flash icon
-double click on 'no flash' setting
-Press camera button again to take photo.
And Here's what I do after several days without a reboot
-Press Camera button
-wait for 5 seconds
-camera app appears, but no exit or options menus appear
-camera app freezes
-curse for 10-15 seconds
-kill camera app on task manager
-try run again, same issue
-reboot phone (haven't timed it, usually overlap this task with more cursing)
-start camera app
-realise the moment is long gone
-put phone away
-hope that this doesn't ever happen on a flagship phone again.
oops, i swore I wasn't going to rant about the n97 again..
Frustating... Does anyone know if this happens on the mini as well??? Or going by Nokia's current reputation, I should simply assume it does? :P
Mini is a bit more stable than my old N97. It is still slow (no firmware update can change the fact that the N97 has a slower processor than my E55) though.
Looks rather like a modern N80.No wifi oh dear!
Funny that the Apple fanboys who accused the comments about Nokia 'stealing' color from Apple has vanished now that they were proven wrong.
Nice looking phone. Price is right for their target market. The lack of 3.5mm headphone isn't a concern as I am sure these are targeted at teenagers who already own iPods and Walkmans, and want to match their phones with their MP3 players.
I don't think it's a case of Nokia trying to copy iPod but there is no denying that these two devices are strikingly similiar. Material, general layout, colouring and even surface finish!😊
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That's very strange - making the 6700s an S60 device when the 6700c is an S40 device. I though it would be like with the 6500 phones (slider & classic), which were both S40 phones.
With the two 6700 phones, the hardware is virtually identical (barring the form factor), but the OS is different. What gives?
