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Nokia 3600 Slide Review

Nokia 3600 slide mobile is a stylish, smooth, and simple design that has plenty of cool features. The Nokia 3600 is going to be available in a hip new colors and materials and most amazing feature is its finish. It has a soft ceramic paint and comes with a high gloss surface.

The Nokia 3600 slider phone is also the first Nokia product to feature background noise cancellation. With a built-in music player the Nokia 3600 slide offers up to 3000 favorite songs on an optional 4 microSD card.

Nokia 3600 Slide comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and dual LED flash. It can capture VGA resolution video at 15 fps, and it also has a TV out port for video playback.

The display on the 3600 Slide is a 240 x 320 pixel panel, the phone comes with microSD expandable memory (with 512MB in the box), Bluetooth 2.0, an FM radio and a multimedia player.

The Nokia Maps application is included, and this can be used with the optional LD-4W GPS accessory. There’s a 2.5mm audio socket plus a microSD connector for transferring files. The Nokia 3600 Slide also features “background noise cancellation”, but Nokia’s information on exactly what that is and how it works is lacking. Priced at 175 EUR, the Nokia 3600 Slide has easy-to-use features with an appealing look and is expected to be available by third quarter of 2008.

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Nokia 5000 new budget cell phone

The new budget phone by Nokia, the Nokia 5000 is a thin 11.1 mm design and is available in several of lively colors. It comes with a basic 1.3 megapixel camera, FM radio, a music player and also supports Bluetooth.

Nokia 5000 handset will also have GPRS, EDGE and email support, it runs on the S40 user interface and it probably greatest advantage is the QVGA resolution of its 2-inch 65K color TFT display.

The Nokia 5000 will be available in Cyber Green, Neon Blue and Perfect Purple colors, likely to be in market around Q2 2008. Exact price is unknown yet

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Windows Mobile 6.1

Windows Mobile 6.1 is officially out, and the major changes are as follows:

• Bigger system fonts
• Sliding Panel at home screen
• Threaded text messages (just as iPhone)
• Number of characters left counter now available in the title bar
• Multiple message select option
• The default email signature saying “Sent from my Windows Mobile phone.”
• Start button can either open the new “Recent programs” listing or the usual “All Programs” folder
• Pocket Internet Explorer has a new Zoom feature (Compensating for the lack of a mini-map)
• Copy/Paste text function (It was about time! Anyways, it’s available in Internet Explorer, Messaging, and Office only)
• New Clock&Alarm menu in the “All Programs” listing for easier managing of Alarms
• New “Managed Programs” item in settings for all apps installed remotely by your company Sys Admin

Check out following video for entire review:

The Windows Mobile 6.1 is not be available for purchase to existing older devices. Manufacturers will need to release it as a free update to their devices. Following are the list of handsets which will use Windows Mobile 6.1 version:

• i-mate: 8502, 9502, 8150, 6150
• Motorola: MOTO Q 9c, MOTO Q 9h global
• Samsung: BlackJack II
• HTC: A new Touch Dual for the U.S. and updates for the AT&T Tilt, Touch by HTC, Mogul by HTC from Sprint, TyTN II
• Toshiba: Portege G810, Portege G910

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