After firing up the Xpress last week, Nokia are quick to offer up a few new sexy slider phones to keep the Nokia brand on the forefront of everyone’s mind. It seems Nokia is content with just throwing a few standard new-age features onto a slick-looking phone and giving it a new numeric name. I wish they would just focus their attention on something innovative, like the promised Morph, instead of releasing these repackaged phones every week.
The 6600 comes in both “fold” (pictured below) and “slide” (pictured above) models, but the spec sheets are surprisingly different considering that they share a model number in common. The fold will grace you with a 2.13-inch QVGA OLED and 2 megapixel camera, while the slippery slider gets upgraded to a 3.2 megapixel sensor but loses the OLED designation on its 2.2-inch display. For the average consumer I imagine these spec changes to be quite confusing.
I can’t stay angry at Nokia for very long, not when they include cool features like the ability to double-tap the phone’s surface to awake the phone from its slumber. The fold comes in at around AU$450 and the slide at AU$400, before carriers attach themselves like leeches.
The 3600 slide (pictured above and below), unfortunately gets no foldy buddy to hang out with, but does boast a sexy colour that will look great on anyone’s desk. The 3600 gets a 3.2 megapixel autofocus lens with dual LED flashes, TV out, and microSD expansion for about AU$300.
