Nokia outs midrange 6500 in slider and candybar flavors

by Chris Ziegler, posted May 31st 2007 at 1:33PM

It may not be the biggest news today out of Espoo, but Nokia has brought out a pair of very capable midrange handsets -- so capable, in fact, that we're kinda surprised Nokia is voluntarily using the term "midrange" to describe them. The 9.5mm thick (nice!) 6500 Classic is a sleek, anodized aluminum candybar featuring a 2 megapixel camera, 1GB (yes, 1GB) of internal storage, Bluetooth, QVGA display, microUSB port for charging, audio, and data, and quadband GSM plus UMTS on the 850 and 2100MHz bands (read: compatible everywhere but the US). The 16.4mm thick 6500 Slide is -- you guessed it -- a slider with just a little bit more meat on its bones than the Classic, upping the cam to a Carl Zeiss autofocus 3.2 megapixel piece and including a microSD slot, integrated FM radio and TV out. Look for both to be available in the third quarter; €320 (about $431) for the Classic and €370 (about $498) for the Slide before subsidies.

Gallery: Nokia 6500 Classic and Slide

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS

Tags: 6500, candybar, midrange, nokia, series 40, Series40, slider

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Mike @ May 31st 2007 1:55PM

Nokia does it again! Bring 'em to Canada Rogers. Freak'n Awesome.

VIVA NOKIA

-M.

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typ356 @ May 31st 2007 2:27PM

Doesn't AT&T/Cingular 3G work on the 850 band?

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Chris Ziegler @ May 31st 2007 2:45PM

AT&T requires both WCDMA 850 and 1900. The presence of 850 and 2100 indicates that these phones will likely see duty in Europe and Australia.

Chris

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Charlie @ May 31st 2007 3:37PM

AT&T run a 850 and 1900 MHz UMTS network. Odd that they would include 850MHz UMTS and not 1900. Guess that means its not going to hit Cingular.

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Kyle S @ May 31st 2007 3:45PM

That is strange that it has wcdma on the 850 band but no 1900 band. My guess is that its a typo. Especially with Nokia and Qualcomm duke'in it out over wcdma patents.

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Brick @ May 31st 2007 5:10PM

Nice looking phones, wouldn't mind having one of those (but i'm partial to my N9500).

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Peter Tam @ May 31st 2007 5:13PM

Its a shame that these phones probably will not see the light of day in the US.....unless you buy from a non-exclusive retailer. Its actually pretty humorous how Nokia consistently gets screwed by the US Carriers when it comes to providing the best phones.

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Gymo @ May 31st 2007 8:04PM

Yeah, these phones are totally mid-range, 1 GB of on board memory, if my memory serves me correct theres like 2 nokia n-series (upper range) phones that have higher than a gig of onboard memory, the only one is there first music phone the n91 or whatever it was, that had 4 and 8 gb, all the others didn't!
Heres my classification of the ranges:

LOWER:
120x160 screen

MID:
Possibly a QVGA
Ugly MP3 player (no album art)
EVDO for Verizon and Sprint

UPPER:
Higher than a 2MP camera
Awesome MP3 player and capabilties
3g
TV out
EVDO
QVGA Screen ( a must for this range)
Smartphone capabilities
Oh yeah and an awesome OS, not some stock poo like LG's stock, moto's stock (not the new linux though), and Samsung stock

You see, the one candy bar is most deff a upper, maybe my standards are low but thats what I have seen, and lets face it anyphone with a QVGA display and symbian, aint no MID range, Im insulted that nokia would even use that word, just because its not an E-series or an N, which completely rule over anyphone, and the xpress music series! Nonethe less, I love nokias!!!!

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topp @ Jun 1st 2007 7:16AM

Classic looks absolutely gorgeous. With slider specs classic would be just perfect for me. My next phone for sure if there aint coming anything better from rivals.

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Robbie @ Jun 2nd 2007 3:18PM

i dont see why 850 only wouldnt work on att where the umts is available in that frequency.

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Dustin @ Jun 12th 2007 2:38AM

Robbie:
The real answer is that it would work on most of AT&T's network, but parts of the network are 1900 MHz. That means that AT&T would not sell this phone. Nothing would prevent you from buying an unlocked and using it on the 850 portions of the network.

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Robbie @ Jun 21st 2007 7:33PM

thats what i figured
thanks for your comment
hope youre right

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