subject: An Exquisite Successor to Nokia's Popular 6300 Phone by:Simon Drew [print this page] The new Nokia 6700 Classic boasts of an excellent feature/price ratio that is sure to endear itself to its intended markets. Positioned to target the mass markets like its hugely popular Nokia 6300, Nokia's new classic phone comes in an elegant candybar form factor that is as slim as any fashion phone out there. With superb features behind its solid build, the new 6700 comes out under high market anticipation and promises to be another sure winner for Nokia.
Something from the past
The Nokia 6300 is already 2-years old - an antique by today's past-paced developments in the mobile telecoms industry. Yet it continues to command a large market following that Nokia just can't ignore. Unhappy 6300 users are rare and there are those who would gladly replace their old ones with exactly the same model. The secret? It's the 6300's solidly built body with near legendary durability that is rare these days. For Nokia, leveraging on the 6300's loyal customers is well served with the new 6700 Classic that is just as solidly built, elegant and with features that upgrade it to 21st century expectations.
Highlights of its updated features
One can safely say that Nokia line of phones are packaged with hand-me-down features from its high enders from just a year back, To a large extent, that is a valid observation. The new 6700 sports features that stood out with flagship Nokia models about a year ago.
See if you can spot them here:
- It has a 2.2" QVGA LCD screen that supports 16 million colors.
- Adaptive brightness automatically adjusts the screen's brightness ambient lighting.
- There's Gesture Control. When a call comes in you don't feel like answering, just turn the phone face down on the table and the call gets rejected.
- It's got a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and LED flash. That LED is a useful feature supporting the phone as flash light when you have to grope your way in the unlit cinema house.
- Here's GPS navigation with Nokia Maps
- There's FM radio with RDS.
- Its uses the WebKit open source internet browser made popular in Nokia's E and N series phones
- There's high speed 3G and HSDPA support for fast internet surfing and downloads.
- There's Windows Live Messenger application support
- The phone comes with a generous 170 Mb internal memory that can be expanded up to 8GB with a microSD expansion slot. This feature comes in quite handy when you have to handle large multimedia files for music and video on the road.
- Talk time is better compared to phones this size at 5 hours and a standby time of 12 hours. Continuous music playback when you're on the road is up to 10 hours.
Conclusion
The Nokia 6700 classic promises to live up to its name and stand among the best pedigreed mobile phones out there. Value for the money stands out without peer.
