Nokia 6600i Slider – Review, Pictures and Specifications

Nokia it seems is obsessed with the number 6600, afterall the original Nokia 6600 was its first ever successful Smart Phone. After the failure of its 6600 Slider now Nokia has launched a better upgrade 6600i Slider 3G with top of the line features. First the looks and Coolness factor

Nokia 6600i Looks and Design :

This phone adds the much needed ?? curvy looks to the Boxy slider design of Nokia high end phones. Imagine a N85 looking better wih curvy looks. It picks the design of the old Nokia 6600’s curvy looks.  The phone looks pretty neat and it will help everyone to compare this beauty with existing phones in terms of size and dimensions.

To compare Nokia 6600i ‘s looks and dimensions we took some other popular sliders of the current generation. The cool Nokia 7100 SuperNova, Nokia N85 , Nokia N95.

Galmarous and curvy Nokia 6600i laucnhed in 2009
Galmarous and curvy Nokia 6600i laucnhed in 2009
Nokia 6600i Black and Silver
Nokia 6600i Black and Silver

The dimensions are  Height (length)  x  Width x Thickness . Below are dimensions (thickness) comparison of Nokia 6600i,N85,Super Nova 7100,N95 8GB, Nokia 6300 and N96.

Nokia 6600i slider            –    93 mm  x 45 mm    x  14.2 mm

Nokia 7100 Super Nova –    98 mm x 48.4 mm x  15 mm

Nokia N85                            –    103 mm x 50 mm x 16 mm

Nokia N95 8Gb                  –     100 mm x 53 mm x 21 mm

Nokia N96                           –     103 mm x 55 mm x 18 mm

Nokia 6600 Slider           –

So the results are clear the new Nokia 6600i is definitely smaller in terms of dimensions compared to Super Nova 7100 by 5 mm in length and 3 mm in width. The  new Nokia 6600 is same in its thickness to Nokia Super Nova 7100. The phone is definitely thinner compared to the N95 and N85. The Nokia 6600 has the same dimensions as that of new Nokia 6600i.

In terms of the weight  .Below are weight comparison of Nokia 6600i,N85,Super Nova 7100,N95 8GB, Nokia 6300 and N96.

Nokia 6300 (Bar)                  –   91 g

Nokia 6600i                          –    110 g

Nokia Super Nova 7100 –      103 g

Nokia N85                             –      128 g

Nokia N95 8GB                   –       129 g

Nokia N96                           –        125 g

The new 6600i is little heavier than the Super Nova 7100 but lighter than the NSeries phones. We also compared it with Nokia 6300 one of the lightest and thinnest phones, the Nokia 6600i is almost 20 grams heavier.

Feautures :

Nokia 6600i is a 3G ,   S40 series phone with top of line features like 5MP camera and 2.2 TFT screen.

Screen resolution – 320 x 240

Colours  – 16.7 Million

This is a standard resolution for almost all the above mentioned phones. But the colours does make a huge difference in Nokia 6600i. It has 16.7 Million colours bringing 6600i to the level of other N series phones like N96 and N95.  Compared to this the Super Nova has only 65,000  colours.

Talk Time  – 4 hours (240 minutes)

Standby  –  350 hours

When the colours increase the battery life reduces, the talktime of Nokia 6600i is half that of Super Nova 7100 and equal to other N series phones.

Internal Memory – 20MB

External memory – micro SD upto 8GB

Symbian Platform – S40

Operating Frequency – GSM 800 / GSM 950 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900

WCDMA 850 / WCDMA 2100  (GSM ,  3G, UMTS )

Camera :

Pixels of 5 MP  at 2592 x 1944 Image resolution comparable with N95.

Digital zoom upto 8x and Dual LED Flash, Image stabilizer , has 30 fps video recording in QVGA format.

Messaging and Communications :

SMS , MMS , Email (settings for Gmail,Yahoo and MSN ) , Pop , SMTP and Video Calling.

Internet :

WAP , xHTML  browser with Flash support. The broswer has java plugin and much more. The protocols used are HTTP, WAP and XML.

Music and Video (Media):

Video player supports 3gpp and Real Media content.

Music Player – AAC , MP3 , Real Audio , MPs, AAC+ and  eAAC+

FM Radio.

Connectivity :

Bluetooth 2.0 , wireless LAN , GPRS , EDGE and  3G  (depends on country)

Package Contents :

  • Nokia 6600i slide
  • Nokia Battery BL-4U
  • Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-101D
  • Nokia Stereo Headset WH-203
  • Nokia High Efficiency Charger AC-8
  • Nokia microSD Memory Card MU-22
  • Stupid (real) ways to get fired during recession (in Infosys and TCS)

    These two are real incidents and one from Infosys and another from TCS.

    1. Create color xerox copies of your bus passes and use company’s bus service for free 

    Yes some of the freshers in Infosys tried this and sadly had a sad ending to their career. News is that infosys doubled its bus pass rates and pushed these thrifty freshers into such a genuine idea.

    2. Try to hack your CEO’s account

    This time its TCS, two Mumbai smarties who somehow found their CEO Ramadurai Employee Id and tried to log in to his ultimatix account (TCS all in all web application). Maybe they were thinking Ramadurai keeps a simple password or default password ??? . They tried it three times and his account was locked.  It appears that Ramadurai’s secretary wasnt too happy and he/she ordered a probe and the culprits were found within a day and asked to resign meekly. Good thing is that since TCS asked them to resign, nothing will be mentioned in their conduct certificates.  Hope these unlucky chaps try their luck in next year’s black hat meet.

    Ok now dont give me a third reason which goes like “Writing a blog like this about your own company”.

    Since I had joined a new company recently after quitting TCS, I couldnt collect much inside information about TCS. Anyway some of my friends and blog followers contributed the above incidents. Keep mailing me something happening around these IT firms and let me update it for you. 


    TATA Motors to sell its first electric car in September 2009

    TATA's electric vehicle - TATA Indica Electric
    TATA's electric vehicle - TATA Indica Electric

    Ratan Tata  announced that  TATA motors is ready with its electric car to hit the road in September 2009. If one could remember a  year back TATA motors had showcased its elecric car in international Auto Show. That was the pre-Nano era. Now one expects TATA’s electric car will surely attract more than what it did some years back.

    TATA motors has modified its popular TATA Indica (first indigenously developed car in India) and readying an electric Car. TATA Indica is marketed in UK as City Rower. It is a Hatchback model and has a Sedan counterpart namely TATA Indigo.

    TATA Indica is one of India’s popular cars in last few years, its Diesel model being a hit among the Taximen and Indica Petrol among general Public. It sells at 8,000-10,000  USD (4 lakhs to 5 lakhs INR)   in India. The electric car might cost around 20,000 USD according to some sources.