Nokia goes big on pics with 6500 slider
Rating: Never mind Y! Go. Wot about Flickr, Facebook and Scoopt?
Ran
into Nokia UK’s new md, Simon Ainslie,last night in Hush – a
nightclub/restaurant off Bond Street which was almost impossible to
find. The purpose of the thrash was to promote two handset and the
latest handheld – the N810.
It was extremely interesting to see
how the two handsets were pitched. Nokia went heavy on the
photo/video aspect. Despite being called the 6500 classic and the
6500 slide, they’re two entirely different products. Don’t be fooled
into thinking that one’s a candybar and the other’s merely a standard
(single) sliding version.
Both are 3G phones (although not HSDPA).
But – and it’s a big but – the slide has got a much better
camera. It’s 3.2 megapixel with a Carl Zeiss lens. That’s good enough
for most amateur snappers.
The first thing to note about the slide
handset is that it comes as standard with a cable that plus the
handset straight into your TV, VCR or whatever.
The next thing is
that there was a lot of mentioning Flickr as the destination of
choice for your snaps while I was left wondering whether there’s an
easy and direct route to Facebook or if it’s simpler to simply
reference Flickr pics from my Facebook entry. Answers on a postcard,
please.
I
personally recommend Scoopt – a site to send your celebrity snaps
to via MMS.
Anyway,
the other service that Nokia seemed particularly keen to demonstrate
to me was Yahoo! Go 2.0 which is abbreviated to Y! Go on the
handset.
I’m sorry but it was horribly reminiscent of Prestel,
although I can apparently get to content from the FT which
will be useful. Just tried to download it to my Nokia E61 and the
download failed. Ho, hum.
The
point to stress is that it’s intended as a feature phone rather than
a smartphone. Plus at £259 if you buy it sans-contract (SIM
free), it’s only ten quid more expensive than the classic
model.
Incidentally, whilst chewing the cud with Mr Ainslie at the
gig we both agreed there’s bound to be a bit of a shake out in the UK
cellular scene and the operators are most likely to bear the brunt of
it.
Yours truly was dying to ask him how UK operators have reacted
to – what’s it called – oh, yes. Ovi. Sadly I was too polite.
Rats.
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