Nokia’s new Symbian powered QWERTY slider phone, the 6790 Slide, also dubbed “Surge” ad “mako” sports a charming and trendy elegance that improves on its previous 6760 slider look-alike from a 2.0 mega pixel camera to 3.2 mega pixels. Not exactly leading-edge for a camera phone, then again, QWERTY sliders target a more upscale market chiefly made up of corporate geeks who prefer not to be seen with those bland Blackberries.
A Versatile Phone for the Social Media Loving Executives
The Nokia 6790 Slide is Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE smartphone supporting 3G with high speed HSDPA for truly fast surfing and downloads over the internet. It comes with an XTML browser with Java and Flash support and pre-installed with the Nokia JuiceCaster application for swift updating of your social networking sites like Friendster, MySpace, Twitter and Facebook.
A Fun Multimedia Experience
Its multimedia prowess begins with a 2.4″ QVGA screen supporting 16 million colors for a really vibrant display of your photos and videos. That’s at par with nearly all mobile phones in its class. You get a secondary QVGA camera as well to support video calls. Its main camera get just 2 mega pixel resolution – nothing to brag about with today’s sophisticated camera phones.
Nokia throws in its audio player that supports all the popular audio codecs such as WMA, MP3 and AAC while its video player supports H.263, H.264 and WMV codecs. The Slide also provides Cellular Video allowing you to access and enjoy some TV content as well as Video Exchange
There’s Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP support for using wireless earphones. At the same time it comes with music industry standard 2.5mm stereo audio jacks for your high fidelity head phones.
Finally, Nokia 6790 Slide gets ample 128 MB of internal memory you can expand up to 8GB via its hot-swappable microSD card slot for all the multimedia files you will need on the road. It even has FM radio.
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