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Having realised that I’m spending at least £20 topping up my phone each month and getting very little beyond txts for that cost I thought it was time to get a contract. I went for the £25/ month deal with O2 - 200mins, 200 txts. Its not much more than what I was spending and there are a lot more benefits. Including of course I nice new phone, which was unexpected.
The nokia 6500 Slide is a beautiful phone. The slider is smooth and navigation is clean and simple. Having always been a fan of Nokia phones, I am pleased with this upgrade from my 3100 bought in Nov 2006.
It’s the first time I’ve used the icon/grid menu view - it wasn’t the default view on the previous phone, and I didn’t realise it was possible until the girl in the O2 shop told me. Having said that I never liked that view before. Until I began using it myself that is - now I do like it. But that’s nothing new. In fact there isn’t a lot on this phone that’s terribly new - just new to me.
It really does feel nice being able to listen to Stand By Me by Ben E King on Radio 2 walking to work in the morning. A feeling I had forgotten about since my iPod became an ornament over a year ago. Walking those (seemingly) empty streets; no distractions.
So far I’ve only found one problem - connecting it to my PC via the USB cable provided. Having installed the software it just doesn’t want to connect. Though Macs have Bluetooth built in…
All I want to do is fill the 20 MB with a couple of tracks by Tegan and Sara, Fionn Regan and Foy Vance, that and to transfer the pics I have taken with it to see if they will look half as impressive as they do on the phone.
There also seems to be a universal problem with accessing the net on the Opera Mini browser, which comes pre-installed and the Gmail App won’t connect either.
As a final downside; the battery life isn’t great.
Other than all that it’s a nice phone, a small improvement to my life.
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