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Reviewer: Andy - UK
Date: 1st Jul 2009

Took phone out of pocket & saw ink stain on screen. Screen was broken after 3 weeks from new. Quoted £50 for a repair. From looking at other reviews seems 4 or 5 people had same problem. Very weak screen. I agree with other reviewer that this phone is not fit for purpose.

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Reviewer: Louise - Leeds, UK
Date: 29th Jun 2009

This is the worst phone I have ever owned, it freezes & drops calls usually when I am trying to book appointments with customers. At first I thought the problem was with the network, but I have spoken to others with this phone on a variety of networks & we have all had the same reliability issues.

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Reviewer: June Ogrady - Richmond, UK
Date: 25th Jun 2009

I have just had my phone on contract 3 to 4 weeks & have not experienced any problems so far except for the back of the phone which when removed, which was very difficult, & no instructions, I found it would not fit back properly so now the back is not flush with the phone, it has not affected the usage, but it has made the phone LUMPY. Still don't know how to solve the problem as I can't find any info relating to it.

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Reviewer: Andy - UK
Date: 21st Jun 2009

VERY unreliable phone, poor software, often freezes & wipes all settings, loses signal & keypad freezes. Nokia will not respond to my emails, not interested. This phone no Nokia in general, NEVER again, will go back to Sony Ericsson after contract ends.

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Reviewer: Neldo - Glasgow, UK
Date: 15th Jun 2009

I've had my 6500s for 6 months now, this phone is superior to a lot of the stuff out there. I dropped it in the loo on the 2nd week, dried it out, reassembled it, still worked! With NO problems! Unbelievable, I am still shocked (touch wood! ) the user friendliness of all Nokia's remains a feature I'd pay money for. The camera on it is brilliant. The resolution, sharpness & focus is in a league of its own. It's been dropped 10 feet from a ladder, the only thing that happened was an internal mount for a screw has snapped resulting in a lost screw but the thing is indestructible so it seems. A bit on the heavy side but what it does makes up for that.

WELL worth buying. I downloaded the new firmware for it after reading about crashing & glitching but it has NEVER done it to me (yet). The radio has good, reception & demodulation, the media player is excellent, especially when you use the cable & plug it into a display! Not many phones have THAT!

All round, this thing is the best phone ever made (IMAO)! Maybe I just got a lucky one. Either way, highly recommendable.

I'd give it 100 out of 10!

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Reviewer: Devendra - Doha, Qatar
Date: 10th Jun 2009

Hello. Yes the mobile is good I like it a lot. But I want to ask one thing when I am going to use a video call it's always says no UMTS network what does this mean & I want to use a video call. So please tell me what is the problem, I just bought it new about a week ago. So please tell me more information about it.

Thank you.

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Reviewer: Cw - UK
Date: 31st May 2009

The memory card slot works but I found a little switch on the inside, on the left side of the memory card. This is flicked up which activates the memory card in the phone.

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Reviewer: Lauren - UK
Date: 27th May 2009

I had this phone as a replacement as my Sony Ericsson was replaced over four times.

The overall phone is okay, there isn't a lot to do on it, however it is easy to use & is slick. My main complaint is the lack of memory as my memory card does not work & it sometimes switches itself off.

I can't wait to upgrade but has been a good phone.

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Reviewer: Sarah - Edinburgh, UK
Date: 26th May 2009

This phone has been an absolute nightmare. DO NOT BUY IT.

I have also had absolutely no help from O2 despite being a customer for over 6 years. I have had this phone repaired twice & replaced once & am still experiencing the same problems. O2 seem completely not bothered by my complaints. They will not replace my handset or offer me any other form of compensation. This phone

- Randomly cuts out during calls, texts, anything really.
- Switches off & will not switch on again for ages despite a full battery, great if you need to make an emergency call.
- Will not read memory card.
- Will not let me unlock the keypad.
- Screen has cracked.
- Loses signal constantly.
- Has very short battery life, I.e. You have to charge it DAILY.

I have been using Nokia phones for about 5 years & will NOT be getting another one. Ridiculous.

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Reviewer: Mandy - UK
Date: 23rd May 2009

I have had this phone for over 12 Months from Carphone Warehouse on 3 Network I really like this phone & have had no problems with it. I have dropped on to concrete & generally used & abused it I would recommend it to anyone.

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Reviewer: Kigula Martyn - Kampala, Uganda
Date: 12th May 2009

Great achievement from the Nokia technologies, however the phone is freezing sometimes & well resumes after a while. The double flash is extraordinarily good as quality pixels are produced. The TV out is amazing unlike other phones.

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Reviewer: Ray W - Liverpool, UK
Date: 10th May 2009

When Nokia designed the 6500s they obviously wanted to produce a phone which does everything & looks sleek & modern. They achieved this but unfortunately better half had were as follows.

- It chose to only read the memory card when it felt like.
- the phone becomes VERY hot after about 10 minutes of use.
- Randomly switches off & on, usually when you're writing a long text so you lose it & have to start again.
- It wouldn't charge so I had it replaced AGAIN.
- the screen cracked from a light tap on the table.
- the phone freezes more than not when you open programs.
- After long conversations the voice clarity seems to go down.
- the speaker seemed to blow on every replacement I had.

Although I have been negative about this phone it did have potential to be a really good phone. It has 3G which is quite a good addition as it provides a relatively fast Internet browsing speed, a 3.2meg camera which is quite good considering its resolution. Excellent video capture, Java applications & Full Bluetooth compatibility. Although I thought it was let down by its lack of Wi-Fi compatibility. Also it only supports the smaller capacity micro SD cards which is also a disappointment.

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A PHONE THEN I WOULD ADVISE YOU TO LOOK AT OTHER MODELS OUT AT the MOMENT AS THIS HAS MANY FAULTS. FOR ITS PRICE THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES WHICH ARE MORE RELIABLE. IF YOU DO CHOOSE THIS PHONE ON CONTRACT, PLEASE GET INSURANCE, IT'S WORTH IT.

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Reviewer: Gerry - Manchester, UK
Date: 10th May 2009

Look nice feels nice, good MP3 player but there sadly it ends! I have had this phone 3 months on 3 network & have rarely had a clear conversation with it! Constantly drops signal, cuts me off telling me no network coverage. On top of this it has often shut itself down or frozen so that I have to remove the battery to restart. Should this not be enough it also resets itself & changes all my preferences back to default! My girlfriend had the same phone with the same issues. Avoid this phone! You have been warned.

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Reviewer: E Abram - UK
Date: 8th May 2009

I have had my phone since October 2008. I love this phone, but my problems with this phone seem unique against all other comments. My problem is with the functions, the centre square button often doesn't work, in either direction (silver square also). Also when I go into names & press for the particular letter of names that doesn't always work either. I just get so frustrated. When I want to use a punctuation mark doesn't always work either.

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Reviewer: Sam Bernards - UK
Date: 7th May 2009

This phone looks nice. & that would be its only redeeming quality.

It freezes constantly. Occasionally turns on with the wrong colour pixels so you end up with a multicoloured un comprehendible phone. It switches itself off. & most annoyingly there seems to be no solution.

I HAVE SENT IT FOR REPAIR. Apparently I have deliberately tampered with the inside of the phone, by taking it apart, snapping a chip within it, putting the phone back together. & sending it for repair. I now have no phone & monthly bills to pay.

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Reviewer: Antman - Switzerland
Date: 7th May 2009

The phone looks nice, but has terrible software issues, just a few of the problems I get are.

- The phone won't unlock the keypad (have to take the battery out).
- It won't open applications, & when it does it crashes.
- The memory card is a bit temperamental.
- When listening to music it will change songs in mid song.

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Reviewer: Will Gray - Lasswade, UK
Date: 7th May 2009

I got this phone from 3G. It looks good & has many good things about it like the camera & the music loudspeaker & the display.

The problems with the phone outweigh the advantages because the mobile fails on basic mobile standards. (This is what I experienced when using the 6500 slide).

These main problems where.

- Phone calls to my friends would cut out from full signal to none.

- The sound from the phone earpiece is difficult to hear even in town & at full volume with full signal.

- Text messages would sometimes arrive the next day.

- Heating up of the handset during calls.

This makes think what has happened to Nokia? The handsets I had in the past where basic (no camera) but the one thing they did was make sure your phone call did not fail.

This makes me think was the Nokia 6500 slide model a rushed job regarding proper quality control. For example when I first opened the box the plus pin used to charge the phone was bent so the charger would not connect with it. This meant it had to be sent away for repair.

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Reviewer: Paul - Bristol, UK
Date: 5th May 2009

I have owned this phone for 15 months, in that 15 months the speaker has broken at least ten times its been in the 3 store for repair more times than it's been in my pocket.
They have given me 3 new handsets, so they recon & the same problem every time.

Not good at all shame really it's a great looking phone but I don't think I'll ever have a Nokia again.

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Reviewer: Anh Tuan - Binh Duong, Viet Nam
Date: 25th Apr 2009

I had this phone on my 24th birthday as a gift. I have been very happy with it, everything work well & I have nothing to complain except why there is no backlight on direction key? Built quality is excellent & I like heavy phone (METAL please, NO PLASTIC). I love my 6500s :-).

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Reviewer: Andrew - Cardiff, UK
Date: 25th Apr 2009

I have had this phone nearly a year now & apart from the loudspeaker being a bit rubbish it's 1 of the best phones I have had.

It looks nice, I have dropped it quite a few times & it still works perfectly, excellent camera. I would recommend it to anyone.

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Reviewer: Len Watts - UK
Date: 24th Apr 2009

I have had my phone for about five months on the 3 network, & this is the worst phone I have ever had. Firstly the signal level goes up & down, & in some places disappears altogether. On a number of occasions I have attempted to make a call only to be greeted with No Network Coverage then by taking one step forward hey presto! Full signal!

Spend any longer than five minutes on a call & it becomes a very effective hand warmer.

The standby time quoted is total rubbish. I switch the phone on at breakfast time & off at bedtime. & I am lucky to get two days before having to recharge.

I have not had a lot of the problems that some people report, but I am just waiting!

I would avoid this phone like the plague.

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Reviewer: Eddie - High Wycombe, UK
Date: 24th Apr 2009

Amazing camera, good radio & not bad games. However, the battery life is poor & the reception is frankly awful. I am in an area of excellent Orange reception, but can only make calls or send texts if I go outside, even when I get two or three bars, it is apt to drop in the middle of a call.

I am pleased for those who have good experiences with this phone & wouldn't want to write it off altogether, but mine should never have been allowed to leave the factory. Someone is not doing enough quality control at Nokia.

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Reviewer: Karly - Australia
Date: 23rd Apr 2009

My phone is now 4 months old. A month of that was at Nokia repair.

It keeps registering that the cancel (red) button is being pressed, switches itself on & off. I can't make a call because it hangs up then shuts down, I can't message because it deletes whatever I have typed. It stays on for about 3 minutes at a time. At the moment it is next to me beeping that the button is being pressed & vibrating as it switches on & off.

Useless phone for anything other than a paperweight.

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Reviewer: Sara - UK
Date: 15th Apr 2009

This is the worst phone I have ever. I don't usually go for Nokia I am usually a Samsung fan, but as I was due an upgrade so I thought I would give the Nokia 6500 slide a go.
It was grand for the first few weeks then its stared to freeze all the time, the screen would go blank & you would have to take the battery out to get it going again, it would take ages to write a text as the letters would be slow at appearing on the screen. It would always disable my wallpaper, which might not seem too much of a problem, but this meant that I would have to reset my wallpaper maybe 6 times a day, which was really annoying. Finally it would lose signal quite often & then all of a sudden it would come back again, & if you got a text & it couldn't handle it all it would tell you some text missing, & you could be lucky if you got it the next day. So overall not a good buy, I am now back with Samsung & have no problems at all.

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Reviewer: Ela - Ireland
Date: 14th Apr 2009

Fabulous looking phone probably the nicest Nokia I have had but a couple of things drive me mad about it & I have only had it since January 2009.

The loudspeaker on it is useless you really can't use it hands-free. Nobody can hear me & I can hardly hear the person I am phoning when I use the loud speaker.

The slider is broken & has being left into shop where I bought it to either be repaired or replaced. No sure this is going to last well. I use my phone a lot & reckon this will keep happening.

Settings are a bit strange, if I change wallpaper it seems to change back by itself.

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Reviewer: Rob - Bangalore, India
Date: 13th Apr 2009

High on features & low on performance, this is what one could really say about this slider phone from Nokia. This instrument is a mixed bag of features, of which, most are good only on the spec sheet but in terms of functionality they really aren't.

The slider mechanism.

This is a big letdown function of this instrument. The slider mechanism is designed so flaw fully that the friction between the sliding panels is easily felt by the fingers of the user. Moreover, use the slider function for more than once & you will notice serious scratches being developed on the keypad.

The Camera.

Whilst the manufacturers try to impress the perspective buyers by high mega pixel counts & using optics of renowned brand names at the same time they forget to understand that the quality of the final image is dependent mostly on the size & quality of the sensor rather than the brand name of the optician or higher mega pixel count. On the other hand, packing higher mega pixels on a very tiny sensor would rather deteriorate the final image quality. This is exactly the case with this instrument, as the final images are packed with noise & JPEG artefacts making them useless for taking prints even on a 4 Inch x 6 Inch paper.

TV out feature.

This is one of the USP's of this phone & of course very useful. This allows one to view movie footages directly on the TV without any need to convert the video file to MPEG / AVI & then burn into CD's.

Sound quality, Reception & reliability.

The sound quality of just about average. The quality of signal reception is quite poor resulting in unclear conversations & call cut offs though the quality of sound through the music player is quite acceptable.

Design Build Quality fit & finish.

The quality of materials used & the manner in which they are integrated gives an impression that the instrument is designed to last longer period. I have personally dropped this phone on hard surfaces from a height of above 1.8 Metres for more than 7 to 8 times & the phone is perfectly OK without any damages. My sole complain in this department is that the only access available for the phone to reach the memory card is through the latch provided for holding the battery cover plate. This latch is very inconsistent & breaks the access to memory card quite often. As a result, the user looses the ring tones, themes, wall papers etc & the phone switches back to defaults, which is very annoying. This problem can however be overcome by copying the themes, wallpapers & ring tones etc (which the user intends to apply) into the phone memory & then apply.

Overall Comments.

Although the phone has good looks & good build quality, it however lets the user down by mediocre performance, non reliability & poor usability.

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Reviewer: Richard J - Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Date: 9th Apr 2009

Great looking phone but beware, looks are deceptive! Whole host of problems with this model, overheating battery, this is less of an issue as time goes by but quite alarming to start with. The major bug bear is the software (on 3 Network UK). Phone constantly crashes & I have had the memory flashed twice but still causes problems (my wife's is the same). Phone jams, end up having to remove the battery to get it to work again. Battery life is poor too. Web browser does not shut down half the time either. Chatting to a staff member in the £ shop he admitted they had received issues with this model.

Carphone Warehouse bloke blamed it on the software from 3 Mobile. Great looking phone, great functions built in, shame they don't work! Mine on several occasions nearly got bounced off the wall with frustration. Glad my 18 months is up. Won't be buying a Nokia again!

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Reviewer: Not A Happy Customer - Somerset, UK
Date: 4th Apr 2009

Since my last review on the 23rd January 2009.

Update, I have seen my phone & held it a grand total of 5 days since, such a great service NOT! It's been away at 3 weeks at a time, each time I get it back it's not even fixed its does all the same rubbish things again, I must say that at least the rash has cleared up though, this time it's been away a number of 4 weeks, so we just keep on waiting. Watch this space.

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Reviewer: Sarah - UK
Date: 1st Apr 2009

I had this phone as a Christmas present & on an 18 month contract I want a different phone.

The phone kept freezing & switching off & the screen would be grainy for a while, I left this as it didn't happen too often but then it got worse, also the camera wouldn't come on & the ear speaker had a funny echo sound which is hard to explain but I couldn't make out what the caller was saying.

The silver on the main navigational button is peeling off & looks tacky now & I don't even use the phone that much.

Now my phone has been to be repaired I had the phone back the same day as I took it to Carphone Warehouse & the store was a Nokia repair centre. It worked for a while & now it's gone back to crashing & turning off.

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Reviewer: Nicky - UK
Date: 30th Mar 2009

I have given this phone high ratings, as for about 10 months of the 12 months I have owned it I have had very few problems.

My boyfriend & I both have this phone & have both started experiencing similar problems over the last couple of months, losing your contacts, memory card not being recognised (so all photo's lost), text messages disappearing, poor signal at times, phone freezing & also switching itself off.

I really did like this phone at the start, it's lovely to look at & as a long time Nokia fan I don't regret buying it. I would recommend having phone insurance if you buy this phone as you never quite know what is going to happen next.

I have spoken to someone in a mobile store & they confirmed that there has been several 'glitches' with this phone.

I wouldn't avoid buying it but be beware that you may have some problems after a while.

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Reviewer: Gary - Scarborough, UK
Date: 30th Mar 2009

I've been using mobile phones for 20 years so I am no novice. My experience is that this is a good phone. Changed from Motorola to Nokia six years ago & they are brilliant. Excellent features, easy to use, download pictures etc. This model's never locked or anything.

My impression is people treat their phone like I treat my boots & just don't give a stuff that the damn thing contains hundreds of thousands of micro circuits. Just like my six year old they expect it still to work after it's flushed down the toilet & thrown out the window!

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Reviewer: Sarah - UK
Date: 28th Mar 2009

Awesome camera, terrible phone! Have had Nokia phones for 10 years & this is by far the worst one I've ever owned. Freezes when slide is opened, gets stuck on lock & need to remove battery to fix this, memory card doesn't fit into phone properly & now the reception is rubbish! Fair enough has been dropped once or twice but all other phones been able to withstand this! Apparently is particularly bad on 3 network. Only redeeming feature is that the camera is great! Can't wait until years contract is up so can get new phone!

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Reviewer: Martin Carter - UK
Date: 28th Mar 2009

Took first 6500 on upgrade. Lasted one week. Freezing was the main issue. Phone returned to Orange shop. Had replacement, the second phone is worse. Freezing, poor signal, call cuts, dropping Bluetooth all the time, battery life poor. This phone is a JOKE. I WILL GET MY SEVEN YEAR OLD 6310i from the bottom draw & carry on using that one.
6500 Great gimmick, great looking but it very rarely works.

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Reviewer: Kalhara - Melbourne, Australia
Date: 28th Mar 2009

Well designed phone, & honestly I don't care about aesthetics. The last phone I had was a Sony Ericsson k800i & I thought that was bad because of its dodgy joystick & a problem it had with non reception sometimes for no reason. But that was a dream compared to the issues I am having with this phone now.

At first it was okay, the only problem was the memory card which seems to auto disconnect, meaning that things like my phone wallpaper had to be stored in phone memory, because if it was off the memory card it would disconnect & then I'd have to reselect the wallpaper every time. That was bearable, annoying but bearable.

Gradually the phone started going into reset phases. Where I would be in the middle of writing an SMS or something, & the phone would just reset completely, taking up to 2 minutes for the SIM card & phone memory to read properly again so I could access my messages. Frustrating, but still bearable.

Now for some unknown reason the phone has completely deteriorated. It turns off on its own, & I have to remove & reinsert the battery to get it going again. I have to do this if it's idle for more than 10 minutes, or just after EVERY call I make with it. The phone stalls when I type messages, on almost every second or third keystroke. & the battery seems to drain at unimaginably fast rates. I am dearly hoping the software update or the Nokia shop can fix this, otherwise its back to the old Sony Ericsson, & me avoiding Nokia's for life.

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Reviewer: Gj - Swansea, UK
Date: 26th Mar 2009

Fascinating by the number of bad reviews here. I don't often bother to respond to any of these types of things, but to try & redress the balance somewhat, I've had my 6500 slide for around 15 months now, use it every day, & I think it might have locked up ONCE in that whole time. Battery life is excellent, & cosmetically it's held up better than any other phone I've had in the last 15 odd years.

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Reviewer: Robert Caine - Drongan, UK
Date: 22nd Mar 2009

Always had Nokia phones had this since it came out one of the best yet.

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Reviewer: John Fer - London, UK
Date: 21st Mar 2009

IT'S VERY HEAVY & COMES WITH CALL DROP PROBLEM. I BOUGHT FROM 3G. THEY COLLECTED FOR REPAIRS & SINCE THEN IT'S DEAD. 3G COMPANY IS BLAMING ME FOR DAMAGES. INFACT THEY TAMPERED MY PHONE. I WOULD NOT recommend THIS PHONE TO ANYBODY. WASTE OF MONEY!

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Reviewer: Rick In Oz - Perth, Australia
Date: 21st Mar 2009

Whilst I think Nokia & other manufacturers may need to check the quality control of their Chinese manufactured products, I do wonder if in some cases the problems outlined here are man or woman made? My girlfriend has owned this model for the last 6 months now, with no problems whatsoever & I've just got myself one too after having had enough of a Samsung U900 (Now that is a bad phone, if you want something to complain about! ) My girlfriend throws her 6500 Slide into her handbag with no protective case & it barely has a mark or scratch anywhere! Six defective Nokia 6500's in a row? Hmmm! You've got to wonder, haven't you? A Nokia that dies after being dropped 5 months previously. What do you expect? the size & thickness of the copper tracks on the PCB's printed circuit boards should tell you something & that is that they aren't going to be bullet proof!

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Reviewer: Rachael - UK
Date: 21st Mar 2009

I've had this phone just under 4 months I've never dropped it, bashed it or mishandled it in any way. Today it was sat in my pocket & when I pulled it out the screen was cracked right down it, I decided to have a look on here & see if it had been an ongoing problem & I can now see it has with both the Nokia 6500c & the Slide.

I am taking it back to the shop I got it from & am refusing to take anything other than what I want to hear from them.

However up until today I haven't had a single problem no freezing, no heating up during phone calls, no battery problems nothing.

I shall however never be purchasing a Nokia phone again. I am now stuck with this phone for another 14 months until my 18 month contract runs out.

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Reviewer: Vas - UK
Date: 17th Mar 2009

I bought this phone with a £10 voucher & although all of the features seem to work alright after 24 hours the battery needed recharging. Took it back to the shop & they changed it for another phone with I hope a new battery.

Same thing happened after 24 hours the battery dies. The phone has been mostly on standby & I have not used the camera or the radio so not sure what the problems is with this Nokia. I am slowly going of this company's product as they seem to be peddling out newer models at faster rate without the quality which they were renowned in the past.

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Reviewer: Ryan - Solihull, UK
Date: 16th Mar 2009

This is a sweet phone it looks great, it works great I've got the black one & I've not had any problems with it. People who break this phone have got to be doing something wrong as nothing can break off because it's not like rubbish Sony Ericsson's with loads of stuff flapping around.

GET THIS phone!

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Reviewer: Jenni - Harrogate, UK
Date: 15th Mar 2009

This phone is absolutely shocking. The back doesn't fit on properly so I have to stick it with tape. Its crashes every 10 minutes or every time I try to use it, it overheats when I am on the phone, the signal is really bad & I have to charge it twice a day. Complete waste of money in my opinion.

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Reviewer: Jo - UK
Date: 14th Mar 2009

I have had this phone for about 4 months & it continually breaks. It freezes all the time goes blank & looses your stuff, cuts off, has no signal & the battery dies easy. It's the worst phone I have ever had & I am dying to upgrade it. Do not get this phone.

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Reviewer: Ivar - Zwolle , Netherlands
Date: 9th Mar 2009

My phone's been broken twice now.

The first time it kept freezing so I went to the store & had it checked out. The problem was old software they put the new software on & I was on my way.

The next malfunction was this morning, it had gone off by its self. Trying to put it back on, it didn't work just kept showing the Nokia emblem & then nothing. Went back to the store, explained my problem. Then the tech took a look at the phone & said it had fallen, implying that it was that that killed the phone. No it fell 5 months ago so that couldn't be it. They took a closer look at the phone & said it was the battery. It will take 9 days for my new battery to arrive. In the mean time my phone has been broken twice. I have been a customer at Nokia for 6 years now & am not planning on buying another one.

thinking my next one is going to be a blackberry. Seen it, love it, want it!

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Reviewer: Guy - UK
Date: 8th Mar 2009

I am so glad I am not the only one suffering huge problems with this phone! After weeks of denial that there was a problem by 3 (it had frozen, regularly cut off mid call & gave the some text missing for several months) they tried to fob me off with a new SIM, problems with the aerials in the local area & now are telling me it's the charger. I feel very annoyed having to fork out for a new charger since I've continued to pay my monthly bill with these problems!

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Reviewer: Anon - Guj, India
Date: 8th Mar 2009

I bought this mobile 2 weeks ago, no problems with mobile. It is an excellent mobile. Best picture quality, sound effects is very good. THIS IS the BEST PHONE OF Nokia. BUY IT!

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Reviewer: Emily - UK
Date: 7th Mar 2009

I've had six of these phones. My first phone, wouldn't recognise the memory card. My second phone, just froze & wouldn't do anything. My third phone, again froze often & sometimes turned itself on & off until it wouldn't turn back on. My fourth I had it a day & the screen just kept flashing. My fifth, wouldn't recognise my SIM card & the battery was faulty.

I still have the sixth phone & it works at times, but it does freeze & often says there's no message centre defined.

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Reviewer: Geoff - Albania
Date: 5th Mar 2009

Worst phone I've ever had. Keypad freezes & battery has to be removed & reinserted to be able to use. Caller ID keeps removing names & just showing numbers & poor battery life. My previous Motorola was a far better phone, so I've swapped the SIM.

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Reviewer: Luisa - UK
Date: 5th Mar 2009

TERRIBLE! I've been trying to put up with this phone for about a year now (6 months of it it's been in repair shop). Freezes constantly, memory card won't read, Nokia techs say due to a fault in the backing which doesn't press up against memory card, apparently a known issue with the phone, Nokia's solution? They visibly dented my backing in order to push it further in where the memory card lies (seriously impairing the appearance of phone but hey at least the memory card works now! LOL) the 'scratch resistant' aluminium casing scratches incredibly easily! Reception is very very poor. Battery life is erm, POOR!

My warranty has now ran out & it decided to pack up & switch itself off for three days after which it decided to come back to life & some of the keys do not work mainly the zero key & the end call button. The camera is good but after a month it started lagging about 3 seconds behind so when I aim for a shot it takes the camera 3 seconds approx to reach where I am actually aiming.

GOOD POINTS. If anything it has helped me fully appreciate the beauty of making calls & sending texts! AS IT FEELS LIKE SUCH A BLESSING when it ACTUALLY LETS ME MAKE A CALL or send a TEXT!

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Reviewer: Gigi - Valcea, Romania
Date: 4th Mar 2009

Looking very good but low performances phone.

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Reviewer: Dianne - UK
Date: 3rd Mar 2009

I have had Nokia's for 15 years. I like heavy phones. I have had my 6500 slide for a year & I absolutely love it. Never had any problems. Battery life brilliant. Never been cut off. Phone has never frozen. I am seriously tempted to keep until it dies as I haven't yet found a better replacement. Camera is excellent & pictures downloads easily. Thoroughly recommend!

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Reviewer: K Stafford - Nuneaton, UK
Date: 2nd Mar 2009

Oh dear what can I say this is the worst phone I have ever owned. I have had it about 6 months now & have just got that fed up with it that I have took the SIM card out & put it in an old phone which works. The phone freezes, refuses to turn off sometimes, breaks up & cuts off mid call. You can send a text & it works, then try sending one later (without turning the phone off) & it will tell you that there is no message centre no. Defined. I have updated the software on the 6500 slide through the 3 website but it hasn't made much difference. Nice looking phone with a good camera, but apart from that it is pretty useless. I can't wait until the 18 month 3 contract is up so I can get a phone which will at least hold a signal.

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Reviewer: Mp - UK
Date: 2nd Mar 2009

Really wanted to like this phone but continually hangs even after software update. Battery life very poor.

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Reviewer: Jenny - UK
Date: 27th Feb 2009

Right this phone has caused me nothing but trouble my first one lasted 3 days & then malfunctioned. Then my second one has been to the repair shop twice, its software sensitive which causes problems & overall it freezes, the screen blacks out, it switches itself off & then doesn't ask for my pin when it switches back on, like I said nothing but trouble the back fell off it so it kept defaulting, if I'd abused the phone I'd understand but I haven't, I have had it a year now & I can't wait until I can upgrade my contract next week. Other people haven't had any problems but I have two which haven't worked properly so my advice would be not to get the phone & get the newer one see if that's any better.

Good points, the music sound is good & the radio isn't too bad I suppose it's easy to use its just not put together properly. Too many problems to be honest. Nokia need to start making good phones again.

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Reviewer: David Sykes - Halifax, UK
Date: 27th Feb 2009

I bought this phone to replace the cheaper Nokia 5310, & the slightly higher price is justified by performance. Sure, it's bulkier than most phones, but the 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, durability & 3G Internet access, ease of use put it ahead of others.

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Reviewer: Mr M A Flatt - Norwich, UK
Date: 26th Feb 2009

Whatever you do don't buy one of these, the battery life is very poor & unpredictable, downloading photos a nightmare, screen difficult to see, operation poor, I've lost the will to go on. If this was the only phone on the market I would not have one, roll on June when I can get anything. Good points it looks the part!

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Reviewer: Matt - London, UK
Date: 26th Feb 2009

I am surprised of all the negative comments here. I have owned the Slider now for a year & have not had any problems or issues with the phone. OK, about once a month it freezes for a few seconds, but comes back to normal immediately. The only thing I have now changed is the battery. Beautiful & sleek design.

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Reviewer: Paul - Notts, UK
Date: 23rd Feb 2009

Looks good, loads of features, but the whole point of getting a mobile phone is to make calls & text. There lies the problem. The reception can but an absolute joke sometimes, you can struggle to make calls even when you have 2 bars of signal, text messages can be so frustrating, constantly getting the some text missing line then having to wait between 15 minutes to a few hours to receive the full text!

I've experienced the phone shutting itself down a few times as well, but I have to admit the only real problem I have with it is the reception, & I am glad to see I am not the only person suffering from this!

Long story short. If you actually intend on using your phone for calls & texts. You should look elsewhere.

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Reviewer: Uday - Dehradun, India
Date: 22nd Feb 2009

Useless phone useless battery backup useless looks very heavy nice camera. Phone slider is so poorly made that it scratches the whole keypad. Hanging problem is very very common even after an upgrade in the phone software which disappointed me a lot. I kept this phone for about 8 months & it was just like living in nightmare. You know what guys I' m fed up of Nokia phones now, same thing in every phone what the change is only & only the looks & camera thats all. I don't know what they are doing in cameras. Compare Nokia 6300, Nokia 5310 & Nokia 7210 supernova cameras you will see a lot of difference in the camera quality then why are you saying that all the three have a 2 megapixel when all the cameras are different. They are trying to fool the users. Same in Nokia 6500 camera compare it with other 3.2MP & feel the difference in quality. At last don't buy this phone at all. Thanks.

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Reviewer: Andrew - Townsville, Australia
Date: 22nd Feb 2009

I was attracted to this phone by the large number of features it had & the nice solid look. Pity looks can be deceiving.

I bought two, one for me & one for my wife. One works most days, the other hangs within seconds of restarting it. I have searched the web for solutions & found that even taking it back results in getting a new handset that soon fails.

So this is a rubbish phone, don't buy it. & frankly as I have seen other new models of Nokia with the same issue, I won't be getting another Nokia in spite of buying only Nokia since 1998.

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Reviewer: Elaine Morgan - UK
Date: 22nd Feb 2009

Stay away from this phone! Worst I have had the misfortune to own. Had this phone for three months & put off making any calls since it has burnt my ear, I now only use it on loudspeaker until I can sort out a release code for my old phone. I will be taking this up with 3 & Nokia. Also Nokia slide 6500 constantly loses signal when I try to make a call, have to switch it off & on again to get any bars back. Signal very unreliable, which is worrying as a parent in case the school ever need to get hold of me.

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Reviewer: Sid - UK
Date: 20th Feb 2009

I had this phone for 5 to 6 months, then hated it, tried to sell it to make a budget out of it, then I remembered when I first saw it, it was £169.98 plus £20 airtime, but then my cousin gave me a customer discount & lowered it to £111.97 plus £20 airtime. I'll say I had few problems with it, twice I had to get my phone fixed with a manufacturer's warranty, because it won't turn on & when they fixed it they forgot to reassemble my dedicated volume keys. What a pity.

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Reviewer: Sarah Rose - Yelverton, UK
Date: 20th Feb 2009

It's a brilliant phone that I would recommend to anyone who wanted or needed a new phone. Its £130 but you still get a lot for your money. I have got one in black. So I would advise people to get a black one because it looks better.

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Reviewer: Rich White - UK
Date: 18th Feb 2009

Connection to the memory card is constantly failing. The camera takes ages to take a photo & then ages to save it (problem due to same reason). Nice looking but I am going to take it back to Orange having put up with this for 6 months!

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Reviewer: Rob - UK
Date: 17th Feb 2009

To avoid repetition I'll keep this short. Terrible battery life, phone locked quite often (though software upgrade fixed this), signal disappears completely several times a week & requires restart (which doesn't always work). I can't wait to change it.

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Reviewer: Mian Bilal - Xian, China
Date: 14th Feb 2009

I have just bought it yesterday, don't know whether it going to work good or not but got worried by reading comments of some users.

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Reviewer: Peter Smith - Chesterfield, UK
Date: 9th Feb 2009

I have had this phone now for 13 months of my 18 month contract & it is now getting to the point where I cannot use the phone any longer. There have been problems with the phone ever since I received it but things have got drastically worse!

It is forever freezing & it can take over 5 minutes to write a 2 line text. When I receive texts, if they are any longer than 4 lines then it will say some text missing & it can take up to 3 days for the rest of the text to come through!

The signal keeps going & it can be gone for a number of hours before it will reappear all of a sudden. There are other numerous faults with my phone. I have had more than enough conversations with 3 who have told me to update the phone, reset it etc & nothing seems to make it any better. I want to cancel my contract & go back to a trusty Sony Ericsson as this Nokia is useless. Nokia have made a big mess of this phone & 3 aren't any help at all when trying to fix problems. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE! YOU WILL REGRET IT!

Peter Smith, Chesterfield.

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Reviewer: Andy - South Elmsall, UK
Date: 8th Feb 2009

Having read previous customer reviews of this phone over the last 6 months, I've been waiting for my 6500s (via O2 PAYG) to start to show some of the faults that have been described below. However, I am happy to report that apart from one unexpected reboot, my 6500s has been happily working away without a single glitch.

Design wise, this phone is nice & stylish, whilst being very solid & amazingly robust. The screen is easily cleaned, & to date is totally scratch free. The keypad can sometimes be a bit fiddly, but once you get used to the travel of the keys, this issue becomes less noticeable. Some may feel that the weight of the handset may be a bit too heavy, but personally I like it that way.

Inside, the software is easy to get used to, although I am not totally happy with the way it requires you to move files from folder to folder. Still, this is really just a minor niggle, & otherwise navigation around the apps is easy & quick enough. I did have a few problems configuring the preloaded Opera Mini, but a search of a couple of forums soon provided the answer. I hope O2 will take this into account, as Opera provides a very nice platform for full fat Internet access. The supplied software for connecting the handset to a PC is simple & effective enough, although it's just as easy to drag & drop if required.

One piece of advice when upgrading the phone's firmware, backup before you start! The download process does include this as part of the procedure, but I prefer to do this myself before starting. It's a bit of a pain having to restore files & settings once the upgrade is complete, but it's no different from when you upgrade your PC's OS.

Hardware wise, there have been no problems with the supplied 256MB memory card, although I could foresee problems with the card bay if you were to constantly swap out cards, as the locking device is a tad flimsy. Best to install the size of card required & stick with it I feel. The battery gives a decent standby life & even though I also play music files & radio through it each day for at least 3 hours, as well as the usual voice & data calls made, I can still stretch the time between recharges from between 2 to 3 days. Not bad really.

The supplied headphones are a disappointment, falling apart very quickly, but an investment of £10 to £15 buys you a better quality pair along with the required adaptor.

After 6 months of constant use, including recent freezing mornings at the train station, my 6500s has given a very consistent performance. I've had none of the call drop offs others have reported, no significant freezes, & as mentioned only the one re-boot. Additionally, I have had no problems with signal strength, indeed it's one of the better handsets I've had for this (albeit one of only 5 I've ever owned). & EGPRS access is more than acceptable, only very occasionally loosing connection.

So I am slightly surprised at all the negative reviews below. Some might suggest that I've been lucky, but I suspect that the problems lie elsewhere. Maybe it's the firmware loaded by providers on contract phones causing the issues (a theory that does have some support by the way), or possibly user error that's causing so many people to be unhappy with the 6500 slide.

All in all, this is a very good handset & I for one am very happy with it. If you're not afraid to occasionally follow the advice in the manual to maintain optimal performance, then this one may be worth a look!

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Reviewer: Maria - Cambridge, UK
Date: 6th Feb 2009

After reading all the reviews on here I am really quite surprised that people are actually enjoying this phone!

Don't get me wrong, it's a nice phone, plenty of memory & features but it seems that with most 6500 slide owners the joy of owning one disappears pretty quickly. Mine was great for about 3 months & I was pre warned how useless they were but didn't believe!
further down the line my phone is constantly freezing (for a couple of hours at least at a time) if the battery dies before I start to charge it up it takes half an hour to restore its memory details etc so it won't let me use it, then yesterday after crashing on me again & freezing it has decided to start working again but without a backlight, hence now I can't see sod all when I am trying to use it. I have had plenty of Nokia's in the past & this is the worst yet! Very irritating, just wait till it happens to you when your car has broke down in the middle of nowhere, total rubbish, if you buy good luck but I am sure as hell going to get a replacement, back to Samsung I go!

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Reviewer: Ian - Hants, UK
Date: 4th Feb 2009

The N Series was known for its problems but I was able to live with those. The 6500s is by far a phone that is only really worthy as a door wedge! (just).

Constant freezing was the biggest problem but as a single parent (dad), contact with the school is paramount in an emergency! Partner having breast cancer & the hosp not being able to contact me on many occasions really is not acceptable Nokia!

I have had all the usual problems as you have all mentioned.

Ended up buying a cheap Siemens phone (£10 from Super Drug) & it does what it says on box with a signal to match anything out there.

Too much technology goes into these things now a day's & reliability is suffering. Always carry my back up phone with me but that is defeating the object of the exercise. Nokia destined for the bin.

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Reviewer: Jay - Bangkok, Thailand
Date: 3rd Feb 2009

I don't have to say much as what I need to say has been said by others. I just wonder if Nokia will ever come up with brilliant ideas to fix the problems.

If they are taking forever to do that, I am sure people will start losing TRUST on Nokia's phones. I am really thinking of buying a new phone but not Nokia.

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Reviewer: P Daveran - UK
Date: 2nd Feb 2009

DO not buy this phone on the three network, there are known issues with signal quality, Google it before you do or you'll end up in an 18 month contract with a phone that three will not replace, will charge you around £600 to cancel your contract. I have been with three for about 4 years & never had problems until I upgraded, now I am stuck with it.

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Reviewer: J - Edinburgh, UK
Date: 2nd Feb 2009

This is honestly the most useless phone I have ever had the misfortune to own. Within two months, it had become completely unusable. It has wiped my contacts twice now, it deleted my photos once, it crashes all the time. I can't make a phone call longer than 5 minutes. Sometimes, I can't make phone calls at all. At other times, I don't receive texts that I know have been sent. It texts me every 10 minutes to say that I have a new voicemail & when I go to check, I am told that I have no such thing. It switches itself on & off apparently whenever it feels like it. I know I do not just have a faulty phone as I know several other people who have had exactly the same problems with it. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!

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Reviewer: Jonathan - UK
Date: 1st Feb 2009

I have had this phone about 2 months it takes about 100 songs on its 512MB it's the best phone I ever had no problems with it (just with Orange when you get the phone you have to put £10 on it, it took them 13 day to do this for me so I could not ring anyone for 13 days).

YOU SHOULD GET IT, ITS A GOOD PHONE!

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Reviewer: Anon - UK
Date: 27th Jan 2009

Ignore the negative reviews if you are an existing Nokia phone user. The 6500 slide is excellent! It's easy to use & handle, lots of great extras & looks good too! I have had the phone for quite some time & have not experienced any of the negative issues mentioned in previous reviews. If it's a phone you want. This is it.

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Reviewer: Ali - Wirral, UK
Date: 26th Jan 2009

This is the worst phone I have ever owned. I am on an 18 month contract, but thank goodness I can change the phone in March. The phone looks OK but that's about it. It freezes, turns itself off, battery life is very poor, cuts off during phone calls.

Most recently I am getting messages from numbers I don't know saying I've rung them when I haven't. Not sure if this network or the phone but have had to change my number twice, but this hasn't stopped the problem. Orange only offered to change my number again, or suggested I phoned the police!

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Reviewer: Stacey - UK
Date: 25th Jan 2009

After reading comments on here was slightly worried about getting Nokia 6500. However got this phone on 18 month contract with Orange had for a week now & love everything about it, camera good, battery good, menu easy to work!

Very happy get this phone! :).

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Reviewer: D Elleston - Southampton, UK
Date: 25th Jan 2009

Good looking phone & easy to use so I advised my girlfriend to get it. After a week the screen would go black & go upside down, the phone would switch off, lose applications & then make really high pitched sound as if it was getting hot. She got it replaced & doesn't seem to have a problem with the new one. I then decided to get one also because really liked the 6300 which had the same applications but was not available on Three 2 weeks later, I am now getting problems. Wallpapers won't save, it can't find the memory card on occasions, screen dies then comes back, resets itself to Nokia default after a few hrs once you've set up your ring tones. I am taking it back to the shop now!

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Reviewer: Pradip - India
Date: 25th Jan 2009

I gave the phone to the Nokia care centre six times since I bought this phone regarding the same problem (the PHONE RESTARTS AUTOMATICALLY) but the problem was not solved. I did everything possible but neither the problem was solved nor the phone was replaced. IF YOU EARNED YOUR MONEY, DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE.

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Reviewer: Dr Asha Arjunan - Trivandrum, India
Date: 24th Jan 2009

I bought Nokia 6500 slider from a mobile store in Trivandrum, Kerala, India on 05.06.2008. I am very sorry to say that I have only had problems from the day I bought the handset. The problem was, Network goes off automatically & does not come back. Practically I used to be Not reachable most of the time. I gave the mobile to Nokia service centre at least five times. They would return back the mobile claiming the fault had been corrected, but again the same problem would persist. In November the Nokia service Centre promised they would try to replace the handset & hence I gave My mobile with the hope that they would do the needful. In the meantime I bought a new mobile, as otherwise it was affecting my work. Today (24.01.2009) I got back my mobile, but I was surprised to see that they have again given me back the Very same old mobile.

I also came to know from many other people that this model has a lot of defects. It is very surprising that Nokia did not even have the courtesy to replace me a new mobile instead of the defective one. If no action is taken in this regard I will lodge a complaint the Consumer Court.

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Reviewer: Not A Happy Customer - Somerset, UK
Date: 23rd Jan 2009

What a load of rubbish, seriously the settings revert back to the Nokia standard settings through their own will unless all the tunes & pictures you like to use are stored in the phones memory itself.

It freezes at will & when it suddenly gets life again its gone all the way back to the home page. Great, just what you need when you want to watch back a video.

Mine actually has a spotty rash appeared on the screen now, not sure what its caught but over night the rash has turned into nice effective little lines therefore making seeing what you're doing difficult. It's going back to the shop tomorrow thank goodness!

Battery life is absolutely terrible, lasts all of a day if you use it frequently, my mum has already got a new handset due to this problem.

I WOULD NOT recommend, if you read these reviews then please take note!

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Reviewer: Alison Francomb - Bristol, UK
Date: 21st Jan 2009

Just wanted to say thanks to Sarah of Chorley.

My problem was exactly the same. May sound silly compared to others who seem to be getting more serious problems with their phones. But this is really annoying when the phone keeps resetting to default. Mine does it every time its been switched off.

But I'll try the remedy of saving the tones & wallpapers to my phone instead of memory card & see if that works.

Overall I've been happy with this phone I've had it for six months now without any major problems. However I think when my contract is up in July I may try a different make. My Husband has had the LG Shine for the past 18 months its his work phone, it gets bashed about something rotten & he's never had any problems!

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Reviewer: Nikki - Yorkshire, UK
Date: 19th Jan 2009

If you get this phone it's your own fault it is the worst phone I have ever had in my entire life. Just don't buy it. It will be the biggest waste of money ever. Freezing & just cutting off while you're talking to clients isn't really that brilliant.

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Reviewer: Geraint - Cardiff, UK
Date: 17th Jan 2009

I am into my 13th month with this phone &, for the first time ever, I am not entirely sure if I will bother upgrading as soon as my contract is up.

The phone looks good, feels solid &, with a 4GB SSD card in, has more memory than I need.

The only problem I have is that the D pad sometimes stops responding when I am navigating through the menus. This must be a software fault as the pad works perfectly when actually using any of the applications, games etc. The problem is rectified by sliding the phone open, so it's not a major issue.

I installed a software upgrade hoping to fix this, but it hasn't & I lost all my games & some of the phone's applications (like the calculator) in the process, which was annoying.

The camera is really good & I've taken a lot of really good quality pictures with it, I never bother with the digital zoom as that will always compromise the quality.

The video quality isn't too hot though, pictures look grainy & the sound is poor.

Overall, I think this is the best phone I have ever bought.

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Reviewer: Jodie Ann Alcock - Cape Town, South Africa
Date: 16th Jan 2009

THIS IS the WORST mobile phone I HAVE EVER HAD!

I HAD ENDLESS SOFTWARE PROBLEMS & Nokia HAS REPLACED THIS PHONE 4 TIMES NOW & STILL I AM GETTING the SAME rubbish ALL the TIME! I AM NOW TIRED OF THIS & AM GOING TO TAKE IT FURTHER IF THEY DON'T REPLACE THIS HANDSET WITH A DIFFERENT MODEL!

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Reviewer: Sarah - Chorley, UK
Date: 16th Jan 2009

I loved this phone when received as an upgrade, sturdy phone with all the usual ease of use of Nokia phones. However after 4 months of use, I started to experience similar problems highlighted in previous reviews. The most annoying thing was that ring & message tones & wallpapers started to reset to default settings! Eventually (with help from this website & reviews) I made some basic changes to my phone, which had been suggested by another reviewer. I moved the picture & tones that I wanted to use, from the micro SD card to the phone memory. Luckily I had enough memory on the phone to do this. Since then the phone has not reset itself, touch wood!

Hope this helps other users.

Overall I do like this phone, but the problems I have experienced is putting me off choosing another Nokia phone.

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Reviewer: Jill - Worcestershire, UK
Date: 15th Jan 2009

I was aware of the reliability difficulties some people have had with this phone but being a Nokia fan I decided to give the phone a go. I've used it extensively for 2 weeks. It is mostly good, although I get a better signal on my very old Nokia 6230i. Battery life is okay, but again not as good as my old 6230i. I have experienced some occasional freezing in various applications, but if I wait a couple of seconds, this seems to free up & the phone works fine again. I am not overly happy with the hands-free speaker quality, & a normal headphone connection rather than the small pin would have been better, but these are minor points. The number 6 key stuck a little to begin with, but with use this has now resolved. I am happier with this phone than the Nokia 6300 (which I had previously & found very unreliable, even after having 4 exchanges! ), but if I could get a new 6230i I'd pick this any day. On the whole the 6500 is reliable, looks fabulous, is easy to use & has a lot of features.

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Reviewer: Eric - UK
Date: 15th Jan 2009

Had it for nearly a year on Orange & very few problems. Like most small phones the signal goes off deep into supermarkets & outside urban areas, the main annoyances are.

- the USB data cable does not charge battery like 6500 Classic.
- Cheapo USB charger adapters (as if charging by mains) don't seem to work (unlike 6300), if need one buy a Nokia.
- I sometimes charge using mains on trains, for some reason the music player/radio headset (use Nokia supplied with phone) settings are disabled when charging, music & radio plays to speaker, not welcome in the quiet coach!
- the Nokia headset earpieces fall apart easily, stock up with foam earpiece covers from Maplin to stop falling apart.
- the Nokia headset does not have its own volume control.

But camera is fantastic & can connect to laptop for data transfer without having to install & Nokia suite.

Battery is also good provided you follow instructions & don't trickle charge.

Apologies to all those who are not as pleased as me!

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Reviewer: K - Croydon, UK
Date: 8th Jan 2009

What can I say, when I got the phone I was very pleased with the size as well as the overall features. I had this phone for 5 months & am now getting rid of it as it not letting me use my 500 minutes a month like I should, it always has no signal, when I am in the middle of the conversation it cuts out & my friend have to call me back to continue the conversation (shameful really) warning, DO NOT GET THIS PHONE, where did it go wrong, Nokia?

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Reviewer: Blake Hughes - China
Date: 8th Jan 2009

This phone is poor & I would advise you not to buy it because I have sent 4 of them back for repairs.

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Reviewer: Scottie - Stoke On Trent, UK
Date: 5th Jan 2009

I've had this phone now for 2 weeks & was very pleased, it looks good, nice to use & just feels like a quality item, however. Tonight the keypad & navigation keys are not responding so rendering the phone unusable.

I've now gone back to my two year old Sony Ericsson W810i so not a happy.

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Reviewer: Emma - UK
Date: 5th Jan 2009

If I could put 0% for design, features & usability I would!

I have had this phone for 5 months (on an 18 month contract), the battery only last for 2 hours, when I plug the charger in after 10 minutes it says battery full (I have tried resetting, but still the same). I can't text, it takes ages to write a short message as it freezes or sometimes just closes the down the application. This is the worst phone I have ever had, just ordered a Sony Ericsson, my Nokia is now in the bin!

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Reviewer: Adam Davies - Cardiff, UK
Date: 4th Jan 2009

I've had this phone for almost a year, I've had Nokia's for years & have seldom had any issues. Until this one. I spend most of the working day on this phone, my average monthly bill is circa £400 so there's a clue as to how well I know this product. As with most of the other reviews my phone too has suffered from the dreaded software problems, & infuriating hardware issues where the mini SD card doesn't pick up & you lose information & images etc. The phone often drops calls & freezes whilst typing text messages. The overall design of the phone is great, it is bulky & does weigh a lot compared to many rival manufactures however I've dropped it many times & although it tends to explode into 3 pieces it usually fits back together again & works. Sort of.

If you're looking to buy this phone as a business phone then really don't bother, the battery life is awful & the constant freezing of applications, dropping of calls etc is so infuriating. If you use Bluetooth as a hands-free connection then battery life is shortened even more to the point where mine is constantly charging on my desk & in my cars. I have a blackberry curve 8200 & a Nokia 6300 in addition to the 6500 & have (now that this one is up for an upgrade) decided to go with Blackberry & their new 8900 Curve in replacement for this heap.

Nokia have really let themselves down with this one, back to the drawing board chaps, bring back the 6210!

Oh, & the software upgrades through the PC suite really don't fix the issues.

Good camera though, amazing quality images from a phone but I didn't want another digital camera. I just want a phone that works.

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Reviewer: Christopher Williams - Gloucestershire, UK
Date: 4th Jan 2009

I got my 6500 slide in March 2008 on recommendation from Phones 4 you. I liked the look of the phone, the feel of the slide & what it did other than the music player format which I found clumsy & slow to navigate around. Problems started when the ear speaker became un useable a few weeks after so it was fixed by 3 at no cost. Also I was never happy with the battery having been used to a Sony Ericsson W850i, which I could listen to music on & make calls & never worry about running flat. Then gradually the usual problems with loss of wallpapers, ringtones & themes started swiftly followed by another ear speaker failure at an awkward moment. In August 2008 I took the phone for repair at a Nokia care centre on recommendation by 3 where they replaced the speaker & upgraded the software, with assurance that this would resolve my battery & setting problems. Not bad until recently when all the setting problems returned & continual crashing during use along with random loss of signal. All this left me with a 6 hour standby battery life. Also the slide sticks & won't open making day to day use that little bit less fun! So it's currently back with Nokia care or more new software.

Overall the 6500 slide is just not desirable enough to make you want to put up with the problems so I really would not recommend one.

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Reviewer: Tushar - Saharanpur, India
Date: 1st Jan 2009

Awesome Man. Value for money. Decent phone to have.

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Reviewer: Zara Rafiq - Edinburgh, UK
Date: 30th Dec 2008

I think this phone is OK but sometime it has problems & again it's OK. I do not agree with those previews comments about the Nokia 6500 slide it is not garbage to tell the truth. It's really not a bad phone at all.

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Reviewer: Shannen - Birmingham, UK
Date: 26th Dec 2008

I found this phone so easy to use I dint even read the handbook it was that easy & I was looking forward to getting the James Bond phone but then I received this for a Christmas & I was a bit disappointed but now I am extremely happy it's a brilliant phone & it looks very stylish I had the black one it looks better then the silver one! I would say get this phone & plus the internal memory is good too. I have a memory card & the sound quality is brilliant too, I love my new phone!

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Reviewer: Aga - East Timor
Date: 25th Dec 2008

I bought my phone & I got it home & then I put in my memory card & it didn't work plus I am very angry. By the way my multimedia doesn't work so hurtful! No one please buy this phone, unless you want to cry, I suggest you don't get this phone.

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Reviewer: Marcel - Craiova, Romania
Date: 21st Dec 2008

This is a great phone, nice design, it just lacks WLAN & Symbian & the battery life is kind of short, I didn't have any problems with this phone.

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Reviewer: Mick - UK
Date: 19th Dec 2008

Had phone for just over a week & think it's great. I actually like its slightly heavy build as it gives the impression of being sturdy. Looks cool & is extremely easy to use.

Pleased I bought it.

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Reviewer: Dian - South Africa
Date: 18th Dec 2008

The phone is very nice it is just that the sound is soft & the applications don't work none of them.

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Reviewer: Daniel - Milton Keynes, UK
Date: 17th Dec 2008

A cracking phone & features, extremely stylish especially in black. Good sound quality & battery life. I have had for 2 months & so far no muck ups or freezes or crashes at all.

If your pondering whether to get this phone don't listen to the negative critics & make it a well worth purchase!

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Reviewer: Chris - South Wales, UK
Date: 16th Dec 2008

I must admit that this phone has been driving me nuts! Haven't had the cutting out problem, but did have trouble with the internal speaker echoing whenever I made or received a call. Sent it back & in fairness 3 sent me a replacement phone. But then I started the incredibly annoying issue of automatically resetting to that horrible Nokia tune, & losing the wallpaper that I set. I managed a workaround for this by moving the picture file from the memory card into the directory on the phone that the settings look for (Graphics & Wallpapers) & the music file for the ring tone to Tones & Ringing tones I seem to have overcome the problem, incredibly frustrating while it lasted though. You do wonder whether it's worth it, but then when you think about the ease of use that most Nokia's have, I think that's what keeps you hooked.

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Reviewer: Daniel - UK
Date: 16th Dec 2008

I have had this phone for 9 months now. Overall I like it very much. I keep it in my pocket & don't take that much care of it.

I like.
- Camera quality (set to high settings).
- Screen.
- Slide action stays firm.
- Good Keypad.
- Bluetooth.
- Nokia simple menu system.
- Works very well as a phone.
- Battery life is 5 days (to get this you MUST charge it for 10 hours each time for the first month or so).

I dislike.
- Camera response time is slow (5 seconds to turn on, 2 to take each picture, maybe 30 seconds to change the settings to something that is better).
- Had to send it back for repair, some component blew up (However the phone was repaired & returned very swiftly for free).
- the back cover is not as firmly attached as I would like it to be, if you are rough with the phone it may break easily (this has not happened to me).
- the phone is slightly bulky

I'd say get it.

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Reviewer: Kerri - UK
Date: 16th Dec 2008

Its a nice looking phone easy to use etc. Within first month of having it had problems with it freezing & resetting the ringtones & message tones to standard Nokia tones.

I wouldnt recommend it.

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Reviewer: Michael - London, UK
Date: 15th Dec 2008

This phone is absolute garbage. Yeah it looks OK, has a decent camera etc, but there are endemic software problems that you will not be told about until you buy the phone. My handset continually freezes (a couple of times a day) & it is incredibly frustrating.

DO NOT BUY IT! DO NOT BUY IT!

I am currently arguing with my network provider about getting a new phone. They initially sent me a replacement & guess what? That one suffers from the same problems! & surprise, surprise they are dragging their feet. I wouldn't be so annoyed had this not been specifically recommended to me by their sales rep. I won't mention any names but if you mix red & yellow together you get.

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Reviewer: Lexx - Cape Town, South Africa
Date: 11th Dec 2008

Had the 6500 slide for a year now, about 4 months ago it started acting up. I.e. Freezing, resetting tones & backgrounds. I figured out that the problem on mine was caused by the memory card detection system. If yours is doing the same thing maybe this may help.

- Open the back cover, on the inside of cover itself you will notice a small flap of metal sticking out on the right hand side of the hole used for the camera lens.

- This flap corresponds with a copper connector on the left of the memory card slot in the phone.

The reason the phone freezes is because the flap & the copper connecter do not have enough contact. This may be due to the cover getting loose over time as you drop or move around with the phone.

One way to get better contact is to raise the copper connector using tweezes or a hard thin object. The other way is to squeeze the flap on the cover so it gains some length, this can be done by simply pushing the un welded side of the flap closer to the other. I recommend the second method. Please don't be too aggressive when carrying out any of these instructions as this is delicate equipment.

If this doesn't solve your problem then you'll probably have to change the phone.

I must say though I like this phone even though it has some minor hardware design flaws.

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Reviewer: Nic - UK
Date: 11th Dec 2008

I have Owned a few Nokia Phones, but this one is Fine, But That's it, Its Bulky, & Battery Life is Short, It does Slow down Sometimes, Can get Warm During Long Calls. Overall Average.

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Reviewer: Martin - Belfast, UK
Date: 9th Dec 2008

I can honestly say this is the worst phone I have ever had. I am 9 months into an 18 month contract & on my third battery. Sound quality is poor & I do not receive all calls or messages even when I have full signal & to top it all off the phone has froze & is not letting me enter my PIN. Have been a Nokia user for the last ten years but no more.

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Reviewer: Stormy - Horley, UK
Date: 6th Dec 2008

This phone looks good, has reasonable features, & when it is capable of picking up a signal is a pretty good phone.

However, for 3 customers, the latter point is particularly relevant.

I just spent close to two hours talking to 3 about the known issues with is. We got a 6500 upgrade from 3 & have discovered that the phone doesn't work anywhere around our home, or the locality of our home. We have reverted to a 4 year old 6680 from the back of our wardrobe which will show up to 4 bars of signal when the brand new 6500 shows no signal at all.

3 advised that very poor ability to get a signal is a known issue with this phone, however as we did not report it to 3 within the 14 day period they expect us to stay out the contract or pay a near £400 termination fee. (or take a much inferior phone which is the only model we are authorised to offer as a replacement). (the reason we didn't report it was that as we had been happy with our existing model we didn't swap the SIM card over straight away.)

What really bugs me is that 3 contacted us in September & spent close to an hour & the phone persuading us to upgrade to the 6500. That's five months at least after it was a known issue & being worked on by Nokia & 3. (There are posts within the Nokia Support Forums discussing the issue that go back to April at least.)

I am curious as to what progress has been made (if any) on sorting this issue out between April & September, or even now.

I also thought it may be useful for others to be aware of as it will allow them to make a more informed decision about the phone, & about 3's attitude to their customers. We have been with them for over 5 years.

At one point, when I told the manager or supervisor that I had become aware of the fact that it was an issue that was well known 5 months before 3 persuaded us to upgrade, he suggested that it was out fault for not researching the web & forums well enough, & that I should have discovered this before agreeing to take the phone.

Amazing. Be warned! Stormy.

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Reviewer: Ming - Auckland, New Zealand
Date: 6th Dec 2008

I guess most people write a review because they're annoyed that their phone died. I used my 6500s for 2 days, everything works fine. But the top slider started coming a bit loose, & phone will squeak horribly whenever the menu buttons are pressed, taking it back to retailer to replace for another. I bought the phone because it was on special
they took 40% off retail. Wonder why?

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Reviewer: Nathan - Thetford, UK
Date: 5th Dec 2008

I read all these reviews before & ignored the fact that everyone said it kept freezing, but I wish I hadn't now. I got my phone two days ago & it has frozen already. I have turned it on & off about 10 times & it's alright for about 20 seconds then it freezes again.

On the whole the phone looks nice but the freezing is annoying.

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Reviewer: Chris - Birmingham, UK
Date: 3rd Dec 2008

Everyone who is saying bad things about this phone don't know how to look after it or are just plain unlucky. This phone is brilliant. I've never had any problems with it, no blank screens, no over heating & no hard to press camera buttons.

All I can say is don't LISTEN TO the BAD REVIEWS ABOUT THIS PHONE. Had mine around 8 months still mint, buy it you won't regret it.

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Reviewer: Chris Weatherley - Rickmansworth, UK
Date: 28th Nov 2008

I really only have to echo the comments that have already been said. The design of the 6500S is very good, quite heavy, which I like, nice sliding function & general good looks.

It has all the features that you need, but they just either don't work right, or stop completely.

I had mine for 3 months, until it started playing up. Firstly, it resets your ringtones & backgrounds. Then it began freezing randomly, or the screen going all white, which means I had to reset it. I finally got rid of it when it kept forgetting the memory card & sometimes even the SIM card. I have a ROKR E8 now, let's see how that goes.

Overall, this phone has some serious software & design faults, which have to be addressed by Nokia. It's a shame, because this handset does look the business, but just don't work!

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Reviewer: Johnny - Croydon, UK
Date: 28th Nov 2008

Have been using this phone for one year now & have not experienced any major problem. It does freeze at times which is very annoying but I later realized that the memory was full & having deleted some data the freezing stopped. It has been working fine since then & I think that updating the software as advised by Nokia in my case might help solve the freezing problems & see the phone's perform its full potential.

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Reviewer: Lauren - London, UK
Date: 27th Nov 2008

I was offered this phone for a free upgrade & straight away I looked for reviews & after the negative reviews & the rare person actually happy with the phone I decided to phone the company straight away & tell them I didn't want it so thank you for your advice!

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Reviewer: Lee - Berkshire, UK
Date: 25th Nov 2008

I got this phone because it looked like it would do the business. Why know, its big its metal & it's a Nokia. Last time I had a Nokia it was extremely reliable. This is not.

- the phone turns itself off & on at will all day long.
- the phone is now extremely slow. It takes ages to open the calculator & by the time it loads up I have just about enough time to enter half the data before it switches off & then back on about 5 seconds later.
- I don't receive all phone calls. & if it doesn't ring I do not receive a missed call either. If by some miracle my phone does ring, just as I am getting into deep conversation my phone will turn itself off & return to the home screen.
- I do not receive text messages & for 95% of the day am unable to send any either. I cannot even look at or delete old messages. On the off chance that my phone will let me in to write a text message, it will let me write 2 lines before, you guessed it, turning off & then back on to the home screen!

DISGRACEFUL, I will never buy a Nokia again!

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Reviewer: Rebecca - Perth , Australia
Date: 25th Nov 2008

Worst phone I HAVE EVER HAD. I have had it replaced once already due to Early Life Failure 2 weeks into it, & the second one has the same problems, though fully tested by a 3 technician, he says there is nothing wrong with it!

I even had the 3 service manager come to my workplace to test & he agreed with me. Though still, won't replace the phone. I do not ever want another.

I want my old 6300 back.

Yet, my husband's black 6500 slide works fine?

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Reviewer: John - Dublin, Ireland
Date: 24th Nov 2008

Excellent phone, just bought it few days ago, I am very impressed with it, I have read the horror stories. I have not come across any of the failures mention, I love Nokia's, easy to use & reliable too, the wife has a problem getting used to her 6500 slide, coming from a Samsung phone, otherwise she is beginning to like the features of it.

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Reviewer: Allen - Norwich, UK
Date: 22nd Nov 2008

I was attracted to this phone mainly due to its robust stainless steel case, plastic phone covers look great for about 2 weeks but this phone still looks new after 4 months.

That's the good news, first it started to freeze, then over heat during calls, but the most annoying problem which I can't figure out is if I remove the back to clean it, the phone doesn't recognise the memory card!

It will then reset to default settings, wallpaper, ring tone, etc. Which is really annoying.

Was a big fan of Nokia phones, this model has dented that confidence quite a bit.

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Reviewer: Tara - Southampton, UK
Date: 21st Nov 2008

Well I've had this phone about 4 months from new. After 2 months I had to get it repaired because it kept switching off (especially in the middle of calls), the buttons weren't responding, & the screen was disappearing whenever it felt like it. So it was OK for about a fortnight after I got it fixed but to this day it's buggering up in just the same ways. I have personally been put off of Nokia for good now due to this phone & my previous phone.

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Reviewer: Dodge - Crawley, UK
Date: 17th Nov 2008

I've read all the problems people report on this phone, & have to say I must either be very lucky, or people just are not using it properly.

Never frozen, cut out, overheated, nothing.

I feel that a lot of the problems seem to be dependent on your supplier & what software they put on the phone. I am with T mobile, & they claim that a lot of Nokia's testing of this model was done through their network.

I have had the phone since March, but I suspect that the slider may not last the 18 months of the contract. Otherwise, all good.

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Reviewer: Claire - Blackburn, UK
Date: 17th Nov 2008

This phone is absolute the worse phone I've had in my life, everything that is mentioned on here has gone wrong with my phone but my phone froze yesterday & the button to turn on my phone stopped working yesterday too so I had to turn my phone off & guess what the button does not work so cannot use my phone now! Disappointed in Nokia so annoyed there is no more words to describe this phone it's so bad.

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Reviewer: Nick - UK
Date: 14th Nov 2008

Very nice phone! Although it's annoying because the screen flickers oddly when slid up.

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Reviewer: Marc - UK
Date: 13th Nov 2008

My second phone failure & my second negative review. I've had the handset two months now, relatively fault free after the initial software failure on the third day. Yes, there's the odd screen flicker & stray white line but it's always useable. At least it was. Last Wednesday, sat at my desk, I sent a text message to a friend then put the phone down. Not two minutes later I got a reply, I picked up the phone, slid it open & the screen has cracked from top to bottom & is now un useable. Nightmare. Spoke to Nokia who said Nokia's warranty does not cover physical damage & you will be liable for the cost of any & all repairs reference this fault, what an amazing get out clause. Nice one Nokia, I am amazed other mass manufacturers haven't had the same fantastic idea when it comes to shafting their customers. My first Nokia for 10 years & most definitely my last. Other than its looks, this handset has absolutely nothing to offer, especially when it comes to reliability.

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Reviewer: K - UK
Date: 13th Nov 2008

This phone is awful. I have had it for a few months & I am getting all the problems people have already reported.

- Phone freezes.
- Overheats during calls.
- Notices for nonexistent voicemail.
- Screen going white.
- Not receiving text messages till hours later.
- Incomplete messages jumbling (so they don't make sense) with other incomplete messages).
- Message times are an hour behind.
- Takes ages to access memory card for contact details & especially inbox for text messages.

Don't BUY.

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Reviewer: Thomas Ansell - London, UK
Date: 12th Nov 2008

OK, basically had a Samsung e900 & likes it so when my Orange contract was up they offered me a great deal, if you tell them someone else has offered a better deal they will match it, but anyways, the phone looks nice, but is really heavy & like a huge block in your pocket! The cameras not as good as a 3.2 Megapixel one should be & the flash is rubbish but the biggest problem is that every task is a chore, it takes nearly 5 minutes to send a text & even putting it on silent is an effort. So now I am selling it & the replacement, a 6600 has been slated too! I cannot win with Nokia!

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Reviewer: Dan Warren - Leeds, UK
Date: 12th Nov 2008

Had this phone 2 weeks & sent it back.

The signal is terrible, all calls last about 30 seconds before cutting off (no matter where in the country you are) the reception bars just disappear. (I didn't have any problems on my old Ericsson, which I have reverted back to.

Another problem is the camera button is impossible to press unless you are the world's strongest man. You have to press it so hard that you end up shaking & the picture is blurred.

The final problem is this high pitched sound the phone gives off at the back of the handset (It's like one of those mosquito alarms they use to scare off the naughty kids from corner shops).

Design wise the metal casing looks good, but the phones design is very dated. It's the same as the 6280 but with a silver fascia.

I would NOT recommend this, even as a free phone.

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Reviewer: Sanjeeda - Gurgaon, India
Date: 12th Nov 2008

I have been using this phone since last month. This is a very stylish phone. Although it's slow but is far better than N-Series. It is very prone to scratches. Battery life is good.

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Reviewer: Matt Taylor - Cheltenham, UK
Date: 11th Nov 2008

I used the phone for 10 days & the screen cracked without any misuse. It was in my pocket, in the same way as all the other various phones that I have owned in the last 9 years, I took it out & the screen was unreadable. There is no external damage, & a local phone repair shop commented that the crack appears to emerge from below the screen I.e. Not from a specific pressure point on the screen.

I've seen phones (including other Nokia's) exposed to much greater traumas than sitting in my pocket & none of these suffered cracked screens.

Do not buy this phone, until they admit the design fault you'll be in for some hefty repair bills.

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Reviewer: Jatin - Faridabad, India
Date: 10th Nov 2008

Got this a week ago. Ultimate looks, good user interface. It is an upgraded of Nokia 5610. I'm happy.

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Reviewer: John Dampcake - Redcar, UK
Date: 8th Nov 2008

A fantastic phone, the only downside is the battery life, two days at best, this is the best phone on the market. I have had this phone for 8 months now with no trouble at all.

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Reviewer: Alan Partrige - Swindon, UK
Date: 6th Nov 2008

All together not a bad phone & found it fairly simple to use. However some applications can be a little tricky to find but I got used to this. I have had the wallpaper problem & it has froze on me once. But no phone can be perfect! I give it 8 out of 10!

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Reviewer: Louise - UK
Date: 5th Nov 2008

This is such a fabulous phone, the camera is just as good as taking a picture off a proper camera, highly recommended, everyone should have one.

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Reviewer: Louise - UK
Date: 4th Nov 2008

The first one I received from Orange I sent straight back as I kept getting white lines across the screen.

They sent another one straight out to me, however same problem so I guess it's just a design fault.

Other than that the phone is good would not say excellent, I am a die hard Nokia fan but have to agree not the best phone they have made I love my old Nokia LOL!

Scared now, 18 months will be a long time with a phone if it breaks! But have to say after 10 days all is still well & good in the world of Louise & her Nokia 6500 slide :-).

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Reviewer: Kelly - Selsey, UK
Date: 3rd Nov 2008

I hate this phone. It deletes music you have downloaded, changes ringtone back to the Nokia tune. Won't open music files one week, then decides to play it the next. This is my second phone now. It also changes background images to default themes. Buttons stick & do not register or respond when pressed. Camera is good & active standby is a quirky feature. Not worth the trouble. First time I've gone back to Nokia since the 3310 & I'll never get another one. Samsung was a no problem phone for me & I'll stick with them.

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Reviewer: Diane - Plymouth, UK
Date: 2nd Nov 2008

I've had this phone for a week now, I bought a Motorola last year on PAYG & it was the most annoying phone I have ever owned. When the keypad started sticking I had enough & purchased the Nokia 6500 slide. I had always had Nokia's previously & thought I would go back to what I knew & liked. I have not been disappointed. It looks fabulous, very user friendly & does everything I want a mobile to do. I don't understand why so many people are having problems with it freezing etc, I have not had any such problem. Well done Nokia, I will not stray again!

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Reviewer: Sid - UK
Date: 1st Nov 2008

This phone has an appealing design, I got 30% discount off this phone.

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Reviewer: Lindsay Archer - UK
Date: 31st Oct 2008

I agree with most of the reviews regarding this phone. It is ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH! My phone does exactly the same as the others, it freezes all the time, slow at dialling out, wrong time on the receipt of texts, reverts ringtones to default setting, doesn't recognise keypad when texting oh the list goes on! I've also had this phone replaced & repaired since I've had it but now I've had enough & want an exchange. It's certainly within consumer rights to change this phone as it doesn't fulfil the consumer rights Act. Problem is, companies tend to fob you off or point blank won't help. This is certainly the case with me! Therefore I am currently suing the company I had this phone from & I would encourage others to do the same! Like other reviews, my phone is on an 18 month contract & have at least 9 months to go! I've a phone that I am paying a lot for each month that does not work! My advice. STAY AWAY FROM THIS PHONE!

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Reviewer: Lis - London, UK
Date: 31st Oct 2008

Argh this is by far the worst phone I have ever had. Was recommended to buy from the Carphone Warehouse! After my 28 days everything that could go wrong with the phone has & they won't give me a new one they just send if off for repairs & I get it back a week or so later & the same rubbish happens again! Phone freezes, battery is rubbish, contacts not ready happens most of the time when I try & scroll through my contacts, says I have reception yet no one can get through to me. Rubbish, rubbish rubbish.

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Reviewer: Charlie Taylor - Whitstable, UK
Date: 30th Oct 2008

Awful phone I have taken it into repair with Carphone Warehouse & 3 now four times this is ridiculous. The phone keeps freezing changing ringtone back to default deleting downloads adding money onto my bill. We have been to 3 asking for a replacement handset & the keep patronising us saying that we will have to pay £50 pounds for a refurbished handset. I have had the phone now for 3 months & we have constant problem. We have been told that 3 muck up the software on the phone causing it to do it. It's on 18 months contract longest of my life.

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Reviewer: Kate Dawkins - UK
Date: 30th Oct 2008

This is the most stressful annoying piece of design I have ever encountered. Not worth the time or the money. No signal & slowly deteriorates until it is useless. Strongly advise you against it.

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Reviewer: Anto - Belfast, UK
Date: 29th Oct 2008

I have noticed that wallpapers etc can reset if set from the memory card, but that is the ONLY minor problem with this phone.

I've had mine over 9 months now & the casing is in pristine condition, I love how this phone looks & feels in your hand, more importantly the large screen is completely unscratched even though it normally lives with my car keys in my pocket, a lot of manufacturers (including APPLE) could learn from that!

I've also dropped it onto hard surfaces a few times & it has survived intact, having picked up pieces of various Nokia's & Sony phones over the years the durability of this phone is the best I have ever seen. When I renew my contract I will probably be holding onto my 6500 & pocketing the discount.

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Reviewer: Ray - Durham, UK
Date: 27th Oct 2008

I HAVE ACHIEVED the IMPOSSIBLE! After what seemed a lifetime of grief with this phone I have managed to get 3 to swap it for a BRAND NEW Nokia 6220! Yes you read that correctly, the one with SAT NAV & 5 megapixel camera. The story is tortuous & long & includes such gems as a faulty 6500 that wasn't, a 30 minutes premium rate call to Mumbai, an unbelievable offer from same (I'll have to check with my boss first but it should be OK), 3 journeys to a 3 shop that has nothing to do 3! (the network that is), a replacement that vanished into cyber3nokialandspace, a call centre evacuated for 3 hours due to a bomb scare or fire or angry Nokia users. Still not sure which.

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Reviewer: Marobson - Reading, UK
Date: 26th Oct 2008

The best looking phone ever designed! Don't know how Nokia are ever going to top the design of this? Can't believe it's the only phone in the whole range that has a Brushed stainless steel finish! Not even the N95 or N96 have this! I want to purchase an N95 (Or N96! ), but don't like the fact that neither has the aforementioned brushed stainless steel finish!

For all the Cheapskates who have moaned about their Contract 6500 Slide, Um try paying £200 Sim Free (As I did! ), then I think you'll find that your phone will be entirely problem free (Like Mine! )! Any problems with the 6500s, have been caused by the N-Series phone. It's beyond reproach & until I found this website, I had NEVER heard anyone ever make ANY derogatory remarks about it? !

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Reviewer: Jason Best - Harlow, UK
Date: 26th Oct 2008

When I got my 1st Nokia 6500 slide back in December I was pleased as punch as it seemed a great phone. Then after a couple of months phone began to lockup & ear piece started buzzing in calls, Orange replaced.

Replacement lasted 2 months before same fault occurred, Orange after a long phone call decided to replace.

Replacement this time lasted only a week before many faults occurred, locks up! Memory doesn't always connect! Restores to factory settings! Screen goes fuzzy & white! Loses signal for no reason & switches off by itself.

Phoned Orange who have been my network for many years & not been very helpful, to be honest in my opinion there customer services now is not so good, told not there problem, speak to Nokia etc etc, won't replace now UNLESS I PAY. Hoping to reach an agreement with Orange in next few days or I will be seeking legal advice.

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Reviewer: Karen - Glasgow, UK
Date: 26th Oct 2008

Wish I would have read these reviews first before I signed up for an 18 month contract with 3 mobile. I've already had it sent back a couple of times due to constant freezing & the battery never lasting. Will need to take it back to 3 again as I can't answer because of the frozen screen. So whoever is thinking about buying this phone, I guess it's just you're luck if you receive a faulty one. It's now made me hate Nokia phones.

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Reviewer: Fuchsia - Glasgow, UK
Date: 26th Oct 2008

I bought this phone with trepidation having read the poor reviews here but I've owned it for about 8 weeks now & so far touch wood I've had no problems. The battery life is really no problem for me, I charged the phone on 3 days ago & have made about 40 minutes worth of calls & sent about 20 texts, plus surfed the web & used the phone as an alarm clock & it's only lost one bar of battery. I generally charge it every 3 to 4 days. Sometimes there's a bit of garbled interference during phone conversations, but I also had that on my old Nokia on the same provider, so I assume it's more likely to be poor signal than the phone.

A couple of times the buttons have been unresponsive for a few seconds, but it's not a major problem & the rest of the phone is stylish, easy to use & works very well indeed so far.

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Reviewer: Gavy - Belfast, UK
Date: 24th Oct 2008

Gee, I have just read your review & I agree, word for word, with everything you say. I have had real difficulties with the 6500 slide. Sometimes I can't access message folders, the phone is constantly switching itself on & off, & I receive a text about once every 30 minutes to say I have a voicemail (even though the voicemail folder is empty). As for 3 their comically titled help & support is as ironic as it is infuriating.

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Reviewer: Gee - Ireland, Ireland
Date: 23rd Oct 2008

Don't even take this phone if you are given it for free! It is absolutely terrible, I have had similar problems to those listed on this site. Cannot believe Nokia have not recalled this phone given the thousands of dissatisfied customers. I am on the 3 network & they have been extremely unhelpful & have informed me that they have replaced 40,000 of these handsets because of the problems, unbelievable! I have had nothing but Nokia handsets for the past 10 years & have always been happy with them but can't believe how much they have messed up on the 6500 slide. Nokia & 3 have a lot to answer for.

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Reviewer: Tony Smith - Birmingham, UK
Date: 22nd Oct 2008

Real bad phone signal is real bad, wife has one & that's the same, battery is always low, put my card in my old phone & signal was fine no dropped calls.

Orange will only change it for same model & having read all the other comments on this site I don't want another one.

Will now contact Nokia.

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Reviewer: Dan - Bristol, UK
Date: 22nd Oct 2008

This phone is shocking it turns itself of when you want to watch a video or music. The battery is poor you can't charge it via USB. Waste of money, don't LIKE NOKIAS NOW going back Sony Ericsson.

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Reviewer: Steve - Bristol, UK
Date: 20th Oct 2008

ABSOLUTE RUBBISH. Nokia have gone & created rubbish.

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Reviewer: Daniel - UK
Date: 20th Oct 2008

I bought this phone it was brilliant, I love the stainless steel cover & its brilliant design.

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Reviewer: Stef - Bournemouth, UK
Date: 20th Oct 2008

What a waste of time it was getting this phone.

It was OK for the first few days, till I started to notice that the memory card kept getting disconnected. Now after a few months, the phone turns of when ever it feels like, freezes at all times & I never recieves my messages. Then when I do, I get 3 copy messages.

Also, the music changes when ever it feels like it & I can no be on my phone for longer than 2 minutes before I goes dead. When I do manage to stay on the phone, I can't put the phone down & have to take the battery out. How much hassel!

3 have sent it off for repair. But guess what still not fixed. They tried to back up my files, so they could send it away again. But got so annoyed with it freexing & turning off that they have agreed to a new phone for me. Shame they didn't do this before they sent it away & I was with out a phone for a week!

WASTE OF TIME. DO NOT BUY!

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Reviewer: Kat Marsh - UK
Date: 19th Oct 2008

I have had this phone for 3 weeks now & have had no problems with it that people have mentioned, its battery lasts for ages, especially compared to my old Motorola. Nokia has always been really easy to use so I have gone back to using them & don't regret my decision yet.

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Reviewer: Emily - UK
Date: 18th Oct 2008

My version of this phone is fine!

I haven't had the problems that the rest of you have had apart from the phone resetting itself but if you put your wallpapers etc. On the phone memory it's fine.

The features are really good but the phone itself is quite heavy because of the outside casing but I've dropped this phone a million times & the casing is still not scratched!

I am guessing most of you got your phones from the shop but my dad got mine of some website & it has had no problems.

Good phone but beware there are some faulty versions out there!

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Reviewer: Susan - UK
Date: 16th Oct 2008

I've never had a Nokia phone before & swear that I never will again. I bought this one on recommendation. I had countless problems with it freezing & resetting itself. Changed the phone to the same model with updated software & it still has had to be repaired. I am going back to my Samsung.

Apparently it's a known problem, come on Nokia, do something!

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Reviewer: Dev - Ukraine
Date: 15th Oct 2008

I recommend PEOPLE TO BUY THIS MOBILE.YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO USE A MOBILE. I have had IT FOR NOW 5 MONTH I NEVER HAD A SINGLE PROBLEM WITH IT FOR example FREEZING, NETWORK OR BATTERY. SO PLEASE DON'T LISTEN TO PEOPLE JUST BUY IT YOU WILL BE satisfied with it.

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Reviewer: Juanita - Plymouth, UK
Date: 14th Oct 2008

I bought this phone as recommended by the guy at the Orange shop. I've had 3 Nokia's before & they were definitely the best phones ever! They were so reliable & even after smashing to bits on the pavement when dropped one of mine once it still worked perfectly with a bit of cello tape.

But this time I am starting to regret my decision. Within a day of having this phone it started to flicker & freeze.

Now after a month it has started turning itself off & on again. I can see I am going to have fun with this one! I wait in anticipation to see what is going to go wrong next.

Nokia I am REALLY disappointed in you for ruining your great reputation & making a lot of people very unhappy. I just wish I'd read these reviews before I got it!

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Reviewer: Damon - UK
Date: 13th Oct 2008

The phone is an utter joke to be quite honest. Since I bought it, it has frozen countless times & when using software via my computer, the phone most of the time won't perform the operations I intend it to do.

I am currently tied in to an 18 month contract with 3, so I don't have a choice but to continue using it. At one point the whole handset froze & it wouldn't turn on & it then got sent in for repair, within a week of it being returned the same problem occurred again.

Since then I've been given a new one but that is already freezing. The phone is by far the worst I've ever had.

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Reviewer: Are - Australia
Date: 13th Oct 2008

I just wanted to let everyone know that the issues with the Nokia 6500 slide are not confined to one part of the world. I am in Australia & am experiencing the same difficulties expressed by all of you.

I am currently on the phone with 3 trying to have my handset replaced by a different model, as I am tired of having the 6500 slide replaced by the same model & it having the exact same problems.

Success! After much discussion I have finally been granted an exchange for a different model phone (which won't include the charger or battery, so I have to pay for that myself! Pathetic really).

Nokia has really let itself down with this one.

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Reviewer: Hello - US
Date: 12th Oct 2008

This is the worst phone ever. It just does not work. There is no reception & it keeps jamming up. With only using it a day to make one 5 minute call the battery fell dead, & it appeared to be fully charged before the call. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE, waste of money!

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Reviewer: Ken W - London, UK
Date: 12th Oct 2008

No problems after 1 week, a great all round Nokia phone.

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Reviewer: Rob - UK
Date: 11th Oct 2008

True this phone does look quite good & has a nice feel to it. However I am on my second 6500 slide within 7 months because of freezes, crashes & random reboots. So to answer the reviewer who recommends that we look after our phones, I do agree, but my phone has not been dropped, left charging overnight, nor indeed taken swimming, surfing, or scuba diving with me :-). It just happens to be bad in the software reliability department. The dodgy charger issue is also true for the 6500 classic. If it didn't keep playing up I'd love this phone & stick with it. To be honest I am glad I stuck to my ancient 12 month contract.

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Reviewer: Christine - Manchester, UK
Date: 5th Oct 2008

It's a really well designed phone, & it has all the best features. But in terms of usability it's a disaster. I would certainly not have got this phone if I'd realised, & I won't bother with Nokia again. The phone freezes all the time, but more annoying it won't charge! When I plug the charger in the phone doesn't recognise it or only recognises it for a few seconds. For some reason Nokia have made their chargers so small they are really temperamental & bend easily. I took the phone back to Nokia immediately & they said it was a common problem with the phone, they gave me a new charger but it had the same problems. When I tried to take this one back I was told I needed to wait to return it to the shop I bought it from (not easy when you're a student living away from home! ). When I eventually returned it, the phone was past its one month mark, so they refused to do anything about it. I now use my old phone. This phone is a waste of money.

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Reviewer: Bob Jones - Coventry, UK
Date: 5th Oct 2008

This phone is okay however that is only if you can deal with its many faults. I have put mine in to repair twice & my friend who has one has had to totally replace hers 3 times as it keeps on crashing & freezing while she is on the web & while she is playing music & videos, this has also happened to me many time & that is why I had to send it back. I have to send it back & I only wrote this review to show the phone as being rubbish like it really is & not how Nokia are marketing it.

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Reviewer: Rehan - London, UK
Date: 4th Oct 2008

I have had this phone from quite a while now, & I like it.

I read all the reviews the only reason your phone don't work is because how you take care of it.

If you don't over charge your battery it will work properly, & if you listen to music, call, go on applications & use all the stuff in the phone for long all day long the battery runs out quickly.

Learn how to take care of the phone understand all the features learn how to use it then it won't get damaged.

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Reviewer: Gordon Christie - Glenrothes, UK
Date: 4th Oct 2008

I love this phone I have had it for three months now & like that I can personalise it. It now sounds & looks like a gadget from star trek. I wish I could find a site or sites that I can download for free of course some software that would make it even more interesting. For instance I like the music player but wish I could download new skins for it.

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Reviewer: Alice - UK
Date: 4th Oct 2008

I have had four Nokia 6500 slide phone in the past month as they have all frozen out & the top buttons don't work. I have had to put up with it because I am on an 18 month contract. I was told that this phone was the best to choose so I had it. I will never be listening to what the phone sales man has to say again it is the worst phone I have ever had!

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Reviewer: Mark - Birmingham, UK
Date: 4th Oct 2008

Great looking phone, but don't be fooled. It's nowhere near as good as it looks. I've never had anything other than Nokia phones, & this is the worst I've had. Bring back the 6600 that was an incredible handset.

Anyway, my first 6500 Slide lasted about a week. It suffered from all the same problems mentioned here. It locked up, it cut off mid call (usually rebooted in the process), it stopped charging, the display corrupted randomly. I took it to the nominated repair place, & after a week they said it was so bad it had to go back to Nokia for analysis. Just over three weeks later, I got a new one back, which thankfully has behaved itself.

The only enduring problem is that the reception is useless on a regular basis. I'd be better off sticking my finger in the air. I have almost no reception at home, an area which 3 claim has full coverage. I get none at work unless I stand in certain places outside (& then its pot luck). Although that is the middle of nowhere, other people get a better signal.

I don't know if it's just this phone, if it's just 3 network or if it's a combination of the two. Whichever, I'd buy a different phone if I were you.

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Reviewer: Bryony - Blackpool, UK
Date: 2nd Oct 2008

Phones for you said what a brilliant phone they had given me as I signed an 18 month contract with 3 network. What a joke they were having with me. I thought Nokia was a top notch make how naive of me. This phone has been the bane of my life. I can identify with every previous review, it freezes, goes back to its original settings, cuts me off halfway through a phone call. Friends of mine moan at me because I never text them back, that is because their texts have never reached me, phone is switched on but if a friend phones me it goes straight to voicemail. I am constantly recharging the battery. After 2 weeks of being at the Nokia repair shop, they swore blind they had repaired it but NO. 3 guaranteed they could repair it but alas NO. No after care, so will be avoiding them, can't really get anywhere, so once 18 month contract up, obviously won't be staying with them & will be very wary of Nokia in future.

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Reviewer: Dom - UK
Date: 2nd Oct 2008

This phone will annoy you more than anything. I upgraded to the newer model after chronic problems with the first one (not charging, turning off, short battery life). After a couple of weeks it just started crashing, took ages to get access to the memory card, kept getting voicemail messages (when I had none) & just resetting all the time.

I downloaded & upgraded the phone to the new software which stopped the problem, for a few weeks. It's started doing it again & now I've got a rusty hatchet & looking for the designer. My girlfriend got one of these too, & just to show it wasn't just me, exactly the same things are happening to her. Now all our conversations end after 2 minutes because this telephone finds it difficult to do the job it was built for.

Enraging. Avoid.

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Reviewer: Glen - London, UK
Date: 28th Sep 2008

I honestly don't know what all these bad reviews are on about. I've had this phone for a while now, & I can honestly say it's brilliant.

Plus Points.
- Great design, looks lovely.
- Amazing screen.
- Very high quality camera.
- Excellent signal coverage.

Negative Points.
- Quite heavy (But shows it is well built).
- Average battery life.

In my opinion, it is an excellent phone.

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Reviewer: Carol Yung - Boldon Colliery, UK
Date: 26th Sep 2008

This phone is sold with old software!

I've had mine just over 2 weeks & the battery was running out, constantly having to charge it, it switched itself off & I lost my screensaver & wallpaper.

I've had a Nokia 6280 for 18 months & had virtually no problems with it compared to this one.

I rang 3 to complain about the battery & was told that the phone had been sold to me with the old software in it!

Apparently they are still sending them out with the old software. If you check your phone by pressing STAR HASH 0000 followed by HASH it will show your current software version. If it reads v.04 it has the old software as it should read v08.30.

I was advised by 3 that I can download the latest software from their website & that it would only take 30 minutes, mine took 1 hour 20 minutes but this may vary according to your PC & network.

I did mine today & the battery hasn't run down so far so maybe it has helped. However these phones SHOULD NOT be sold with the old software so beware!

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Reviewer: Liam - UK
Date: 25th Sep 2008

I am just after sending this phone away because of several problems.

- Freezing Constantly.
- Screen going white.
- Sometimes won't turn on.
- Very Slow.
- When you're listening to music when you move the phone ever so slightly it comes up UNKNOWN TRACK.
- the memory card option just keeps disappearing.
- the back is loose.
- Screen timing is all wrong.
- When you slide it up it takes 10 seconds for the screen to catch up.
- No network coverage.

I can't believe it 18 months. It will be the longest 18 months of my life. Back on Tuesday, see how it goes.

Does anyone else have these issues?

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Reviewer: Averil - Manchester, UK
Date: 25th Sep 2008

This should be a good phone from a good manufacturer etc, but onto my second handset in 3 weeks & hey presto, there is something going wrong from the start. I agree to all points made about freezing, losing your wallpaper image preferences if stored on the memory card I was told there was no issue with my memory card? Really? That's interesting as having Bluetoothed it just 60 Mb of data, it believes it is totally full, so no the camera is redundant! What is the point? Fortunately Orange, when you do get through to them, are pretty good & reasonable. Full marks orange. I doubt you'll be supplying these for much longer though as the return rate on them must be costing you a fortune!

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Reviewer: Andy - Torbay, UK
Date: 24th Sep 2008

I was lucky, managed to get rid of mine after 4 weeks of bad battery, dropped calls, freezing etc, got an E51 now & can make phone calls on demand.

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Reviewer: Surendra - Hyderabad, India
Date: 24th Sep 2008

This mobile so bad. No words to say how bad it is. Please do not buy this mobile Nokia band is down now due to their worst models. Sony Ericsson Walkman phones & Samsung mobiles are very good nowadays. Soon Sony Ericsson will become number one in India. Anyhow here are some bad things about this phone & some good ones.

Good. Picture quality is very good, even video. Music is also good even though it is not a music edition phone. Looks so stylish.

Bad. Call will be ended automatically after some time, switches off often, keypad lock problem, camera will be on automatically, ringtone & wall paper will change so frequently. & so on. No end to say defects in this phone.

So please don't go for Nokia. Either go for Sony or Samsung.

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Reviewer: Paul Miller - UK
Date: 24th Sep 2008

Word of advice - don't drop into a pint glass, it doesn't seem to like beer.

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Reviewer: Rebecca - UK
Date: 24th Sep 2008

Well this was one of the only phones available when I went to go & get a contract phone & the man serving me had it & said it was great etc so I went ahead & got this one. I have had it around 3 months now & at 2 months it started freezing, cutting off calls, sound was distant when talking in calls, text messages stopped appearing on the screen (only the little envelope would show) & started crashing every time I put my new memory card in which had only about 5MB used on a 1GB memory card then I deleted everything of the card & put it in & it now doesn't recognise the card! It's not the memory card causing these problems. I have now had to buy a new phone even though my Nokia is on contract I will still be having these problems. I wish they would give me a different phone but they will just replace it with another 6500.

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Reviewer: Antima - Jodhpur, India
Date: 23rd Sep 2008

Don't BUY THIS PHONE, battery is worst, after 1 month it stopped reading memory card. It just looks good, but after some time it gets so many scratches & it actually becomes of no use. Don't buy this phone.

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Reviewer: Sam - Newcastle, UK
Date: 22nd Sep 2008

Totally rubbish! Only had the phone 4 months & it's now gone back to three twice! Turns off constantly both during a call or sat doing nothing, battery lasts less than 3 hours, handset completely freezes & you have to take the thing apart to rectify & I get false voicemail alerts every 10 minutes! Three have taken it back for a second time & it does only take 3 days to do this, Carphone Warehouse was my alternative repair centre, but this could take 10 to 14 days & they wouldn't offer me a loan handset. At the moment, I am phoneless & feel like a limb has been cut off as I use my phone for work calls too!

Already looking forward to the end of my contract. Shame it's not until October 2009!

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Reviewer: Vic - Dunfermline, UK
Date: 22nd Sep 2008

This phone is a nightmare. I am having the same problems as mentioned previously. It freezes mid text & reboots itself but then you can't access anything. The battery life is awful too.

After 2 handsets & this being the fourth time I've needed to get it repaired O2 have offered a replacement. Let's hope the new handset (Nokia 5610 slide) next one's better.

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Reviewer: Daniel - UK
Date: 21st Sep 2008

DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE! I am now on my fifth one on my insured contract, fine for a few days then the same problems keep coming back, keys not working, error signs, can't make calls when I have full signal, freezes, absolutely rubbish battery life, & the speaker is the worst after a while can't hear a thing completely distorted please don't buy one!

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Reviewer: Tina - South West, UK
Date: 20th Sep 2008

I got my Nokia on contract within 6 days it over heated & turned itself off & would not turn on again.

I got a replacement that took 1 month to be sent to me & a charger in 2 bits with blue tape holding it together. Phone went to 12 different people at Nokia to be fixed.

When I got it back the phones screen kept going white & blank over heated & died, they also put a silver back on it which my phone was black. They don't come in mixed colours silver or black.

Phone sent back again, which took another month to be fixed, they decided they couldn't fix it so they sent me another Nokia 6500 second hand replacement phone with no back & the same charger with blue tape.

This got sent back, it took 2 weeks & they sent it back to me with a black back which didn't fit & there is a gap down the side & this one is starting to freeze & turning its self off.

So it will be going back again soon. But I still have to pay the phone bill when I haven't even got the phone. Each time I got the phone back it had a list of who the phone went to get repaired.

Over all it went to 36 different staff at Nokia & no one could fix it. I am now stuck in a 18 month contract I can't get out off.

DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE, please if you have this phone do not leave on charge over night as mine overheated that much I couldn't pick it up. If it was left on a chair or sofa it would have burnt it, what is Nokia playing at? How can they get away with it? I will never get a Nokia again.

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Reviewer: Andy B - Huddersfield, UK
Date: 19th Sep 2008

Hi, had this phone for a month now on an 18 month contract with T Mobile. On the upside, it looks good & feels solid, it has a nice large, bright clear screen & comes with all the features you'd expect on a fairly modern phone, the camera is also excellent.

HOWEVER!

- the battery life is appalling. Expect to have to recharge every day if you make a few calls a day. If you only use it for a couple of short calls & a few texts each day you might get 2 days use. Even if you don't touch the thing & leave it on standby it will only last 3 days.

- Bad Bad Bad reception. The signal seems to jump all over the place, from four bars to zero & therefore cutting you off. THIS HAPPENS REGULARLY, regardless of my location. I've so far failed to complete a single conversation where I haven't been cut off. Since calling people is the primary purpose of a phone & the Nokia 6500 slide isn't very good at this, I can only rate this phone poor.

Andy.

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Reviewer: T De Sousa - Barry, UK
Date: 19th Sep 2008

Nokia should never have released it. Don't do it buy something else.

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Reviewer: Sarina - UK
Date: 19th Sep 2008

Nice looking phone. But that's about it. I've had it 3 months & already I've had so many problems. It constantly turns its self off mostly when I am half way through a phone call, then takes ages to reboot. I have been inundated with texts saying I have a voicemail when my mail box was empty, I counted 46 in one day, this is very annoying. The buttons stick, mostly the answer button (it doesn't let me answer a call) but a few on the other keys stick as well. Battery life is rubbish, I am lucky if it lasts a day. I would not recommend this phone to anyone.

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Reviewer: Fletch - Glasgow, UK
Date: 18th Sep 2008

THIS IS the WORST PHONE I HAVE EVER HAD! The speaker in earpiece only worked for a month so every call I make or receive has to be put onto the loudspeaker.

It jams up all the time & the reception is dreadful. My girlfriend has the same phone & has had reception issues with it from day one. RUBBISH!

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Reviewer: Peter Everest - London, UK
Date: 18th Sep 2008

VERY POOR! It may look pretty good. It has most of the features you need. But it's NO GOOD. About as good as O2s customer service, which in my experience has been very poor (My local 02 store has been very helpful & understanding but the On Line Phone support & returns & repairs service has been appalling, slow, unhelpful, unsympathetic & inflexible.

I won't go on in detail about the problems I have had as they are pretty much echoing what has been said by others, locking up, weird sound, etc. As a consequence, I have spent nearly half my contract so far using a very basic loan phone!

I am very disappointed with Nokia (& with O2), & I'll repeat what someone else has said, with all the bad reviews & unsatisfied customers, why not allow people to return the faulty 6500 Slide handsets & agree to replace them with another model that is reliable.

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Reviewer: Rachel - Derby, UK
Date: 17th Sep 2008

DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE! After only 1 month it started to crash & turn off in the middle of typing a text, the sim card error constantly comes up & cannot get to my numbers, photo's, ringtones etc. It is slow when typing on the keys & you have to treat it like a bubble, don't apply too much pressure or it will break! Also the battery is not very good for a Nokia, I have to recharge mine every day or two.

I contacted Orange & Carphone Warehouse & was told it did have a software fault, so one would assume easily sorted? Well NO, another month same thing & now am 7 months down the line & have given up & got a good old faithful Samsung instead.

It does have good features but if you are mainly a caller & texter this IS NOT the phone for you.

Other People I know have the Nokia classic 6500 & they say it is fine so would recommend to have that as an alternative.

Hope this is helpful in your search for a phone.

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Reviewer: Fiona - Belfast, UK
Date: 15th Sep 2008

Absolutely terrible! Words can't describe it! Switches off mid conversation, freezes if you miss a call therefore you never know who has called you, freezes when you receive a text message, never tells you if you have a voice mail, when you switch it on it ytakes around half an hour to warm up before you can access contacts or text message settings. Loses your contacts randomly. As I said worse phone ever! Should have been recalled.

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Reviewer: Digby Koe - London, UK
Date: 14th Sep 2008

I HAVE NOW GONE THROUGH FOUR OF THESE PHONES ON MY CONTRACT. EVERYONE I HAVE HAS HAD ERROR RELATED TO the KEYS. IT'S MORE ANNOYING THAN I CAN GIVE CREDIT FOR. The PHONE STARTS OFF WITH A FEW BASIC FAULTS & GETS WORSE. The MOST LAUGHABLE POINT, YOU HAVE TO SQUEEZE the BACK OF the PHONE TOGETHER TO GET the MEMORY CARD TO WORK. Awful PLEASE DO NOT BUY ONE.

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Reviewer: Bernard - Kirkham, UK
Date: 12th Sep 2008

Had this phone for some time & it's the best but you have got to ensure that the back fits properly! As a previous reviewer (Chris July 31) said if you have got a gap down one side take the back off curve it slightly until the gap is closed. It seems to me that some people need to take more care of their phone it is not a toy!

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Reviewer: Kk - Singapore
Date: 12th Sep 2008

This is a generally nice phone, with 3.2 Megapixels camera with dual LED which is bright enough to light up a room temporary, the user interface is simple, as with many Nokia models, have quite a fair bit of hot keys, it had also nice graphics & the included games are cool & fun too, ranging from IQ types such as High roller Casino to adventure types such as Snake 3, the applications are also cool except data wasting & the generally appearance is good also.

However, there are flaws to this phone too.

- the screen is very fragile & prone to cracks & the entire body is scratched after some time.

- Media player tends to go white when some button is pressed & it restarts the phone, it is not a big problem as you could access the video after 10 seconds.

- Lock buttons tend to hang but restarting the phone helps a lot.

Overall it is worth purchasing this phone but a N73 maybe better to some.

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Reviewer: Caroline - UK
Date: 11th Sep 2008

This phone is rubbish I have had mine for 2 months my husband has had his for 3 weeks & his is rubbish also my sisters is rubbish. These phones should be re called. I am so fed up as we have to put up with these for 12 months & mobile 3 will not do anything to help.

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Reviewer: Vic Ford - UK
Date: 10th Sep 2008

What is the point of this phone Nokia? I Have had this phone for two months, it has frozen several times, cut off calls, keypad buttons do not always respond, battery life is poor (not very energy efficient having to recharge your phone every 2 to 3 days) I sent this phone back & it was returned with a new problem, calls sounded like they were in a tin can full of hissing cats, so back again my phone is sent.

So Nokia, with all the poor reviews on this phone, do the honourable thing to the people that are being loyal to your brand, give everyone a replacement with one that works properly.

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Reviewer: Tara - Southampton, UK
Date: 10th Sep 2008

I've had this phone for four months. After 2 months it started freezing, switching itself off midway phone calls & the battery was lasting about an hour. I had to get a part for it. & that was when it was only 2 months old. Even now, 2 months on, random contacts seem to delete themselves & sometimes the keys are still unresponsive.

It's a nice looking phone & a good design. But this is the phone that has made me wary of all Nokia's from now on & this I never thought I'd say. I'll consider very carefully before buying another Nokia.

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Reviewer: Tracy - Pontefract, UK
Date: 9th Sep 2008

First phone lasted 4 months before it started freezing & switching itself off. Since then had 3 replacements, all with same faults. Don't buy it, looks good but the worst Nokia for faults I've ever had. Have now arranged 5610 to be sent in exchange.

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Reviewer: Worboyz - UK
Date: 8th Sep 2008

This phone is great it's so easy to use. The music player is amazing as the speaker is very loud. This phone is a little heavy but it is stainless steel. The reason why the phone changes back to the Nokia tune is when it gets knocked or dropped. When you drop it it wobbles out of place. The battery could be better too.

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Reviewer: David - Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Date: 8th Sep 2008

My 6500 slide in silver has just DIED after only four months! It started to freeze & power off occasionally a few weeks ago, then it was fine again, beware this could be a sign! No way of getting the phone book backed up now, never mind anything else. A replacement is due tomorrow from Orange, but this doesn't help someone that needs a reliable working phone to do their job. I can't recommend this phone. Great looks & appears to be robust, but who can afford to be left without such an important tool of their trade in business? Can anyone recommend a reliable alternative?

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Reviewer: Steve Taylor - Sunderland, UK
Date: 6th Sep 2008

Worst phone I have ever had, total waste of time. Don't take one on contract, you will regret it. Promise.

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Reviewer: Gemma - London, UK
Date: 5th Sep 2008

AWFUL! I've had nothing but problems with this phone. It freezes, unlocks itself, loses the wallpaper, randomly loses coverage, blocks my contacts & message inbox & cuts out during phone calls! DO NOT BUY IT!

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Reviewer: Fran - UK
Date: 5th Sep 2008

I can't believe that Nokia haven't recalled this phone.

At first I loved this phone. Then my phone, started going wrong by reverting back to the Nokia ringtone, which was very annoying. Then my mute (silent) button stopped working. Then the screen started going blank (white) halfway through texting, this was the last straw as I only had the phone 6 weeks. I know about 5 other people with this phone & they have all had the same problems.

Please do not buy this phone!

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Reviewer: Sarah Dawes - Dudley, UK
Date: 4th Sep 2008

This phone is TOTALLY terrible! I am actually on my fourth phone having sent it back for poor signal, keep turning off by itself, phone freezes, not accepting my memory card, losing contacts, dropping calls, deleting all software off the phone when I only wanted to delete some text messages etc, etc. The list is actually endless & I would totally not recommend this phone to anyone. If you buy it after reading this then your crazy!

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Reviewer: Trevor Morriss - Blackpool, UK
Date: 4th Sep 2008

I have had my 6500 since June had all the problems that everyone has said, 2 weeks ago I got the Internet max on it for £5 per month & its rubbish I cannot hardly do anything on it I go onto sites & it just freezes & trying to log on to anything like dating sites, it just says no response or file unknown & since having the net it won't let me play my games says file unknown, I feel for everyone else that has had all the same problems.

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Reviewer: Craig - South Shields, UK
Date: 4th Sep 2008

I think this is a cool phone got everything on I need well done Nokia.

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Reviewer: Clare Foulkes - Southampton, UK
Date: 2nd Sep 2008

This is the worst phone I have ever had it is constantly freezing & very poor reception it takes ages to send & receive messages & forget predictive text messaging. I have lost count of the number of times the phone just does its own thing I.e. Sending messages when you hit the spell button or saving them to drafts mid way through a message. I am going to complain to Nokia direct as it would appear that many other people are experiencing the same problems! My advice would be to stay as far away from this phone as possible.

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Reviewer: Omoleye - Lagos, Nigeria
Date: 1st Sep 2008

Honestly I am really disappointed reading user's views, I saw the phone & I fell in love with it, I bought it last week & the only problem I suspected & confirmed now is the battery lifespan, I charge it almost every day which is not too good in fact battery problem has never been the issue with Nokia phones so I am so surprised. I wish I never read this because everything just went cold with the phone.

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Reviewer: Natalie - UK
Date: 31st Aug 2008

Is everybody here having problems with a BLACK Nokia 6500, or do both colours have problems? the reason I am asking is that somebody told me that it only comes as silver, & the black one is the one with problems, is this true?

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Reviewer: Lauren - Sydney, Australia
Date: 30th Aug 2008

As I read all the reviews that have been written I sit here & wonder, why haven't I had any problems with mine, it does go back to the original screen saver etc if you are using pictures or ringtones off the memory card though. It works great, love its compact design, the only problem I had is when I dropped it in water. Stopped working, tried to dry it out but still no go. I brought another one & still no problems.

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Reviewer: Sparkys - Wakefield, UK
Date: 30th Aug 2008

This phone constantly reverts to the Nokia ringtone which is really frustrating. This phone itself might be particularly faulty as it does not always show the memory card facility I inserted without constant fiddling with the phone. Then it saves pictures to the phone memory which have to be manually moved to the memory card. Annoying & time consuming, as this quickly fills the phone memory up. Too easy to switch to other facilities when using in normal phone mode. Sometimes find hard to switch to video mode hence lots of videos not recorded. Gets slow when text messaging, text slow to catch up, hence lots of spelling mistakes, particularly if a lot of incoming & outgoing messages stored. Seem to need to charge it every other day too. All in all, not great at all.

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Reviewer: Shelley - Ipswich, UK
Date: 29th Aug 2008

I loved this phone when I first got it & it's still a great looking phone. However, I am now experiencing most of the problems that everyone else is having.

- Its slow. It can't keep up with me whilst texting (I am not that quick) & so you have to constantly keep going back to correct stuff.
- You could use it to start a fire after a 10 minute call, why does it get so hot?
- It switches the camera on by itself even if it's locked.
- I've managed to sort it resetting the ringtone by moving the tone I want to the phone memory but that's not ideal either as it can use quite a bit of memory.

All in all, this has been a disappointing phone for me. I have always had Nokia's & even encouraged others to buy them. I am stuck with this till next June but I will be choosier next time & not just depend on the Nokia brand for reliability.

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Reviewer: Mat - Cheshire, UK
Date: 29th Aug 2008

Well first thoughts are good, looks good nice weighty feel & good though hold, However a few days in & problems arose.

Firstly the back that comes off is so annoying it takes nearly ten minutes just to clip it back on, Reception is really poor & the best is saved until last, now I am not one to moan but this phone has driven me crazy, Slide up equals either a trippy display or black screen & even an upside down display! I swear I am going to smash it if keeps doing it!

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Reviewer: Helen - Darlington, UK
Date: 28th Aug 2008

Very poor phone, although it looks nice. The signal keeps dropping, messages don't send, & my ringtones & message alerts keep resetting to default. It keeps losing the memory card option. I've just ordered an N82 so hoping that this is better than the 6500 slide.

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Reviewer: Hazel Macdougall - Midlothian, UK
Date: 27th Aug 2008

I can find nothing at all good to say about this phone and was advised to take this phone on an 18 month contract BIG MISTAKE. The phone keeps freezing and the signal keeps going so the phone is actually USELESS. Unfortunately the contract does not allow any cancellation so I am stuck with this for the next 18 months. STAY AWAY FROM THIS MODEL or if not you do so at your own peril. Thankfully I have held onto my Sony Ericsson. Another thing there isn't even a phone cover which is practical to use with it.

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Reviewer: Kate - Liverpool, UK
Date: 26th Aug 2008

At first I loved this phone, I think it looks great & is really easy to use. However I am now on my second one & can't wait to change it.

My first one worked fine, except it kept switching back to the default ringtones, wallpaper etc. (TIP! I found that it will only keep an image as your wallpaper if it saved on the phone memory, if it's on a memory card it will keep changing it). Then after a couple of weeks I found that when I was making calls, after a few minutes it would cut out, & although I could hear the other person, they couldn't hear me, not a useful feature in a phone! So I sent it back to 02 who replaced it with a refurbished model.

This one didn't have any problems making calls, but again keeps defaulting back to original settings, will freeze, switch off, forget all my contact details & is generally really slow, it can't keep up when I type text messages & crashes completely.

This is the first Nokia I've ever had which has caused me trouble, I've yet to read a review where someone didn't have problems with it. I'd definitely buy another Nokia, but steer clear of this model!

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Reviewer: Nick - Bermuda
Date: 26th Aug 2008

Very disappointed at the comments I see here.

I bought a slide & it will not hold its charge, despite buying a new battery. Since this is an unlocked phone, I purchased it at full price, US 700. Now the company I bought it from said they can change the motherboard but that's it. Do I have any recourse to Nokia. Looking at all the problems here, this phone should be replaced by the manufacturer or the seller free of charge if the problems continue. In fact given the problems I see here, this phone clearly was defective & was released despite this fact. Wish me luck with Axiom.

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Reviewer: Me - Australia
Date: 24th Aug 2008

Had this phone for about 6 months & have constantly experienced it freezing up & being very slow. It also cannot deal with any temperature changes. I went to the snow recently & due to the minor cold conditions, the phone's right hand side buttons are screwed. The end button does not work, pressing 6 comes up with 64 & likewise with 9 showing 97.

It's a nice looking phone but has many issues.

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Reviewer: Faye - Singapore
Date: 23rd Aug 2008

I saw this phone & I thought it was great but now I`m having second thoughts after reading the reviews. Can someone tell me which is better? 6500 slide or 7390? Thanks.

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Reviewer: Jignesh - Ilford, UK
Date: 18th Aug 2008

Worst phone ever. My girl friend has just brought this phone & I cannot get through to her most of the time. It goes to voice mail without ringing even though she has full reception! Text don't leave the phone's outbox for hours. She has gone back to her old Nokia & no problems whatsoever.

I advise you don't take the chance with this rubbish phone!

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Reviewer: Joanne - Lichfield, UK
Date: 15th Aug 2008

DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE IT IS APPALLING! The best place for this phone is in the BIN!

I am on my second phone through Orange. I have now been waiting for 4 weeks for Orange to sort my phone out, they will not replace it as there is now a known fault with this phone, & they are waiting for Nokia to sort the problem.

I use to think that Nokia phones were the best, but how wrong I was.

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Reviewer: Danielle - London, UK
Date: 14th Aug 2008

Nice design, quite nice features, but after two weeks I had to send it back to T Mobile. The Web & Walk dedicated button would not connect. On contacting their specialist support team, they informed me that it this is a problem with this phone that they have only just become aware of, & there is no software fix, great.

This phone also gets incredibly hot within minutes of your conversation, which does not seem right to me. The phone also kept defaulting to the Nokia ring tone & losing my chosen wallpaper.

T Mobile were excellent I have to say, & I was able to return this phone & then choose a different one, gone for the N95! Hoping this is better, if not, that will go back to!

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Reviewer: Rebecca - UK
Date: 14th Aug 2008

I had this phone as the best of 3 choices when my last model was discontinued due to faults. Have had problems similar to everyone else, keeps defaulting to original settings, screen wobbles then blacks out, problems switching off, turns itself off at random, camera on when I take it out of my bag despite key lock being on. I have sent it back for a replacement but I am not holding out much hope as I had 3 replacements for my last one before it was discontinued due to the faults. Never had problems with Nokia before but if I'd had the choice I would not have picked this phone. It's chunky, not particularly attractive (I have the plain black model) & doesn't work properly. I have also found battery life not particularly good either. Total disappointment.

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Reviewer: Steve - Australia
Date: 14th Aug 2008

I have had this phone for seven months now & suddenly the speaker has broken. Every time I talk to someone on the phone it sounds fuzzy. The loudspeaker works fine. What should I do?

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Reviewer: M Ibrahim - London, UK
Date: 13th Aug 2008

This is a good looking phone but it is very slow & it freezes & it does not have enough phone memory, so I recommend you do not buy it.

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Reviewer: Sandy - UK
Date: 12th Aug 2008

Sorry Nokia but this is the worst Nokia phone I have ever had & I have had about 10 so far. It shuts itself down, jams (trying to switch it off doesn't work, the only way out of this is taking the battery out & putting in back in). The key pad is tricky on the 1, 2 & 3. I must admit that the camera is excellent though & I do like the slide facility but I do think that Nokia are trying to put too many features on a phone without thinking about the infrastructural. The battery life is very unpredictable also.

Try again Nokia & get it right or I think you will be losing many customers through lack of the basic needs of your customers.

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Reviewer: Sharron - Lichfield, UK
Date: 11th Aug 2008

Well, I think it looks solid, it has a smooth slide action, & doesn't feel flimsy, cheap & plasticy like so many phones now. It's straightforward to use, & I've been pleased for the most part.

I've had mine since December 2007, Bluetooth is dodgy on mine. It doesn't always like linking up with audio devices, & has a mind of its own, & will disconnect itself from devices, if I can even link them in the first place.

It doesn't have touch sensitive keys so you do have to press them quite firmly. That said, I often pull it out of my bag & find it in camera mode. That's really the only other niggle, other than the fact it will occasionally revert to Nokia ringtone for no apparent reason (I understand downloaded ringtones should be saved to phone memory & not the memory card which alleviates the problem).

I find the battery life fine, but then I tend to charge phones most nights anyway & I use it a lot. It's never got hot & I've spent ages chatting, but then I don't have hot hands, which will warm up metal more than plastic.

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Reviewer: Ian Mc Laughlin - Llanelian, UK
Date: 11th Aug 2008

How do you open to gain access to battery?

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Reviewer: Anon - UK
Date: 10th Aug 2008

I have already written a review for this phone when I first got it & I am now amending my initial views. I do still like the phone but the battery life is absolutely rubbish & I have to charge it up every other day which is very annoying. It is also quite slow & freezes all the time which is annoying when you are in a hurry. Good camera & design but the battery life ruins it.

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Reviewer: Claire - UK
Date: 10th Aug 2008

This is the best phone ever. It's so user friendly. I, too, had problems with the battery, so I bought a spare one, & I charged that for over 12 hours, & I have had NO problems with the length of time with it. It will last between 3 to 4 days which is brilliant. Nokia phones are the best.

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Reviewer: Parun - Haryana, India
Date: 10th Aug 2008

Sleek & SMART Phone at Best Price.

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Reviewer: Mark Hutchinson - Rotherham, UK
Date: 10th Aug 2008

If you are considering buying this phone stop, my phone is on the 3 mobile network. I have had it for 7 months, the network signal is dire. I spoke to a 3 mobile representative in Taiwan last night, I could not really understand what he was trying to say to me. I phoned to complain about the lack of coverage (first time I have managed to get through to them) they told me.

MR HUTCHINSON THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THIS MOBILE HANDSET, Nokia CURRENTLY HAVE NO KNOWN SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM. YOU MUST MOVE TO A BETTER SIGNAL AREA TO USE IT.

You can just tell that they are reading from script. I have been to Scotland & all over the UK with it with my work & it still does not work, the only time it has worked is when I went to Menorca. So I told the 3 operator that I wanted a new phone to replace this one.

MR HUTCHINSON WE CAN DO THAT FOR YOU ON THIS OCCASION WE HAVE A Nokia 6120 OR A 6500 CLASSIC TO CHOOSE FROM,

I asked him if this was equal to the same spec as my 6500 slide, he said yes. How do we go about swapping the phones then?

MR HUTCHINSON WE DO NOT HAVE ANY OF THESE PHONES IN STOCK & WE DO NOT KNOW WHEN WE WILL BE GETTING THEM BACK IN STOCK, PLEASE PHONE BACK AT A LATER DATE TO FIND OUT STOCK LEVELS PLEASE.

I have heard enough. Click I put down the phone.

I have found out since that the other 2 phones that he offered are not of the same spec as my 6500 slide, going into the shop today to get this sorted out, I don't care if it takes all day. So Nokia 6500 slide review, the phone is good when it works, nice solid feel to it, looks stunning.

Bad points, poor signal not even 1 bar for me just a G with a slash through it. Software problems are starting to appear now slide feature locks up the phone & it freezes. It has also stated to freeze when scrolling menus. White screen sometimes.

Overall, stunning phone let down by bad software & firmware Nokia sort it out.

P.S I was also told that part of the reason that the signal is so bad is because the Ariel is in the base of the phone & it gets obscured by your hand when you make a call.

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Reviewer: Connor - Scotland, UK
Date: 8th Aug 2008

I got the Nokia 6500 slide colour black it is the best phone I ever had colour black is a cool design cool & great usability. If you like music this is the phone for you. Camera is amazing, texting is great & loud speaker is great. If you get the Nokia 6500 slide make sure you put the phone on & let the battery run out & then charge it for an hour or two & it shall last for 2 or 3 days but if you keep your Bluetooth on all the time your battery will run out faster well done Nokia.

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Reviewer: Luke - US
Date: 7th Aug 2008

On my second one after my first stopped working completely, crashing turning off & all the malarkey. The tones etc reset because of a small piece of metal that comes of the back plate which pushes a switch which tells the device whether the memory card is connected or not so the problems with resetting is due to lose back panels. If you want your wallpapers etc to stay the same then move the files which are employed as your ringtones, message tone etc to the phones memory & this should sort the problem.

As said I am on my second phone & it has already begun to act up, switching off randomly after about 3 weeks use, the battery is also lot better if you go into the settings & turn off the 3G reception, turn on power saver mode & put it in active standby.

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Reviewer: Jamie - London, UK
Date: 6th Aug 2008

Replacement phone arrived today, after I sent back the first handset due to the fact that it would just not turn on anymore, & that it had been freezing & crashing constantly & not being able to read my memory card.

I turn on the new phone, & hey presto, already a problem, memory card not being picked up at all, & has already crashed & reset itself. I have literally had this phone on for one hour & it's being sent back to Orange tomorrow.

What a shame, the phone is fantastic looking, but once again, Nokia have rushed a phone into production without making sure it works in all aspects. They should take a leaf out of Sony Ericsson's book in this department.

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Reviewer: Geoff - UK
Date: 5th Aug 2008

Battery life useless, loses wallpaper images. I have to continually reload, & it does get hot.

I've hardly scratched the surface of its facilities, so it's particularly disappointing. Anyone needing to use the phone a lot would have problems I think.

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Reviewer: Shabs - London, UK
Date: 5th Aug 2008

I upgraded with 3 a month early & this was the best out of the phones they were offering (or so I thought) I had it 19 days working fine & then all of a sudden one morning I have got no network signal. Been talking to 3 for so long but the best they will do is replace it for a 6500 classic or 6210 don't like any of those as I did not choose those at the beginning if that was the phone I was going to get I would have gone elsewhere 3 & Nokia rubbish.

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Reviewer: Mick - UK
Date: 4th Aug 2008

This phone would be a really fantastic bit of kit if all the features worked properly. BUT THEY DON'T. I've had my original handset replaced due to all the faults listed by previous reviewers & the replacement is just as bad, if not worse. My son has one too & his is just as bad. O2 just tell me that they know of the faults but can only offer me another replacement of the same model. I don't want another one & I would not wish one upon anyone unless Nokia sort out all the problems, then I would recommend it everyone. DON'T BUY ONE OR ACCEPT ONE AS A GIFT. YOU WILL REGRET IT.

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Reviewer: Natalie - Essex, UK
Date: 4th Aug 2008

I have had this phone for about 1 month, loved the phone at first easy to use looks good etc, now I hate it, it keeps on freezing & it's so annoying having to keep changing your ringtone & wallpaper when it goes to default not going to keep swapping it to phone memory what is the point of the memory cards.

I have problems when making phone calls with crackly noises which is really annoying as my calls cut off.

The signal is also terrible on this phone compared to my other phones.

I thought Nokia's were reliable phones wish I never wasted my money.

Going back to Sony now much better.

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Reviewer: Billy - Leamington Spa, UK
Date: 3rd Aug 2008

I am currently on my 5th 6500! As I am on contract the Phone has been replaced because of so many software faults.

The faults are too many to list but basically freezing up & reverting back to factory settings. I have 5 Phones in Approximately 4 months! But fingers crossed I have had my latest one for over a month with no faults yet.

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Reviewer: Wendy Smith - UK
Date: 2nd Aug 2008

Give me strength! This phone is absolute garbage. I can put up with a lot of things in life & it takes a lot for me to explode but this phone has released that in me.

Battery is nonexistent. When you've finished a call the handset is read hot even after just a couple of minutes. Constantly freezes whilst sending texts. Keypad consistently not working so cannot pick up calls or answer messages. Too many points to list to be honest.

Word of advice. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE SAVE YOUR MONEY & GO TO A PHONEBOX!

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Reviewer: Steve - Wales, UK
Date: 2nd Aug 2008

Steve Ralph, I am with you mate.

I wonder how many of the users realise the SD card fits under the metal gate to hold it in, hmmm. (This may stop the card from moving by the way).

I had this phone for 6 days with no problems at all. I've been Bluetoothing quite a lot & battery still lasted 4 days.

I had the 6280 & 6288 before this so the menu's on 6500 weren't a problem.

It makes me laugh when people say I dropped the phone & now it don't work.

This is a nice phone, good size, weight & shape & not a bad price for me as a long standing member on 3 contract, £15.00pm for 750 minutes, lovely jubbly.

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Reviewer: Pinki - Belfast, UK
Date: 1st Aug 2008

I was reading the reviews but may have missed something very important. Memory cards. This seems to be a mine field. I got a Kingston 4GB SDHC but the phone says the card is not formatted & I cannot find out how to do it. I have searched the web & read tips but they do not work for me. I reinstalled the latest patch but this did not help.

Customer support (misnomer) website looking for help. A mobile phone company you cannot phone, eh. Hello. My life is too short & precious to be going through all these hoops. Venting anger here!

Design, Nice design though a bit top heavy when extended. Top keys feel a bit too far from the rest.

Features, A Coming from the 6630 Smartphone to this was like stepping back in time. Its saving features are the camera & the music player.

Usability (so low because of memory card problem).

Lack of software for the Symbian 40 OS compared to the Symbian 60 OS of the 6630 is very restrictive. I was going to use it as an MP3 player in the car but since I can't get the memory card to work its function will be as a paperweight or flog it on eBay.

Sadly this is not what I would have expected from Nokia. I have been using their phones for many years but next upgrade time I will be shopping around!

Please if you have solved the memory problem, please let me know how, thank you.

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Reviewer: Miah Mccullagh - UK
Date: 31st Jul 2008

Worst phone I have ever purchased. It has been replaced on two occasions, firstly the keypad lost it sensitivity. Second time it failed to read the memory card thus returning to the Nokia tune (hate it). I am afraid I will be returning to a more reputable make once the contact expires.

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Reviewer: Chris - Norwich, UK
Date: 31st Jul 2008

FAULTY BACK! The back didn't fit properly on mine, seems like this is a common fault & causes most of the problems people have been reporting, the loose back causes settings to be lost as the memory card disengages & also causes the phone to switch itself off as the battery is not held in place properly.

This was really annoying me so I just took the back off & gently bent the stainless steel (very slightly to account for the annoying 1mm gap on one side! ) Now it fits PERFECTLY & I am really happy with the phone. Great interface, camera is pretty decent, music player seems good too. Shouldn't really have to be bending the metal casing to get the thing to work properly & you'd expect better build quality from Nokia but honestly, if you find this problem on yours just do what I did & all the problems are solved!

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Reviewer: Sam - Aylesbury, UK
Date: 31st Jul 2008

Well Well, This phone is rubbish! Where do I start? Phone sticks all the time. It gets very hot. The phone resets it self about 2 times a day. The list goes on & on, I have sent it back 3 times & I have just kicked off & getting a new model sent out on wednesday, DO NOT get his phone!

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Reviewer: Lorna - Plymouth, UK
Date: 30th Jul 2008

Can't stand the fact that it CONSTANTLY resets to default Nokia tune!

It happened on my first mobile so sent off for a new one & it still does it!

I can't stand it! Will be switching it for the N95.

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Reviewer: Rich - Oxford, UK
Date: 30th Jul 2008

The only real issue I have is the battery life, it only lasts about 48 hours on standby which is disgraceful considering Nokia state it will last 320 hours!

This is a massive problem for me as I can't always get access to mains power, which brings me onto another point, why, WHY can't you charge this phone via USB?

I've read elsewhere that changing the battery from the Li Poly to the older Li Ion is a good idea, anyone tried it?

Oh, & it does get really, REALLY hot during calls. Which is a bit worrying!

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Reviewer: Becky - Esher, UK
Date: 29th Jul 2008

Totally Fabulous phone! So easy to use, usual Nokia set up & menu look & feel.

Easy to install software on PC easy to use too, love the fact that this phone actually comes with the USB lead & a RGB lead to connect to TV to look at the pictures that you've taken.

Bought this on PAYG from 3 as my previous phone on contract gave up the ghost but best £149 I've ever spent on a phone!

Nokia is so much better than any other brand (& I've had loads)!

It looks stylish with a great selection of ringtones. I LOVE Nokia 6500s!

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Reviewer: Steve Ralph - Portsmouth, UK
Date: 27th Jul 2008

Got this from 3 on contract. Phone is a good weight, screen a good size & good definition. The galaxy screensaver is wonderful. Download times are fine & fast. It's got a good loudspeaker & good radio reception. SD card insertion can be very fiddly. Can only assume that people who say the back won't fit properly were those who didn't find the secret switch on top! For those whose budget won't run to a N95 this is the next best Nokia. Ignore the detractors this is a nice solid phone with a great camera.

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Reviewer: Sajitha - Mumbai, India
Date: 26th Jul 2008

I have seen the phone & really like this phone to look at but before buying I have to know in detail, how much it can satisfy me in making calls.

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Reviewer: Kiesha - UK
Date: 26th Jul 2008

I am sorry but this phone is absolutely despicable. First few weeks it was great, easy to use, nice layout, excellent camera & video.

NOW. It freezes & won't unlock (have to take battery out to restart). Always goes back to default setting GRRR to Nokia ringtone. If you bang the phone or put it down to hard the wallpaper drops & it cuts out when you're on the phone, it gets hot. Battery is rubbish will be on the phone for 15 minutes & half the battery is gone.

If you're setting is not on standby mode the battery last like 4 hours.
Sent it off twice already. Got it till next July I am not a happy customer.

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Reviewer: Faisal - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Date: 24th Jul 2008

I love this phone a lot but I am unable to buy it. Because it is out of my price range. My bad luck.

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Reviewer: Kelly - Chelmsford, UK
Date: 23rd Jul 2008

I completely agree that this is a terrible phone. I always stick to Nokia's & to say I am disappointed with this model, is an understatement!

I have experienced most of the faults people have listed below, the casing not fitting correctly, ring & text tones changing on their own, rubbish reception, not being able to text or make calls for no particular reason & the battery life is very poor.

I think I'll be visiting the store at the weekend to get it mended or a replacement phone, I can't put up with this anymore!

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Reviewer: Louise Townend - UK
Date: 23rd Jul 2008

OK. So I have given quite high marks for the design, features & usability & I am not lying when I marked these. Design & look is nice, you feel you have a phone in your hand & it won't break at the slightest knock! Features are fine, typical Nokia so if you have used Nokia before things don't really change a huge deal, hence the usability too, easy to use, simple Nokia menu pages. But. There's where it ends really. The battery life of this phone is terrible & extremely random. Sometimes it will go for 3 to 4 days MAXIMUM but then other times it will last half a day if I am lucky. I can have half battery life then within an hour it's dead. I am not a heavy mobile user, maybe 2 to 3 texts a day & occasional call but that's all.

But in all honesty, is any phone got great battery life anymore? I give up trying to find one! Sony Ericsson are OK but even my husband has problems with his w910i only lasting a day after a 14 hour charge switched off!

If your not bothered by charging your phone ALL the time then it's a nice phone, honestly, but if you can't be bothered to have a charger strapped to your hip 24 hours a day then I really wouldn't suggest this phone.

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Reviewer: Dan - UK
Date: 23rd Jul 2008

This phone is dreadful. I had no real problems with it for the first 6 weeks or so. Now the battery lasts for about 3 hours tops (on standby). The phone crashes part way through conversations, crashes during texting, & crashes randomly. A complete waste of money (Also, the reception is a lot worse than my previous Motorola phone).

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Reviewer: Tom - Melboune, Australia
Date: 23rd Jul 2008

Man I love this mobile I love the camera, the games man I love all the features. The down side is that it's so annoying to use. Just to play a song you have to push about 12 buttons. But otherwise I love the phone just not the usability.

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Reviewer: Ash - UK
Date: 22nd Jul 2008

Well, after being on the phone to three again for the third time again today, I am quite fuming.

To begin with this phone has a NUMBER of problems.
- Screen freezes & Turns off.
- Resets.
- Crashes.
- Often says NOT ALLOWED REBOOTING when trying to play music.
- Memory card is a nightmare.
- Most of the phone is actually made out of COATED COPPER. Only the back is made out of stainless steel.
- Nothing fits properly.
- Won't access gallery.

Three have sent me to a repair shop who stated that they DO NOT repair for three & never had. Three say they do. Three won't send out a replacement or a bag to send it back to them to get it repaired. In fact, there isn't much they will do. I guess I'll have to fork out the £100 to cancel the contract.

DO NOT TOUCH THIS PHONE WITH A TEN FOOT BARGE POLE.

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Reviewer: Rebecca Jones - Leeds, UK
Date: 22nd Jul 2008

It's rubbish don't buy one, never works.

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Reviewer: Rob - London, UK
Date: 22nd Jul 2008

Abysmal reception, pretty poor menus, poor ability to transfer numbers from SIM card & terrible battery life.

That I can't get reception in Canary Wharf tower is pretty shocking, & unlike most people on here I am on O2.

Not recommended, will be going back to Sony Ericsson ASAP.

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Reviewer: Lauren Elizabeth - UK
Date: 21st Jul 2008

I have had this phone now for over 6 months & in the beginning was the best phone I have ever had. The camera is amazing, the music player is good & can hold a lot of songs. However, I have now started seeing the faults many others on here have had, the phone freezes occasionally, constantly defaults to the Nokia settings, most of the time after I slide it down. Also the hash key doesn't work to silence the phone, didn't really bother me as I didn't really use it, but a fault none the less. VERY frustrating & disappointing. I am now returning this phone.

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Reviewer: Ash Wood - Colchester, UK
Date: 18th Jul 2008

There are so many bad reviews about this phone stating so many bugs & problems & frankly the only one I have noticed is the back cover not fitting properly when there is a memory card in, but at the end of the day, who cares. It does not stop the phone looking amazing, working or anything, it is purely aesthetic & really does not matter at all. I have always had Nokia's & had no problems with them & have found this the same, the battery doesn't seem to last a great deal of time but that could be to do with the fact that I spend a lot of time playing music through its nice, loud, clear speakers. I have had the phone for two weeks now & whether it is because it is new & is therefore & updated model I do not see how anyone could express such hatred for it as seen in these exaggerated reviews. Great phone, great buy.

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Reviewer: Jako - Notts, UK
Date: 18th Jul 2008

Very good phone so far, a bit heavy but worth it because it has a steel body.

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Reviewer: Jo Conway - UK
Date: 18th Jul 2008

The worst piece of junk ever. Had it for a couple of weeks, most of the applications didn't work (e.g. Calculator), battery lasted up to 20 hours. The day I decided to send it back to the shop the screen had smashed, just by carrying it in my handbag, just as I did with several phones before for years.

The manufacturer doesn't extend the warranty to the display so it's a couple of hundred of pounds down the drain. Thank you Nokia.

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Reviewer: Dave - Wakefield, UK
Date: 15th Jul 2008

This is the worst Nokia that I have ever owned, forever crashing. I must ask my son to return my Nokia 6288 which I gave him because I thought that I was upgrading & he can have this. Never had any problems with this ace phone

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Reviewer: Subhasis - India
Date: 15th Jul 2008

Hi, I have just brought the phone for 3 days ago but could not use it for 1 day.

Reasons & problem.

- the back cover does not fit properly. At one side it remains open for 1mm. As it have a metal body the case does not fit properly if there is a slight adjustment problem. If you try to write message fast you cannot give pressure properly.

- the main reason for this is the memory card area is not proper so the back cover does not fit properly.

- For the same reason the memory card remains loose & the phone some time does not recognize the memory card. This is why the setting changes to default.

- Not sure about the battery problem as not used it for 1 day. Sent it to dealer.

So if your lucky it is good but otherwise it is a waste of money & time.

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Reviewer: Susan Gordons - Brisbane, Australia
Date: 15th Jul 2008

This is by far the worst phone I have ever used. I have had it replaced because it died in the first week that I bought it. Just wouldn't start up again. It drops the wallpaper & screen savers all the time. Cuts out, puts itself on silent for not reason. Battery sometimes lasts a day sometimes half an hour. The replacement one I found out only has a one month warranty. Even though I had the first one for only a week. Go figure. It is as rubbish as the first.

This is the biggest pile of junk that I have ever owned. Nokia are bad for letting people buy them & then offering warranties on replacement phones. I am sure they are well aware of the pitfalls of this model.

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Reviewer: Andy - Paignton, UK
Date: 14th Jul 2008

I just want to add, the 6500 slide, TRAGIC & well done to 3 for convincing me that it was the way forward!

- the battery lasts 36 hours tops.

- the signal is dire! 3 says this is down to my location!

- It gets warm when I am in a call, both the ear piece & the back panel.

- It weighs too much (& that isn't down to the casing! ).

- It takes too much navigating to do anything.

My previous 2 phones have been Samsungs & I never had any problems with them. I want another one!

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Reviewer: Carla - Binfield , UK
Date: 14th Jul 2008

This was my first Nokia phone so I found it very hard to get to used to, it's not as easy as my past Sony Ericsson phone but after a week or so it became second nature.

I love to whole look & feel of the fine although the features are not as easy to use, but don't get me wrong it is a useable phone just not got the features where I expect them to be, guess its user error more than anything!

Wicked design.

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Reviewer: Nirjhar - Gujarat, India
Date: 14th Jul 2008

I just bought this phone. It is a nice one. Very much user friendly, the camera is also good. The flash is good.

Overall it's a nice mobile.

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Reviewer: Gemma - Birmingham, UK
Date: 14th Jul 2008

Looks great & good features & for four days I loved it, especially the fact when someone texts it flashes up on screen who it is. Then the phone started to freeze up when I tried to connect to Internet & the final straw was in the middle of a text conversation I stopped receiving texts & although it seemed to send, people were not getting my texts. I called Orange who sent a update to the phone which sorted it for half a hour but this kept happening. I would get 5 texts at a time & hours after people sent them! Orange said the new phones often do this due to all the new fancy things on them & I should turn it off more!

I got so fed up I sent it back & now have the N82, which so far is pretty good & has a far better camera too!

Avoid this phone. Yes looks great but seems to have a lot of bugs.

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Reviewer: Saumyaa - India
Date: 14th Jul 2008

Hey guys I guess you guys are having serious problems with your phone! It is one of the best phones available today! It is user friendly.

Yes the phone does reset settings but not all that often! The camera is great, the music is nice, the steel body just says it all!

The battery life is just tremendous it stays up to 6 hours definitely! I mean you can't have a phone which you use throughout the day, & then not even getting drained out!

It is a master piece created by Nokia, & it is the best phone I've ever used!

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Reviewer: Mk - UK
Date: 13th Jul 2008

WARNING. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE! This phone s rubbish had it for a few days & began freezing on me about 4 weeks in it died I charged it & it turned itself on & off several times before eventually stopping & is not turning back on Nokia man do something about it this phone is an actual disgrace.

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Reviewer: Charlie - London, UK
Date: 13th Jul 2008

Good news! For all those who have experienced the phone randomly switching from set ringtone to default, I have the solution! I was told that this model has a problem with the memory card slipping when the back of the handset is knocked SO. To stop it switching from your chosen tone to the Nokia one, save the tone you want to use as ringtone in the PHONE MEMORY & not the memory card. Problem solved!

I am about to take mine to get repaired as the phone is constantly turning itself off during calls & the signal (considering I live in the middle of London) is terrible, I have to virtually hang out of my window to make a call. To be honest, I very much doubt it will solve anything but once it's been repaired, I am going to use that as bartering with Three to let me change handset. When I asked three about the signal, I was told this model has much lower capabilities for signal than other phones, great thanks Three Mobile! Why sell it to me then!

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Reviewer: Richard - UK
Date: 12th Jul 2008

I like the design & the solid feel of the phone. It seems to do everything it's supposed to do, & I suspect a lot of complaints are due to users not having read the instruction book!

Would I buy another? NO! Its major drawback is that it is virtually impossible to read the screen in daylight. Its fine for an office worker, or a child in their bedroom, but for those of us who work out of doors it's a very poor device. Simply answering a call is the limit of its ability when the sun shines!

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Reviewer: David - Falmouth, UK
Date: 12th Jul 2008

OK I know that I am suffering with the scratches on the keypad that's due to the phone not aligning properly, also if you experience random crashes & resets its due to the terrible original factory firmware update to the latest firmware it does wonders for your phone I used to get crashes on text messages now I don't thank god for that.

Also one other thing, do not update your phone in windows XP this is where all the problems are arising for some strange reason XP disconnects the phone from the PC halfway through the update only ever do the update on windows vista.

Other than that good phone like it well worth the money & thank goodness its now behaving itself.

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Reviewer: Daine - South Africa
Date: 11th Jul 2008

I always had faith in Nokia but I purchased this phone & it's been nothing but trouble. The screen freezes from time to time & last night all the buttons stopped responding so now I am unable to do anything. It's a great phone but Nokia needs to sort these problems out.

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Reviewer: Anon - UK
Date: 11th Jul 2008

I have Nokia phones for years never ever had a problem until I upgraded to this 6500 slide, problems from day one.

Reception is bad. Have been in contact with 3 my phone was sent for repair. It was no better when it came back. So after many phone calls it went back again. When it came back they hadn't sent my battery back. Again 5 phone in the end I bought a battery myself. Still no improvement. Took the phone to London still no good. Then to Lincolnshire. Still the same.

Network 3's customer service is rubbish. I was told that Nokia have an issue with this phone regarding the reception. I have a contract phone that is useless. I would never recommend this phone to anyone. I too have other issue with it resetting its self. Please don't buy it.

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Reviewer: Michelle - Hartlepool, UK
Date: 10th Jul 2008

I got this phone a couple of months back. I had the same problem as everyone else (ringtones & wallpapers resetting every few hours). It was annoying me so I rang Orange & the lady I got through to recommended that I save whichever songs & photos I wanted to use for my ringtone & wallpaper in the phone memory instead of the memory card. So far so good I've had no other problems. Hopefully this will help everyone suffering with the same problem I had. Good luck.

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Reviewer: Peter Connor - UK
Date: 9th Jul 2008

I went back to trusty Nokia's with this phone only to find out it's the worst phone I've ever had! The screen freezes up, it turns its self off & on at least five times a day, it resets various settings, the battery lasts no more than a day & the most annoying thing of all is, it decided to stop recognising the memory card after two weeks so I lost everything on that & can't store anything again. Orange refuse to give me a new phone (I am on contract) so I am stuck with a useless phone for 17 months. Stay away!

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Reviewer: Dan Clarke - UK
Date: 9th Jul 2008

I have had this phone 6 months now & had two problems, one is that the memory card keeps disengaging which is really annoying when looking through photos on it & if you have a screensaver or wallpaper from it you lose them & it goes back to default.

The other problem is the ear piece microphone that is up the shoot & sounds like someone is talking to you through a paper bag, so overall not that impressed with it & wouldn't buy it again!

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Reviewer: Ali - Wirral, UK
Date: 9th Jul 2008

This phone looks very stylish, but that is about it. I have sent it back 3 times, & every time it's the same faults. Phone freezes, ringtones & pictures reset themselves, phone calls get cut off, buttons freeze, & the battery life is awful! It is most possibly the worst phone I've ever had, & as for the customer care from Orange that's even worse than the phone in my opinion. Would not recommend buying this phone!

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Reviewer: Subhra - Kolkata, India
Date: 9th Jul 2008

I have bought this phone just a few months back but it switched off while talking.

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Reviewer: Sally Parsons - Stroud, UK
Date: 8th Jul 2008

AMAZING phone I LOVE IT! Don't you all doubt it. Good work Nokia.

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Reviewer: Richard - London, UK
Date: 7th Jul 2008

I have had this phone 6 months now & really want to replace it due to the following problems.

- the red off button is huge & located at the bottom of the phone which means it is really difficult on 50% of occasions when it rings to extract the unit from a pocket without inadvertently switching off the call & therefore getting a missed call.

- Same problem exists with slider moving on extracting phone from pocket - it can move up & down accidentally thus switching on & off - again losing calls. This can be fixed by altering slider settings to only allow it to switch off manually (not through closing the slide)

- the ringtone randomly keeps defaulting to the Nokia tune (I have latest software update)

Shame because otherwise apart from its weight the phone has good function ability, battery life & signal strength but the first problem is causing me to miss around 50% of calls & expensively have to access voicemail.

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Reviewer: Cbarry - Belfast, Ireland
Date: 7th Jul 2008

Both my mother & I purchased this phone after recommendations from staff in 3 store, recommended for great MP3 player, memory upgrade & talk time.

Once phone arrived followed instructions & guess what it wouldn't hold a charge, I think I got 6 hours & then it went dead. Reported it to three & apparently it was because I had Bluetooth switched on. So after some negotiating they replaced the battery & charger & sent me on my way, but do not switch on Bluetooth, do not use MP3 player. Phone has also developed fault with locking itself & having to remove battery to reboot, it resets itself for no reason & all settings are factory originals, volume is really poor on loudspeaker; Bluetooth will not recognise other devices & MP3 player when it has been used, won't exit properly so still continues to play until you remove the battery.

1 week later, still no standby life on the battery, eventually got through to 3 technical help & guess what their opinion is with regard to the poor battery life, I am in a bad service area & every time the phone has to look for a stronger signal this wears out the battery! Load of rubbish as hubbie has a LG 3 payg phone & he can get up to 4-5 days without recharging. I am waiting for 3 to take the phone back for investigation & repair if required, but as far as they are concerned there is nothing wrong with the Nokia 6500 slide.

Do not buy this phone it is a real disappointment, as a diehard Nokia fan for the last 12 years that is hard to admit.

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Reviewer: Ashraf Al Saggaf - Madinah, Saudi Arabia
Date: 5th Jul 2008

I was so interested in the Sony Ericsson, this is my first Nokia phone. It's just a little difficult to use for me but in general it's really useful, it had a nice design for me, it has a really powerful sound but I've just a little problem because I don't have a real player in this phone but it's really wonderful one to have, believe me.

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Reviewer: Wibbs - Sheffield, UK
Date: 3rd Jul 2008

I've had this phone from Xmas & it is really good, apart from it freezes up, keypad locks up, have to restart it at least twice a day to top it off its just wiped my SIM card of all my numbers so I reinstalled firmware & it still has the same problems.

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Reviewer: Piyush - India
Date: 2nd Jul 2008

I bought the phone 15 days earlier. I'm facing the problem that the scratches are seen on the keypad because of sliding. The company is not ready to accept the problem.

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Reviewer: Rokas - Alytus, Lithuania
Date: 1st Jul 2008

It's very nice phone, very attractive, Not very very heavy & of course very solid. But why I wouldn't choose to buy this phone is that it has very limited features, I'm unable to decorate it as Sony Ericsson (system moding) it always looks the same. There are not very big assortment of themes & other stuff for this phone. It's cool but just for month or less.

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Reviewer: Vicky - Caerphilly, UK
Date: 30th Jun 2008

I have only had my phone for 4 months & I have a list as long as my arm of problems. It turns itself on & off, it crash's all the time Button's do not respond half of the time. Difficulty in ending & picking up calls It will not load from memory card most of the time it can't find the memory card. Problems sending texts Problems with taking Photo's resets its setting Battery life I don't know anyone who has one of these phone that works! Will never buy a Nokia phone again!

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Reviewer: Ali - London, UK
Date: 29th Jun 2008

This is the worst phone I have ever owned. I lasted with it for a week before taking it back to 3 & demanding they cancel my contract. Firstly, the battery is a joke. Without use it would last a day & a half, with use, I would have to charge it every day. It seemed to drop from half capacity to nothing in the space of ten minute call, too. When it died, it did it suddenly, without warning. The handset gets incredibly hot, even after short calls. It's also really heavy. I also experienced the problem of the ringtone randomly resetting to the Nokia tone. I also had problems with reception, despite working in central west London, the reception would often drop out completely for long periods. I guess this might be a problem with 3's reception generally though. I wouldn't use half the functionality on this phone anyway, so it's a bit dumb that the 3G can't be turned off (when on a 3 contract). Guess I should have read this forum thread before going out to get a contract. I wouldn't have touched this phone with a barge pole.

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Reviewer: Srinivas - Kuwait
Date: 28th Jun 2008

When I try to set the default memory as memory card, the phone automatically changes it back to phone memory. Has anybody else experienced this problem. What should I do? I bought it just a short while back.

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Reviewer: Anon - London, UK
Date: 28th Jun 2008

This phone is easy to use & is very good on everything.

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Reviewer: Shirley - UK
Date: 28th Jun 2008

Having previously had Motorola phones, I was reluctant to change to another manufacturer. The 6500 is an amazing phone that has all the features needed to make life easier for me. No more carrying around a MP3 player or camera anymore. Impressed with the camera, however, the radio reception is not clear when on the move. No problems heating up or slider sticking. Luck of the draw if you get help & advice can be found on the Nokia website.

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Reviewer: Susie - UK
Date: 27th Jun 2008

Been with Nokia for years all good phones but this one is exceptional! Great looking, easy to use, fabulous pictures, brilliant screen etc. Can't praise it high enough. No problems at all. Absolutely fabulous! LOVE IT. BEST PHONE YET.

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Reviewer: David - Sydney, Australia
Date: 27th Jun 2008

TERRIBLE PHONE Nokia'S STANDARDS HAVE TAKEN A BIG DIVE!

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Reviewer: Vicki - Newcastle, UK
Date: 26th Jun 2008

My phone has completely given up on me don't buy these things I have had nothing but trouble with mine, it is bad, big style!

It resets the settings. It turns itself off. It crash's all the time.

Now it won't load anything with or without the memory card & it won't stay turned on for any longer than 10 minutes.

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Reviewer: Paul - Essex, UK
Date: 24th Jun 2008

Think you're all having some bad luck! This phone is top notch! Battery lasts a good 2 to 3 days, even when making calls, checking emails & lots of texting.

The camera is stunning.

This phone feels so solid, reassuringly heavy & sturdy. Fed up of plastic Nokia's such as N90 & N93, relief to have a small, sturdy, stainless steel (rocks) wicked Nokia.

I thoroughly recommend this to everyone (on T mobile).

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Reviewer: Catherine Baker - Isleworth, UK
Date: 24th Jun 2008

Hi I use the phone at work & it is kept in a case, every time I go to answer the phone & get it out of the case it goes on to answer phone. I got it taken off of answer phone so now it just goes busy.

I have tried to set the phone to just answer when you slide it but it still does not work.

I have just received a replacement phone, I was told it was too late to change the phone, it has to go back to Orange 3 times before they will change it.

Will keep you updated!

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Reviewer: Alok - Bangalore, India
Date: 24th Jun 2008

I have bought this phone just a few months back but it switched off while talking, also I am trying to play a movie on this but not able to, no format is supporting.

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Reviewer: Bt - UK
Date: 23rd Jun 2008

It is the best phone ever the screen is bright & its looks are brilliant. Camera is great also, go buy it now!

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Reviewer: Alex - Burnley, UK
Date: 23rd Jun 2008

Before I could even use this phone I realised that part of the back wasn't screwed on properly, not a good start. After waiting another 5 days for a replacement everything looked fine, until a few days later when I realised the whole phone kept resetting because the back was coming off ever so slightly meaning all the tones & background etc had to be changed again.

Overall I can say that the phones aren't the quality you expect, but would be good if it worked for once.

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Reviewer: Sd - London, UK
Date: 22nd Jun 2008

I'VE BEEN LOYAL TO Nokia FOR MANY YEARS NOW AS MOST OF THEIR MODELS HAVE COMPRISED OF GOOD FEATURES & the USABILITY IS VERY SIMPLE. HOWEVER, THIS IS A REAL DISAPPOINTMENT, ENOUGH SO I KNOW I'LL BE GETTING A Sony Ericsson In the FUTURE, AFTER MANY RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FRIENDS & GENERALLY STRONG REVIEWS.

I'VE SENT THIS HANDSET BACK TWICE ONLY TO EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS WITH EACH ONE INCLUDING.

- FREEZING FREQUENTLY.
- GALLERY ACCESS FREEZES.
- MEMORY CARD DOES NOT WORK.
- BUTTONS DO NOT RESPOND.
- SHUTS ITSELF DOWN, HAVE TO REMOVE BATTERY TO START UP AGAIN.
- BATTERY LIFE VERY LOW.
- SLOW PROCESSING ACTIONS.
- DIFFICULTY ENDING CALLS AS BUTTONS DO NOT RESPOND.

ON the WHOLE, the MOST FRUSTRATING PHONE I'VE EVER HAD! GREAT LOOKING PHONE, WHICH HAD ENORMOUS POTENTIAL, THIS WILL HIT Nokia HARD & FROM the OTHER REVIEWS ON HERE, I SUSPECT the LACK OF CUSTOMER CARE WILL ONLY ADD FORCE TO THIS BLOW

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Reviewer: Grace - London, UK
Date: 21st Jun 2008

This phone isn't as outstanding as people make it seem, it has its faults. The thing I don't understand is the secondary camera, you can only use it for video calls, my contract doesn't include that, people hardly video call anyway, so it's pointless to me. If you touch the right hand side of the phone carefully, you'll notice it isn't smooth it has the top part of the slider slightly sticking out.

Besides these few irritations the phone is perfectly fine to me.

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Reviewer: Stephen - Australia
Date: 20th Jun 2008

I am now on my sixth in 7 months. It reboots in the middle of calls. & that's just the start of the grief. If this phone worked it'd be perfect, but it's a joke. You may get lucky, you may get very, very unlucky. As for Nokia Customer (we don't) Care. You'll waste hours of your life having people tell you that they understand the frustration, but can do nothing to help.

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Reviewer: Angela - Douglas, Isle Of Man, UK
Date: 19th Jun 2008

I have had my Nokia 6500 slide since Xmas 2007, at first I thought it was great, but the more I used it the more frustrated I got with it.

I agree with the comments made by Reviewer Sam Petterson from Durham, UK. It doesn't matter how often I change the ring tone after one or two incoming calls if diverts back to the Nokia tune!

Does anyone else have the same problem as me with the key pad & directional pad, when I try to unlock the phone it takes a few attempts.

The major problem I am having at the moment is I can put my pin number in but as I have locked the keypad & know the password, when I try to put the first letter in it comes with the incorrect code. How can it be after only one letter! SO ANGRY.

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Reviewer: Geoff - Trowbridge, UK
Date: 17th Jun 2008

I am sending phone back to 3 after less than 2 weeks. Battery going flat after one hour talking. Bluetooth not connecting. Poor sound quality. 3 are replacing it with a Sony Ericsson W660i (just inside the 14 days for replacing). If only I had seen these reviews before I got the Nokia.

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Reviewer: Alastair - London, UK
Date: 17th Jun 2008

This is without doubt the worst phone that I have ever had. I have had 2 of them now & the problems are exactly the same. The battery life is terrible, I barely goes 36 hours even on standby, & if I am making a call of any length I have to make sure I am by my charger so I can recharge it.

After a few hours the ringtone changes back to the standard Nokia tune, so you have to keep changing the settings back. On the first phone I couldn't get reception, but when I put the sim card back into my old trusty Sony Ericsson I had full reception. The reactions of the buttons are slow, & the favourites settings on the messages causes the entire phone to crash. The sim card is really hard to get in & out of the phone.

The volume buttons are really fiddly, & lots of the functions are tricky to use, especially sending & writing messages. Also Skype is not compatible with it, & it's really heavy. It doesn't even look nice, don't be fooled.

I would not recommend this phone to anyone, & I implore you not to put more money into Nokia's pockets by buying this awful phone.

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Reviewer: Christian - Napoli, Italy
Date: 17th Jun 2008

Very good phone, just bought it, does have some little problems like it does warm up a little, but that can be normal as it's a small compact phone.

The battery life is great, if it does need charging up every day, you've just not charged it right the first day. I have a master in science & technology & micro tech too. I know what the phone thinks.

Great phone, well done Nokia.

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Reviewer: Jaryd - South Africa
Date: 14th Jun 2008

It is a very good phone when you know how to use it properly. I just experienced a problem when writhing a message with predictive text & you use the buttons 846 on after each other in the same sentence the phone seems to reset, which I a bit of a problem.

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Reviewer: Anon - UK
Date: 12th Jun 2008

It has the looks, it has the features, but there's one thing it lacks. The ability to be used! Long story short, do NOT GET the DAMN PHONE!

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Reviewer: Sam Petterson - Durham, UK
Date: 12th Jun 2008

This phone is AWFUL, defaults back to original setting all the time about every 2 to 3 hours! Ringtone defaults, slide option defaults along with wallpaper, screen saver & message alert being the worst as I have it set to no tone alert yet it still alerts when a text comes through. 3 are not interested one bit, it's been away once for repair & is no better. 3 say it's a fault & they & Nokia are aware of it the phone is 8 weeks old & 3 say I have to wait 10 months to get a replacement, I AM VERY UNHAPPY!

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Reviewer: Liz - Channel Islands, UK
Date: 12th Jun 2008

In response to reviewer Julie from Trowbridge, UK.

I've had this problem too but have just discovered that when you have clicked on create message you just then highlight the to field & click on ADD, then just select your contact that way.

I love the phone & have only had one problem with it. The first day I was using it the screen froze completely. I happened to be near the shop I got it from so I popped in & asked. They just took the battery out, put it in again & the phone was fine. It hasn't happened since.

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Reviewer: Edulfing - UK
Date: 11th Jun 2008

I cannot believe how many reviews there are here that give this phone a good rating, have these people really used one every day? I had one but it broke & I managed to get a Sony Ericsson Z750i as a replacement. Up until I got the replacement I thought that the Nokia was pretty rubbish but now I know that it really is rubbish.

These are the faults that I found.
- the screen is too dim to read on a bright day outside (I live in the UK & we don't get a lot of those! ).
- the quality of the screen is inferior to the Sony Ericsson.
- the way it works is at times baffling, there are loads of settings with no explanation & menus with sub menus & then more menus.
- the PC software is riddled with bugs & seems almost as if it is a collection of parts that have been brought together from different places.
- the buttons are too small & fiddly.
- On mine the slider mechanism became slightly stiff almost as if there was dirt inside (but I have an office job & the phone was never in contact with any dirt).

Basically, I would say that if you are thinking of getting a Nokia because you have had them before & you are expecting them to be a good reliable brand then you should take a look at LG or Sony Ericsson because from what I've seen they now produce vastly superior phones.

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Reviewer: Lance - Belfast, UK
Date: 10th Jun 2008

Great mobile! No problems with it whatsoever but shall keep you posted. One thing I found to preserve the battery life is to lock the handset & then hit the red button. This puts the phone into standby mode. You should have no battery issues if you do this.

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Reviewer: Becky - UK
Date: 10th Jun 2008

I think this phone is great. It looks nice & is really easy to use. It's got good features & I use most of them. Good quality MP3 player & for a 3.2MP camera it is good quality. Good battery life (I only have to charge it every few days)

Julie, you can add someone to your favourites when sending a text, also contacts are easy to find in the recent recipients.

Also for someone who said they charged there battery for 12 hours. It is recommended that you don't charge it for longer than what is needed & also depending on how long you've had your phone will affect your battery life. Believe it or not but the battery life is always worse in the first few weeks then gets better until you've had it a while then the battery will go worse again.

Sorry not trying to be a know it all, its just I work at phones 4 you so I thought that might be useful information.

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Reviewer: Ian - Bideford, UK
Date: 10th Jun 2008

If you are having problems with connecting & recieving calls it is probably due to the phones inability to drop from a weak 3G signal to 2G. If you go to settings & change from dual band to GSM the phone will allow you to connect calls but obviously you cannot use 3G.

I have a 6630 & this 6500 & neither of them works properly. I have only had this problem for 3 weeks & have to assume that it's a mast problem locally as at my local phone shop it functions fine.

I have no network coverage, connection error or no hint of why it's not working but when I put the sim in my Wife's old phone its perfect.

Think twice about buying a phone to use in 3G mode if reliability is important.

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Reviewer: Paul - Maidenhead, UK
Date: 8th Jun 2008

A great looking phone with good features. Virtually doubles a camera when taking photos with the slider closed. Very big battery problems with short life & overheating. It seems that Nokia doesn't have a solution for this problem which I think is due to the phone constantly struggling to find & hold a network.

In the UK I haven't often had a problem making or receiving a call due to reception strength although I can see the number of signal bars varying all the time. When I tried to use it in France recently it was hopeless hunting around all the time for a network on automatic makes calls & texting impossible. On manual network selection It would take about 10 minutes to find a network (we are talking Paris here not the outback) & then only hold for about 5 minutes.

Do not buy this phone if you need it for roaming. Nokia or 3 un ably to fix problem & have replacement with a Nokia 6500 Classic or 6120 neither of which I like so I guess I will just stick with this phone despite its faults & use another abroad.

I wish Samsung would bring out a 3G version of my lovely D900.

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Reviewer: Aung Si Hein - Pyay, Myanmar
Date: 7th Jun 2008

BEST OF the BEST :P.

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Reviewer: Karen Adams - London, UK
Date: 7th Jun 2008

DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE. THERE IS A TECHINCAL PROBLEM & OTHER FRIENDS HAVE ALSO EXPERIENCED the SAME PROBLEM. The PHONE HEATS UP WHEN USING FOR ABOUT 10 MINUTES & THEN IT WILL COMPLETLEY SHUT DOWN. WE ARE ALL EXPERIENCING the SAME PROBLEMS & the MOBILE PHONE PROVIDERS WHO ARE REFUSING TO REPLACE the PHONE EVEN THOUGH IT HAS A 24 MONTH GUARANTEE. THEY ARE AWARE OF the PROBLEM BUT SAY the HEATING UP DOES NOT affect the PERFORMANCE OF the PHONE. I HAVE HAD TO CONTACT TRADING STANDARDS.

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Reviewer: Danny - Manchester, UK
Date: 5th Jun 2008

This phone is brilliant, better than my Walkman. It has great features although not as many as the Walkman (Even though you don't use half as many & most are pointless). It has a great camera, great layout & it's a great phone.

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Reviewer: Harry - Adelaide, Australia
Date: 3rd Jun 2008

I am using this mobile, this is really a very nice mobile. The camera is really good however huge problem of battery, I have to charge it every morning.

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Reviewer: Julie - Trowbridge, UK
Date: 3rd Jun 2008

I brought the phone last week. Is easy to use, MP3 is loud when played, it did freeze, battery life is good. Only thing I find is when you go to text & you want to add a person you have to go through your phonebook to find them or has anyone else found a simpler way? Just to think I was going buy the Nokia N95, I prefer this one.

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Reviewer: Jhgds - India
Date: 31st May 2008

GOOD Mobile PHONE.

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Reviewer: Graham - Reading, UK
Date: 31st May 2008

After having the countless problems with the N-Series, I tried the Nokia 6500 slide, it was fine for a week, then I stated to have problems with trying to connect calls. Now after 2 months it hangs up for no reason, it freeze's none stop, & decides to lock itself & not allow you to unlock it, without turning it off by removing the battery, the memory card never reads anymore, I've had to cellotape it in place to try & get it to read, which is only on a rare occasion. The video recording is short. The phone decides when it wants to put a name to the incoming calls & texts, & it's painfully slow.

It's completely put me off getting another Nokia in the future, tomorrow I am going to town to sort out a new phone so I can chuck the 6500 in the road & drive over it!

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Reviewer: Holz - UK
Date: 30th May 2008

I had this phone for a week before giving up on it & changing it for a Sony Ericsson K660. Here are the reasons why.

Let's get the good points out of the way first.
- Looks good.
- Menus & general phone features are easy to use.
- Large screen is great for Internet use.
- Good quality camera.

Now to the bad points.
- the battery life is AWFUL. I charged it up overnight to give it the full 12 hours. Within 12 hours the battery life was over half empty, & within 24 hours it was completely dead. This isn't because of excessive use of phone. I tried this cycle twice.
- Phone is quite heavy (I had the silver version which is heavier, I think, than the black version)
- Phone gets extremely hot when it's used, either when making phone calls or browsing the Internet & doesn't cool down for a considerable amount of time
- Phone turned itself off, which meant having to take the battery out, which re-set all settings to factory default. This happened twice which was a real pain.
- Signal kept dropping out completely (I am on 3, & even in London, which is great signal area, the signal was non-existent).
- the SIM card is extremely fiddly to fit (although this shouldn't be done that often so not a major problem) & remove. Also when removing the SIM, the same problem is encountered as noted in number 4.

It was a relief to get rid of this phone as I just didn't feel it was reliable, & I wasn't convinced that it would be working correctly if I needed to use it in an emergency. The K660 seems a much better phone for me, & is also free on the contract I am on.

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Reviewer: Nathan - Southampton, UK
Date: 30th May 2008

I've had this phone 2 months & it's the worst phone I have ever had in my life including the iPhone! It decides to turn off half way through a phone call & then freeze up so having to remove the battery! It really does have a mind of its own. I stayed away from Nokia's for years as I didn't think that they were user friendly until the 6500 slide came out I had a play with it & loved it so bye bye Sony Ericsson K810 & hello Nokia 6500 slide I wish I never bothered my K810 never once froze or let me down!

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Reviewer: The Eff - Birmingham, UK
Date: 30th May 2008

Phone is OK & works OK. Problem is there's a high pitch whistle which appears as soon as I hit the call button.

This is making the phone totally un useable & driving me mad!

This is the first phone in around 20 I've ever had to complain about!

After reading these reviews & along with my experience. DON'T BUY IT!

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Reviewer: Ricky Hayes - Mansfield, UK
Date: 29th May 2008

I HAVE BOUGHT ONE OF THESE PHONES & HAVE HAS IT FOR JUST OVER A MONTH & IT HAS CAUSED ME NOTHING BUT TROUBLE IT HAS BROKEN 4 TIMES IN ONE MONTH & I HAVE HAS TO REPLACE the HANDSET.

I am NOT SAYING don't BUY ONE BECAUSE IT IS JUST MY BAD LUCK TO GET ONE LIKE THAT, IF YOU DO BUY ONE I THINK YOU WILL BE VERY IMPRESSED WITH IT. The MUSIC VOLUME IS VERY LOUD, LOUDER THAN MY FRIENDS Sony Walkman PHONE & the QUALITY OF SOUND IS VERY GOOD. The BIG SCREEN IS AMAZING THERE ARE SO MANY COLOURS & the ICONS & THAT LOOK VERY NICE INDEED.

THERE ARE SOME DOWNSIDES LIKE the VIDEO CAMERA, ON THAT YOU CAN RECORD FOR A VERY LONG TIME IF YOU CHANGE the LENGTH BUT the QUALITY OF the VIDEO IS APPAULING & I WOULD NOT recommend THIS PHONE FOR A A VIDEO CAMERA. BUT TAKING STILL IMAGES (PHOTOS) the QUALITY OF THEM IS TRULY OUTSTANDING, the QUALITY OF the IMAGES ARE BETTER THAN MY FREINDS CYBERSHOT & I WOULD recommend IT FOR IMAGES BUT NOT FOR VIDEOS.

TEXTING IS EASY TO DO BUT YOU HAVE TO GET USED TO the BUTTONS FIRST. & SENDING A PICTURE IS VERY EASY, YOU JUST PRESS the MIDDLE BUTTON AFTER YOU HAVE TAKE A PICTURE & THERE you GO, SELECT WHO you WANT TO SEND IT TO & THATS IT.

OVERALL THIS IS A GREAT PHONE & I WOULD recommend IT TO ANYBODY, IF you SHOP AROUND YOU CAN GET IT FOR £150 NOT £170, See YOU.

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Reviewer: Jeremy - London, UK
Date: 29th May 2008

I bought this after returning my Samsung Soul due to diabolical call & speaker volume & quality. This is what I can say after having it for 1 week.

Good Points. Typical logical Nokia menu layout. Menus & folders & pretty much everything else is moveable & customisable (typical Nokia style). Nice weight in the hand. Sensible memory card location (in my opinion at least) behind battery, recently had a memory card slot style mechanism fail in a Samsung Phone (not the Soul). Good call & ring tone volume (although anything seems good after the Soul!). Camera seems pretty decent, megapixels don't count for anything, it's the sensor that counts.

Bad Points. Too many house & dance style ringtones, how about some useable ones? Have read about this on numerous occasions & I can confirm that somehow the slide mechanism does start to scratch the keys & this is after only 1 week. Not the best quality speaker for playing music out loud (although I don't tend to do it, thought it was worth mentioning). Display items look a bit chunky & low resolution. The screen seems to blackout quickly on occasions, which is not really acceptable, but I haven't suffered any of the other faults mentioned by others, as of yet. & finally, although it might not be a bad point for everybody, the phone just seems to be lacking in imagination or spirit, found in SE's & Samsungs, the themes & wallpapers are pretty dull too.

So, to sum up, it seems to be a pretty solid & straight laced phone, if a little unimaginative, with the odd software problem?

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Reviewer: Mike Scott - Ban Chang, Thailand
Date: 29th May 2008

I've had this phone for about six months now & what an unforgettable experience. My angry response to the customer service satisfaction question has not changed one bit. Initially the phone had all the problems listed by others, updating software helped somewhat.

My phone is relatively stable at present. I have given up using the Internet, it's too cumbersome & doesn't work. I cannot connect to my computer (the handset says I am not connected) although apparently I am (sometimes). Bluetooth is a joke.

I left my phone with customer services on two occasions. They couldn't update the software, although it was available on the net. All they achieved was to set the phone back to factory default losing all the information & settings etc.

With the handset locked, picking up the phone other than with kid gloves will result in losing the call. It's impossible to carry the phone loose in your pocket without some malfunction. Even taking it out of a Nokia pouch on my belt requires the utmost care not to move the slide even a fraction to lose the call.

My response to Nokia was that I was appalled that a Company with all their resources & dominance of the Market, should allow the release of an unproven unreliable inferior product to an unsuspecting public, then to admit to their failure by having to provide continuous updates to patch up a very costly mistake.

DO NOT BUY Nokia if I hadn't paid so much for it, it would have been consigned to the bin, & the temptation to hurl it away as far as possible when it malfunctions, is ever present.

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Reviewer: Sea Heybourne - Liverpool, UK
Date: 28th May 2008

Worst Phone I have ever owned what a load of rubbish, never lets me ring out or receive calls when I need to. I use my phone a lot & pay 45 pound a month with this phone I may as well have a 15 pound a month contract.

By the way I have had the phone 2 weeks my wife got the same phone & there both the same. Word of advice don't buy it.

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Reviewer: Mike - UK
Date: 28th May 2008

Hi, Many thanks to all you guys who bothered to review this phone, I was going to buy one but after reading your comments I definitely won't, thanks again.

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Reviewer: Jayne - UK
Date: 27th May 2008

OK had the phone few weeks & does all I want it to do. No problems. Well there is one so can anyone tell me. When a text message comes in of course the phone peeps but doesn't flash at all, all mobiles I've had before flash until you read the text. Do I need to do as I have read manual & it doesn't mention it. I must of turned something off or on wrong I guess. Help please.

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Reviewer: Kulj - London, UK
Date: 25th May 2008

It is a good looking phone although its' a bit large. The graphics are real nice.

Camera (with flash) & video recorder are really good. But I am sending mine back after just a week because it's a heavy phone. The battery life is short. Although it is nice for texting & music player.

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Reviewer: Anthony Howell - UK
Date: 25th May 2008

Well as you can I see I love the phone to bits but there is so many problems with it, I am on my second one & I am changing over to LG in a couple of weeks. The battery life is fair if you run the battery into the ground a couple of times it makes the battery use its full potential. Easy to text when you get used to the smaller buttons.

Problems, the phone cuts out sometimes when writing a text & then comes back on, it freezes a lot, if you knock the back cover (which doesn't fit properly) it resets every setting back to the Nokia Default settings & it blanks out & won't turn on you have to reinsert the battery.

I love the phone its self it's just that Nokia really haven't tested it for long enough to see if the phone is working as it should.

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Reviewer: Dyanne - Edinburgh, UK
Date: 25th May 2008

I love this phone only had it for a week & it's really cool looking & easy to use.

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Reviewer: John Aiton - UK
Date: 24th May 2008

Great phone apart from resetting to Nokia default settings every 2 days now back in for repair again.

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Reviewer: Emma Yates - Brighton, UK
Date: 24th May 2008

Love the phone but the battery is rubbish have to charge it every day! My sister has the same phone & she has the same problem! Shame as it's a nice phone! Waiting for a replacement phone but got a feeling it will happen again!

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Reviewer: Victor - UK
Date: 24th May 2008

I've had this phone 5 months now & have not experienced any of the problems other reviewers have mentioned. Only problems I encountered were actually service provider issues (3), these were sorted by ringing the customer support line.

Phone is a little fiddly when you want to open the slide, but the rubber strip is fitted to make it a bit easier. The buttons are a decent size, even for people like me with big fingers.

A great feeling phone if you are fed up with the plastic feel of other phones & that was a feature I liked about it. Do miss the ability to just turn on a light either on video mode or as a handy torch, but hey, it's a phone & not a torch!

Great phone, would have preferred the black version though.

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Reviewer: Linda Marie Grattage - Chesterfield, UK
Date: 23rd May 2008

Love the phone but I have just switched from a Sony so I am finding it a bit difficult to use but I suppose I'll get used to it, I was a bit unsure about getting this phone because I have read a few bad reviews but a lot of them was from people on Orange & 3, I am on O2 & touch wood I have had no problems YET.

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Reviewer: Hardial Khera - Birmingham, UK
Date: 22nd May 2008

Best phone, only one fault that when you finish talking you still needs press the red button to the end calls.

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Reviewer: Claire - Bradford, UK
Date: 21st May 2008

Reason I put 5% for usability is that I have had mine for approximately a month & I cannot use it as it refuses to let me call out or anyone else call in! Hence, I am missing important calls & paying for a contract I cannot even use. I have had nothing but problems with this phone, the settings reset themselves after a day, one side of the back lifts up & the sound is poor with a hissing on the line & a very quiet tone. Sometimes it will suddenly turn itself up halfway through an action, a couple of times the alarm hasn't gone off for no apparent reason, when I have checked the clock was set right & there hasn't been any explanation for it! When I 1st got the phone I read the reviews AFTER I had got it & was gutted at what I read but thought I'd give the phone the benefit of the doubt as hardly anyone ever writes anything good on these reviews so I took it at face value. Well let's just say, I wish I knew then what I know now so that I could have cancelled my contract there & then! Everything that was written was right & was true. I now have to take my phone in for repair, all the while I am still paying for a contract I cannot use, it is a big con & I am just glad I shelled out for insurance because it looks like I'll be needing it. Luckily, I only have a 12 month contract, then its bye, bye phone! My Nokia 6230i may not have been as pretty but it never failed me in the whole 2 years I had it. Had this phone been working fine I would have given it 10 out of 10 as all the features I think are fine, it's just a shame I can't use them!

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Reviewer: Blink - Singapore
Date: 20th May 2008

This is a great phone! & there's is no problems so far only if you know how to use it. I've heard of the tone change to default it's because you change to new theme or remove the battery cover & please for your ringtones & theme save it to phone memory everything will be fine. Micro SD are for saving large files e.g. MP3, video & picture. Read the user manual first before use. Good luck!

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Reviewer: Oussama - Tunis, Tunisia
Date: 20th May 2008

Nice mobile.

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Reviewer: Shaun H - Poole, UK
Date: 18th May 2008

Reception problem resolved! Hey ;) brought the Nokia 6500 slide (silver) yesterday, I couldn't get signal anywhere when I got home! Even searching manually for networks wouldn't pick up anything, or if it did it will disappear within seconds.

Next day (today) went back to 3store, turns out most people had the same problem, so I got told by a member of staff the Nokia 6500 slide black is an upgrade because of signal problems.

So took it home (Nokia 6500 slide in black) same reception problem again!

Then I decided to swap the SIM with my partner who's also on 3, just to check. Turns out it works! Full reception so must be just a dodgy batch of SIMs! My SIM looks more squared on the edges but my partners one that's a few years older looks really different & more rounder.

All the best ;).

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Reviewer: Louis Van Heerden - Durban, South Africa
Date: 18th May 2008

I am having a phone upgrade in two weeks. Badly wanted a Nokia 6500 Slide but now that I have read all these angry reviews I am having second thoughts. It seems awesome & I love the styling.

Features look really good too. What do I do? Does anyone have some suggestions for me, PLEASE!

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Reviewer: Kelly - Nottingham, UK
Date: 18th May 2008

What a load of rubbish! This phone broke on me the other night whilst working away from home have tried charging it for the silly thing to light up then the screen goes fuzzy. Have had nothing but problems with this phone & wouldn't recommend getting one if you need a reliable phone 24 seven have always had Nokia's no problems don't know where they went wrong with this one. Not happy at all.

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Reviewer: Stan - UK
Date: 18th May 2008

Moved to Nokia after having Motorola, Samsung & Sony over the past few years. I thought I had problems with the Sony, until I got the 6500!

I moved my contacts from the phone memory to the SIM memory & now can't move them back, so the address book is now totally shot & unusable because it seems impossible to order the numbers alphabetically. So I now have a random phonebook that can't search for numbers, really useful!

Nokia PC suite is a complete waste of time. I don't know how they could release such a bug ridden load of rubbish.

The battery is a joke, needs charging at least once a day, if I use the phone or not.

Has anyone had these problems?

Shame really because it's a great looking phone. The camera is great & the phone has all the features you'd probably ever need, except they don't want to work!

Can anyone recommend a phone that simply works, you know what I mean, you take it out of your pocket, make a call (& can hear the other person) & hang up again? &, if it's got all the widgets & gadgets, that they actually have been tested & work, surely not too much to ask, is it?

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Reviewer: Daniel - Alston, UK
Date: 17th May 2008

Quite liked design of phone. The only problem I have with this is it always freezes I am on my second replacement. Feel like throwing it in the canal. Don't buy, get a different phone.

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Reviewer: Laura - Manchester, UK
Date: 17th May 2008

If you're thinking about getting one of these I suggest you don't bother. I am on my second one & they've both had exactly the same problems.

From the first day I got one, I've had nothing but problems.

- Resets to default as soon as it's placed down, wallpaper, ringtone, alarm tone & message tone.
- Can only access the media album if I am not holding the phone. I have to lay it down on a flat surface & press the buttons otherwise it chucks me out of the menu.
- Very sensitive to temperature as well. As soon as it gets a bit warm it gains a mind of its own.
- Freezes on a regular basis. Have to switch it off & back on again.
- Media player skips through songs as it pleases.
- Good quality camera but the video will not record for more than a second. Have changed the settings before anyone suggests that! It defaults as soon as I press record.
- Have been ever so careful with it. Hasn't been dropped or banged about but bits of the black plastic keep cracking & dropping off.
- Sound is nice & loud but rubbish quality.
- Vibrates randomly!
- Address book is never ready. Again have to switch off & on again.
- Is a pain in the bits to lock the keys. Sometimes it'll do it, sometimes it won't!
- Switches itself off mid conversation as well.

Good points.

- Looks good. Nice & heavy which I like, feels fairly sturdy. Good slide on it. Like all Nokia's, it's easy to use (when it wants to work that is). Good screen size & quality. Good camera. Battery holds power well.
- Seems that the main problems come down to lose bits inside. Memory chips etc. As long as I am not holding the phone & it's laid on a flat surface it seems to almost work as it should! Defeats the object of a MOBILE phone!

Very disappointed with this phone. Counting the days down now till I can upgrade my handset!

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Reviewer: Lee Woods - Cornwall, UK
Date: 16th May 2008

This has got to be the most disappointing phone I have ever used, I use this phone mainly for work but it's useless, I would get more use out of a cup tied to a piece of string every time I go to use any of the functions it crashes & freezes, if you make a call for longer than 10 minutes it gets so hot you could cook an egg on it, I am paying £40 a month for a black piece of metal that doesn't work, & the insurance & Nokia help line say they can't do anything about it. If you're thinking of buying this phone then don't! I may as well take the £480 I am paying for the year & burn it! Don't buy it.

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Reviewer: Chris Lawson - Derby, UK
Date: 16th May 2008

Well I am on my 6th handset. They delete memory (pictures, numbers, music etc.) they crash a lot, it's a nice looking easy to use phone but I have had enough with it.

The screens are weak as anything.

The menu is the same as the old 6300, 6120 (which has all the same faults) & the 6500 classic (which is no different from the 6300).

Easy to use, very basic.

Would say if you get a working one it would be good as a first mobile but if you want a decent Nokia get the n95 or n81.

Nothing special about this phone & if your thinking of getting one buy a decent memory card as the phones internal is very small.

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Reviewer: Pavan - India
Date: 15th May 2008

Good phone model with good features.

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Reviewer: Ryan Johnston - UK
Date: 13th May 2008

The only bad thing about this phone is that when you want to record a video you can't put the light on, other than that its a brilliant phone & a very loud phone for music.

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Reviewer: Andy - Rheine, Germany
Date: 10th May 2008

Best mobile phone I ever had!

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Reviewer: Ben Smith - Reading, UK
Date: 10th May 2008

This phone is a great design like many have said. Mine creaks a bit when typing but that's not a big deal.

The Nokia PC software is quite clunky compared to the latest Sony Ericsson one. Though perhaps not a big deal as these get updated easily.

My one major problem is a 'hissing noise' as soon as it connects to a call. Firmware is up-to-date 0.58, V6 is out but not yet in the UK (well not for my T mobile branded phone).

Has anyone else got this issue? Great phone but ironically call quality is very poor.

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Reviewer: Stephen Cape - Hull, UK
Date: 10th May 2008

To Ayon from Sydney, Australia, reviewed on 1st May 2008, may I say that I have had this phone for about 4 months now & I kept having the problems of it re setting itself freezing & on more than one occasion when trying to send messages or make calls the phone would say contacts not ready, I tried the software update that Ayon mentioned but I still have problems with it freezing on me & resetting its ringtones (without taking the back cover off as someone else has mentioned) my last phone was a Samsung & apart from not being able to use MP3 for messages they are much better phones will be going back to them very shortly.

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Reviewer: Kal - UK
Date: 9th May 2008

I've had this phone for a couple of months now on the 3 network. It's a great looking phone with solid build quality & a good sized screen. Although it's a little bigger than a lot of the slim line phones out there, it's still small enough & light enough to carry around in your pocket.

It has all the features you'd expect, great camera, great music player etc. Although Nokia's have a reputation for being easy to use with straightforward menu's, having used this phone for 2 months now, I actually prefer the Sony Ericsson menu system.

The major faults with this phone are the lousy battery & signal reception. Nokia claim it has over 300 hours standby & 6 hours talk time but even when I don't use it very often I am still having to charge it every couple of days. Although it does give you a couple of warnings when the battery is low, it tends to die suddenly. The battery on my previous Sony Ericsson used to cling on for ages, even when it was down to just 5% power & with average use I would only have to charge it once every 5 or 6 days.

What's even worse is the reception. The signal constantly fluctuates between weak & absolutely nothing. Call quality is extremely poor. Callers sound echoy & there's usually a faint buzzing sound. Often callers struggle to hear what I am saying. At first I thought it was a network problem but having spoken to 3, they say it's a common problem with this phone.

How on earth can a major player like Nokia, who you would think know a thing or two about mobile phones, create such a gorgeous looking phone but forget to actually make it useable? ! Surely the main purpose of a mobile PHONE is to be able to make & receive PHONE calls!

If you're thinking of getting one of these, think again.

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Reviewer: Chris - Birmingham, UK
Date: 9th May 2008

Great phone does everything you need just a few faults I have noticed with it, had it for a month now or a bit longer. When I take the back off the phone not even the battery just the back, the theme & ringtones reset to default ones.

As I listen to lots of music I have them all sorted into folders however when I go to make a playlist all the songs appear as a list & are called track 01, track 02 etc. They should appear in the folders so you know which songs you would like for your playlist.

A mini problem with this phone that won't bother many people but when your playing the games or taking a picture you can't listen to the music playing : (.

My old phone was a Sony Ericsson W850i great phone only reason I chose the Nokia over it was because this phone looks much smarter & smaller. However I do miss my Sony Ericsson just because of the 3 faults I noticed which affect me.

Anyways they need some faults to upgrade in the next phone I suppose anyways buy one of these! (or the Sony Ericsson:P).

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Reviewer: Angela Hudson - Basingstoke, UK
Date: 8th May 2008

I bought the phone when it first came out, after nearly a year's use I will be glad to see the back of it, WHY, well, it is very sensitive to temperature & taking it out of your bag on a cold day, forget it! , leaving the office to outside, will really make it have a paddy, likewise if you take it in the bathroom if you are running the shower or bath. It cannot handle any change in temperature at all. It should be tested like a computer & not a phone.

I amazed I haven't broken it with frustration perhaps paying £309.00 for it has held me back but many a count to ten moment over all very very disappointed had heard & been warned Nokia were rubbish, now I can join this disappointed club, (wouldn't get one again & would not recommend this phone).

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Reviewer: Roonie - India
Date: 7th May 2008

Its an awsome phone guys. Rocking!

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Reviewer: John Wheeler - Liverpool, UK
Date: 7th May 2008

I've had this handset for 5 weeks now & the reception is rubbish. I have contacted 3 on a number of occasions & just today they tell me there is a signal problem with this model of phone, so why did they allow me to order it knowing it had faults? I have noticed it works better if you turn it upside down but it gets tiresome standing on your head while making phone calls.

Other than that I find the phone to be OK'ish.

As for those who say the keys lock & don't work this is probably because if you hold your phone in your left hand your finger rests on the camera key when you open the phone thus disabling the key functions.