Review :

THUMBS UP FOR:

qvga display with 16 million colours

smooth ceramic finish

background noise cancellation

3.15 mp camera with dual led flash

tv out facility

THUMBS DOWN FOR:

no 3.5 mm audio jack

s40 interface

no infrared

no inbuilt gps(but thanks to nokia we have bluetooth connectable gps receiver)

No video calling (front camera absent)

THE FINAL VERDICT:

The nokia 3600 will become one of nokia's landmark phone with all the facilities a mobile geek would expect from a phone. Priced in the mid-range, the nokia 3600 has most of the facilities offered in the nseries.Its worth the price.

TECH SPECS:

For complete specs about this this phone click here .

STYLE AND INTERFACE:

Smooth and stylish slider.It has a ceramis finish.It has a five way navi wheel as usual as in nokia phones.It has a series 40 interface(the only stink of the phone).

DISPLAY AND SOUND:

It has a QVGA display with brilliant 16 million colours.It has a stereo sound with a single speaker.The highlighting feature of the phone is background noise cancellation. The phone detects the background noise level and reduces them.It has a good voice recorder.

MUSIC,VIDEO AND ENTERTAINMENT:

Having a stereo music player,music becomes pleasure.The stereo music player supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, and WMA audio formats.It gives about 8 hours of music playback.It has an integrated video player and TV out facility with an output of 15 fps in QVGA resolution and 25 fps in CIF resolution.

CAMERA:

It has a 3.15 MP camera with dual LED flash.The camera zooms digitally upto 8x .The camera has a good picture quality and camera options.It has no extended zoom facility.The video camera records video in QVGA( at 15 fps) and CIF(at 25 fps) resolutions.

BROWSING AND CONNECTIVITY:

As usual the nokia browser excels once again.It has opera mini 4.0 installed .It supports WAP 2.0 browsing and HTTP/TCP/IP connections .It has

EDGE multi-slot class 32, up to 296 kbps

GPRS multi-slot class 32, up to 100 kbps

HSCSD transfer up to 28.8 kbps as a data modem

It has bluetooth version 2.0.One of the key feature of the phone is that it can be connected to nokia GPS Module LD-4W via bluetooth.Nokia maps is preinstalled in the phone.The phone package includes a 512mb microSD memory card.