Nokia 6700 Classic with chrome backplate is both a blessing and a curse. Silver shiny metal looks nice. But in the short term it attracts fingerprints like it is going for a world record in that feat, and in the medium and longer term it’ll probably attract plenty of scratches.
The front mixes more chrome with plastic and the former’s use on the number pad again makes it attractive to fingerprints. The number keys are flat and reasonably easy to use, but fast texters might find the fact that the keys aren’t hugely responsive a bit annoying.
The screen is small by modern standards but at 2.2in, it carries its 320 x 240 pixels well. And in between screen and keyboard is a bank of buttons that are bland but serviceable. Call and End and two softkey buttons sit on a flat area surrounding the D-pad, whose silver frame is pre-configured to take you to Calendar, SMS creation, and, via its up and down buttons, through the application shortcuts on the main screen.
Nokia 6700 Classic storage included 170MB of memory in the handset and my review sample came with a 1GB microSD card to boost that further. So there is quite a bit of music storage space out of the box. The microSD card slot is on the left side of the casing, and you need to remove the backplate to get to it.
Nokia 6700 Classic with HSDPA phone and it supports downlinks to 10Mbps. You won’t find a network offering that in the UK, so it’s nothing to get too excited about at the moment. But you should get the maximum your operator offers wherever you find yourself. The uplink is capped at 2Mbps and will support GPS is built in, with A-GPS support. Nokia Maps is pre-installed and I added Google Maps quickly and easily. It is a real pity that the 6700 Classic’s gamut of services does not include Wi-Fi. Without it, any phone is really hampered these days and even in a mid-range phone like this one, its absence grates.
For addition to the software mentioned there is a fair amount of other stuff going on here. Bluetooth, of course, is present. There is mobile email support, FM radio, voice recorder, alarm clock, calendar, to do list, notes maker, calculator, countdown timer, stopwatch, and some links to FaceBook, MySpace and YouTube.
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