Let’s take a look at 2 of Nokia’s cool candybar phones, the Nokia 6500 Classic and 5310 Xpress.

Nokia is a world favourite! A manufacturer selling highest number of handsets in the world, Nokia continues to rule almost all the categories that handsets can be fitted into. Its latest offering, Nokia 6500 Classic, is a candybar phone that looks immensely impressive in a stainless steel finish. The slogan “Simply beautiful – beautifully simple,” aptly describes this new handset by the master craftsman.

Just 11.7mm thick, this ultra sleek phone adds a classy feel to the personality of the owner. The best thing about the phone being that it cannot be easily slotted. It’s an all rounder phone that incorporates bits of everything. No doubt, it is a favourite of not jus the students, but housewives and executives as well! The phone is impressive not just from the exteriors, on the inside, the Nokia 6500 Classic abounds in user-friendly features. The 2 megapixels camera with an 8x digital zoom let’s you click still snaps, as well as record videos. Even though the camera might not impress the professionals, but it comes in quite handy at all situations. The music player and the FM radio keeps you entertained all the while. The 7.8 Mbytes of user memory is not sufficient, but an up to 2 Gbytes of microSD card can be used to expand it to incorporate more of your favourite numbers.

The Nokia 5310 Xpress Music and the Nokia 5610 Xpress Music. The Nokia 5310 Xpress Music is a stylish candybar phone measuring 103.8 x 44.7 x 9.9 mm and weighing 71 grams. The Nokia 5310 Xpress Music phone has a 16 million colour TFT screen with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The music player supports a variety of formats like MP3/MP4/AAC/eAAc/WMA. Other noticeable features include 2 megapixel camera with 1600×1200 pixels, stereo FM radio with RDS, WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (Opera mini), 30MB internal memory, microSD (TransFlash) card etc.