The Nokia 6500 classic is a mobile phone from

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announced on May 31, 2007. The phone runs the

Series 40 Series 40, often shortened as S40, is a software platform and application user interface (UI) software on Nokia's broad range of mid-tier feature phones, as well as on some of the Vertu line of luxury phones. It was one of the world's most wi ...

platform. The case is made of brushed

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. At just 9.5 mm thick, the 6500 classic was Nokia's thinnest phone when released in October 2007. It is notable for being Nokia's few

phones with a large internal memory, 1 GB (along with the

Nokia 7900 The Nokia 7900 is a mobile phone produced by Nokia and announced on August 7, 2007. It is part of Nokia's Prism Collection. It runs S40 5th Edition. It is a quadband phone and has WCDMA on 850 MHz and 2100 MHz. The screen is powered b ...

and others). It also had a similar sliding variant called

Nokia 6500 slide The Nokia 6500 slide is a mobile phone by Nokia. The phone runs the Series 40 platform. The case is made of brushed stainless steel. It is the slider version of Nokia 6500 classic. Features *Communications **Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE: GSM 8 ...

. Both of them were the first Nokia phones where the

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port was replaced by

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References

External links

A detailed review at Mobile Review

The stress test of a Nokia 6500 Slide
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