just bought the 6500slide over the weekend. A bit of pain since I have not use Nokia the last 5 years as I'm on either SE or Alcatel. I find the menu on Nokia a pain in the neck, so have to get used to it.

The 3.2 CZ lens is wasted without proper thinking on Nokia with the menu access. In my previous SE800, you can view and edit the camera function very easily in camera mode. The 6500 need you to move to gallery menu and out of camera mode! sigh!

Its 4.8.1 FM and already hang 1 time, apparently from the lagging. So far after getting use to how it works, its fine!

Though one need to be familiar with the menu, I can tell you with the SE, I did not even flip the manual and the setting is much easier. Even more easier with Alcatel One Touch.

Doing SMS or taking picture/viewing picture etc is a lot more faster with less step/menu pressing. The predictive more key stroke to activate and off vs SE where it have a more simple and direct access.

The 6500 require you to click a few times to enter gallery mode and its viewing is in potrait mode when you are using the camera in landscape where as the K800 will allow you to view in landscape as in Camera mode but will be on potrait mode when you view the picture via file manager. That is intuitive! Nokia CZ is suppose to be trump card as such it should implement the camera menu to be a bit more intuitive away from phone menu. Also there are no direct access to the camera setting which is why another downer for a camera that carry CZ lens!

I'm not impressed with the battery bar. Its full for 1.5 day, suddenly it just drop 1/3 bar instead of the usual gradual decreasing. The batt icon does not have like 3 or 5 bar either to indicate if that 1/3 drop is indeed 33% reduction.

Having said since I already I bought it, I will stick with the 6500, but I'm not impressed with the implementation given the amount of phone that Nokia has been selling. I always have impression Nokia is much ahead of SE in terms of phone implementation but clearly in my case it is not.

But because of the typical market perception I probably can trade it in for a decent amount 1 year down the road!