Nokia 2220 Slide deals & review

The slightly more sophisticated 2000 series of the Nokia product stable gets a new slider in the Nokia 2220 Slide which, with its body color options in graphite, hot pink, turquoise, purple, blue and warm silver, betrays a pitch to the younger segments of its markets with eyes towards getting more a personalized slider at affordable entry level prices. 

With a compact slider body measuring 97.4 x 47 x 15.9 mm and weighing just 93.5g, the 2220 Slide gives Nokia an edge in the low end slider markets often dominated by more stylish Korean sliders.

Bare Plus Features

While not a bare as its 1000 line of handsets, the 2220 slide gets a basic dual band GSM (900/1800) on 2G with a US version in the 850/1900 band. It gets data connectivity support for class 10 GPRS at 48 Kbps and up to 236.8 Kbps on EDGE on the 2.G/2.5G network. There’s no WiFi and no local data connectivity support as well so you can’t do any kind of data syncing or transfers with other handsets of laptops. 

The display also gets a very rudimentary 1.8” TFT LCD screen with QCIF (123 x 160) resolution and 65k color support. There’s a basic VGA camera with no video recording but you can get low resolution low file sized images that can easily be sent via MMS.

Entertainment on the road is provided by a stereo FM radio with FM broadcast recording as well as a basic MP3/AAC audio player and an MP4/H.263 video player. It has 3.5mm headphone jack so you can use your favorite high fidelity headsets,

Onboard memory gets capped at a decent 32 MB with phonebook capacity up to 1,000 contact entries. There’s no microSD support so your multimedia file content is limited to the phone memory leaving you with just a handful of mp3 files to listen to. With an 860 mAh li-ion batter (BL-4C), you can get up to 5 hours and 20 mins of talk time and 480 hours of standby time on a single charge. SAR EU rating is 0.39 watts per kilogram.

The Nokia 2220 Slide is preloaded with a WAP 2.0 HTML web browser so if you plan to surf on a screen that present a real challenge to the eye, be sure to get a GPRS/EDGE data plan. There’s also XpressAudio messaging, an organizer, voice memo and email client support preloaded into the phone.