Today Nokia introduced the 6600 Slide, a sleek looking handset that combines high fashion with high technology. The exterior of the 6600 Slide makes good use of metal, as it is covered with glossy steel and features an aluminum center button on the d-pad controller. Another unusual feature is the cellphone's build-in accelerometer, which allows users to do things like activate the time on the display or silence inbound calls simply by tapping on the cellphone twice.

The main display on the 6600 Slide is a 2.2" QVGA resolution screen that supports up to 16 million color shades. The built-in 3.2 megapixel camera can capture large, VGA resolution video at 15 frames per second, or capture lower res QVGA footage at a movie-like 30 frames per second. Like most Nokia S40 powered devices, the 6600 Slide packs a built-in music player and Bluetooth support. While there is only 18MB of built-in storage available to users in the device, the 6600 Slide ships with a 512MB microSD memory card and supports cards as large as 4GB in size. And lastly, while this cellphone ships with Nokia Maps pre-installed, it requires an external Bluetooth GPS in order to make the most of it.

The 6600 Slide measures 93mm x 45mm x 14mm (3.7" x 1.8" x .6") in size and weighs a respectable 110g (3.9oz). Nokia claims that the 6600 Slide's 1000mAh battery should be good for up to 4 hours of talk time or 14.5 days of standby time when used on 850 or 2100MHz UMTS networks, though we expect it to get more talk time when it is working on any of its 4 GSM/EDGE frequency bands. Nokia expects the 6600 Slide to be available for purchase in Q3 of this year for about 250EUR, before taxes and any carrier subsidies.