Display and keys
The body of the phone is made of black stainless steel. There is a smoked glass sliding cover which looks awesome. This glass covers the keypad when not in use. This gives a futuristic appearance to the phone without much fuss. The display of the screen is superb. It has a high resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and a stunning 16 million colors; with the slider closed most of the functions can be accessed. The buttons below the screen enables this. The slider opens to display the keypad which is quite comfortable to key in.
Camera
The Nokia 8600 mobile phone comes in with an inbuilt 2 mega pixel camera. This is quite common in most of the phones now. But the performance could have been better when compared to other phones in this range.
Music player
The phone has a good music player with FM radio. It is compatible with a Bluetooth wireless headset. It can hold up to 30 songs with an internal memory of 128 MB but surprisingly there is no provision to expand it.
Features
The Nokia 8600 mobile phone supports wireless Bluetooth connectivity and has USB port. It can be used world wide as it is quad band. It is WAP, GPRS, EDGE enabled. It enables fast paced Web browsing and email accessing. The battery life is quite reasonable. It gives a talk time of 3.5 hour sand a standby time of 264 hours.