With the latest Nokia 6500 Slide, Nokia has proved its leadership position in meeting the needs of futuristic and tech-savvy users. With a host of multimedia options, high-profile features, and high-end capabilities, this slider phone is impressing next generation users around the world.

The Nokia 6500 is good sized phone that is east to carry and hold. The dimension of the phone is 96.5mm in height, 46.5 mm in width and 16.4 mm in thickness. The robust and strong looking handset weighs 123 grams. With the incorporation of advanced technologies and availability of high-end features, the phone is really living up to quite a lot of user expectations.

The widescreen of 2.2 inches gives a sharp and vivid viewing experience to the users, as it unfurls up to 16.7 million colours. The high resolution screen is good for viewing pictures, screen savers, animated wallpapers and video clips.

The phone is fitted with a 3.2 megapixel camera that allows users to click still pictures and record moving video footage. The camera of the phone supports Carl Zeiss lens. With digital zoom, auto-focus and LED flash, the handset delivers perfect shots and high-quality images quite effortlessly.

Moreover, the users of this mobile phone can make the most of its video recording capabilities as well. The high-profile video option includes digital zoom and video streaming. The embedded CIF camera allows users to take part in 3G video calls. With the help of PictBridge feature users can even get a hard copy of their captured pictures.

In addition, the phone supports music player and FM radio as well as visual radio options. The music player allows users to play music on different formats such as MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC and WMA. The visual radio option can be used to enjoy music, new & weather updates, new songs and much more. The high-end connectivity features such as Bluetooth, MicroUSB, 2.5mm AV connector, EDGE and GPRS ensure that data is easily transferred to other compatible devices.

One of the places that gadgets are becoming increasingly popular is in the great outdoors. It used to be that people flocked to the wilderness in an effort to escape man made things and a lot of the luxuries and nuisances associated with more advanced technology. Now though many technological gadgets have become so light weight and useful that many hikers, boaters, mountain bikers, backpackers, skiers, snow shoers, and mountaineers see no reason not to bring a lot of compact luxuries along into the back country.

Some types of technologies lend themselves especially well to being used in the woods because of their light weight and their ability to function without the support of other types of technologies. For example, many people do not go into the wilderness without a mobile phone for safety reasons. In this case, the fact that mobile phones are so light weight that they make sense to carry even though they don't necessarily work in places where tall, steep mountains would get in the way of finding a tower signal. Fortunately most people don't go very deep into the wilderness, so a mobile phone still makes sense to carry.

For people whose adventures take them farther afield, satellite technology offers a good way to stay connected. For instance, if one wants to have a way of contacting the outside world in case of emergency, a satellite phone is a much better choice than a mobile phone because a satellite phone will still work in places where there are too many miles or mountains in the way of getting a tower signal.

Perhaps even more popular than satellite phones is GPS technology. GPS, which stands for Global Positioning System allows users to determine where they are, often within a dozen feet or so, instantly without having to use a compass and make complicated calculations. This system is based on signals that come from satellites in geosynchronous orbit around the Earth, so the signals are available just about anywhere.

Now there are GPS devices that combine navigation features with other information available from satellite signals. A great new example of a device that bundles satellite technology features together is the Bushnell Weather Tracker ONIX 400. This device not only has the navigation capabilities of a typical GPS (the ability to determine position, speed, number of miles traveled, etc.), but it also comes with access to XM satellite radio channels and satellite based weather information. This unit is so advanced that it will even layer weather data over the map that's displayed on the screen of the device so that you can see where a new weather system is coming from. In many ways, the advanced warning that the Weather Tracker ONIX 400 can provide for outdoors people is a much better safety device than any mobile phone because it allows them to avoid trouble to begin with- which is preferable to having to contact someone for rescue after getting into trouble.

For times when an excursion doesn't involve emergencies, the XM satellite radio feature will provide an ever varying soundtrack for adventure. This GPS/satellite radio/weather forecasting device is a good example of how different features can be combined into a truly superior and useful gadget.