The Genio Slide is the phone for you if you like to keep up with your friends and family through texting and the social network Facebook. It has a touch screen but gives you the option to type with its big slide-out QWERTY keyboard – much easier when you want to key in lots of text. The keyboard does make the phone a bit heavier than most.
It’s a pleasure to use, with its own native Facebook application and a 2.8-inch touch screen. It also has widgets so that MySpace and instant messaging is easily accessible.
All messages are organised in one uniform interface through your contacts, so keeping up with all your friends’ texts and chat is a breeze.
Data transfer is high-speed as the Genio Slide is a 3G phone. It also comes with Wi-Fi so you can connect when you’re in a Wi-Fi hotspot.
As with any mobile phone, it has the ability to download music and an FM radio with RDS, and with the 3.5 mm audio jack any standard headphones can be plugged in. The internal memory is 150 MB and can be increased to 16 GB, so there is plenty of storage for all your favourite tracks.
The camera is not as high quality as comparable phones but will take an ok family or holiday snap. The camera has 3.2 mega pixels and is fixed focus without any enhanced options. It has a video camera and you can use it for video calls.
