Nokia's recent survey showed that people were willing to stay away from sweets and coffee for 2 weeks, but not from their mobile phones. Staying in touch is an essential part of life. One feels so handicapped without their mobile phones. The
Nokia Surge Slider Mobile Phone is Nokia's new handset that has been designed for social networking. This gadget, which is described as a 'socially supercharged phone', will be using the At&T network when it releases in the US on 19 July 2009.

Be it SMS, MMS, emails or instant messaging, the Nokia Surge lets you do it all. It uses Juicecaster to let you access popular social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and others easily. With the
HSDPA capability of this device, you can achieve download speeds of 3.6Mbps also. This
smartphone features the Symbian S60 OS, which presents multi-tasking capabilities as well. The browser that comes pre-loaded in this handset supports Flash, which lets you watch YouTube videos. Adding to all the socio-networking capabilities is a QWERTY keyboard that remains hidden beneath the slider panel of this handheld.
There are a host of other multimedia features packed into this handset. You can listen to music and download your favorite songs from popular music services over the air. There are plenty of AT&T services like mobile banking, video sharing during a call and more that this handheld offers. The
A-GPS functionality in conjunction with the AT&T navigator provides turn by turn route navigation too. Even an FM radio is housed in this music phone. A 2 Megapixel camera is fitted into this mobile phone that lets you snap stills as well as shoot videos. You can view all your videos, pictures, web pages and more on the 2.4" 320 x 240 pixels screen of this slider phone.

Storing all your media files can be done on microSD cards. The slot provided, supports cards of up to 8GB capacity. Exchanging files with your PC can be done via USB. You may as well use Bluetooth for wireless data transfers with other devices. One aspect that brings disappointment is that this gizmo does not support WiFi. On the runtime life front, the battery of this cell phone offers a 4 hour talk-time and a 16 days stand-by time. The
Nokia Surge Smartphone which bears the
HTC Touch Pro-like looks will be carrying a price tag of $79.99 for a 2 year contract with AT&T.
Compare mobile phone prices, deals and offers to find
cheapest mobile phones.