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Nokia C6

Posted by Mobile reviews Friday, August 20, 2010

Yesterday’s high-end is the new midrange we like to say. The Nokia C6 has almost exactly the same features as the Nokia N97 mini but hangs a big Sale sign. Time to shop for high-end features off high street.
The C-series are trying to distill the Nokia knowledge and experience into a lineup of simple and affordable phones. There’s a bit of everything there: from cheap entry-level handsets to smartphones that border on the Eseries and Nseries.

And Nokia is in no mood to relax it seems. The C-series went from one to six in almost no time, and a C7 may as well be on the way. Now, technically there is no number four –but that’s one number Nokia isn’t really fond of. Anyway, if there ever was to be a C4 we just know it would’ve been dynamite.
Being a C-series phone, you can expect the C6 to be a decent all-rounder. And it is. There’re no mind-blowing features but there’s nothing major missing either. And what isn’t there (e.g. document editing) can be easily fixed with the right app.

Key features

  • 3.2" 16M-color resistive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
  • Symbian OS 9.4 with S60 5th edition UI
  • Slide-out four-row full QWERTY keyboard
  • ARM 11 434MHz CPU
  • Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
  • Tri-band 3G with 3.6Mbps HSDPA support
  • 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and VGA@30fps video recording
  • Wi-Fi and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
  • GPS with A-GPS and free lifetime voice-guided navigation license
  • microSD card (16 GB supported, 2GB included)
  • Built-in accelerometer for display auto-rotation, turn-to-mute
  • 3.5 mm audio jack
  • Smart dialing
  • Stereo FM Radio with RDS
  • microUSB port
  • Web browser has full Flash support
  • Good audio quality
  • Office document viewer

Main disadvantages

  • Display performs poorly under direct sunlight
  • The S60 touch UI is clunky
  • Doesn’t charge off USB
  • Average loudspeaker performance
  • No DivX or XviD video support out-of-the-box
  • No office document editing (without a paid upgrade)
  • No camera lens protection
These days, communication over text-based channels is bigger than ever – SMS, email, Twitter, Facebook, IM to name but a few. And they have a certain advantage over voice calling. They’re cheap, or absolutely free, even when you’re reaching someone on another continent.

 

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