Nokia C6 - The Nokia 5800 In Better Clothing

Mobile phone makers are known to maximize their tooling and design investments with various model iterations of the same theme

. They either go up or down the feature ladder with the addition or deletion of 3G, GPS, WiFi or halving a monolithic body to morph it into a slider. Finnish mobile phone world leader Nokia has been doing that for decades now.

The midrange C-series of Nokia gets more interesting with the Nokia C6 smartphone. Interesting because its basically a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic that Nokia cut in half to accommodate a landscape QWERTY keyboard slider.

In the process, the C6 gains 41g in weight and 1.4mm thicker than the 5800. When closed, the handset measures 113 x 53 x 16.8mm and weighs 150g and looks quite like the 5800 with the same screen size, inline keys at the bottom of the screen, rounded corners and the iPhone like rimming around the edges.

Its also easy to mistake it as an N97 which has the same form factor.

General Features

The Nokia C6 gets the same 434 MHz ARM11 processor under the hood and runs the same Symbian OS v9.4 layered with the S60 Rel 5.0 user interface. That means you dont have to expect anything outstanding or new from it. Onboard memory, however, takes a better spec with 240 MB and gets backed with microSD external memory expansion slot supporting up to 16 GB.

Using a slightly smaller 1200 mAh li-ion battery, talk times get a shorter 7 hours on 2G, 5 hours on 3G and 384 hours of standby time on either.

Just like the 5800, the Nokia C6 has the same 3.2-inch TFT LCD resistive touchscreen with half-VGA resolution in 16 million colors. Imaging gets better with a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, face/smile detection, geo tagging and video capture at VGA resolution and 30fps. A secondary camera frontside supports 3G video calls.

It gets the 5800 legacy as a capable music phone. It has a stereo FM radio with RDS and the media players for audio in the MP3, WMA, WAV, and eAAC+ file formats as well as video in the MP4, H.264 and WMV file codecs.

Stereo listening takes two options for wired using its 3.5mm audio out jack or you can go wireless with its A2DP profile support. Its battery allows 30 hours of continuous music playback on a single charge.

A Complete Connectivity Suite

International roaming on the GSM network is a breeze as the Nokia C6 offers the full array of radio and data connectivity technologies that are no different from Nokia flagships. Its a quad band on both UMTS (850/ 900/ 1900/2100) on 3G and GSM (850/ 900/ 1800/ 2100) on 2G.

Data connectivity gets class 32 GPRS/EDGE for up to 286 Kbps data speeds on the 2G network while on 3G, it has HSDPA at 3.6 Mbps and HSUPA at 2 Mbps speeds. High speed local data connectivity for hotspot surfing is possible from its WiFi 802.11b/g while Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0 allow wireless and wired data transfers, respectively.

by: Simon Drew

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