subject: Nokia C6 - Multimedia Phone With Full Qwerty And Slider Design [print this page] Nokia C6 is a touch-screen phone that is the recent member of Nokia C Series and it's equipped with a sliding QWERTY key pad. It had been introduced on April 13, 2010 and C6 is the resemble model of the Nokia N97 in the software and hardware specs. It's listed to family members of Symbian S60 5th edition.
Style & Screen
Nokia C6 uses a mixture of touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard or the slider style. It has 3.2-inch width resistive touch screen with 16.7 million colors and 360x640 pixels image resolution as big as the display of Nokia 5230 or 5800 XpressMusic.
In the bottom there are three access keys: call, end call and menu. Like regular Symbian phones, you can also access the task manager by pushing and holding the menu button a few moments. At the top corner, there's a front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity sensor for automatic turn-off the touch-screen when the phone call happens.
Performance
Nokia C6 applied the latest operating system of Nokia namely; Symbian OS v9.4 (S60 fifth edition) just like the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, 5230 or N97/N97 mini. To run this operating system, the device is provided with ARM 11 CPU with 434 megahertz clock speed. In performance, the CPU is good enough to support multitasking activity.
Camera
This mobile phone owns a far better camera of 5 megapixels with auto-focus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, and face/smile detection. Furthermore, it includes an additional QVGA front camera for video call. The rear camera can capture a jpeg graphic of 2592x1944p maximum. In regular environments (outdoor) with the ideal lighting, the results present a good quality color. The image is quite sharp with the really clear detail. Unfortunately, for indoor capturing, particularly with minimal lighting seem lower than the maximum. Though it was backed up with LED flash, pictures are usually opaque and containing freckles.
Multi-media
Unlike the XpressMusic series, the music player delivers standard interfaces for instance organizing the audio files by playlists, album, artist and genre to feature an equalizer and stereo widening. Unfortunately, the music quality sounds weak as the output songs that comes from the audio speakers sounded flat and less loud.
Although, when we use a great external earphone, the quality will feel totally different. To connect another headphone, but also this phone gives two methods i.e. through 3.5 mm headset jack, or utilize a Bluetooth A2DP stereo headphone. To save multimedia documents, the phone has an internal memory space of 240 Mb and the external 2 gigabytes microSD storage.
Connectivity
Nokia C6 supports HSDPA network with the maximum data rate of up to 3.6 Mbps. In order to access the internet, it's equipped with mini maps and also supports flash. We can also browse the internet with a Wi-Fi channel which the hotspot point can be done quickly, and the connection methods can be carried out very easily.
Features
This handset has several latest features which are incredible, including the office feature, social networking and chatting capabilities, and the Global Positioning System. For the office, it contains Quick office and Adobe PDF with the ability to modify documents, as well as the creation of new files. For the GPS, the devices still rely on A-GPS. In addition, it allows for email account management features (Ovi Mail) that may be integrated with other e-mail accounts like Yahoo, Google and Windows Live Hotmail. Owner may register up to 10 e-mail accounts with push mail method.
Verdict
Nokia C6 seems to be the right choice for multi-media phone lovers. Not only having a complete entertainment features, the device also delivers the access to social networking sites, chatting and browsing. The capability of operating on HSDPA network is the advantage that ought to be addressed.
For businesses, it is provided with office programs and Nokia Messaging functionality that provides a multiple-account e-mail configuration. The handset is additionally supported by the technology of C6 Gps / A-GPS plus digital Ovi Maps.
