The big news from Nokia is of course the launch of the much awaited N8. But Nokia has the C6 up its sleeve, scheduled for launch sometime during September this year. We expect the price in India to be around 12000-13000 INR, pretty close to Nokia’s own E52, so that’ll be quite an interesting face-off.
The last phone which had a touch screen and a slide out keyboard was the N97. Unfortunately that phone had its own niggling issues, some of which were sorted by the time the N97 Mini was released. The D-pad was a notable omission from the N97 Mini, but finds its way back on this model.
Hopefully the C6 will be trouble-free, and if it is we’re looking at an ideal business phone with excellent browsing capabilities.
Dimensions
- Size: 113.4 x 53 x 16.8 mm
- Weight (with battery): 150 g
Nokia C6 Display and user interface
- Screen size: 3.2″
- Resolution: 640 x 360 (nHD)
- Up to 16.7 million colours
- Sliding Resistive touch-screen display
- S60 5th edition
Camera
- 5 megapixel camera (2584 x 1938 pixels)
- Autofocus and integrated LED flash
- Zoom up to 4x (digital)
- Secondary camera for video calls (QVGA)
Video camera
- 5 megapixel
- Take high-quality 16:9 videos
- Video capture in MPEG-4 up to VGA at 30 fps
- Video clip length: up to 90 minutes
Music features
- Nokia Music Player
- Ovi Music
- Music codecs: .MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC, eAAC+
- DRM support WM DRM, OMA DRM 2.0/1.0
- Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz/76-90 MHz), RDS
Connectivity on the C6
- Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
- High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)
- 3.5 mm AV connector
Power Management
- BL-4J 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery
- Talk time:
- GSM up to 11 h
- WCDMA up to 5 h
- Standby time:
- GSM up to 400 h
- WCDMA up to 400 h
- Video playback time (Mpeg4/nHD): 246 mins
- Video call time (maximum): 144 mins
- Music playback time: 30 h
Data network
- CSD
- HSCSD, maximum speed 43.2 kbps
- GPRS class A, multislot class 32
- WCDMA & HSDPA for a maximum speed up to 3.6 Mbps with simultaneous voice & packet data
- WiFi WLAN
- Dual Transfer Mode (DTM), simultaneous voice & packet data connection, class A, multislot class 11
GPS and navigation
- Ovi Maps with free lifetime navigation license
- Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers
- Accelerometer for correct orientation of display
Memory
- MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 16 GB
- Internal memory: 200 MB
Lets hope we get ours hands on a C6 soon. It will definitely be an interesting phone to review. Stay tuned for more updates.
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This Nokia C6, Is there a lot that separates this from a N97 Mini? I’m demoing that right now, I have it from Nokia ( http://twitter.com/WOMWorldNokia/status/21327972058 ). I really wish there was a phone w/ a good keypad and pullout slider. At least with my N97 Mini, one handed functionality is really hard
Spec wise they’re almost the same, except the C6 doesn’t have the 30 degree tilt when the keyboard is open, and the C6 lacks the 8GB storage that the N97 mini has. So apart from these and minor refinements in the software I don’t see much difference.
With all the slide out qwerty keyboard phones I’ve tried, including non-Nokia phones, I’ve never been able to use the qwerty with one hand :)