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Nokia, one of the leading phone brands has released a brand new C  series phone. On the C6 neither is something new nor anything missing.  And whatever you find is missing can easily be fixed with a right  application. The Nokia C6 looks like the predecessor of the Nokia N97.  So let’s go ahead and discover for ourselves about this phone.

Design
To begin with, C6 comes with all the essentials. It consists of a  charger, a data cable, a one-piece headset and a 2 GB microSD card (C6  supports cards up to 16 GB).The C6 is sized 113 x 53 x 16.8 mm and  weighs 150 g. Seems to be a heavy phone. It is a 3.2” touchscreen and a  side sliding QWERTY phone. The touchscreen is resistive of nHD  resolution. The resistive display is good enough but when compared to  the capacitive displays it fails. Using C6 under sunlight requires  shielding of the display. The receiver and menu keys are placed below  this screen. Above the screen lies a group of sensors around the  earpiece and a QVGA video-call camera. Now coming to the sides of the  phone, there’s the volume rocker, the lock/hold key and the shutter key  on the right and a protected microSD card slot on the left. On the top  of the phone are a micro USB port and a 3.5 mm audio jack and at the  bottom are a 2 mm charger plug and the lanyard outlet. At the back of C6  there is a 5 MP camera a LED flash, and a single loudspeaker. The  battery is BL-4J rated at 1200mAh and can standby for 384 hours with a  talktime of 7 to 5 hours. Under this battery is the SIM card slot. The  panel has a bad fit though. The build and design of the phone is  satisfactory. The QWERTY keyboard is comfortable to use and has ample  backlighting.

User Interface
Nokia is known for being user friendly and so do they keep up with C6  too. C6 is entitled to run with S60 5th edition. Scrolling is absolutely  a clean sweep with no lags. Widgets are on board in C6’s homescreen.  The main menu of the C6 is similar to the N97 mini. Apart from that you  can also have access to the connectivity which initiates the WLAN  search. Now coming to the Widgets, the space on the screen occupies  about 5 widgets. There a number of widgets that you can choose from.  There are widgets like the WLAN wizard, calendar, music player controls,  email, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bloomberg, CNN videos and few more.  There’s one widget for favorite contacts and a shortcut widget too.  There is also an OVI store. The phonebook has unlimited capacity of  storage. It is customizable giving you full control over the options.  The call log as known maintains a record of the calls received, dialed  and missed. It not only stores calls but also stores messages and data  transfer for a period of 30days. The sound quality is efficient and the  signal connection has no trouble. Smart dialing is implemented at its  best and is a quick access. C6 also has voice dialing and can be used by  a press and hold operation on the call key. The messaging on C6 is  QWERTY enabled. It supports SMS, MMS and email of all types. The phone  has two other ways of inputs apart from the QWERTY keyboard: the  on-screen numpad and handwriting recognition. There is only one game on  this phone and that is Bejeweled Twist.

Audio and Video
The music player of the C6 is similar to that of the Nokia 5800 Xpress  Music. The music player is convenient with easy uploading of songs. It  supports almost all the audio formats saving you from disappointment.  The music library is well sorted and organized and also lets you  customize it. The audio quality is clear but is not the loudest. It has  low noise and distortion and a great stereo crosstalk. It also has a FM  radio with RDS and has a trouble free reception. Considering the image  and video quality, the camera is 5 megapixels with a flash producing  good quality images. Images have natural colors and well balanced with  contrast. The camera has a bunch of options from white balance to ISO  along with several effects. It also allows for Geo-tagging and features  face detection, smile detection and even blink prevention. The video  quality is just about OK. Video recording can be performed by the screen  resolution (640 x 352 px) resolution or VGA, camera at 30 fps.

Connectivity
The C6 is embedded with GPRS, EDGE and the 3G (HSDPA) at 3.6 Mbps. 3G is  tri-band and the GSM/EDGE is quad band. Bluetooth version 2.0  supporting A2DP and also USB of the same version is used. It has an  internal storage of 240 MB and it also has a 3.5 mm audio jack. The web  browser on C6 is on an average usability with comfortable scrolling and  the fact that it is user friendly. The browser page gives a good feel at  use with some features to change size of fonts and a password manager.  There is also a download manager and a RSS reader, a pop- up blocker and  a minimap. There is one flash support which is better than the previous  versions.

Organizer
The organizer has a calendar with different formats and also Microsoft  Office application but it doesn’t let you edit your documents and hence  to enable editing then you’ll have to visit the Ovi store with some  charges. Organizer also includes calculator, converter, voice recorder  and notes application. There is also alarm application which lets you  set as many alarms as you want.

GPS and Ovi Store
The C6 has an inbuilt GPS which got onto the satellite lock in a minute  with the A-GPS off. It also has Ovi Maps 3.3 Touch installed in it and  Nokia offers a free voice guided navigation on all its GPS handsets for a  lifetime. Now that sounds great!
Ovi store is the place for applications, games, videos and audio files  and many more. Along with these the Nokia C6 has other applications  preinstalled. World Traveler offering weather, currencies, world clock,  and a world map; Nokia drawing, Bloomberg app for financial information  and an AP (Associated Press) Mobile application are few others that are  preinstalled. Coming to the social networking sites, there are twitter,  Facebook, MySpace, Friendster and hi5.

Conclusion
The Nokia C6 has to face challenges from lots of other range of mobiles.  Nothing innovative is lined up over the phone. Yet it might sell for  the style and the brand name it has.