Nokia C6 Review

Bringing you even closer

 Summary

The Samsung Galaxy 551 run on Android 2.2 Froyo right out of the box. To ease the transition for folks who have been used to a physical keyboard all these years, the Galaxy 551 will sport a physical sliding QWERTY keyboard. Of course, this won’t be at the top of the hill in terms of hardware specifications being a mid-range phone, but it is powered by a 667MHz processor, accompanied by a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen TFT display at 240×400 pixels, TouchWiz 3.0 UI, HSDPA 7.2Mbps, a 3-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, DLNA and Bluetooth connectivity, GPS support, an integrated FM radio, Social Hub, DivX support, 160MB of internal memory and a microSD memory card slot.

Camera

The Nokia C6 is equipped with 5 megapixel camera that can take pictures at 2584×1938 pixels. The camera features Autofocus, integrated LED flash, 4x digital zoom, Geotagging images and basic editing options like Settings for scene, video light, white balance and colour tone. The C6 also features secondary camera at front in order to facilitate video calling. You can also capture videos at 30fps in 16:9 aspect ratio. You can share the photos and video to social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace and etc. You have the provision of storing photos in Ovi Share.

The image quality is quite good, but it falls short of 5MP camera standards. The images are crisp and vibrant, bit less bright. The video quality is also mediocre. The Carl Zeiss optical lens is not used here.

Applications

The C6 has A-GPS to keep you on the straight and narrow, and the Symbian operating system gives you the power to install apps from the Ovi Store, including Nokia's excellent free sat-nav app. But the Ovi Store is much harder to use than the app stores found on the or Android handsets, such as. Just getting it fired up can be a challenge -- we were asked to update the store on our brand-new phone. Once you're in there, installing apps can seem like an endless round of cryptic messages and errors. Your perseverance is rewarded with sluggish performance once the C6 tries to run the app.

Specifications

Dimensions

Size: 113.4 x 53 x 16.8 mm

       Weight (with battery): 150 g

       Sliding touch screen display

Keys and input methods

 Full backlit slide-out keyboard with navigation key

Colours

 Available colors:  white  &    black

Camera

5 megapixel camera (2584 x 1938 pixels)

Autofocus and integrated LED flash

Secondary camera for video calls (QVGA)

Display and user interface

Screen size: 3.2"

Resolution: 640 x 360 (nHD)

Up to 16.7 million colours

Data network

HSCSD, maximum speed 43.2 kbps

GPRS class A, multislot class 32

HSDPA, maximum speed up to 3.6 Mbps with simultaneous voice & packet data

WLAN

   Integrated GPS / A-GPS

Connectivity

Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate

High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)

Software platform & user interface

S60 5th edition

Symbian OS version 9.4

Voice commands

Browsing and internet

Full web browsing of real web pages

Web browsing with touch control

Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS

200 MB internal memory, expandable to up to 16 GB with microSD card

Music features

Ovi Music

Nokia Ovi Player (PC application)*

Music codecs: .MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC, eAAC+

Music meta-data ID3 tags, album art

Bit rate up tp 320 kbps

Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz/76-90 MHz), RDS

Recommended accessories

Nokia Extra Power DC-11

Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-607

Nokia 16 GB micro SDHC Card MU-44