| Mobile phone makers are known to maximize their | | | | 384 hours of standby time on either. |
| tooling and design investments with various model | | | | Just like the 5800, the Nokia C6 has the same 3.2-inch |
| iterations of the same theme. They either go up or | | | | TFT LCD resistive touchscreen with half-VGA |
| down the feature ladder with the addition or deletion of | | | | resolution in 16 million colors. Imaging gets better with a |
| 3G, GPS, WiFi or halving a monolithic body to morph it | | | | 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, face |
| into a slider. Finnish mobile phone world leader Nokia | | | | smile detection, geo tagging and video capture at VGA |
| has been doing that for decades now. | | | | resolution and 30fps. A secondary camera frontside |
| The midrange C-series of Nokia gets more interesting | | | | supports 3G video calls. |
| with the Nokia C6 smartphone. Interesting because it's | | | | It gets the 5800 legacy as a capable music phone. It |
| basically a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic that Nokia cut in | | | | has a stereo FM radio with RDS and the media |
| half to accommodate a landscape QWERTY | | | | players for audio in the MP3, WMA, WAV, and |
| keyboard slider. | | | | eAAC+ file formats as well as video in the MP4, H.264 |
| In the process, the C6 gains 41g in weight and 1.4mm | | | | and WMV file codecs. |
| thicker than the 5800. When closed, the handset | | | | Stereo listening takes two options for wired using its |
| measures 113 x 53 x 16.8mm and weighs 150g and | | | | 3.5mm audio out jack or you can go wireless with its |
| looks quite like the 5800 with the same screen size, | | | | A2DP profile support. Its battery allows 30 hours of |
| inline keys at the bottom of the screen, rounded | | | | continuous music playback on a single charge. |
| corners and the iPhone like rimming around the edges. | | | | A Complete Connectivity Suite |
| It's also easy to mistake it as an N97 which has the | | | | International roaming on the GSM network is a breeze |
| same form factor. | | | | as the Nokia C6 offers the full array of radio and data |
| General Features | | | | connectivity technologies that are no different from |
| The Nokia C6 gets the same 434 MHz ARM11 | | | | Nokia flagships. It's a quad band on both UMTS (850/ |
| processor under the hood and runs the same Symbian | | | | 900/ 1900/2100) on 3G and GSM (850/ 900/ 1800/ |
| OS v9.4 layered with the S60 Rel 5.0 user interface. | | | | 2100) on 2G. |
| That means you don't have to expect anything | | | | Data connectivity gets class 32 GPRS/EDGE for up |
| outstanding or new from it. Onboard memory, | | | | to 286 Kbps data speeds on the 2G network while on |
| however, takes a better spec with 240 MB and gets | | | | 3G, it has HSDPA at 3.6 Mbps and HSUPA at 2 Mbps |
| backed with microSD external memory expansion slot | | | | speeds. High speed local data connectivity for hotspot |
| supporting up to 16 GB. | | | | surfing is possible from its WiFi 802.11b/g while |
| Using a slightly smaller 1200 mAh li-ion battery, talk | | | | Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0 allow |
| times get a shorter 7 hours on 2G, 5 hours on 3G and | | | | wireless and wired data transfers, respectively. |