Nokia C6

One of a trio of new social networking phones from Nokia, the Nokia C6 is pretty much a straight replacement for the unloved Nokia N97, featuring a 3.2" touchscreen display, WiFi and 3.5G support, GPS and a 5 megapixel camera.

Specs:Bringing You Even Closer

Friends and family always come first - Nokia C6 brings everyone together with fast, easy access to your email, contacts and favourite social networks.

E-Mail @ Your Fingertips

Get easy access to your email accounts including Hotmail, Gmail™, Yahoo!® Mail and Windows Live

A Natural Way To Keep In Touch

The highly responsive touch screen, familiar user interface and full QWERTY keyboard make everyday communication quick and easy

Stay Close To Your Friends

Add widgets to your home screen that bring live updates from Facebook and other social networks – keeping you in touch, wherever you happen to be.

Messaging

• Get easy access to your email accounts including Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!® Mail and Windows Live.
• Stay in touch with friends and family through Ovi Mail – your free email account from Nokia.
• Write a message quickly and easily using the full QWERTY keyboard.
• Say more with a picture – get your message across clearly by sending a multimedia message

Home Screen

• Personalise your home screen with widgets that bring live updates from Facebook and other social networks.
• Add contact shortcuts to your home screen – bringing you closer to your friends.
• Stay in control of your email, calendar and music with dedicated widgets for your home screen.
• Make your home screen your own by changing the background, theme and icons.

OVI Services

• Visit Ovi Store and choose from a wide selection of great apps, games, wallpapers and themes.
• Keep on top of your emails from your phone or computer using the free Ovi Mail service – including 1 GB of storage for your messages.
• View detailed maps, check the weather and plan the perfect route with the Ovi Maps online service.
• See where your friends and what they are up to through Ovi Contacts.
• Download tracks from the world’s leading artists with quick access to Ovi Music Store from your home screen

Maps

• Get turn-by-turn voice instructions and detailed city guides as part of your free lifetime navigation licence.
• Discover nearby restaurants, landmarks, events and other points of interest as you travel from place to place with Ovi Maps.
• Make it easier for friends to find you – share your current location and meet up with people who are close by.
• Find your position quickly and easily with the integrated A-GPS receiver.

Internet

• Browse the web quickly through a fast and reliable 3G network – or connect to a nearby Wi-Fi hot spot.
• View web pages the way they should be seen on the wide 3.2" touch screen.
• Access your favourite websites and social networks directly from the customisable home screen.
• Watch YouTube™ videos right in the browser – no need to launch a separate player

Design

• Touch the highly responsive display to scroll smoothly through web pages, maps, photos and menus.
• Personalise your home screen with your favourite widgets, website bookmarks and contact shortcuts.
• Slide open the full QWERTY keyboard and type your messages quickly and comfortably.
• Use your Nokia C6 with confidence straight out of the box – the user-friendly interface helps make everyday communication even easier

Photos & Video

• Capture quality images and video clips with the 5 megapixel digital camera.
• Take great photos night or day with the dual LED flash.
• Frame your images to suit any situation by switching between portrait and landscape mode.
• Keep your pictures and videos on your phone or store even more with up to 16 GB of expandable memory.
• Upload photos and video clips straight to your social networks or favourite sharing services.

Music

• Find music to match your mood – with the music player your favourite tracks are always with you.
• Rip CDs onto your compatible computer and create playlists for your tracks using Nokia Ovi Player.
• Keep your favourite songs at your fingertips with the music widget – a mini application that sits directly on your home screen.
• Discover new tracks at Ovi Music Store and then simply download them directly to your phone.

Games

• Enjoy high-quality gaming on your phone and stay in control with the touch-based interface.
• Find everything from card games to strategy games at Ovi Store – then simply download your favourites.

Specification

Dimensions

• Size: 113.4 x 53 x 16.8 mm
• Weight (with battery): 150 g
• Volume: 80 cc
• Additional size and shape information
• Sliding touch-screen display

Keys & Input Methods

• Full backlit slide-out keyboard with navigation key
• Cover keys (Home key, Send/End keys)
• Touch screen
• Dedicated camera and volume keys
• Side-mounted Lock key

Personalisation

• Customisable home screen
• Widgets
• Themes
• Icons
• Shortcuts
• Menu
• Customisable profiles
• Video ringtones
• Ring tones: mp3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA
• Themes
• wallpapers
• screensavers
• ringtones
• pre-installed themes
• changeable colour themes

Display & User Interface

• Screen size: 3.2"
• Resolution: 640 x 360 (nHD)
• Up to 16.7 million colours
• Resistive touch screen
• Brightness control
• Orientation sensor
• Proximity sensor
• Ambient light detector

Power Management

• BL-4J 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery
• Talk time (maximum):
• GSM 420 mins
• WCDMA 300 mins
• Standby time (maximum):
• GSM 400 h
• WCDMA 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, maximum speed up to 3.8 Mbps with simultaneous voice & packet data
• HSDPA, maximum speed up to 3.6 Mbps with simultaneous voice & packet data
• WLAN
• TCP/IP support
• Dual Transfer Mode (DTM), simultaneous voice & packet data connection, class A, multislot class 11
• Capability to serve as data modem
• Support for MS Outlook synchronisation of contacts, calendar and notes
• Integrated GPS / A-GPS

Memory

• MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 16 GB
• Internal memory: 200 MB

Operating Frequency

• Quad band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900
• WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100
• Automatic switching between GSM bands
• Flight mode

Connectivity

• Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
• Support for local and remote SyncML synchronisation
• High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)
• 3.5 mm AV connector

Applications

• Email (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3), MMS, SMS, unified editor
• Viewing of email attachments - .doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf
• Calendar, Contacts, To-do, Notes, E-mail
• Nokia Messaging
• Social networking (Facebook, Hi5, MySpace)
• Ovi Maps
• Ovi Suite, Ovi Store, Ovi Share, Ovi Contacts
• PC Applications: Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Lotus Organizer, Lotus Notes

E-Mail & Messaging

• Easy-to-use email client
• Supported for SMTP, IMAP4, POP3, MMS, SMS. Unified MMS/SMS editor.
• Email web widget
• Nokia Messaging for email
• Mail for Exchange*

Internet

• Full web browsing of real web pages
• Web browsing with touch control
• Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS
• Supported protocols: HTTP v1.1, WAP
• TCP/IP support
• Visual history, HTML and JavaScript suppprt, Flash LIte 3.1 and Flash video support
• Nokia Mobile Search
• RSS reader
• Ovi Store for application downloads
• Support for streaming video
• Ovi Share with connectivity to popular sharing services
• Nokia XPressPrint: direct printing via USB connection (PictBridge), Bluetooth connectivity (BPP) or via online printing
• Video calls

GPS & Navigation

• Ovi Maps with free lifetime navigation licence
• Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers
• Accelerometer for correct orientation of display
• Nokia Maps loader application via PC

Camera

• 5 megapixel camera (2584 x 1938 pixels)
• Still image formats: JPEG, EXIF
• Autofocus and integrated LED flash
• Zoom up to 4x (digital)
• Secondary camera for video calls (QVGA)

Video Camera

• Main 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
• Video file format: .mp4 (default), .3gp (for MMS)
• Settings for scene, video light, white balance, colour tone
• Secondary camera
• QCIF for video calls

Music Features

• Nokia Music Player
• Music Recommender
• Ovi Music
• Nokia Music Manager (PC application)*
• Music codecs: .MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC, eAAC+
• Music meta-data ID3 tags, album art
• Bit rate up tp 320 kbps
• DRM support WM DRM, OMA DRM 2.0/1.0
• Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz/76-90 MHz), RDS

Gaming

• Use the touch UI to play games
• Download games from Ovi Store

The C6 is hardly a radical phone, it's simply an improvement and evolution of what Nokia have produced before.. and this is probably what gives the phone its appeal. Nokia say that the C6 should be available during Q2 2010 in black and white colour schemes.