The C6 is Nokia's latest smartphone to feature both a touchscreen display and a slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard. The 3.2-inch display is of the resistive variety and during our tests we found it somewhat inconsistent. Sometimes it worked perfectly with just a gentle touch, but on occasion it was far less responsive and only an over-exaggerated finger press would register.
The display quality is reasonable, though. It has 640x360 resolution and rich, vibrant colors. The C6 runs the older and rather dull Symbian OS 9.4. Its successor, the Nokia C6-01, will be released later this year with the revamped Symbian^3 OS.
Sadly, Symbian 9.4 has not aged well since the arrival of the Android and IOS 4 operating systems, and has Nokia's smartphone range. Shortcuts for messages, contacts and the main menu are welcome, but generally the home screen displays too much information with widgets that are too small to view comfortably.
Once we had signed into our account, we could only see three status updates at any one time from the tiny app on the home screen. And with these scrolling across the screen, we could only read one before the screen changed to show the profile page.
The main menu looks rather bare, but the applications folder conceals a multitude of useful apps including Zip manager, Adobe PDF reader and a message reader that enables the device to read out messages in a somewhat eerie voice.
Out of the remaining preinstalled apps, AP Mobile, Bloomberg, CNN Video and Location are all useful additions, as is the ability to synchronies Exchange, Gmail and Yahoo accounts. The Nokia Ovi Maps app is also a great feature, providing accurate voice guided navigation. Although still behind Apple's App Store, the Nokia Ovi store is gaining momentum with 2.3 million downloads per day and plenty of apps on offer.
News Source: www.theinquirer.net