The Nokia C6 is the latest in a long line of modestly priced touchscreen smartphones with side-sliding keyboards from the Finnish company. The Symbian-based C6 steps it up a notch with a 3.2-inch resistive touch screen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The full suite of social networking and e-mail capabilities are represented, as are the Ovi Store and Ovi Maps for free turn-by-turn, voice-guided navigation and a 5-megapixel camera with flash and autofocus. Running on Symbian S60 5th Edition, it's packing 3G HSDPA and Wi-Fi for speedy internet access.
Going further, on top of the device, there’s the opening for the 3.5 mm headset jack, and right next to it, a microUSB port that is protected from the outside world with a plastic cap. On the right-hand side of the C6 are some handy physical buttons that are totally unmarked but looks decent and quality Nokia C6 repair parts, though regular smartphone users will recognize them easily enough. At the top you have a volume rocker, with a slider that locks and unlocks the phone underneath. Near the bottom there is a camera key, pressing it all the way will launch the camera app immediately.
The Nokia C6 features a 5MP camera with an LED flash, and an impressive number of settings. Speaking of quality, the C6 shows a rather mediocre performance between other 5Mpix shooters, meaning the color pallet is good in the produced pictures. The Home screen is divided up into six rectangles, effectively. Each space can be taken up by a widget, which are all uniform in size. Nokia repair services is a great idea in practice, you can can see them all in a column of six when in portrait mode, or in two columns of three in landscape mode, without any formatting change in the widgets themselves.
Messaging and social networking are the focus of Nokia's latest smartphones, and the company's hoping the affordable price tag attached to them will draw in the masses. The C6 is a big improvement over previous mid-range side sliding phones from Nokia. The keyboard is very good, the software is much easier to use and aside from the screen, build quality seems decent.
