Nokia C6 launches in the UK
By Dean • Jul 27th, 2010 • Category: Nokia
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Struggling mobile phones maker Nokia has finally made its Nokia C6 slider phone available in the UK, providing buyers with the increasingly rare option of purchasing the phone SIM-free for a reasonable price.
Price and availability
The Nokia C6, which was actually revealed in the latter part of 2009, can be purchased from Nokia UK online store SIM-free for £289. This isn’t the cheapest you can get the phone for, though, with various outlets allowing you to buy the Nokia C6 for less than that.
Carriers Vodafone and T-Mobile as well as retailer Carphone Warehouse should get the phone before the end of this week, with Nokia promising a release before the end of July. Nokia has also indicated more carriers will be announced shortly.
Qwerty quirks
The phone sports an increasingly rare feature – a full Qwerty keyboard for rapid typing. Nokia is targeting the phone at people who are looking for a good, mobile email device. The handset promises simple access to multiple email accounts, with Nokia clearly targeting the long-term core user base of BlackBerry handsets.
Specs
The phone has a 3.2-inch TFT screen that has a 640×360 resolution. It also has A-GPS and built-in flash memory of 200MB, expandable to 16GB by using the microSD slot. In many ways, both in terms of aesthetics and feel, it reminds us of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which isn’t at all a bad thing considering that that handset is one of the better phones the company has released in recent years.
Thoughts
Limited early use shows that the Nokia C6 has a lot going for it if you take it for what it is. It is not intended for the high-end smartphone market, and while the Qwerty keyboard took some getting used to, we found it to be highly responsive once adjusted. It was jarring coming from non-stop smartphone usage to something a level down, but the C6 did show why Nokia dominates everything but the lucrative smartphone sector in ways its high-end competitors could only wish they did.
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