C6 appears on sale at Nokia UK store

Published by David Gilson at 9:58 UTC, July 20th 2010

Nokia's latest Symbian^1 device, the C6 has appeared on sale at Nokia's UK store. The C6 is a touchscreen phone with side-sliding QWERTY keyboard, featuring the same homescreen widgets as seen on the N97 and N97 mini. It was announced back in April along with the C3 and E5. The emphasis of the April release was to 'democratise' the market by bringing unlocked handset prices down to a more affordable level. Therefore, we're a little surprised at the £289 price tag on the C6. Of course, prices on the Nokia UK store are typically higher than 'street' retail prices, but this is still different from the £230 price tag we expected.

Here at All About Symbian, we're expecting a C6 review unit very soon, and will be giving it an in-depth review in due course.

Key hardware features 

• 113.4 x 53 x 16.8 mm in dimensions (80 cc volume), 150g in weight; horizontal QWERTY slide form factor.  
    
• 3.2 inch touchscreen; 640 x 360 pixels resolution
    
  
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash.
    
  
• Integrated A-GPS
    
  
• 3.5 mm AV connector and stereo FM radio (with RDS)
   
• BL-4J (1200mAh) Li-Ion battery - charging via 2 mm power port
   
• Quad band GSM, triband WCDMA (900/1900/2100 MHz) and WiFi connectivity.
   
• Up to 200MB of internal memory, 2GB microSD card included in the retail box (selected markets)
    
• ARM 11 processor running at 434MHz (same as 5800 and 5230).
    
  
• Initially available in two colours: Black and White
   
• Mono speaker (the 5800 had big stereo speakers), mounted on the back of the device
   
• Included in the box: Nokia C6-00, Nokia 2GB microSD Card (MU-37), Nokia Connectivity Cable (CA-101), Nokia Stereo Headset (WH-102), Nokia Compact Charger (AC-15), Nokia Battery (BL-4J), and User guide

Key software features

• Runs Symbian^1 (also known as S60 5th Edition) 
    
  
• Customisable homescreen with WRT-based widgets (as first seen on the Nokia N97). Also includes kinetic scrolling and other UI enhancements as first seen in N97 PR2.0 software.
    
  
• Ships with Ovi Maps 3.4 (including free life time navigation and easy Facebook location sharing). 
    
• Nokia Messaging for email (Yahoo Mail Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Ovi Mail) and IM clients for Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger and Ovi Chat available through the Ovi Store.
    
  
• Will likely ship with Nokia Messaging for Social Networks (also known as Communities 2.0), which is currently being tested in Nokia Beta Labs. This aggregates messages from multiple social networks into a single application. 
  
  The phone will also include the current standalone Facebook client with homescreen integration.
    
  
• Ovi Store for access to additional applications, games and content. Ovi Music Store for music downloads. 
     

Here is our original news post of the announcement of the Nokia C6 and our Nokia C6 feature, which compared the C6 to the 5800 and N97 mini.

David Gilson for All About Symbian, 20th July 2010.

News Discussion

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Originally Posted by brendand It IS £230 on PAYG.

Yes, but that doesn't count, because the phones you buy direct from Nokia are SIM free.

To even see it for £230 on PAYG is quite surprising. I would have expected a phone like the C6 on PAYG for something like £160-180, with the SIM free price to be £230-250 at most.

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Originally Posted by viipottaja Yup, Nokia stores are always more expensive it seems.. not sure they can afford it the way Nokia is doing right now.

Manufacturer stores are always expensive as hell.

Nobody knows why - maybe to keep their retailers happy...

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Originally Posted by clonmult From the Nokia shop, the N97 Mini can be had for £10 more, but comes with a car holder & charger. So they really don't want to sell the C6, do they? Going on SIM free prices, the C6 is pretty much the same price as the Xperia X10 Mini. So the N97 Mini and the C6 are pretty much the same price, the same product, why bother having two slightly different versions of the same product? Actually, add in the N97 and they've got 3 products that are basically the same, minor point differences in spec and design. Utter stupidity.

The X10 mini has no qwerty, the X10 mini PRO does have slide out qwerty, I have picked up an Xperia X10 mini Pro - unlocked for £199.

I am certain that the C6 will not be at the quoted priced when it is widely available. It will be more like £179.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered The X10 mini has no qwerty, the X10 mini PRO does have slide out qwerty, I have picked up an Xperia X10 mini Pro - unlocked for £199. I am certain that the C6 will not be at the quoted priced when it is widely available. It will be more like £179.

If it does hit the high street at £179, then there's going to be virtually no reason to buy the N97 Mini unless you absolutely need the additional internal memory and TV-out - for most people, the C6 will probably look like a better bet (assuming they like the colour).

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Originally Posted by Unregistered l by the way apple page shows even n97mini too have signal problem that too with video proof what a shame

N97 mini does NOT have the same signal problem as iPhone 4. It is NOT possible to touch the metal of the antenna on an N97 mini. All phones will drop signal when shielded. iPhone 4 will drop when touched with a fingertip.

Apple have done a really good job of fooling a lot of people.

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