It’s time to say goodbye to your good ol’ friends, E71 or E72 and make room for their smarter sister, the E6. They’re not going to be jealous or anything, I’m sure they’ll completely understand and nicely step aside.
The E6 offers a more user-friendly interface, better text input, faster browser and comes with Ovi Maps 3.06 pre-installed. Actually, you have to thank the new Symbian Anna upgrade for these features.
It’s a stylish phone and they didn’t save any metal when designing it, refining the winning recipe from a few years ago. The more pronounced rounded edges and its stainless steel battery cover will immediately come out and the smartphone gives the impression of solidity and quality of construction.
Key features
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• Penta-band 3G with 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA
• Symbian Anna OS
• Messenger bar, stainless steel body, four-row QWERTY keyboard
• 2.46" 16M-color capacitive TFT touchscreen of 640 x 480 pixel resolution; Gorilla glass protection
• 680 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 256 MB RAM
• 8GB internal storage, 1GB ROM, microSD card slot
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
• GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free lifetime voice-guided navigation
• Digital compass
• 8 megapixel fixed-focus camera with dual-LED flash, 720p video recording @ 25fps; geotagging, face detection, smart zoom in video
• Built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• Stereo FM Radio with RDS
• microUSB port, USB-on-the-go
• Flash and Java support for the web browser
• Stereo Bluetooth 3.0
• Smart dialing and voice commands
• DivX, XviD and Matroska video support
• Social network integration
• Office document viewer and editor
• Excellent battery life
• Excellent audio quality.
Full specs here.
The QWERT keyboard seems to be fully taken from its predecessor, I noticed no difference between the E72’s and the E6’s keyboards. Underneath the touchscreen display of 2.46 inch and with a 640 × 480 pixel resolution you can find the capacitive buttons.
Its blue box contains the phone’s microUSB cable, charger and headset. No microSD card.
On its top side, you’ll find the microSD card slot, 3.5mm jack and the classic Nokia Power key. The bottom hosts the charger port.
On the left side is the microUSB port, on the right you’ll see the volume rocker, with a middle key used for activating voice commands and the lock key, which can be used for turning the dual-LED flash to serve as a flashlight.
The E6’s hardware is more than satisfying, the 680 MHz processor, 256MB of RAM, 1GB ROM and 8GB storage make a more than satisfying combination that gets the job done. The 1500 mAh battery provides a decent range of 3 to 4 days under moderate usage.
The reception is good and the call quality is flawless, as I’ve expected it to be. Nokia is well known for its excellent services when it comes to telephony. Smart and voice dialing are also here, among with the possibility of video calling.
This phone is a god when it comes to messaging. I mean it. The messaging service is pretty much a standard texting application, the mail application supports Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, Ovi Mail. For instant messaging, the Chat application allows you to use Yahoo Chat, Google Talk, MSN, ICQ and Ovi Chat. Texting will be a wonderful experience thanks to the QWERTY keyboard on this phone, which is a sweetheart.
When it comes to connectivity, there’s nothing missing from what a business client would need. This phone comes with 3G with HSPA (10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2.0 Mbps HSUPA), GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth 3.0 and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi with WEP, WPA, WPA2 (AES/TKIP) encryption protocols.
Symbian Anna offers an improved web browser, the pages are loaded faster and everything related to browsing is better on the E6, if you compare it to the features given by Symbian^3.
The E6 comes with an 8 megapixel camera, that takes pictures at a maximum resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels and has a dual-LED flash. The photo quality is fine, but lacks autofocus. The video recording is very good, the phone shoots in 720p resolution at 25 fps, offering digital image stabilization and 3x digital zoom.
You also have an image and video editor. The image editor allows you to rotate, resize, crop, apply effects to your pictures and with the video editor you can create slideshows from your photos or create/edit videos from your images and videos.
The music player supports a lot of formats, such as MP3, WAV, MIDI, WMA, AAC/AAC+/eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB. You get an equalizer and a stereo widening feature. The sound quality is excellent, loud and clear, as it should be and the headphones are pretty decent. Stereo FM radio with RDS is also present.
The video player is very good and it comes with support for AVI, MP4, MKV, WMV, H.264/H.263. The image quality is great.
If you need some maps and satellite navigation, the phone provides a very useful application, Ovi Maps, that includes free Navteq-based global maps, voice guidance, speed limit and traffic information.
The E6 is generous when it comes to helpful applications. One of them is Quickoffice, that can view and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. For PDF files, you get the Adobe Acrobat app. If you’re needing a multi-lingual dictionary, the Dictionary application will come in very handy and if you want to hear your text messages, the Message Reader will read them to you.
The glorious days when the E71/72 were popular and appreciated are over. I’m sorry, E-series fellows, but it’s time to let the E6 to proudly take your place. Made on Nokia’s classic recipe for the business area, this phone is clearly a step forward, offering a lot of handy features and applications and is capable of pleasing even the most needy business user.
You can have your own E6 on a mobile phone deal here.
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