JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – The Nokia E6-00 is an upgrade to the successful line of BlackBerry-like smartphones from Nokia – now with a touchscreen and Symbian^3.
The handset features the same classic, attractive design that was presented on phones such as the Nokia E71, E72, E72, E63, and many others that join a display and a QWERTY keyboard on the same front. Although in South Africa we can’t get an unlimited internet package with Nokia devices (unlike BlackBerry’s BIS), these handsets were quite successful.
The Nokia E6 comes in black, white, and silver. Three classic, business-suitable colours that really give the device an impressive finish, especially with the glossy bits.
In terms of features, the Nokia E6 presents itself as a mid-end phone, curiously suitable enough to counter threats from the BlackBerry camp, but not from Google Android smartphones that often bring in 1GHz processors and other high-end components.
The handset has a 600MHz processor, very slow in comparison to every other smartphone in the market, a small 2.46″ touchscreen display with 640×480 pixels in resolution, a QWERTY hardware keyboard, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, HSDPA and HSUPA, GPS, 8GB internal storage, microSD memory card support, an 8 megapixel fixed-focus camera with flash, a 3.5mm audio jack, and a 1500mAh battery.