Nokia C6-01 - Minimalist Design and Powerful Camera

Design

The concept of this phone is in the style. Minimalist design for imaging a modern look. Rectangular shape with curved corners feels comfort when gripped. Nokia C6-01 is more petite sizes than the Nokia C7, making it more fit to be in the hands of women. This Smartphone is protected by a sturdy metal casing. There are two colors choice, black and gray. Unfortunately, the casing material makes this phone feels quite heavy although small in size.

Nokia C6-01 front face is dominated by 3.2 inches touch screen. At the bottom there are three buttons: dial on, menus and dial off. At the top of the screen, also looks a tiny camera lens at right corner. If you look on the sides of this phone there are a few buttons and ports to support the performance, on the bottom side and right side. Below, there is a mini USB port, 3.5 mm audio jack, and charger. On the right, there's a camera button, lock screen, and volume control, a slender elongated shape with silver metal packing material.

At the back of the phone is sturdy, mounted a camera lens capable of 8 MP. Beside camera a pair of lights flashes to help shoot in low light environments. Still beside the camera lens, there are holes that can remove the speaker strains of the song from your music collection.

Interfaces

Nokia C6-01 uses the Symbian operating system 3 displays a more attractive interface with three views homescreen. Looks like Symbian operating system trying to catch up with other smartphone OS such as Android or iOS that feels more manageable as the user desires. But if you look at the main menu is still visible appearance typical Nokia menu in most series. The icon still appears in the form of a grid or list extends downward. Users can change the order of the existing icons.

Nokia C6-01 has been using touch screen AMOLED capacitive technology. Type of display produces a faster response time of operation. Moreover, this Smartphone supported by clear black display technology, resulting in the display remains clearly visible in direct sunlight exposure conditions and coupled with scratch resistant to allow long-lasting display.

The display screen looks bright and sharp thanks to the support of 16 million color 360 × 640 pixel density. Another technology embedded in the display, proximity sensor and accelerometer. Proximity is useful as a proximity sensor when phone receives a call. While the accelerometer as a motion sensor fall down and stand up screen, which is very useful when typing an SMS, watch videos, take pictures, or when browsing.

This phone interface also provides a virtual keypad for SMS or typing an e-mail. Alphanumeric keypad comes in portrait display condition. While the condition of landscape, a full QWERTY keypad appears. Medium-sized virtual keys with a good level of sensitivity, strongly supports the typing speed.
The most interesting part of this interface is the presence of screenshots of running applications when you want to look application running on memory. Click on a cross in the screenshots to close the running application.

Applications and Connections

Applications on Nokia C6-01 is quite numerous and varied. In addition to web TV, social networking has also been included in the full features of this phone. Application services made by Nokia, Ovi, it provides a variety of things. Nokia users do not need to bother looking for a variety of applications that are compatible with their phones, because in this portal, all available complete.

In addition to entertainment, work support functions can also be done via e-mail and office. E-mail settings are very easy and automatic, only need to enter your e-mail address and password.Office applications contain a variety of content, ie, Quickoffice, Adobe PDF, English dictionary, Zip compressed document, World Traveler, and F-Secure. World Traveler is very useful for those who frequently travel. Inside the aircraft available information, weather, time of various cities in the world, the travel plan (agenda that contains the destination city, departure date, flight and hotel used), currency exchange rates, personal secure data.A variety of these applications would require adequate support internet connection. Fortunately Nokia C6-01 has been supported by the 3.5 G network with a maximum speed 10.2 Mbps (download) and 2 Mbps (upload). Also available is also WiFi to use the Internet at hot spot locations.

Camera and Video

Nokia has equipped this phone with 8 MP camera with resolution up to 3264 × 2448 capable of producing a clear picture, sharp, and large. Extra pair of flash lamps helped maximizing the quality of existing cameras, when used in any lighting conditions. In addition to the main camera, on the front there is a lower quality. The quality of the video player owned quite satisfactory. Moreover, the ability to swivel support DivX and XviD, as well as video playback up to 720p resolution. Besides video, the Nokia C6-01 bring web TV applications. In it there are 3 web TV channels, namely CNN, National Geographic, and E! Entertainment. There is also a shortcut to the YouTube site that contains a variety of videos from around the world, as well as from the Paramount Picture Movie Teasers. The many types of video that can be played, making a variety of applications can be enjoyed freely.

The video recorder is also available with a quality that does not disappoint. Files stored in the HD-quality Mp4 format, which produces a good image stability. Not just a camera, video recorder can use a second camera lens is located on the front. But the quality is far below the main lens.

Music and FM Radio

Nokia C6-01 audio player display is different from most Nokia. Here are the search with the sweeping cover album of songs stored on the memory. Each cover that appears will show the name of singer and song title on it. It's certainly more convenient and enjoyable user.The sound that comes out through the speakers can be said to be good. Crystal clear sound can be enjoyed in conditions of minimal and maximal volume. The sound is also heard playing stable when the volume tested.

Did not have a large collection of songs? There is still an FM radio. Users can listen to music through an FM radio. Without an internal radio antenna, then the activation of this feature requires a headset. Once the headset is connected, the search frequency of direct work. The next channel obtained directly stored in the list provided.

The sound quality depends on the accuracy of cell phone radio signal. Your current location is also influential on the outcome. Most radio stations are selected at random, have quite clear and obvious sound.

Battery and Memory

Applications that run continuously will surely suck up battery power. Nokia C6-01 equipped with 1050 mAh Lithium ion battery that can be used up to 290 minutes in 3G network conditions, with up to 380 hours standby time.

With so many features and advantages of the video and camera, this also requires a large memory capacity.  Internal memory capacity 340 MB, while external memory can be up to 32 GB microSD. With a combined capacity of the existing memory has been able to accommodate the desire to store more data.

If you have too much data, you can move some or all of the documents is on the phone to a PC via a data cable. Or, it could also transfer them to other devices using Bluetooth.

SPECIFICATION
Released: December 2010
Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz
Form: Bars
Dimensions: 103.8 × 52.5 × 13.9 mm

Weight: 131 gr
Battery: Li-Ion 1050 mAh (BL-5CT)
Standby time: 420 hours (2G) / 380 hours (3G)
Talk time: 720 min (2G) / 290 min (3G)
Display: Touchscreen, capacitive, AMOLED, 3.2-inch, 16.7 million colors, 640 × 360 pixels
Operating system: Symbian ^ 3 OS
Processor: ARM 11 680 MHz, 3D Graphics HW accelerator
Internal memory: 340 MB
Additional Memory: MicroSD, up to 32 GB
Connectivity between devices: Micro USB, Bluetooth v2.0 (A2DP & AVRCP), WiFi
Internet Connectivity: GPRS class 33, EDGE class 33, HSDPA
Camera: 8 MP, fixed focus, dual-LED flash, 3264 × 2448 pixels
Ringtone: Polyphonic
Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Push e-mail, Instant Messaging
Applications: Java MIDP 2.0, Facebook, Twitter, Nokia Ovi, SNS integration, WebTV, Document viewer (Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, PDF), Flash Lite 4.0, Voice command / dial, T9, FM Radio, Games, Calendar, Agenda, Notes, Recorder,
Calculator, Clock, MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC + player, player DivX/XviD/MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263
Other: 3.5 mm audio jack, TV-out, WAP 2.0/xHTML, Digital compass