Nokia C6 - worth it !

When Apple announced the launch Iphone on Jan 9 2007, little did anyone know that it will change the psychy of mobile users in the generations to come. Touch screen became an instant hit. People felt their old phones were sluggish and orthodox like grandma. But Apple was not pioneering it. It never did with most of its product except MAC. There were already touch screen phones in the stable from O2 and Imate. These phones were expensive, bulky and based on slow and sulky Windows Mobile. They never caught the attention like Apple Iphone did. I too bought HTC touch soon after the Iphone was launched, only to abandon it a year later. Windows sucks !

Now there are plenty of them, and all types of them. The mother earth has suddenly woken up to touch, and to goad it further is Nokia C6. A symbian based phone, which draw its virtues from the biggie Nokia N97 - The disastrous N series from Nokia.

It has got everything you need and nothing you don't. It has 3.2" inch touch screen with an appreciative Qwerty keypad. The screen resolution is 640 x 360 (nHD) with resistive touch. It has adorns gizmos like brightness control, orientation control, proximity sensor and ambient light detector. It virtually copies everything it possibly could from the Iphone.

It works on both GSM (2G) and WCDMA (3G) networks, which is good given that the 3G launch in India is imminent. It also supports POP3 email clients and office stationerys like word, excel and pdfs. Its internal memory is 200 MB with external, hot swappable, micro SD card expandable to 16 GB. Talk time on GSM network is 7 hours and on WCDMA network is 5 hours. It has inbuilt GPS with free Nokia Ovi Maps and apps. There are two cameras on either side with 5MP resolution on the back.

It also feeds the social networking (SNS) hunger with personalise home screen that brings live updates from Facebook, Tweeter and Orkut. It would be interesting to see if Nokia has moved on from its booring UI to something innovative and fresh.

This device intends to be useful for all types of varied users. The phone is yet to be launched in India. It is expected to arrive in the last quarter of May 2010. The price is pegged at Rs 13500, which is very competitive for the features it gives.