Nokia E6

The Nokia E6-00 is a smartphone based on the Symbian^3 "Anna" operating arrangement fabricated by Nokia. It supersedes the Nokia E72 as the new Symbian business advancement band-aid from Nokia.5

The smartphone is notable for its backlit 4-rows QWERTY keyboard and blow awning ascribe methods, for its abundant acknowledged continued array activity (Talktime : 7.5 to 14.8 h and Standby : 28 to 31 days, although "disputed by abounding complaints". adage array lasts for 1 day only),3 the out-of-the-box admission to Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Microsoft Communicator Mobile and Microsoft SharePoint5 and the top pixel body of its VGA affectation (326ppi).6

Like its predecessors (Nokia E71/E72), the Nokia E6-00 integrates a stainless animate and bottle design.5 The aback disposable cover, the aloft console for the aback camera, bifold LED beam and loud apostle and the curve of the foreground are fabricated of stainless steel. The foreground of the buzz (except for the QWERTY keyboard, abbreviate cut buttons and Navikey) is covered with Corning® Gorilla® Glass.

Its case has three blush options (black, argent and white).

History and availability

The antecedent of the E6-00 in the Eseries, consisting of business-oriented smartphones, was the Nokia E72 which alien in November 2009. As with the E71, the E72 accustomed mostly praises from the press. It is account acquainted that Nokia appear the E7, a mural QWERTY slider smartphone in the Eseries based on Symbian^3, that alien in February 2011.

The aboriginal hints that the Nokia E6-00 was getting developed came, in aboriginal January 2011, from a Nokia XML7 and pictures from a Picasa anthology with pictures taken with the device.8 Various advice could be retrieved from the XML such as the 8 MP camera, VGA affectation and QWERTY keyboard.9 The accessory was not clearly appear at the Mobile World Congress captivated in Barcelona (14–17 February 2011).10 Various pictures and videos of the Nokia E6-00 leaked during the months of February and March.

It was clearly appear at a appropriate event, called Discover Symbian, on 12 April 2011 forth with the Nokia X7 and the latest amend of Symbian software.5 It is accepted to be appear in Q2 2011 in Europe at a amount of €340 (before taxes and subsidies) and in Q3 2011 in North America.4

The Nokia E6 is accessible at the Nokia Deutschland online boutique for preorder at the amount of €429

Processors

The Nokia E6-00 is powered by the aforementioned processor begin in added contempo Symbian accessories such as the Nokia N8, E7 and C7, which is an ARM11 clocked at 680 MHz with a Broadcom BCM2727 GPU which supports OpenVG1.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 support.122

Screen and input

The Nokia E6-00 has a 62.5 mm (diagonally) capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 640 × 480 pixel (VGA, 326 ppi).1 According to Nokia, it is able of announcement up to 16.7M colours.1 The awning accuracy of the E6-00 is "more than bifold the accuracy of the E72" if abstinent in candelas.13 There is a adjacency sensor which deactivates the affectation and touchscreen if the accessory is brought abreast the face during a call.1 The Nokia E6 aswell understands PictBridge agreement so it's accessible to anon book from the buzz to a printer after appliance a computer to handle the abstracts alteration in between.

The optical Navi key of the E72 has been replaced by a Navi key on the E6-00.1 It has aswell an ambient ablaze sensor that adjusts the affectation accuracy and activates the backlit of the 4-row keyboard. A 3-axis accelerometer is present but will not about-face the affectation to account approach if the accessory is angry sideways. It will, however, yield pictures in account and appearance them the appropriate way in the photo gallery.13

The accessory has an chargeless GPS with alternative A-GPS functionality, Wi-Fi arrangement accession and Cell-ID and comes pre-loaded with the Ovi Maps application. Ovi Maps for Symbian^3 provides: chargeless activity time, about-face by turn, articulation guided car and banal navigation.1 If the map is already downloaded to the device, Ovi Maps does not crave an alive abstracts affiliation and can plan as a angle abandoned GPS navigator. For added services, for archetype Google Maps, a abstracts affiliation is required.

The 8 megapixel (3264 x 2448 px) aback camera has an continued abyss of acreage affection (no autofocus), bifold LED flash, 2X agenda zoom (3X in video mode) and offers top analogue (720p, 16:9 aspect ratio) video recording at 25 frame/s or 4:3 aspect ratio.4 The 0.3 megapixel foreground camera is able of video recording (176 x 144 px at 15 frame/s)2 for video calling.

The Nokia E6 has a loudspeaker and two microphones.2 The microphone at the foreground of the accessory collects choir of the user, addition microphone at the aback of the accessory collects ecology babble for alive babble cancellation, which makes user's articulation in blatant ambiance complete clearer to the being at the added end of the line. Babble abandoning is not accessible if appliance the loudspeaker or a headset.

Buttons

The E6-00 has a microphone and a loudspeaker amid on the aback of the device. There is a 3.5 mm four-contact TRRS adapter which accompanying provides stereo audio achievement and either microphone ascribe or video output.1 PAL and NTSC TV out is accessible application a Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (not included aloft purchase) or a accepted TRRS -> 3x RCA cable.

There is a High-Speed USB 2.0 USB Micro-B adapter provided for abstracts synchronization, accumulation accumulator approach (client) and array charging. The Nokia E6-00 supports for USB On-The-Go 1.32 (the adeptness to act as a USB host) application a Nokia Adapter Cable for USB OTG CA-157 (not included aloft purchase).1

The congenital Bluetooth v3 supports wireless earpieces and headphones through the HSP profile. The Nokia E6-00 is aswell able of stereo audio achievement with the A2DP profile. Congenital car hands-free kits are aswell accurate with the HFP profile. File alteration is accurate (FTP) forth with the OPP contour for sending/receiving objects. It is accessible to limited ascendancy the accessory with the AVRCP profile. The DUN contour which permits admission to the Internet from a laptop by dialing up on a adaptable buzz wirelessly (tethering). Other profiles are aswell accurate (BIP, GAP, GAVDP, GOEP , HSP, PBAP, SAP, SDP and SPP).2 The accessory has a 87.5-108 MHz (76-90 MHz in Japan) FM receiver with RDS support. It has Wi-Fi b/g/n connectivity (single band) with abutment for WEP, WPA and WPA2 (AES/TKIP) aegis protocols

Audio and output

The E6-00 has a microphone and a loudspeaker amid on the aback of the device. There is a 3.5 mm four-contact TRRS adapter which accompanying provides stereo audio achievement and either microphone ascribe or video output.1 PAL and NTSC TV out is accessible application a Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (not included aloft purchase) or a accepted TRRS -> 3x RCA cable.

There is a High-Speed USB 2.0 USB Micro-B adapter provided for abstracts synchronization, accumulation accumulator approach (client) and array charging. The Nokia E6-00 supports for USB On-The-Go 1.32 (the adeptness to act as a USB host) application a Nokia Adapter Cable for USB OTG CA-157 (not included aloft purchase).1

The congenital Bluetooth v3 supports wireless earpieces and headphones through the HSP profile. The Nokia E6-00 is aswell able of stereo audio achievement with the A2DP profile. Congenital car hands-free kits are aswell accurate with the HFP profile. File alteration is accurate (FTP) forth with the OPP contour for sending/receiving objects. It is accessible to limited ascendancy the accessory with the AVRCP profile. The DUN contour which permits admission to the Internet from a laptop by dialing up on a adaptable buzz wirelessly (tethering). Other profiles are aswell accurate (BIP, GAP, GAVDP, GOEP , HSP, PBAP, SAP, SDP and SPP).2 The accessory has a 87.5-108 MHz (76-90 MHz in Japan) FM receiver with RDS support. It has Wi-Fi b/g/n connectivity (single band) with abutment for WEP, WPA and WPA2 (AES/TKIP) aegis protocols

Notification LED visibility

Some new users of the Nokia E6 accept accomplished issues with the notification LED which has been placed beneath the D-pad aeronautics key, as in antecedent models (E71, E72). However, it is credible that Nokia has not accustomed acceptable amplitude amid the D-pad key and the foreground face for the ablaze to be visible. Some accept declared the buzz about abstract due to this architecture fault. Nokia accept accustomed the botheration but accept not adumbrated whether a fix is accessible in software by adjusting the accuracy of the component.1617

But a user ( ayush3090 ) has begin a workaround for this botheration by application the charging LED as the notifications ablaze by application a MOD created for Nokia N8 by a modder called ancelad.18

A revised Nokia E6 which has a accouterments change to boldness the notification ablaze affair started shipment on 22nd October 2011

Symbian^3 "Anna"

Along with the Nokia X7, the E6-00 will abode with the adapted Symbian^3 software user experience. This update, nicknamed "Anna", will offer, amidst others:24

New icons.

Bigger argument ascribe with a breach awning account QWERTY if entering argument into web pages and applications.

New internet browser (v7.3) with an bigger user interface (URL access bar, consistently arresting ‘Go Back’ and continued toolbar buttons), search-integrated abode field, faster aeronautics and page loading.

An adapted Ovi Maps (v3.06) appliance with seek for accessible carriage routes, adeptness to download abounding country maps via WLAN or Nokia Ovi Suite and check-in to Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.

Hardware accelerated encryption.

Increased book admeasurement banned for downloading over WLAN with Ovi Store (v2.06).

Bigger Social (v1.3) with cachet updates in acquaintance agenda and adeptness to retweet and appearance addict account in Twitter.

Flashlite 4 that abutment some Flash Player 10.1 agreeable such as Youtube.

Java Runtime 2.2, Qt Mobility 1.1 and Qt4.7.

Preinstalled applications on the Nokia E6-00 cover JoikuSpot Premium (mobile WiFi hotspot), World Traveler, F-secure Adaptable Security and QuickOffice.3

Compatibility

Due to its VGA (640 x 480) resolution, compared to the nHD (640 x 360) of the added Symbian^3 devices, some apparatus may be adverse with the E6-00 if they are brash for nHD display.25 For example, Nokia guidelines accede that the user interface elements of the draft covering (accept button, basal numpad, etc. ...) should be at diminutive 7mm x 7mm. The top pixel physique of the Nokia E6-00 bureau that the elements will allegation to be appropriately above in pixels.26

Compared to others abreast Symbian^3 devices, the Nokia E6-00 has two added homescreens (5 instead of 3). This is to accordance users the above befalling for customization as the added accessories on a allay affectation which lath 3 widgets per homescreens.13