nokia E6-00

Nokia has just announced the latest addition to the ESeries family of smartphones – the E6-00.It is a candybar QWERTY device and is the successor to the Nokia E72.

Nokia E6-00 Back Side – 8 Megapixel EDOF Camera, Dual LED Flash and Loudspeaker




The features of the device are:

• Symbian Anna OS
• 115.5 x  59 x 10.5mm, 133 grams
• 2.46″ Capacitive Touchscreen Gorilla Glass Display with VGA (640×480 Pixels) Resolution
• 256 MB RAM, 1GB ROM
• 8 Megapixel EDOF Camera with Dual LED Flash, 2x Digital Zoom (3x in Video Mode) and 720p HD Video Recording at 25 FPS
• 8 GB Internal Memory, microSD Card Slot Supporting upto 32GB
• Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP, Wi-Fi
• Proximity Sensor, Light Sensor, Accelerometer
• microUSB Port, 3.5mm Audio Jack, USB OTG (On the Go)
• Nokia BP-4L 1500 mAH Battery
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Nokia E6-00 Left Side – microUSB Port
Nokia E6-00 Top Side – Power Key, 3.5mm Audio Jack and microSD Card Slot

nokia c2-03

This phone was announced in June and available in India from August 2011. Thus is a Dual SIM phone with Dual Standby. It runs on Nokia Series 40 6th Edition OS.
Box Contents :

• Nokia C2-03 dual SIM mobile phone
• Nokia BL-5C 1020 mAh Li-Ion Battery
• Nokia Charger AC-3
• Nokia Stereo Headset WH-102
• Nokia 2 GB microSD Card
• Data Connectivity Cable CA-101D

Hardware/Design :
The phone has nice curved design and good build quality. There is Nokia logo on top along with C2 on the top left corner. It has 2.6 inch (240 x 320 pixels) LCD transmissive touch screen display and a slide-out four row keyboard. The call and end keys are located below the display. The 4 row keyboard slides out.

The hot swappable second memory card slot is located on the left side.

The Volume rocker and the lock button are on the right side

The 3.5mm audio jack, Micro USB slot and the Nokia 2mm charger slots are on the top.


The 2MP camera is on the back with the speaker grill next to it.


When you open the back cover you can see 1020 mAh BL-5C battery and there are SIM card and the MicroSD card slots.
Software:

The C2-03 comes with S40 6th edition FP1 UI which supports both touch input and hardware input. There is no navi-pad and all the operations are carried out only by touch. The home screen is customizable with shortcuts such as SIM manager, Clock, Communities app, Shortcut bar, Radio and Media Timer and Web Search. The Goto button on the left opens a grid view of shortcuts. The left and right hotkey options are customizable too.
The Menu has Calendar, Contacts, Music, Internet, Messaging, Store, SIM Manger, Maps, Apps, Settings, Life tools and Photos.
Music Player and Radio :

The music player supports different formats like AAC, MP3, MP4, WAV and WMA. The music player comes with equalizer with presets like Rock, Pop, Jazz and Classical and two customizable presets. You can also create playlist and add songs. It has Bluetooth with A2DP support that lets you play music via Bluetooth headset. The Radio with RDS auto tunes the radio stations. There a recording button that lets you record the radio stations that are saved in aac format. The stations could also be set manually by selecting the frequency.
Apps and Games:

There are lots of apps in the phone such as communities, that lets you post to several accounts such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. Other apps include Nokia Life Tools that offers information messages on several topics. The Maps app lets you search for an address offline even though it doesn’t have GPS.

There are lots of Games such as Golf Tour, Memorize, Music Guess, Nature Park, Picture Puzzle and Solitaire. Other utilities include World Clock, Calculator, Voice Recorder, To-do list, Notes, Countdown timer and Stopwatch. There is always Nokia App Store where you could download more applications. Some of the applications comes with the memory card that include, Bharat Matrimony, BookMyShow, eBay.in, NewsHunt, MobileESPN, ngpay, Quickr, Sulekha Local. These apps might differ based on your region.
Messaging and Contacts:

The Messaging has common features such as Create messages, Inbox, Conversations (Shows messages in conversation view), Sent items, Drafts and settings. The SIM card number is mentioned on each inbox messages and on the on-screen notification to let you know from which SIM the message is received. There are various mail options to choose from, like Ovi Mail, Yahoo mail, Gmail, Hotmail etc. The Chat services like Gtalk, Yahoo messenger, OVI and MSN are also available. The chats are categorized as conversations, online and offline.
The contacts show the names in the contact list with images. There are also options to set speed dial for contacts, sync your contacts with you OVI account, contact groups, copy or move contact from phone memory to SIM card.

Connectivity and Browser:

It has Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP that lets you stream music and transfer files to other devices. It has Nokia browser that has several tools to reduce image quality, set search engine, auto-fill details and view data usage. It also has Micro USB connectivity to transfer data from your PC.  This doesn’t have 3G or Wi-Fi. The Nokia X3-02 that we reviewed few months back had Wi-Fi and 3G but it it a bit costly when compared to this phone and it had single SIM card slot.


Camera :
The Nokia C2-03 has 2MP full focus camera There is also landscape format for capturing images. Other camera features include self timer and effects. Since there is no flash, image looks average in low lighting conditions.


Verdict :
The Nokia C2-03 has all the features you need such as Dual SIM support with Hot-Swap option. The Battery life is  satisfactory that lasts for 2 days in Dual SIM mode with few calls, Messaging, Music and Radio. The touch and type works well, you could also use the on screen keyboard to dial a number.Lack of dedicated camera button and the USB Charging options (That was available in the Nokia X3-02) are a bit disappointing.

Pros :

• Nice Build Quality
• Dual SIM with Dual Standby
• SIM card Hot-Swap option
• Touch Screen and Slide out Keyboard

Nokia C2-02

As Nokia smartphones struggle to hold the line against the storming droids, more and more pressure falls on their feature-phone squad. It will be up to those foot soldiers to buy enough time for the heavily armed Windows Phone 7 reinforcements to arrive.

Nokia C2-02 official photos
The Nokia C2-02 is the first of a trio of handsets to try and make the most of what's probably Nokia's last remaining stronghold - simple to use phones with good looks and an attractive price tag. The Touch and Type series has been doing well for Nokia and even though they scrapped the name, the spirit will live on.
To get us started, here's what the C2-02 is all about:

Key features

• Dual-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• 2.6" 65K-color resistive TFT QVGA touchscreen
• S40 6th edition
• 2 megapixel fixed-focus camera
• QCIF video recording at 15fps
• Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio
• Bluetooth v2.1 (with A2DP)
• Standard microUSB port
• microSD card slot (32 GB supported, 2GB included)
• 3.5mm audio jack
• Extra smooth and precise haptic feedback
• Attractive price

Main disadvantages

• No Wi-Fi
• Doesn’t charge off USB
• No screen brightness control
• No document viewer
• No smart dialing
• No video-call camera
• No accelerometer sensor means no cool features like tap-for-time and turn-to mute
• No multitasking

If you’ve been keeping track, you’d surely find the flaw list familiar. S40 made the leap to touchscreen but Nokia still didn't bother packing it with smart dialing and multitasking – features already available on competing feature phones for years. The screen itself is nothing to shout about: a small, low-res, resistive display. But the slider form factor makes quite a bit of sense - especially if you had doubts about the first Touch and Type candybars. Sliders make better use of space: the C2-02 gives you a reasonably comfortable dial pad and a bigger screen.

Nokia C2-02 studio shots

The C2-02 is supposed to make traditional Nokia users less anxious about giving touchscreen a try. It should be a small and tentative first step - a proper keypad is still a must. What’s more, texting is a relevant feature to both the budget range and the demographic profile.
Ultimately, it's the familiarity and ease of use that will help the likes of Nokia C2-02 reach their intended audience. It's a huge pool to draw from given Nokia's strong grip on the low end of the market. Not a bad place to start at all. We, on our part, are ready to start exploring this S40 touchscreen slider. We've got a full review to do before we can say we like it as much as, say, the X3-02. The hardware inspection begins right after the break.

Nokia Lumia 800 review

The Nokia Lumia 800 is the first Windows Phone handset to spring from the Microsoft / Nokia tie-up announced in February, and we've got our hands on an early sample to check it out.

The Nokia Lumia 800 shares its exterior styling with the previously substantially less hyped Nokia N9, a Meego-based smartphone, although the screen size is reduced from 3.9" (854x480 pixels) to 3.7" (800x480 pixels) to conform to the Windows Phone spec list.

 

 The CPU, however, increases from the 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 to the 1.4GHz MSM8255 Snapdragon/Scorpion which certainly helps add snap to the Windows Phone Mango OS.

The Nokia Lumia 800, although being the more expensive of the two Nokia Windows Phone offerings (the other being the budget Nokia Lumia 710) shares the Nokia N9's 16-bit AMOLED ClearBlack display whereas the Nokia Lumia 710 sports a 24-bit ClearBlack TFT.  

 

When it comes to internal storage the Nokia Lumia 800 and HTC Titan are equal with 16GB of fixed internal storage, with the Nokia Lumia 710 and HTC Radar weighing in with 8GB a piece.  

Nokia has worked very hard on the unibody design here, making the battery inaccessible and using top-mounted flaps to cover the charging port and SIM slot - intriguingly, we're seeing a microSIM here, which seems to be the fashion for the next wave of smartphones.