From Nokia World 2010: Thoughts on the Nokia C6 & C7
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 14 September 2010
The first new Nokia horses out of the blocks this morning were the C6 and the C7.
These are clearly mid-tier devices – not the sort of thing we tend to get too excited about here at The Guide but we wanted to mention them to you regardless.
The C6 seems to be designed with women in mind (Nokia’s Anssi Vanjuki admitted as much in his keynote saying that “it fit perfectly in a pocket or a handbag”). The C7 is the C6’s ever so slightly more butch brother – still very much a diminutive, elegant little thing. It’s got a little more power under the hood and a more polished, premium look and feel.
Both these new models have Nokia’s Clear Black Display (CSD) technology and 8 megapixel cameras capable of recording HD video. The CSD is AMOLED-based technology that we have to say we were very impressed with. The screens on both devices are very good at their jobs: the blacks really are black and the colours leap of the screen.
The screens – incidentally – are finally glass, capacitive numbers and we found them responsive and pleasant to use.
The software is “new Symbian” (as we heard it referred to repeatedly by Nokia’s staff today) and that means that all the boring stuff – menus, UI, etc. – finally works the way it should. You get kinetic scrolling throughout, pinch to zoom, HTML email and all the goodies that we’ve been moaning about on “old Symbian” devices. What you don’t get is a new, exciting or ground-brekaing experience (more on that when we come to look at the E7). For these cute little phones, we don’t think that matters though.
So, against all the odds, we found ourselves rather liking these two mid-tier devices. Don’t get us wrong, we’re not likely to be picking one up anytime soon – we’re too Prodigal for that (there are so many more expensive phones to squander our money on) – but we predict that Nokia will sell a lot of these to people who just want something that will work, be familiar, while looking small and pretty.
From Nokia World 2010: Thoughts on the Nokia C6 & C7
The first new Nokia horses out of the blocks this morning were the C6 and the C7. These are clearly mid-tier devices – not the sort of thing we tend to get too excited about here at The Guide but we wanted to mention them to you regardless. The C6 seems to be designed with [...]
4 Responses to “From Nokia World 2010: Thoughts on the Nokia C6 & C7”
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one of my dream phones honestly.. but im still thinking if this model is better than the n97 edition.. can you add up a comparison of both models? thnx
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I simply love how APPLE always stays one step ahead of the competition. Now everyone makes organic looking clones of the iphone, and Apple launches the new model with slick hard lines. Makes all the other “new” clones look so dated….
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Hi Carol
You’re right of course, the iPhone looks like nothing else again and you have to salute the guys in Cupertino for that. With iPhone 4, they’ve re-set the design bar.
But I’m all for choice and diversity. And I salute Nokia for producing these two really very good looking mid-tier phones. I think you’ll be impressed with the design of the C7 in particular when you see it in the metal. Sure, it borrows some styling cues from the iPhone amongst others but everything is derivative to some extent isn’t it? It doesn’t take away from the fact that the C7 looks very nice.
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From Nokia World 2010: Thoughts on the Nokia E7 « The Prodigal Guide
14 September 2010
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