First of all the positive aspects:
+ Price: cheap for the supplied hardware (everything in it is what should be in a "Smartphone")
+ (Real) Keyboard: there might be better, but I think still better than ne I-Phone-touch screen keyboard
+ Full-featured GPS Navigator: always (relatively) currently, Tom-Tom is nothing to
Then also equal to the negative aspects:
- It is bad in the hand (much worse than the 5800XM), therefore recommend ne strap mount (I took the 5800XM)
- Keyboard layout could be better, especially with regard to the figures, O and 0 are very easy to get confused, they are right next to each other.
- Sliding mechanism:'m not sure whether the two years can stand without infirmity. The keys corresponding to the numbers are certainly hard to achieve for people with "sausage fingers"
- Battery lasts for a maximum duration of use 1 day (GPS needs most)
With all this, it would actually be to live an easy, if it were not the case the following:
- Duration crashes churning (see also English-language forum on the Nokia website), especially when activating the automatic keypad lock, and when using the E-mail widget. An update should come out in the next few weeks.
- Ovi Sync Online (comparable with Mobile Me) duplicates the contacts in the phone, so steer clear until this bug is solved. Otherwise, this service is quite good (and free), "only" not yet mature
- Inertia: sometimes it can take quite a long time until a program something "does"
- Resistive touch screen, but the keyboard I personally have no problem with it
- If you want to take a picture, take the has been a while ...
Conclusion: In and of itself a full-fledged smartphone at an affordable price. But what good is that, if it is too buggy and unreliable. The complaints in the Nokia Support Forum already piling up, an update is in sight, but I can until then only from each C6 dissuade (out battery and pure and should not restart for Standard usage includes). There is much more about the C6 to say, it would certainly be an acceptable smartphone if, yes if the operating system would not be so buggy. In Nokia Forum there are some posters who think that the inertia of the phones at too low an appropriate hardware, namely RAM, and would be that the C6 would not be better with a firmware update. Let's hope (for me), that this is not so ....
Alternatively, I can - Nokia - recommend the N97 and N97mini - should now work better due to updates.
