

'Gorilla glass' display plus rigid construction means that the E6 should be very robust and long-lived. Should be excellent, with that steel chassis, though there are some questions over the toughened glass used. There's touch cursor positioning if needed.įour row QWERTY keyboard, domed keys with superb feel and adequate key travel (iteration on the usual E71/E72/E5 design), with d-pad and touch cursor positioning if needed. Pentaband 3G, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, 'USB on the go' (to USB disks/accessories, though cable not supplied), DLNA via Nokia utility.įour row QWERTY keyboard, the decently large keys are angled/sculpted in a slightly odd way (optimised for thumbs from each hand) and hinder typing for me personally, since I tend to cross over from one keyboard hemisphere to the other, depending on the letter combinations needed. Quad-band 3G*, Quad band LTE*, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, built-in Wi-fi hotspot function, DLNA, HDMI out. Premium materials, steel battery cover and chassis, solid plastic body sections, Gorilla glass capacitive touchscreen, BUT in landscape mode, 133g.ġ15 x 59 x 11 mm (so slightly shorter and quite a bit narrower).

Premium steel chassis, disguised under black paint and with 'soft touch glass weave' (feels like plastic) back and end cap, capacitive (square) touchscreen, 139g. £220 SIM-free (possibly cheaper if you shop around now) Some rows also have no clear winner, as you will hopefully agree.Īpproximate (new) price in the UK, inc VAT, as at May 2013 Watch out for a full review of the devices in Phones Show 202.Īs usual, I've approached the detailed head to head comparison by breaking each device's attributes and functionality down and, as usual, I've tinted with green the cells in each row that indicate an obvious 'winner' for that attribute, for purely academic interest, and if appropriate. The Q10 is, of course, brand spanking new, and part of Blackberry's (ne RIM's) renaissance with OS 10. Was the Nokia E6 really announced two years ago? Of course, all our Symbian devices have had so many firmware updates since then and it's almost like getting a new phone when each hits, so it's perhaps not so surprising after all.
