Nokia E6

Pictures of the Nokia E6-00 in action have hit the Internet. A user of Italian forum Nokiateca has posted the first photos and videos (since removed) of the mobile phone turned on and running Symbian.

The E6-00, which has yet to be officially announced by Nokia, packs a Qwerty keyboard and a 4:3 screen. It’s a relatively meagre 480×640-pixel display unfortunately, measuring around 2.5 inches across. The phone packs HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, but key feature is an 8-megapixel camera that shoots 720p high-definition video.

The 8-megapixel camera is an extended depth of field (EDoF) snapper, which is fixed focus. That means it doesn’t have autofocus, instead keeping all the photo in focus. Your backgrounds will be as crisp as your foreground — so no pleasing bokeh effects, and macro shots will suffer, but in theory the lack of autofocus will make the camera faster and smaller. The pictures show a dual LED flash alongside the camera.

You might think touchscreens would have killed Qwerty keyboards by now, but there’s clearly life in the old buttons yet. Several other companies have shown off Qwerty candybar phones recently, including the HTC ChaCha, INQ Cloud Q and Samsung Galaxy Pro.

There’s also life in Symbian, depite Nokia’s recent commitment to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system. The Nokia N8 is getting a Symbian update with tweaked homescreen and widgets, and the E6-00 appears to use its own version of the OS optimised for the 4:3 screen.

Photos credit: Nokiateca

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Nokia E6

The Nokia E6-00 may struggle to get people excited, given Nokia’s decision to start making Windows Phones in the not-too-distant future. Still, it’s exciting enough to get its own spy-shot on a blog in Northern Cyprus — not a sentence we find ourselves writing often — which shows off its touchscreen and Qwerty keyboard combo.

The E6-00 appears to be a successor to Nokia’s E72, with a focus on messaging thanks to that physical keyboard. Previously leaked specs suggest it will have a 640×480-pixel VGA display, HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity and an 8-megapixel camera.

Mobilesguruji has the new spy shot, which shows the E6-00 running the latest version of Symbian, with four dots at the bottom of the screen indicating the ability to swipe between homescreens.

Although it’s impossible to tell from just one shot, the phone looks pretty final, which could mean an announcement soon. Previous leaked photos have shown the E6-00, but the latest shot is the first to actually have it turned on.

Nokia didn’t unveil any new phones at Mobile World Congress this year, to keep the attention on that Microsoft deal. Several other companies have shown off Qwerty candybar phones in the last month though, including the HTC ChaCha, INQ Cloud Q and Samsung Galaxy Pro.

You might wonder whether buying a new Symbian phone is a good idea, if Nokia is winding the OS down ready for its first Windows Phones later this year (or early next, if some rumours are to be believed).

It’s a fair question, but at MWC Nokia was keen to stress that it’s not abandoning Symbian. At the Microsoft announcement, Nokia’s statement talked about Symbian becoming “a franchise platform, leveraging previous investments to harvest additional value” — yes, dreadful corporatespeak — while promising to sell 150 million more devices before the OS is laid to rest.

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Nokia E6

Information about the Nokia E6-00 just keeps on leaking out. New video footage of the Qwerty Symbian 3 handset has emerged, following on from last week’s spy shots.

Alas, the video has been shot in proper blurryvision, if you’ll allow us to use that technical term. You can barely make out what the mysterious leaker is doing on the phone, let alone admire the finer points of its user interface.

Here’s the video:

Thankfully, we already know some factoids about the E6-00 from previous leaks. It’s the successor to Nokia’s E72, and its physical keyboard is complemented by a 480×640-pixel touchscreen display, HSDPA connectivity and an 8-megapixel camera.

The first spy shot for the E6-00 appeared in early March, before better images were posted on an Italian forum later that month. The latter leak added the information that the camera can shoot 720p video, and is an extended-depth-of-field model, ditching autofocus in favour of a fixed focus. That means it will keep both backgrounds and foregrounds in focus. There’s also a dual LED flash.

It’s not yet clear when the E6-00 will be officially announced, let alone go on sale. By the time it does, there will be candybar Qwerty competition from the likes of the HTC ChaCha and INQ Cloud Q, not to mention new BlackBerry smart phones expected to make their debut in early May at the BlackBerry World show.

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