NOKIA E6 Pro Reviews

While the E6 is well-built and has plenty of features, the Symbian operating system is a pain to use and won't be supported for much longer, so it's one to avoid.

We can safely assume that the Nokia E6 is the best Eseries smartphone, but could have been much more the Symbian platform, which drags down the phone's performance. However, Nokia Eseries fans can safely upgrade to E6 if they haven't done it already. The smartphone has a lot to offer as a business phone, but also as a multimedia device.

The Nokia E6 is a quality unlocked smartphone with a beautiful, ultra-sharp touch screen. Just be aware that Nokia will soon abandon the Symbian OS in favor of Windows Phone 7.

The Nokia E6 is an impressively built smartphone with a great keyboard and a very good camera. Unfortunately, it's much of the same story for Nokia -- it has produced another piece of excellent hardware that is ultimately held back by the unintuitive Symbian software.

Anyway, it was time for the Eseries to move on and Nokia couldn’t have done better than the E6. With phones like the N8, N9 and the X7, Nokia is busy showing us they still have it in them. The E6 has nothing to be ashamed of in this company. Is this enough for it to hope to leave a footprint the size of the E71? Probably not. No one knows that better than Nokia themselves. They deal with the message rather than kill the messenger.

Viewed from the perspective of the Nokia QWERTY candybar handsets that have gone before it, the E6 is a fitting evolution. The high-resolution touchscreen makes far more sense than a pair of soft-key buttons, especially when it comes to navigating full webpages, and the keyboard shouldn’t give E71/E72 upgraders much room for complaint. The handset as a whole is well-built, offers great battery life and has – macro shots aside – a decent camera, especially when you consider the overall business focus.

The Nokia E6 is a well-built, very capable business phone with plenty of apps and features to suit business users. It's built for text heavy users, with a powerful camera for good light photography. However, while Symbian Anna is a step forward, it still feels like it's hamstrung by previous iterations with a slightly clunky feel and long time to open some applications still present. With MeeGo, Nokia has proven it can make a more modern smartphone interface, and while the thumb-friendly touchscreen is an ace move, we still can't recommend the Nokia E6 if you're looking for a next-gen smartphone rather than just an above-average communication device with decent camera.

It isn’t all bad. The Nokia E6 delivers some delights, not least of all in terms of build quality, screen performance and battery life. It’s such a shame that the area the handset falls down hardest is usability, a vital bridge between user and handset. Symbian Anna doesn’t modernize the OS enough to make it competitive and it repeatedly presents a convoluted and frustrating user experience just begging to be streamlined. It may be hard to believe, but pushing the negative aside for a moment and the E6 also manages to do something wonderful – it fills us with hope. With beautiful hardware, this handset serves as a beacon, highlighting what Nokia can get very right. So while we can’t recommend the Nokia E6 unless you’re into your Symbian, we’re watching this space closer than ever to see what’s next in terms of OS, because chances are, it’ll be fundamentally better.