Nokia today announced the Nokia E6 and the Nokia X7, two new symbian smartphones for business people and entertainment enthusiasts respectively.

The Nokia E6 follows the Nokia E71 and E72 design with a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2.6" VGA screen. It has an 8 megapixel camera that can take 720p HD video and 8GB internal storage and a microSD card slot supporting 32GB expansion. The Nokia E6 offers Microsoft messaging integration for business users, including access to Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Communicator Mobile and Microsoft SharePoint. No info on if or which U.S. carrier will offer the Nokia E6 in today's announcement. Here are some hardware highlights for the Nokia E6:

Display and UI:

Screen size: 2.46"
TFT LCD
Resolution: VGA (640 x 480), pixels per inch: 326ppi
16.7 million colours
Capacitive touch screen
Orientation sensor (Accelerometer)
Compass (Magnetometer)
Proximity sensor
Ambient light detector

Connectivity:

Bluetooth 3.0
2mm Charging connector
Micro USB connector and charging
High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)

USB On-the-Go

3.5 mm AV connector with support for TV-out
FM Radio

Network:

GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100

Battery:
BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery

Software:

Symbian Anna
Java Runtime 2.2 for Symbian
Qt 4.7.3, Web Runtime 7.2
Flash Lite 4.0
Ovi Maps

Camera:

8 megapixel camera
Full Focus
Zoom up to 2x (digital) for still images
Secondary camera for video calls (VGA, 640 x 480 pixels)

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The Nokia X7 is introduced again without any U.S. carrier commitment, and the device is a multimedia centric phone with a large 4" display, an 8 Megapixel camera with 720p video capturing and 8GB card included. The Nokia X7 comes preloaded with Galaxy on Fire HD and Asphalt 5 HD games.

Specs highlights:

Display:

Screen size: 4"
Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels) AMOLED
16.7 million colours
Capacitive touch screen

Memory:

Internal memory: 8 GB microSD card included
MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 32 GB

Connectivity:

Bluetooth 3.0
Micro USB connector and charging
High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)

USB On-the-Go

3.5 mm Nokia standard audio connector
FM Radio

Network:

GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100

Camera:

8 megapixel camera
Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy on-screen touch controls
3rd generation dual LED flash

Battery:
BL-5K 1300 mAh Li-Ion battery

Software:

Symbian Anna
Java MIDP 2.1
Qt 4.7.3, Web Runtime 7.2
Flash Lite 4.0
Ovi Maps

Both the Nokia E6 and Nokia X7 are also the first smartphones to contain the complete update of the Symbian software, nick-named Symbian Anna. This update offers a host of usability enhancements, including fresh, new icons, improved text input, a faster internet browsing experience and a refreshed Ovi Maps application with improved search and new public transport routes. The renewed software also offers a strong set of new features aimed at business users in particular, including true enterprise grade security with hardware accelerated encryption, and new e-mail features such as full meeting request support.

Symbian Anna, will also be available as standard on newly shipping Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6-01 devices, as well as available to download on previously purchased models of those same smartphones, in the coming months.

For more info visit: http://events.nokia.com/discover-symbian/

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