Right now is a particularly good time to be a Nokia C6-01 owner, as Nokia has just kept to its word and made available the Symbian Anna update to give the C Series handset a whole new look and feel. Let's take a closer look. Check out our Nokia C6-01 review roundup
Symbian Anna has officially touched down for the quartet of former Symbian^3 handsets, which of course includes the Nokia C6-01. And you could argue that as the most mass-market of the four, the Nokia C6-01 takes the biggest leap forward from the update.
Key Symbian Anna features
So what exactly does Symbian Anna bring to the table? Let's cover the main improvements:
New rounded icons: The main impact of Symbian Anna is a visual one, and it's best represented by the new rounder icon design, replacing the more squared look you're used to. It's the most obvious sign of what is unquestionably a much cleaner, rounder look overall.
Portrait QWERTY keyboard: one of the features Symbian^3 users have been asking for is the option of a full QWERTY on-screen keyboard when holding the phone in portrait orientation, rather than just the predictive text-style number pad keyboard. Symbian Anna delivers this new feature.
Split-screen text entry: filling in text fields in forms and the like has now been improved so that the text entry field now takes up just half the screen, with your original position maintained on the other half of the screen for improved usability.
Nokia web browser 7.3: several key apps and services have been updated in Symbian Anna, but the most significant change is the introduction of Nokia Web Browser version 7.3, which delivers an improved interface as well as better performance.
How to upgrade
If you haven't yet upgraded your Nokia C6-01 to Symbian Anna, now's the time to take action. All you need to do is hook up your Nokia C6-01 to your PC and load up Ovi Suite – the rest is simplicity itself.
For a quick walkthrough of the process of upgrading your phone to Symbian Anna, check out our handy guide.
And there's more
In the last week or so Nokia has delivered the great news that not only are existing Nokia favourites such as the Nokia C6-01 being brought bang up to date courtesy of the Symbian Anna update, but they'll also be getting Symbian Belle via a similar update in the future too.
That's right – the Nokia C6-01 will be getting an update to Symbian Belle in the months to come, so keep tuned in to NokNok for all the latest news.
Have you been getting to grips with Symbian Anna on your Nokia C6-01? Drop us a line in the Comments to let us know how you've been getting on.