Nokia 6 - Specs

Nokia 6

United we have more fun

An outstanding phone with latest Android™ and immersive entertainment

• 5.5” bright full-HD display
• Immersive sound with Dolby Atmos®
• 16 MP camera

The design

Designed for perfection, built to last

Nokia 6 continues in the footsteps of our design heritage: it has a striking clean look, a smooth metal exterior and precise details – and five colors to choose from, including a limited edition glossy Arte Black.

Made to be life-proof

The body of Nokia 6 is crafted with integrity from seamless precision-milled aluminium, taking 55 minutes to machine from a solid block of metal. Together with the sculpted Corning® Gorilla® Glass, it’s made with materials that can take on life as you know it.

Smartphones for life

For decades, Nokia phones have stood for beautiful, crafted design and excellent quality. This phone is no different: it’s built to take on life as you know it – with durable and beautiful materials, great feel, and an ideal balance of performance and battery life. What’s best, your Nokia phone will stay secure and up to date with regular software updates.

Screen and sound

Watch and read on the big, bright display

The 5.5” full-HD display and wide color reproduction make it easy to enjoy your entertainment, even while out and about in bright daylight. And the wide viewing angle makes it easy to watch videos with friends.

Immersive entertainment

With Nokia 6’s dual speakers and dedicated amplifier, you get loud sound, deep bass and great clarity. Comes with certified Dolby Atmos® sound.

Camera

Document your life with the 16 MP camera

Snapping photos of your favorite moments is easy with the camera app on Nokia 6. There’s a 16 MP phase detection autofocus camera on the back, and an 8 MP camera on the front. Plus the dual-tone flash on the main camera helps you take natural-looking photos, even in low light.

Latest Android

Pure, secure and up to date

Nokia 6 comes with Android Nougat, the full spread of Google Services and no unnecessary extras. You get an experience that’s focused and clutter-free, and we’ll make sure you keep getting regular updates, so you’ll always stay on top of features and security.

The details

Nokia 6

Outside

• Convenient fingerprint sensor
• Bright full-HD display with sculpted Corning® Gorilla® Glass with wide color reproduction
• 16 MP camera on the back, 8 MP on the front
• Immersive sound with Dolby Atmos® and dual speakers
• Available as both single SIM and dual SIM variants

Inside

• Clean and clutter-free Android Nougat with regular updates
• The latest generation Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 430 processor designed for excellent battery life and improved graphics performance
• 3 GB of RAM
• The full set of Google services, including Google Photos and Google Play
• Loads of space with 32 GB mass storage2 and MicroSD card support up to 128 GB3

Full specifications

In the box

Your Nokia 6

Charger

Charging/data cable

Headset

Quick guide

SIM door key

Design

Colors Arte Black (limited edition), Matte Black, Tempered Blue, Silver, Copper

Size 154 x 75.8 x 7.85 mm (8.4 with camera bump)

Network and connectivity

Network speed LTE Cat. 4, 150Mbps DL/50Mbps UL

Networks GSM: 850/900/1800/1900; WCDMA: Band 1, 2, 5, 8; LTE: Band 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20, 28, 38, 40

Performance

Operating system Android™ 7.1.1 Nougat

RAM Arte Black, 4 GB; all other colors, 3 GB

CPU Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 430 mobile platform

Storage

Internal memory Arte Black, 64 GB2; all other colors, 32 GB2

MicroSD card slot Support for up to 128 GB

Services Google Drive

Audio

Connector 3.5 mm headphone jack

Speakers Dual speakers

Amplifier Smart amplifier (TFA9891) with Dolby Atmos®

Display

Size and type 5.5” IPS LCD

Resolution Full-HD (1920 x 1080, 16:9)

Material Sculpted Corning® Gorilla® Glass

Pixel density 403 ppi

Brightness 450 nits, laminated

Features Sunlight readability

Camera

Primary camera 16MP PDAF, 1.0um, f/2, dual tone flash

Front-facing camera 8MP AF, 1.12um, f/2, FOV 84 degrees

Connectivity and sensors

Connectivity Micro USB (USB 2.0), USB OTG, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1

Sensors Accelerometer (G-sensor), ambient light sensor, e-compass, Hall sensor, fingerprint sensor, gyroscope, proximity sensor, NFC (sharing)

Battery life

Battery type Integrated 3000 mAh battery4

Finally, A Wearable Generator

Finally, A Wearable Generator

As we barrel into the future, we’re going to need more electricity for all the gear we’ll be festooned with. And that’s a tricky prospect than it might at first seem; if you’re going to wear the technology in question, you shouldn’t have to take it off just to recharge it. And a team of researchers in South Korea might have finally solved this problem, with this wearable thermoelectric generator.

Heating Up
As you may have guessed from the name, this particular generator is powered by your body heat. It’s actually not a new idea; scientists have been studying thermoelectric concepts for decades. But until now, wearing one on your body was limited by the materials available; inorganic materials generated more power, but were too bulky and rigid, while organic materials didn’t generate enough power to be viable. So how to beat that? New materials!

Body Glass
They pulled it off by using glass fabric. It manages to solve two problems with one material; the fabric won’t let go of the heat it collects, and its flexibility makes it simple to use and to wear. With that in place, the researchers were able to create a highly efficient thermoelectric generator that could be glued to any place on your body.

Body Heat
This doesn’t mean you’ll be wearing Google Glass powered by your own body heat tomorrow. This is still a prototype and the team is still working on various issues surrounding, well, strapping something that leaches your body heat to you. But it’s undeniably a breakthrough that’s likely going to be developed into an actual product, since it has applications everywhere from outdoorsmanship to wearable computing. Don’t be surprised if, sooner rather than later, the wearable gear you buy doesn’t even have a USB port to charge it up, thanks to this research.

New Contact Lenses Will Give You Infrared Vision

New Contact Lenses Will Give You Infrared Vision

Admit it: You want superpowers. It’s human to look at Spider-Man swinging between buildings or Superman soaring through the air and think “Man, I want to do that.” Alas, we are not quite there just yet. But we are getting closer and closer to giving human beings the ability to see in infrared with just their contacts.

Hot, Hot Heat
You might be wondering how your flimsy contact might ever contact the necessary bits and pieces to detect invisible light spectra, and the answer is “graphene.”

What, you might ask, is graphene? It’s a carbon allotrope that’s essentially a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms. Everything built from carbon, from carbon nanotubes to diamonds, is built on graphene. And it turns out the stuff is highly useful.

Carbon Copy
Graphene happens to react to infrared light; we’ve known that for years. But the response wasn’t great, so the team at the University of Michigan that developed the sensor took another approach and measured how the light affecting the graphene affected a current running through it. Essentially, there are two sheets of graphene with an insulating layer between them. As the infrared light hits the first layer, it releases electrons, which head towards the second layer, which has a current running through it. Measuring the response there gives the data needed to create an infrared camera effect.

Seeing In The Dark

It’s always reasonable to ask about the real-world applications of academic work, and in this particular case, there are a lot of them. For example, fitting your camera with an infrared attachment would be a matter of clipping on a lens filter, and doctors can use this technology to monitor your circulation. And, yes, there are “commercial applications.” Basically, sooner rather than later, you’re going to have contacts that let you see formerly invisible light

SLIMMY Wallet Original with RFID Shielding Review

SLIMMY Wallet Original with RFID Shielding Review

There’s lessons learned if you lived in New York, as I did in the 80’s and 90′s, that dealt with how you entered and exited an ATM. Being vigilant required keeping your eyes open and having fast reflexes. These “analog” preventative measures ensured that no one followed you into an ATM or was waiting to accost you just as you exited. Today’s digital world has changed all that — a miscreant can steal your identity over the Internet easier than can be imaged. But one of the worst problems comes from our reliance on plastic: these credit cards and other identify data cards now fill our pockets daily. They’re a great convenience when it comes time to use them, but thanks to RFID (radio frequency identification) technology have become even more vulnerable to theft — especially as a thief doesn’t have to actually take hold of the card. So what can one do short of giving up using these RFID-enabled cards? Get a wallet that shields against RFID, is what. But to keep from looking like you’re pocketing duct-tape made wallets, make that choice a SLIMMY Wallet Original with RFID shielding.

The SLIMMY (pronounced slim-ee) wallet at first glance appears to just be a half-sized men’s wallet that is, well, slim like the name implies. And due to its compact construction and property values, the handcrafted leather wallet easily conforms to a front hip pocket as the body moves it about during the day. There’s three compartments, but it’s the center one that is going to hold a RFID-enabled card(s). That’s because the center compartment, unlike the ones on either side, is shielded against radio waves, blocking any transmission from the card out. To cancel this, just move the card to one of the other two pockets (or remove it for use and then put it back).

Now here’s what RFID is all about: a passive radio transmitter built into a chip is embedded into a card, for example, one that says “PayPass” on it like MasterCard has. Such a card doesn’t have to be slid through a slot on a card reader to be used; just touching it to a RFID-enabled card reader does the trick (usually a momentary rub is needed). The chip in the card transfers the needed information for the transaction (such as the card #, person’s name, expiration date, etc.) and so makes for little effort. The RFID also works at extremely short range (although there has been some disputes as to this being true in all cases), so safety would seem assured, since it could be used from within a wallet or purse held up to the reader. That is, unless someone has a card reader designed to “capture” this information from a RFID-enabled card that has come within reach. Since such readers are inexpensive and easily assembled from kits, it sounds appealing to those looking for scamming counterfeit cards or other nefarious uses, After all, there’s 35 million+ RFID cards out there and counting. And even if the odds against it happening are in your favor — if there’s that one time someone with a card reader is standing behind you as you wait in line, that’s one time too many in my book.

So since I’m all for making things harder for those looking to get a free ride off my back, I emptied my wallet and transferred some of the contents to the SLIMMY (since there’s only three compartments, I separated them out for holding some paper money in one, credit cards and IDs like my driver’s license in the middle and others in the last). Testing the SLIMMY’s RFID protection was as simple as going to a merchant whose RFID reader I’ve used many times before. First I held a RFID-enabled card a few inches from the reader and saw it was being picked up. I then placed the card in the SLIMMY’s compartment that held my cash and held up the wallet and again the card was registered. The final test had me moving the card to the center pocket, where I then held the wallet right up against the reader and gyrated it all around to no avail. For all practical purposes the card was effectively invisible to the card reader. Nada. Inert. And while it’s a stiff fit for the center compartment, the wallet itself is supple and lightweight.  You have to take the extremes of what Koyono says can be put in it — 15 Bills, 8 Plastic Cards, 5 Receipts, 2 Business Cards — with a grain of salt because YMMV (your mileage may vary) and probably will.

Bottom line: The SLIMMY Wallet Original with RFID shielding won’t take the place of  common sense when it comes to protecting oneself against data/identity theft, but it will stop RFID stealing dead in its tracks. Plus it looks a whole lot better when pulled out of a pocket than an aluminum foil wallet made from duct-tape. $42.00 gets you security and style.