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You will have to forgive the over dramatic title, but its clear that is exactly what Nokia had in mind when designing this handset and is a very good attempt by Nokia to target the business market currently dominated by RIM, whilst offering other customers a more capable (and of course more expensive) phone than the existing E5.

The feature that really stands out on this handset is its high quality touch screen display, which despite its small size of just 2.46″ (640 x 480px) provides a very sharp image.

This is one of the smallest touch screen phones we have seen to date, and is certainly ahead of anything BlackBerry are doing with their Bold or Curve range at the moment. Even the Torch does not integrate touch screen and keyboard in this way.

If you have been following events at Nokia you will know that they recently cut  a deal with Microsoft, who essentially paid Nokia to run Windows Mobile on thier handsets, only to see Nokias share price fall! Testimony to the power of Android, perhaps, or perhaps a failure to recognise that Windows Mobile is actually a very good operating system (this phone runs Symbian “Anna”).

Not conviced? Well, the E6 will allow Nokia’s business customers to benefit from things likeMicrosofts business collaboration tools such as Sharepoint, Microsoft Exchange, VPN support and more.

The E6 also benefits from hardware level encryption, again, of increasing interest to businesses. which is becoming essential these days.

The E6 is of course 3G enabled supporting download speeds of up to 10.2 Mbps with upload speeds of 2Mbps. Battery life runs at around 7.5 hours talktime on 3G with 31 days standby, so, a full working day is well covered!

The E6 has a respectable 8 mega pixel camera and support for 720p video capture.  It has a built in media player with FM radio and a standard 3.5mm audio jack. Additional storage is provided via an expandabble microSD slot.  The E6 also has GPS and the latest version of Ovi Maps.

Overall this is a very capable handset and its nice to see Nokia producing models like this having failed to really get a foothold in the smartphone market. Of course, this phone also, to a point marks the end of an era as it is sure to be one of the last Symbian phones produced by Nokia as they begin moving over to Windows Mobile.