The front of the phone (except for the QWERTY keyboard, short cut buttons and Navikey) is covered with Corning Gorilla Glass.

It is worth noting that Nokia released the E7, a landscape QWERTY slider smartphone in the Eseries based on Symbian^3, that shipped in February 2011.

[2] The Nokia E6 also understands PictBridge protocol so it's possible to directly print from the phone to a printer without using a computer to handle the data transfer in between.

[17] The device has an autonomous GPS with optional A-GPS functionality, Wi-Fi network positioning and Cell-ID and comes pre-loaded with the Ovi Maps application.

The 8-megapixel (3264 × 2448 px) back camera has an extended depth of field feature (no autofocus), dual LED flash, 2X digital zoom (3X in video mode) and offers high definition (720p, 16:9 aspect ratio) video recording at 25 frame/s or 4:3 aspect ratio.

[1] The microphone at the front of the device collects voices of the user, another microphone at the back of the device collects environmental noise for active noise cancellation, which makes user's voice in noisy environment sound clearer to the person at the other end of the line.

[2] On the top there is the power/lock button, on the right hand side there is the lock/unlock slider, which also turn on the torch (dual LED flash of the camera).

[18][16] When the device is locked, pressing the Navi will also bring up a menu which allow to unlock the Nokia E6-00 from the touch screen.

The DUN profile which permits access to the Internet from a laptop by dialing up on a mobile phone wirelessly (tethering).

Other profiles are also supported (BIP, GAP, GAVDP, GOEP, HSP, PBAP, SAP, SDP and SPP).

[1] Some new users of the Nokia E6 have experienced problems with the notification LED which has been placed under the D-pad navigation key, as in previous models (E71, E72).

However, it is apparent that Nokia has not allowed sufficient space between the D-pad key and the front face for the light to be visible.

[20][21] There is one solution that was done by Aniket Patil (aniketroxx), it was to redirect the notification light to Red Mute key, which was used by many people as alternative to D-Pad Fix.

[22] A revised Nokia E6 which has a hardware change to resolve the notification light issue started shipping on 22 October 2011.

The February 2012 Nokia Belle update was heavily criticised for its failure to meet special demands of E6[29] which had been met by the original stock firmware.

[31] For example, Nokia guidelines stipulate that the user interface elements of the touch screen (accept button, virtual numpad, etc.