Nokia has finally made a touchscreen music phone worth craving with the X6, which is everything the 5800 XpressMusic should have been. Plenty of water has flowed under the bridge since the 5800 was released, and the X6 doesn’t break any new ground, but there’s still much to like about this music maestro. The X6 feels like the 5800 reborn, with a capacitive touchscreen and sleek, angular body.
The X6 cellphone uses a touchscreen-orientated version of Nokia’s Symbian operating system, which isn’t the smoothest or most user-friendly system out there. For example, you have to tap an option once to open it in some places, and you have to double tap in other places. It’s not a huge problem, but it can get annoying.
The Cellphone comes with the impressive 32Gb built-in memory, 3.2-inch capacitive display, 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar optics and one-year subscription for “Comes with Music”. The latter service allows for download of music completely free of charge from an online server that features rich audio libraryand you can do it without violating anyone´s copyright, plus you are permitted to keep all the tracks you downloaded onto your phone or computer when the subscription expires. The tracks are chained-down with DRM, so you can’t listen to them on your other music players. Unofficial information has it that a version of the X6 equipped with 16Gb built-in memory and without “Comes with Music” is coming February 2010.
You will not find anything coming out of left field in the box – the handset comes boxed with a pair of headphones, USB cable, software CD, user guide and a booklet that contains your own “Comes with Music” registration code. It would have been great if the manufacturer had thrown a phone cover designed to protect the device against scratches into the deal, but apparently Nokia has opted toremain true to its newly established corporate policy of cutting corners. You just won´t fail to notice that last year´s top music-oriented handset of the manufacturer, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic came with quite richer accessory pack that included things like, say, TV cable… Well, the financial meltdown seems to have made everyone stingier, tighten their belt and batten down the hatches.
Basic specifications:
bullet 1 Nokia X6 16GBGSM 850/900/1800/1900
bullet 1 Nokia X6 16GBUMTS 2100/1900/900
bullet 1 Nokia X6 16GBAverage Dimensions –
4.37 x 2.01 x 0.54 inches
(111 x 51 x 13.8 mm)
bullet 1 Nokia X6 16GBAverage Weight –
4.30 oz
(122 g)
bullet 1 Nokia X6 16GBBig display –
360 x 640 pixels; 16 777 216 colors
bullet 1 Nokia X6 16GBStandby / Talk times (420 h / 11.5 h)
bullet 1 Nokia X6 16GB5 megapixels Camera, 3G
Symbian
bullet 1 Nokia X6 16GBGPS – Yes
Tags: Cellphone, Nokia, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97, Nokia X6, Operating system, Symbian OS, Touchscreen