The Nokia X6 is a 3.2-inch smartphone with a touchscreen display and running the Symbian S60 5th Edition OS. It also happens to be the first device in the new Nokia X Series range. We've had a few days to play around with this music phone, so check out how we've been getting on with our Nokia X6 first impressions review...
The Nokia X6 is a good-looking smartphone, there is no denying that. Sure, the back cover is plastic, rather than metal, and moulds around the sides of the phone but it feels great in the hand. In many respects, it has the same feel as the Nokia N95, with a skinny profile that makes the most of the 640 x 360-pixel resolution screen.
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In many cases, what will grab the headlines with the Nokia X6 is the switch to capacitive rather than resistive screen technology. What this means for the user in the street is that the screen responds a whole lot quicker to finger prods and you don't actually need a stylus to make sense of getting around the screen.
We've been using the Nokia X6 for messaging a good deal and staying up to-date with Facebook and Twitter and have to say that it works like a dream. As we've mentioned, the S60 5th Edition operating system is powering things and in many case looks and feels great. For starters, the icons are big, clear and easy to tap away on and things never feel as though they are cluttered.
We've been using the Nokia N900 for a short while and in a lot of respects switching over to the Nokia X6 is a bit of a shock as suddenly you need to work through more menus to get to your favourite apps. That said, we like the Contacts bar on the Nokia X6, which takes the same format we saw on the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic by allowing you to scroll through your favoruites – you can load up to 20 on the homescreen – with ease.
However, it is the music functions of the Nokia X6 that impress the most. With 32GB of internal memory, you'll be able to carry everything you download from Comes With Music without having to worry about saving space for apps. The sound quality is amazing even with the supplied headphones and because the Nokia X6 uses a 3.5mm audio jack you can add your own headphones with ease.
Setting up Comes With Music proved easy and the use of the new Ovi Player makes getting music onto your PC and then over to your Nokia X6 a whole lot smoother. We're really enjoying using the Nokia X6, as it's proving to be an nicely rounded smartphone.
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