With the Nokia X6 handset you are getting a good mobile phone deal, the company gives us a high-range music mobile in the X6. Is it worth every penny? Does it do more than just give us a Xpress Music fun? If you want to know the answers to these questions, read our Nokia X6 review.
To begin our little Nokia X6 review, we will have to tackle the looks of the handset first. Design-wise, we can say that we have seen better. With the straight edges, some people will find this rather on the boxy side. It is also rather thick. But once you move past these aspects, you will fall in love with the 3.2-inch touchscreen. It is a capacitive display with 16M colours. Capacitive is not common on Nokia handsets and this makes the Nokia X6 handset rather unique.
The interface of this handset is the 5th edition S60. Nothing new here. But with the much improved touchscreen, browsing your phone will be a whole lot better than other S60 handsets. This user interface is fairly easy to learn if you’re a newcomer, though. From out standpoint, using S60 on the Nokia X6 handset was pretty straightforward, no hiccups whatsoever.
In terms of messaging, this handset will give you standard touchscreen performance. On portrait mode, you’ll have the alpha-numeric keypad. On landscape, the accelerometer will work to give you a QWERTY keyboard. Message types supported are MMS, SMS, and email. The latter is easy to set up, no matter what platform you’re using. Connectivity on this smartphone is also outstanding. You’ll have every kind you’d need (GPRS, EDGE and 3G with HSDPA) plus Bluetooth, WiFi, and USB syncing. Of course, this means that you can check your emails or browse your favorite blogs anytime. And with Flash support, you’ll be able to view videos and load other heavy sites.
For the fun part, X6 has a music player, radio with RDS, and an impressive 5MP camera. This is an Xpress Music phone and you will be correct to expect it to have a fantastic music player and to be one of the best music phones. You can customise playlists and pretty much have fun with your music files. Then there is the Playlist DJ that plays music according to your mood. Sure makes choosing what music to play so much easier.
As for the camera, this handset has a 5MP unit. We expected nothing less since this is a high-range mobile. The photos we took were of great quality and were detailed because of the Carl Zeiss optics. The settings are easy to use and we ended up taking too many photos with the handset.
So here is our verdict: Nokia may not have gone for innovation when producing this handset but they did a good job on improving features that are already present in other phones. In our opinion, this mobile is worth every penny. Not in the lower range of cheap camera phones making the cheap music phones we would consider the nokia x6 to be a top of the line touch music phone.
