Nokia X6 : key features & disadvantages

Nokia X6 is a music-centred touch screen smartphone and portable entertainment device by Nokia. 

It was announced in early September 2009 during Nokia World 2009 in Germany. X6 replaces Nokia 5800 as Nokia's flagship music-centred model. Both still slot below some hi-end touch screen models like Nokia N97.

 

X6 is notable for its slimmer than 5800 body (13.8 mm) and 35 hours of continuous music playback.

 

Key features :

- Quad-band GSM support

- Tri-band 3G with HSDPA support

- 3.2" 16M-color TFT LCD 16:9 capacitive touchscreen (360 x 640 pixels)

- Symbian S60 5th edition UI

- ARM 11 434 MHz CPU, 128 MB of RAM memory

- 5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash

- VGA video recording at 30fps

- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology

- Built-in GPS receiver

- 32GB built-in storage

- FM radio with RDS

- Bluetooth and USB (standard microUSB connector) v2.0

- 3.5mm standard audio jack

- Very good audio quality

- Proximity sensor for screen auto turn-off

- Accelerometer sensor for automatic UI rotation and motion-based gaming

- Stereo speakers

- TV out

- "Comes with music" edition gives you a year of free music subscription

- Landscape on-screen virtual QWERTY keyboard

- Ovi Maps 3.0 Touch

- Further Ovi and MySpace service integration

- Most regional retail packages include a set of the great Nokia WH-500 headphones

 

Main disadvantages :

- X6 is still quite pricey

- UI is still immature with somewhat inconsistent user experience

- Touch web browser not quite polished and with dodgy Flash support

- No voice-guided navigation license

- No office document viewer preinstalled

- Doesn't charge off microUSB

- Very poor sunlight legibility

- Slow image gallery

- No DivX/XviD support for the video player

- No microSD card slot (as a connectivity solution)

sources : GSM Arena