Its taken a long time but nokia finally seems to have come to its senses with the x6, the first phone which comes with a capacitive screen. Nokia has equipped the handset with a mamoth 32GB of storage to make sure you can take full advantage of all those downloadable tracks.
At first glance, the nokia x6 looks more like a traditional candy bar handset than a full blown touchscreen phone. The x6 feels like the nokia 5800 reborn, with a capacitive touchscreen and sleek, angular body.
The x6 uses a touchscreen orientated version of nokia symbion OS, which is not the smoothest or most user friendly systems 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. Its not a huge issue, but it can get annoying. Even with its capacitive advantage, the screen could be more responsive, though. At times , we felt the phone took too long to respond, although it is not the slowest phone we have used by any means.
HERE COMES THE MAGIC OF MUSIC-
The x6 supports an epic 32GB of memory and nokia comes with music service, so you can fill it up with a year worth of free downloads, choosing from millions of sound tracks. Tracks are chained down with DRM, so you can not listen to them on your other music players, but you can keep them on the phone.
Nokia has released yet another version of its desktop syncing software to help you get music on and off the phone and its an improvement on previous versions. Now called nokia Ovi suite. This is a good attempt at creating an itunes styles music store. Like other phones it also comes with 3. 5mm audio jack. We were not blown away by the audio quality, though especially at low volumes and even when we are using high ends cans.
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The x6, 5megapixel camera is a pleasure to use, thanks to its fast shutter speed . you can take snapshots very fast and even when shooting at the highest quality settings. Its photos are excellent too, with bright colour and sharp edges.
CONCLUSION-
If you are a music lover go for this phone. The capacitive touchscreen is not as zippy as we would like, but x6 is a huge improvement on the nokia 5800 music phone. Excellent camera and 3. 5mm jack are the gravy on top of this tasty package.
X6 is proff that nokia is sorting out its touchscreen troubles. Thanks.