We all know about Nokia, the worldwide leader in the mobile phone and the smartphone market who no body cares about. They might have a strong lineup of low cost, low margin devices but that doesn’t mean you would get all the hype from the media. In fact the only remaining players in the books of most tech media outlets are Apple, and Google’s Android camp. If your device isn’t running iOS or some version of Android (God knows how many there are), chances are no body would even remember its name.
Still all that doesn’t mean there aren’t other platforms out there which might be aging but still have juice left in them. Symbian is one of them. More specifically, Symbian^1 which debuted with the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was Nokia’s attempt at trying to get a foothold in the market of touch based devices dominated by the iPhone and later by Android. Unfortunately for Nokia, they do have a habit of making half cooked devices. The 5800 was handicapped by its hardware limitations (like the resistive touchscreen) and software issues (lack of kinetic scrolling for example). The overall experience wasn’t as smooth as you would get on an iPhone at that time even though you had way more features like multitasking, MMS, Copy/Paste, video recording and a ton of others. But one of things the 5800 got right was its value as a product – having good features at an affordable price turned out some decent sales for the device.
Fast forward a year and Nokia was all set to take things further by evolving the 5800 into a more modern product. In order to make the handset more appealing, Nokia ditched their conventional naming scheme for the XpressMusic lineup and introduced X Series – a whole new line of entertainment centric devices. They also added a capacitive touch screen and a large built-in memory and a better camera to the 5800 and wrapped it in a more attractive and slimmer design. Unfortunately, the upgrade also meant nearly twice the price compared to the previous flagship 5800.
Fortunately, Nokia was quick to rectify that by introducing a slightly tuned down model lowering the price a great deal. The Nokia X6 16GB now competes with the likes of Nokia N97 mini, Sony Ericsson Vivaz, LG Arena, HTC Hero and HTC Wildfire. Not to mention there is another 8GB model coming that would pit it against low end touchscreen devices like the Nokia 5530 and Samsung Corby/Star lineup. But the question is, how good of a phone is Nokia X6? Is it worth the price? Is it really a step forward? Hop over into the next page to find out.
But before you do that, here is a quick rundown of the specifications.
Specifications
| Physical_Attributes | |
| Dimensions (width x height x depth): | 51 x 111 x 13.8 millimeters
2 x 4.4 x 0.5 inches |
| Bounding;Volume: | 78.1 cube centimeters |
| Software;Environment | |
| Embedded-Operating:System: | Symbian^1 (Symbian OS 9.4 running Series 60 5th Edition) |
| Operating;System-Kernel: | Symbian 9.4 |
| Microprocessor,;Chipset | |
| CPU:Clock: | 433.9 MHz |
| CPU: | ARM 1136JF-S |
| Width-of-Machine_Word: | 32 bit |
| CPU-Core: | ARM11 |
| Instruction:Set: | ARMv6 |
| Memory,:Storage+capacity | |
| RAM+type: | SDRAM |
| RAM-capacity: | 128 MB |
| System ROM;type: | Flash EEPROM |
| System ROM+capacity: | 512 MB, including 311.88MiB user-accessible non-volatile storage |
| User ROM;type: | Flash EEPROM |
| User ROM+capacity: | 16 GB |
| Graphical:subsystem | |
| Display+Type: | color transflective TFT display |
| Display-Color_Depth: | 24 bit/pixel (16777216 scales) |
| Display:Diagonal: | 3.2 ” (81 millimeters) |
| Display_Resolution: | 360 x 640 (230400 pixels) |
| Viewable_Display;Size: | 1.56 ” x 2.78 ” (39.71 x 70.6 millimeters) |
| Dot-Pitch: | 230.3 pixel/inch (0.11031 millimeter/pixel) |
| Audio-Subsystem | |
| Audio_Channel(s): | Stereo Sound |
| Analog/Digital Converter (Recording): | 16 bit nominal quantization
48000 Hz sampling frequency |
| Digital/Analog Converter (Playing): | 16 bit resolution
44100 Hz holding frequency |
| Microphone(s): | Stereo Sound |
| Loudspeaker(s): | Two Speakers, Stereo Sound |
| Audio;Output: | 3.5mm jack |
| Cellular+Phone | |
| Cellular:Networks: | GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS900, UMTS1900, UMTS2100 |
| Cellular_Data+Links: | CSD, HSCSD, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA 3.6 Mbps |
| Cellular;Antenna: | Internal antenna |
| Call;Alert: | 64 -chord melody (polyphonic) |
| Vibrating:Alert: | Supported |
| Speakerphone;: | Supported |
| Control_Peripherals | |
| Positioning:Device: | Capacitive Touchscreen |
| Primary;Keyboard: | Not Supported |
| Directional_Pad: | Not Supported |
| Scroll;Wheel: | Not supported |
| Interfaces | |
| Expansion:Interfaces: | USB 2.0 client, Hi-Speed (480 Mbit/s), Micro-B USB connector |
| Bluetooth_(802.15): | Bluetooth 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate, Internal antenna |
| Wireless_LAN/Wi-Fi;(802.11): | IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, 54 Mbit/s Internal antenna |
| Infrared-Gate: | Not supported |
| Multimedia+Broadcast | |
| Analog;Radio: | FM radio (87.5-108MHz) with RDS radio receiver
Proprietary headset as antenna |
| Digital:Media-Broadcast: | Not supported |
| Satellite;Navigation | |
| Built-in+GPS;module: | Supported |
| GPS-Protocol: | NMEA 0183 |
| GPS-Antenna: | Internal antenna |
| Complementary+GPS;Services: | Assisted GPS |
| Navigation Suite | Ovi Maps 3.0 (Free for life Navigation) |
| Built-in_Digital;Camera | |
| Sensor;Type: | CMOS sensor |
| Resolution: | 2592x1944 pixels (5.04MP) Primary
320x240 pixels (0.08MP) |
| Autofocus-(AF): | Supported |
| Optical_Zoom: | 1 x |
| Macro-Mode: | Supported |
| Built-in_Flash: | Dual LED |
| Camcorder: | 640x480 pixels , 30frame/sec |
| Recordable:Image;Formats: | JPG |
| Recordable;Video:Formats: | 3GP, MPEG4 |
| Power-Supply | |
| Battery:Technology: | Lithium-ion battery |
| Battery-Build: | removable |
| Battery_Capacity: | 1320 mAh |
Packaging
Unfortunately, I couldn’t do a full unboxing ritual because my camcorder had bailed on me. But I still have a couple of pictures if you are interested.
The X6 came in a pretty standard Nokia blue packaging. The front had a picture of the device while the back had a quick spec sheet in different languages.
Opening the box revealed the phone, with the charger, the headset, data cable, manual, the Ovi Suite and warranty card tucked underneath.
It was sad that Nokia decided to bundle the WH-701 headset instead of the WH-500 which you get with the X6 32GB.
Hardware
The X6 has a plastic body which is available in different shades, though the unit I got was black and gray. The phone is entirely done in plastic, with the front, top and bottom having a glossy finish while the sides and the back have a matte black touch. The weight and volume of the phone feels okay in the hand though it could have been a bit thinner. The plastic build doesn’t feel all that cheap as well, though the design looks more like a Sony Ericsson XPERIA than Nokia.
The front of the phone has an earpiece on the top center along with an ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, and the front camera to the right side. Below it, is the large glass screen with a touch sensitive quick access button for all the media applications just above the screen. Right below the screen are what I consider to be three redundant buttons for Accept, Menu and Reject. There isn’t a need for the accept/reject duo since these actions are also available on the touchscreen.
The left side of the phone has the SIM card slot protected by a plastic cover and a couple of speakers above and below it for the left and right channel respectively. What’s rather strange is that you still have to remove the back cover and battery to insert or eject a SIM.
The right side has a volume rocker on the top, a screen-lock slider in the middle and the two-stage camera shutter button at the bottom.
Speaking of the bottom, the underside of the X6 only has a microphone and a loophole – which again you can only access by removing the back cover first.
The top side of the phone is pretty crammed. From left to right, there is the MicroUSB port, the 3.5mm jack, the charger port, and the power button. I find the charger jack and the power button redundant here. First, I’m disappointed that the phone doesn’t charge off the MicroUSB port since a lot of higher and lower end Nokia devices do that now, and it was supposed to be an industry standard to which Nokia also agreed. Second, the power button could have been merged with the reject button – I’m just not comfortable with having them both.
The backside has the 5MP Auto-Focus camera with a Carl-Zeiss Tessar lens and Dual LED flash. The model number Nokia X6-00 is printed on the lower edge of the phone.
You can pull open the back cover through an indentation at the bottom. The cover is made of very thin plastic and makes the phone look kinda cheap. You can see the SIM card slot below the large 1320 mAH battery and the only way to remove it is to push it out through the slot. There isn’t a microSD slot anywhere but the phone’s 16GB of built-in memory sort of makes it up for it.
In terms of processing power, Nokia still leaves a lot to be desired. They are packing the device with a disappointing 434MHz ARM11 processor and a 128MB of RAM. There aren’t any dedicated GPUs or SPUs on board as well. This posses a major problem for the software that’s going to run on top. The RAM specially proved to be a major issue since it had to store all the applications in memory and the GUI data as well for a high resolution screen. This seriously impaired the multitasking experience (more on that later). Nokia really needs to get its head out of its ass and put together a good hardware platform, something with a modern CPU like the N900 and a large RAM.
Now for the the main feature of the phone – the touchscreen. The scratch resistant glass on the 3.2” capacitive screen is very good. Though it wasn’t oleophobic, it still gathered very few fingerprints. As for the responsiveness, the screen was very sensitive to my input. In fact I would say it was a bit too sensitive than something I’d prefer because sometimes just holding the phone triggered accidental touches along the sides. Maybe Nokia should also include a warning about how to hold the phone (pun intended).
As for the display quality, the phone had pretty accurate color gamut and brightness under normal lighting but direct sunlight seems to kill the display. I was barely able to make out a word on the screen while walking at a moderate pace under direct sunlight. This is one area where Nokia has taken a step backwards for no obvious reason at all.
I also wasn’t quite satisfied with the size of the display with respect to its resolution. Maybe that’s just me being spoilt after using larger screens like the Nexus One or the HTC HD2 – and my large thumbs. But the 360x640 (nHD) resolution on a 3.2” screen can be really tough to use specially if the touchscreen is a bit too sensitive and the UI has small features.
Another hardware related issue I had was with the sensor array. While the ambient light sensor worked okay most of the time, the proximity sensor gave me a lot of trouble. Nokia had moved the sensors into the ear piece which may have affected the sensitivity a bit. Most of the time during the phone call, my face would automatically press on a button on screen when the screen is supposed to be locked. It got really annoying to the point that I had to start taking calls through the headset.
Software
Being a Nokia phone, the X6 runs the Symbian Series 60 5th Edition OS also known as the Symbian^1 platform. It is basically the Series 60 3rd edition platform slightly redesigned for finger friendly touch input. We have come to know through experience that this really isn’t a good practice. Sure the S60v3 was good (for its time) but retrofitting it with touch support would cause a lot of hurdles in an overall smooth user experience.
Still considering that Symbian now competes in the mid-range to low-end markets, it is a very powerful smartphone operating system compared to the competitor offerings on devices like Samsung Star/Corby, or LG Arena, or even a full blown Samsung Bada OS. In fact thanks to its age, Symbian still has a lot of features that aren’t present in any other competing high-end platforms. The only real problem is that it has gotten too clunky and needs optimization, a newer cleaner UI and some powerful hardware under the hood.
While the X6 does have a capacitive touchscreen, Nokia (or rather Symbian^1) doesn’t do much to take advantage of that. There is no OS level gesture support like pinch-to-zoom, or rotate or any form of multitouch. The UI controls are also small and non-finger friendly at times. Specially the Nokia Web Browser. Thankfully, the X6 does have kinetic scrolling and this is one area where the capacitive touch screen shines.
Some nice additions to the system include a Quick Access Media key which opens a sliding menu with shortcuts to Music Player, Gallery, Video Center, Share Online and Web Browser.
Home Screen
While Symbian^1 still doesn’t support multiple home screens, it does have multiple themes for the Home Screen like the previous 3rd Edition. The X6 has three themes available which include, Contacts Bar, Shortcuts and Basic.
The top notification area is common to all the home screens and has three interactive hotspots. It shows the cellular signal to the far left with a clock right next to it. Tapping the clock opens the Clock application which is one nice and fast way to get to your alarms. The operator name is displayed in the middle with the currently active profile (or the current date) right below it. Tapping the Profile/Date indicator opens up a pop-up menu from where you can open the Calendar app or change the active profile. Towards the right are your usual indicators along with the battery meter. Tapping on the indicator opens up a notification menu which lists all the notifications (messages, emails, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB, Headset etc) with one tap access to the respective applications.
The basic theme is, well pretty basic. You get two buttons for the Phone app and the Contacts app at the bottom of the screen, and the rest of the area is empty. While some people do prefer clean home screens, I like mine with lots and lots of widgets and info available at a glance.
The Shortcuts bar theme adds a shortcut bar to the top where you can pin up to 4 shortcuts to applications and bookmarks you access most often. The shortcuts bar should have been made scrollable, like the one you get in Series 40 devices. Even Series 60 3rd Ed. had 6 shortcut icons along with two shortcut buttons. Below the shortcut bar is the search widget. Tapping it opens the Search App where you can search information from your phone or the internet. Below Search is the Calendar widget which shows your upcoming events. A Music Player widget appears between Search and Calendar whenever a track is playing. At the bottom of the screen are two buttons for Phone app and Contacts.
The Contacts bar theme is a slightly modified (and downgraded) version of the Contacts Bar theme found on 5630 XpressMusic and 5730 XpressMusic. You get a scrollable bar up top where you can pin your favorite contacts with their pictures and an RSS Feed from a social network, a blog or anything else you can thing of. Tapping a contact opens up a popup where you can see the recent interaction history with the contact as well as two latest updates from his RSS Feed. You can actually add fake contacts for different websites you want to keep track of from your Home Screen.
Below the contacts bar is the Email widget which shows the most recent email and the number of unread emails in your default mailbox. A music player widget with some basic controls pops up below email whenever you are playing a tune. Far at the bottom is a 4-icon Shortcut bar and softkeys to access Phone and Contacts app. That’s about all the widgets you get on your Contacts Bar screen which is a step backwards from older devices where you also had Calendar, Wi-Fi, and Ovi Contacts widgets available.
If you ask me, the Contacts Bar theme is still the most usable of all the three themes even if it is the most resource intensive. You have one touch access to your favorite contacts as well as your email, at the expense of Search and Calendar of course.
Media
The Nokia X6 is a media centric device so naturally, this is one department where it should overshadow the competition. The humongous built in storage (for the 16GB and 32GB versions at least) is more than enough for your media consumption needs. I was able to fit my entire desktop playlist with about a 1000 tracks that takes about 7.3GB. I could have even fit my entire music library which goes over 17GB if I had the 32GB unit to test. The X6 also ships with Comes with Music in select markets so you have unlimited access to tracks on the Ovi Music Store.
The Music Player itself was the standard one you have seen in the XpressMusic lineup as of late. You can categories tracks by Artist, Album, Playlist, Composer, and Genre. You can also listen to Podcasts you have downloaded. The player comes with six equalizer presets, but you can create your own if you feel the need. The X6 has two loudspeakers for stereo output, which were among the best ones I’ve seen err.. heard in a phone as of late.
Audio quality is very subjective and everyone perceives it differently. With that Said I was completely blown away by the quality of the X6’s audio output specifically from the headset bundled. The bundled headset was the Nokia WH-701 ear buds and not the WH-500 the X6 usually ships with. I can only imagine what the quality would be if I tried it with that headset which usually costs as much as $100 in some markets.
Radio on the X6 was a different story altogether. For starters, the Radio application only supports FM Radio with RDS. There is no Internet Radio built into the X6 which is present in many lower priced XpressMusic devices. On top of that, station discovery usually didn’t work on the X6 even though the 5630 on my other hand was picking them up without an issue.
The X6 carries a rather unique application called Playlist DJ. The App scans your music library and automagically generates a playlist depending on your mood which you can set with the help of four parameters. These include Joy, Romance, Anger, and Tempo. Changing the values of these sliders dynamically alters the playlist. Alternatively, you can also select a track and generate a playlist of similar tracks based on the previously stated four parameters. The app actually works and results were pretty satisfying.
As for Video, the 16:9 3.2 inch screen is particularly great. Sure its not as large as the ones you’d find on many devices these days, but it is still big enough to watch videos from YouTube (or whatever source you like) on the road. The phone supports H.264 out of the box so you can get high quality videos in decent file sizes. Other supported formats include MPEG4-V, WMV, H.263, Real Media and 3GP.
The phone actually comes with two bundled video applications. The first one is Nokia’s Video Center which is like a media gallery for Videos. You can browse through all the videos on your device as well as download them from the internet. Playing a video file launches the bundled RealPlayer application, which is well… a video player that Just Works™.
As for the viewing experience, like I said the 3.2 inch screen does help and is seems to be just big enough to give a pleasurable viewing experience. I decided to test the video capabilities by copying a season of Supernatural on the device. The videos from my PC (with a resolution 624x352) didn’t require downsizing thanks to the resolution of X6. In fact the videos slightly had to be zoomed to fit the X6’s resolution of 640x360. The experience was satisfying enough that I ended up watching the entire season on the device.
The only thing hampering the near perfect multimedia experience of the X6 was the lack of DLNA support and the Home Media application I’ve become so fond of on my 5630 XpressMusic and Windows 7 powered home network. The ability to stream media to and from any DLNA compatible device is just too much to live without once you get used to it. I have no idea why Nokia decided to exclude DLNA support from X6 even though it is present in older devices.
Messaging
The X6 ships with Ovi Contacts and Nokia Messaging Email preinstalled on the device. It does away with the Windows Live Messenger and Mail for Exchange that usually comes preloaded with older Series 60 phones.
I can understand the reason why Nokia doesn’t include Windows Live Messenger. That’s because Microsoft never developed a version for Series 60 5th Edition. But Ovi Contacts is by no means a worthy replacement for Windows Live. The main reason why not? None of my friends use it including those who have Series 60 devices. But you’d say it also supports Gtalk right? Well guess what – most of my contacts don’t use Gtalk as well. About 350 million people around the world use Windows Live to IM and now Facebook is getting popular as well. So I believe Nokia should either broaden support for protocols or ship clients like Nimbuzz or Fring preinstalled on the device.
As for Nokia Messaging Email, it is my favorite email client for the Series 60 3rd Edition – and it also happens to be one of the awesome 3rd Edition apps that have been butchered for the 5th Edition. The UI is crammed into one inbox view and the only way to switch between mailboxes is to hit a small icon in the top left corner. To access common tasks like flagging an email or mark read/unread, you have to open the menu or press and hold on the message and then select the function. But that’s not the worst of it. There is no straightforward way to select multiple messages. In fact the only way is to Tap on a Message > Hit Options > Hit Multiselect > Hit Mark and repeat the entire procedure for each individual message you want to select.
But I guess we can live with all these issues as long as we get our email pushed to us right? Well you have another surprise coming. Most of the time, my X6 just didn’t sync email with my Nokia Messaging account even though my 5630 was receiving all the emails as soon as they arrived on the server. I tried both phones on the same network and even on the same Wi-Fi connection. But the X6 failed to get messages 60% of the time.
As for the Messaging application (the app for texting and MMS etc), there isn’t anything changed or new if you have already used a Series 60 3rd Edition or 5th Edition device. It is kind of disappointing because I was really hoping the app would support threaded views specially when Nokia Conversations isn’t compatible with 5th Edition devices.
Productivity and PIM
The Contacts, Calendar, Calculator, Notes and Converter apps remain mostly unchanged from their Series 60 3rd Edition counterparts. There have been slight UI revisions for better touch support, but apart from that there is nothing of significance here.
What’s surprising is the fact that Nokia didn’t bundle Quickoffice, Active Notes and a PDF Reader with the X6 so I couldn’t open any PDF documents or PowerPoint presentations out of the box. Of course that doesn’t mean I can’t install any of these apps on my own.
Ovi Store is the one stop shop for Apps, Games, Wallpapers, Themes, Videos, Music and just about everything else you can download on your device. Again the Ovi Store experience was just like any other Series 60 device and did nothing to stand out (and improve) from them.
Maps and Navigation
The X6 includes an integrated GPS along with Assisted GPS which works with Wi-Fi and cell tower based positioning. Nokia is known for producing solid GPS experiences like those found on N82, N85 and E71. The X6 however blows that reputation out of the water.
First things first, the GPS on my test unit was disabled for some reason even though the packaging and the manual said it included integrated GPS. The Ovi Maps application was present but there was no option to turn on GPS. I had to hack the firmware to get all the GPS options visible. Secondly, Ovi Maps doesn’t cover Pakistan. We don’t have Local Maps for our cities available on Ovi so I didn’t use it for my review. This also rules out the free for life turn-by-turn navigation. Instead my GPS testing revolved around Google Maps which cover Pakistan in extreme detail.
The problem with X6’s GPS is its lousy receiver that can’t get a fix in a respectable amount of time. It usually takes it as much as 2-3 minutes to get a lock even when standing stationary underneath a clear sky, and it seems to loose the signal every couple of minutes. What’s worse is that it tends to quickly loose the signal when you are under something, like inside a car with the roof covering the clear path to the sky.
Camera
The X6 has a 5 Mega Pixel Carl Zeiss Tessar lens with Auto-focus and Dual LED flash. This makes it a good contender in the camera phone arena. The phone could shoot images at 2592x1944 pixels at maximum which is quite good for a cellphone. From all my testing, I was very satisfied by the quality of the images. They were as good as any regular 5MP cell phone out there, but not comparable to dedicated point-and-shoots. The major difference was the smoothing algorithm on the X6 was a bit too aggressive.
As for camera tweaks, you have a whole arsenal of settings you can modify including sharpness, brightness, contrast, color, ISO etc. There is also a sequence mode that can take up to 18 shots in quick succession. The possessing time after taking a shot is acceptable for a phone with this specification.
As for Video, the X6 can capture 640x480 at up to 30 frames per second (4:3) or 640x352 at 30 framers per second for 16:9 aspect ratio. The quality it self was acceptable even if not as good as the still image shots. The camcoder algorithm produced a slightly warmer image and color tones varied a bit too much with the change in light.
Internet
Smartphones are designed as pocket computers – devices on which we can consume our information while on the go. So Internet plays the most important role in any smartphone and getting the internet oriented aspects of the device right should be the main concern.
The X6 is a 3G phone and supports HSDPA up to 3.6 Mbps. This was rather disappointing given older and much cheaper devices support up to HSDPA 10.2 Mbps. The X6 also has integrated IEEE 802.11 b/g (Wi-Fi) connectivity which is expected on every smartphone these days.
Out of the box, the only internet applications X6 includes is Web Browser, Share Online, and Search. You don’t get any social networking applications like Twitter, Facebook, or popular video services like YouTube or Qik.
The Series 60 Browser does support full XHTML browsing with near desktop class rendering, though Nokia’s Webkit rendering engine is far behind Apple’s Safari or Google’s Android adoptions. The browser also supports Flash Lite out of the box and you can also install Silverlight 3.0 as well so that is one feature you won’t find on most other competing web browsers and platforms.
Usability wise, the browser just isn’t as satisfying as it should be. Opera Mobile is a far better choice for web browsing even if it is also crippled compared to the Series 60 3rd. Edition version. Nokia should really consider bundling Opera Mobile with more devices.
Share online only supports Flickr and Vox but you can add other services via third party applications like Pixel Pipe. Similarly search also only works with Google and since this isn’t an official Google client, you can’t search with voice like you can on the 3rd Edition devices.
Battery
I have mixed reactions for the battery performance of the X6. While the battery did perform as advertized for a set of tasks, there were some minor omissions that left me scratching my head. But first, the good parts. After a full charge, I left the music player running and the phone gave a solid playback time of over 33 hours. To tell you the truth, I just stopped testing beyond that point. It had already beaten every other phone I tried in music. Same goes for Video, which gave four hours of continues playback, which is exactly as advertized.
In fact, in most of my battery test cases, the phone did perform according to the specifications. It was only after I started using it as my regular day to day device did I start to notice the minor issues. For once, it barely used to get me over 2/3rds of the day under my normal usage (includes moderate Wi-Fi, 2G data, GPS, a bit of music and very little voice and messaging). In fact, during long distance travel and using GPS navigation, it died on me before noon while my 5630 was still alive and kicking till the evening. I believe one of the reasons for this issue was that Nokia decided not to implement the Power Saving mode feature found in the other devices from that time. I for one really use that feature it really is a life saver in a lot of situations.
Another plus for the X6’s battery was that it only took about 80 minutes on average to charge from 0% to 100%. And a 50% charge would usually take under 30 minutes.
Conclusion
Overall, I wouldn’t say that the X6 really shocked me. I’ve been a Nokia user for a long time and I certainly have learned to adjust my expectations when trying out Nokia devices. I really wasn’t expecting the X6 to be a killer and it certainly didn’t disappoint me there. But I wasn’t expecting it to be a total dud and I must say it didn’t let me down in that department as well.
With its primary competition being low end HTC smartphones and other touchscreen offerings from Korean manufacturers like LG and Samsung, the X6 certainly is a lot more attractive option. In fact, I’d recommend it over the slightly more expensive N97 mini. That is if you must have a touchscreen phone in any case. But if you are okay with using a Keypad, then then Nokia E72 is still a much better deal.
But that is only until Nokia keeps selling the X6 at its current price. Knocking its price down to around $300 (PKR 25,000 in local market) would really make this the best media centric phone out in the market today. I really hope Nokia is considering going down this route soon rather than just kill the X6 all together.
Pros
- Excellent Media Performance
- Superb Audio Quality
- Good and responsive Touchscreen
- Good imaging performance
- Decent Camcorder capability
- 32GB/16GB Internal Storage
Cons
- Outdated Hardware (low end CPU crippled by little RAM)
- Weak antennas (Cellular, Wi-Fi, GPS)
- Relatively small screen for the resolution
- Ridiculous pricing
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