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.
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