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.
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