21 August, 2010
Nokia X6 review – and free credit offer
Nokia X6 Touchscreen smartphone
Whilst the Nokia X6 has been around for a while now, if you’re after an easy to use touchscreen phone for no upfront cost, then check it out. It’s also a great option if you’re after a Nokia music phone (good MP3 player and speakers on board!).
Free on a $29 plan with $50 credit
Vodafone & Three currently have the Nokia X6 handset for $0 upfront on their $29 plans.
Plus for a limited time, they’re also offering bonuses. Vodafone – $50 free credit with online purchase and Three $10 off each month for first 12 months.
Features: The Good
- Snap great images with the 5Mp camera with Carl Zeiss optics and LED flash, along with a 30fps video camera that can capture your spontaneous shenanigans
Plus you can easily upload to YouTube, Flickr and others via the Media Bar.
- When it comes to your music – the 16Gb internal memory, 3.5mm audio jack, volume rocker and (supposedly) 35 hours playback time gives you heaps of reason to listen to and store your music on the Nokia X6, and purchase more from the Nokia music site. The included headphones are quite good and feature a hands free remote and call mic, plus the built-in handset speakers have great sound.
- The rocker touchscreen lock button on the side means your phone is easily unlocked – and locked – minimising embarassing unknown calls to your in-laws, or re-launching the net for whatever dodgy sites you were last browsing…
- Aesthetically, some knock the matte black finish, but I like the look of it. It looks a little hardier and won’t show as many scratches as it’s shiny brothers (think building site?). Plus the slim shape and clean lines.
- It still uses the Nokia charging pin, meaning the chargers and gadgets from your last 3(?) Nokias will probably still work. One of life’s mysteries is that chargers seem to multiply just like coathangers? It also has a micro-USB input (and includes a micro-USB to USB cable).
- The phone runs on Nokia Series 60 OS and the 3.2 inch scratch-resistance touchscreen is ample, even for big clumsy fingers.
- Easy to setup scrolling home page Contact Bar and contacts, keeping your friends (and social media status updates) at your fingertips.
The Not So Good
One “feature” I didn’t like is using the onboard GPS. Although I haven’t as yet downloaded the Nokia Maps Navigation, following the onscreen maps is made very hard with the accelerometer rapidly and repeatedly switching between landscape and portrait as you drive. Hard to keep your bearings. I’m sure my opionin will change once I download the included lifetime update of turn by turn navigation.
And the only other problem that jumps straight to mind is when you’re on a call, it’s far too easy to hit buttons with your chin that either mutes you, puts the caller on hold and the like. But again, that just takes a little adapting and getting used to.
Industry Review
What CNET had to say:
As with its Nokia N-Series brethren, the X6 is a jack of all trades, offering a great combination of features including a 5-megapixel camera, a decent music player with video supported by the widescreen display, and a slew of business tools to boot. Typically, we find that one area or another tends to suffer when a phone tries to do a little bit of everything, but the X6 is the culmination of Nokia’s developments in each of these areas in other specialised handsets brought together in one place.”
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