The first part of Ewan's real world review of the Nokia X6 Comes With Music.... Yes, there's a capacitive screen and decent speakers, but Ewan manages to find several points to complain about, not least the style-over-substance keylock key. More on the X6 from him later this week.
Read on in the full article.
There is a default setting for headphones, Settings > Phone > Accessories > mark headphones as default.
I am not sure if this has been mentioned before, does this thing have kinetic scrolling? Would be fun swipping. Also with probably the images in the gallery, etc.
There is no *need* to use a stylus with the Nokia resistive touch, such as the 5800/5530 etc. It's a choice, although it would be needed for the handwriting input - which the X6 doesn't have.
My Stylus only ever comes out of its holder if I want to use it to push the SIM card out.
I don't know if its just me, but I've been hearing too many build quality complaints regarding Nokia handsets. Right from the N97 to the N86 to, even the 5530 are plagued with build quality issues that probably are a result of major cost cutting.
Nokia was and most probably is regarded as a brand that makes durable and long lasting phones,but,I guess this is going to change in the near future.
The X6 was a phone that I eagerly awaited and, no I cannot live with the hard(gimmicky) keylock especially if it is the only way to activate the screen.
Nokia should probably integrate screen unlock feature by long press,key combos making use of the bottom 3 buttons in a later update
the X6 at this price is just laughable hardware compared to the nexus one google just released, lets not talk about that laughable software its a whole other chapter.
why in the world would someone buy this mediocre phone when you can buy an HTC Nexus One google Phone for much less with a 1GHz Snapdragon and 512MB RAM! WAAABAAAM Espoo! You're being punished for becoming too big to innovate. Nokia talks about how great they're going to be in 2011!! Well guess what, noone is waiting! In 2011 the competition will be so far from where it is now you're never gonna catch up! Just wait till June to see what the iphone 4G will be! Or just wait and see what Android 3.0 is going to be!
Nokia needs to fire all their designers, all their software people and venture out in the undergroud developer scene to find out whats cool nowadays and whats NOT! Cuz they can't seem to figure that out!
X6 = not cool!
Symbian touch = very not cool!! actually i can't think of one phone they have which is cool!
N97 = the N97 has hardware flaws i dont even know where to start but just looking at the horrible keyboard gets me goose bumps.
underpowered hardware = not cool
@bigdondon
If you don't consider unlimited music to be worth �120 to you, then go ahead, spend that money on clock cycles and megabytes. I know Comes with Music hasn't been succesful but that's more to do with confusion around that happens to the tunes when you change devices (which I can't find any information about either)
Funny that you should mention about the problem with the headphones coming out. That exact feature will be in Symbian^3, courtesy of the author of Escarpod.
Also, you might be interested to know that a copy of your book 'Rapid Enterprise Development' is sitting on the bookshelf on the ground floor of Symbian's offices in Southwark 😊
Ah yes, but does it pass the REAL AAS test?
Can it download Iplayer files? Coz you know, that's what's REALLY important to have on a phone!....
(just messing with you Steve 😉
From Ewan's writeup (i didn't watch the video), it doesn't seem like any i8910 owners are going to be regretting their purchase. Unless i missed something we already have all the positive's Ewan mentions and none of the (many) drawback's. Solid, consistant hardware and (arguably) the best implementation of 5th edition on any phone. Certainly smoother and quicker than resistive versions i've used.
As far as having the music pause when you remove the headphones, "There's an app for that". It's called 'For your ears only'. http://tinyurl.com/ybs28y7
whoops, last two statements meant for Ewan!
Sorry but I have to ask, whats with the green nail varnish ?
With regard to muting the music when you pull the headphones out, in true Apple style, "there's an app for that" for 5th Edition devices..... http://code.google.com/p/bergamot/wiki/ForYourEarsOnly
Edit: I have no idea if this works (at all), but apparently it does.... http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2009/11/keep-embarrassing-music-for-yourself-with-for-your-ears-only.html
Personally I think the keylock slider is fine at it is.
bigdondon wrote:the X6 at this price is just laughable hardware compared to the nexus one google just released, lets not talk about that laughable software its a whole other chapter.why in the world would someone buy this mediocre phone when you can buy an HTC Nexus One google Phone for much less with a 1GHz Snapdragon and 512MB RAM! WAAABAAAM Espoo! You're being punished for becoming too big to innovate. Nokia talks about how great they're going to be in 2011!! Well guess what, noone is waiting! In 2011 the competition will be so far from where it is now you're never gonna catch up! Just wait till June to see what the iphone 4G will be! Or just wait and see what Android 3.0 is going to be!
Nokia needs to fire all their designers, all their software people and venture out in the undergroud developer scene to find out whats cool nowadays and whats NOT! Cuz they can't seem to figure that out!
X6 = not cool!
Symbian touch = very not cool!! actually i can't think of one phone they have which is cool!
N97 = the N97 has hardware flaws i dont even know where to start but just looking at the horrible keyboard gets me goose bumps.
underpowered hardware = not cool
Why would I want a Nexus when it follows the backward trend of bloat and hugeness. It's even bigger than the iPhone! I could lay it flat and carry a round of drinks back from the bar on it, it's so stupidly and geekily massive. The only reason I won't be buying an X6 is because it has sharp angular corners, but I have been looking to replace a 5800 for a while, but can't see anything that has the same attribuutes, an X6 without CwM would be cheap enough (and cheaper than a Nexus) but for the case design that would be the one. Looks like the N97 mini is going to be the one I have to go for, until the new stuff comes out. It will do me OK for 6 months.
As for cool, well most people see phones as the tools that they are and things that spend the vast majority of their useful life on standby waiting to be used. Normal people are not sad geeks who apply the misappropriated adjective 'cool' to an electronic gadget.
Oh, an where is the innovation in a ~Nexus? It's nothing more than a catch-up.
@Unregistered
Agreed. Flash on Nexus? Already done on the N900, but everybody trumpets the Nexus. Amusing.
What can the Nexus do that the N900 cannot?
Besides, about build quality, HTC isn't the posterboy for good build quality... Look at the amount of complains on their Kovsky device (AKA Xperia X1) and others... The camera on the HD2 is of bad pick (eg the pink spots) and they just covered it up with a software update?
Unregistered wrote:@UnregisteredAgreed. Flash on Nexus? Already done on the N900, but everybody trumpets the Nexus. Amusing.
What can the Nexus do that the N900 cannot?
Be 8mm thinner for a start.
@Unregistered
What can the Nexus do that the N900 can't?
-Have 512mb of physical memory.
-Have an AMOLED screen.
-Have a larger screen.
-Have a capacitive screen.
-Be light (mass).
-Be thin.
-Have a 1400mAh battery.
-MMS
Steve_R wrote:With regard to muting the music when you pull the headphones out, in true Apple style, "there's an app for that" for 5th Edition devices..... http://code.google.com/p/bergamot/wiki/ForYourEarsOnlyEdit: I have no idea if this works (at all), but apparently it does.... http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2009/11/keep-embarrassing-music-for-yourself-with-for-your-ears-only.html
Thanks for reposted my existing reply there Steve. 😉
That charging point on the top is in completely the wrong place! While charging on a call, if the cable is pulled too tight the phone is either pulled from your hand or the cable gets broken. The charging point should should be on the bottom by default, then if it is pulled it just safely comes out of the device without damage.
Unregistered wrote:That charging point on the top is in completely the wrong place! While charging on a call, if the cable is pulled too tight the phone is either pulled from your hand or the cable gets broken. The charging point should should be on the bottom by default, then if it is pulled it just safely comes out of the device without damage.
Unregistered wrote:@UnregisteredWhat can the Nexus DO that the N900 can't?
-HAVE 512mb of physical memory.
-HAVE an AMOLED screen.
-HAVE a larger screen.
-HAVE a capacitive screen.
-BElight (mass).
-BE thin.
-HAVE a 1400mAh battery.
-MMS
Which concept of 'to do' is it that you don grasp, Unregistered?
"an charging socket"
"supply chai,n"
Are grammar and spellcheckers another vain and superfluous addition for fanbois only in the allaboutsymbian world?
Wow. i've been waiting for this review. glad it's first part was released. I am really excited for the coming review part of Nokia X6.. I am really eyeing this phone... the move of Nokia toward capacitive screen... thanks for this. For me, the capacitive screen is an indicator of a high end touch screen because resistive screens belongs to majority of china/cloned phones... hehe. that is why i am so diappointed the the two N97's armed this...
The design is modern and masculine (especially the black and red) compare to my nokia 5800. the 32gb was welcome, i just want to know if files will suffer corruption when free space was maximized.. tha was the problem i always had on my Nokia 5800, lost music files, pictures, etc..
@raffmonster
the key lock at phone side is ingenious indeed ever since the incorporation on their first (nokia 5800)... "touch locking" might look interactive but not intuitive at all times.. physical slide lock means having the phone locked/unlocked even without looking at the screen and it is really necessary on normal day when you ride a bus and check if someone texted, etc.
@bigdondon
iPhone? that is a phone that signifies status at society.. a skin-deep complement i guess.. and i am so disappointed that this much hyped phone lacks basic functionality of recording a video (their first generation) when even all mid-entry phone of that time standardize the inclusion of this camera feature. with their much-talked high speed processor, why can't do multitasking? their one button front fascia is not enough to say it is a phone (no hardware keys for call/end key). And I do not consider the looks of all iPhone generations as "classic"... it just "redundant" & they can't even risk on scratching out new designs/looks may be in the fear of attracting bad impressions.
Android is a newbie for me. it is indeed a fast rising star but I don't think it cathces up in terms of multimedia... their menu looks like they were used by Transformers... too blocky. and i can't understand why an android phone still have navigational pads.. this was painful to use because it is unpleasant/unbalanced to use a d-pad located at the bottom while more than 80% of the upper part were occupied by a tablet size screen (3.5 to 4.x inches), and i guess they are to the campaign on using the phone two-handed.. we are humans and we are not octopus to do two handed phone navigation while simply drinking a glass of water on a regular basis.
And... Nokia solutions, as always said in many reviews, do not necessarily need fast processors for a responsive interface.. their software engineers was best enough to figure out how to maximize the potential of Symbian OS without requiring to speed up the processors. Hence, effective and EFFICIENT results.
AND, if Nokia's solutions is not Cool for you... well just think about why almost 3/4's of the popularly used smartphone OS was occupied by Nokia's Symbian Series... and the rest was "congestedly" shared & fought against by your unripe Apple and prototype Android and the others...
You might be one of the fewest who do not like Nokia... how sad.
*anyway.. i will be watching out for the following parts.. thanks! allaboutsymbian is the best (also mobile-review, though they do not have X6 review yet, but i will still wait). hehe
Unregistered wrote:Wow. i've been waiting for this review. glad it's first part was released. I am really excited for the coming review part of Nokia X6.. I am really eyeing this phone... the move of Nokia toward capacitive screen... thanks for this. For me, the capacitive screen is an indicator of a high end touch screen because resistive screens belongs to majority of china/cloned phones... hehe. that is why i am so diappointed the the two N97's armed this...The design is modern and masculine (especially the black and red) compare to my nokia 5800. the 32gb was welcome, i just want to know if files will suffer corruption when free space was maximized.. tha was the problem i always had on my Nokia 5800, lost music files, pictures, etc..
@raffmonster
the key lock at phone side is ingenious indeed ever since the incorporation on their first (nokia 5800)... "touch locking" might look interactive but not intuitive at all times.. physical slide lock means having the phone locked/unlocked even without looking at the screen and it is really necessary on normal day when you ride a bus and check if someone texted, etc.
@bigdondon
iPhone? that is a phone that signifies status at society.. a skin-deep complement i guess.. and i am so disappointed that this much hyped phone lacks basic functionality of recording a video (their first generation) when even all mid-entry phone of that time standardize the inclusion of this camera feature. with their much-talked high speed processor, why can't do multitasking? their one button front fascia is not enough to say it is a phone (no hardware keys for call/end key). And I do not consider the looks of all iPhone generations as "classic"... it just "redundant" & they can't even risk on scratching out new designs/looks may be in the fear of attracting bad impressions.
Android is a newbie for me. it is indeed a fast rising star but I don't think it cathces up in terms of multimedia... their menu looks like they were used by Transformers... too blocky. and i can't understand why an android phone still have navigational pads.. this was painful to use because it is unpleasant/unbalanced to use a d-pad located at the bottom while more than 80% of the upper part were occupied by a tablet size screen (3.5 to 4.x inches), and i guess they are to the campaign on using the phone two-handed.. we are humans and we are not octopus to do two handed phone navigation while simply drinking a glass of water on a regular basis.
And... Nokia solutions, as always said in many reviews, do not necessarily need fast processors for a responsive interface.. their software engineers was best enough to figure out how to maximize the potential of Symbian OS without requiring to speed up the processors. Hence, effective and EFFICIENT results.
AND, if Nokia's solutions is not Cool for you... well just think about why almost 3/4's of the popularly used smartphone OS was occupied by Nokia's Symbian Series... and the rest was "congestedly" shared & fought against by your unripe Apple and prototype Android and the others...
You might be one of the fewest who do not like Nokia... how sad.
*anyway.. i will be watching out for the following parts.. thanks! allaboutsymbian is the best (also mobile-review, though they do not have X6 review yet, but i will still wait). hehe
No, I wasn't talking about smart unlock/slide to unlock. I just held my pal's new X6 and it seems you have to get a grip on the padlock using your fingernail and then slide the switch down . the other way is to press hard on the keylock so as to get some grip with your thumb(and probably recessing and damaging the switch in the long run).
I was suggesting Nokia to use secondary key combo using the bottom 3 hardware keys(there could be an app for that).
I somehow think this device was made for the 'fashionable' crowd. Now waiting for actual successor of 5800.
Nah, the comes with music is too gimmicky in my opinion. Whenever I try to download a song I get an X adjacent to the link after confirming download, maybe some bug in Ovi player.
The annoying thing is that I get a download confirmation for every song I click ,so I get a symbol instead of the song all the time.
It would have been excellent If Nokia gave us a voucher/something to pick up your favorite album from leading music stores or ,rather, not worried about loading music and making it costlier. If it was available in a cheaper price point,
I would have preferred it over 5800/5530 etc
raffmonster wrote:No, I wasn't talking about smart unlock/slide to unlock. I just held my pal's new X6 and it seems you have to get a grip on the padlock using your fingernail and then slide the switch down . the other way is to press hard on the keylock so as to get some grip with your thumb(and probably recessing and damaging the switch in the long run).I was suggesting Nokia to use secondary key combo using the bottom 3 hardware keys(there could be an app for that).
I somehow think this device was made for the 'fashionable' crowd. Now waiting for actual successor of 5800.
Nah, the comes with music is too gimmicky in my opinion. Whenever I try to download a song I get an X adjacent to the link after confirming download, maybe some bug in Ovi player.
The annoying thing is that I get a download confirmation for every song I click ,so I get a symbol instead of the song all the time.
It would have been excellent If Nokia gave us a voucher/something to pick up your favorite album from leading music stores or ,rather, not worried about loading music and making it costlier. If it was available in a cheaper price point,
I would have preferred it over 5800/5530 etc
There is an app for that, my friend - http://www.mobifunsoft.com/smartsettings
To those who don't like physical locks, there are couple of smart free apps available for S605th.
ex: nunlock, keyunlock, etc. Google it or go to dailymobile forums. You will find it.
Unregistered wrote:"an charging socket""supply chai,n"
Are grammar and spellcheckers another vain and superfluous addition for fanbois only in the allaboutsymbian world?
Probably due to an on-screen touch virtual keyboard. Very foregiveable, however, responding as a nit-picking anal pedantic doesn't make you look good.
Shouldn't there be a hyphen in "anal pedantic" 😃
ILG
The 5800 as been a big success from Nokia ,but the X6 now as alot to live up to,the Designers at Nokia want to be showed this review an so they learn from people opinions about there handsets an what people would like to see Nokia do,the auto lock on the side seems a Good battery saving function but if its to stiff you are going to very agrivated push hard all the time,O.k Nokia like to use refurbished Plastic alot,but why couldn"t the X6 have been made like the mini N97 with some metal on it,the only other problem with the X6 is thats its way to much overpriced,an how can the X6 help Nokia improve its sales all they are doing is losing more buyers looking at other devices instead at a cheaper price,or wait to the price of the X6 starts to fall,an that might be quick because loads will not be able to afford it so how can the mobile sellers sell it at the Nokia price tag
Unregistered wrote:The 5800 as been a big success from Nokia ,but the X6 now as alot to live up to,the Designers at Nokia want to be showed this review an so they learn from people opinions about there handsets an what people would like to see Nokia do,the auto lock on the side seems a Good battery saving function but if its to stiff you are going to very agrivated push hard all the time,O.k Nokia like to use refurbished Plastic alot,but why couldn"t the X6 have been made like the mini N97 with some metal on it,the only other problem with the X6 is thats its way to much overpriced,an how can the X6 help Nokia improve its sales all they are doing is losing more buyers looking at other devices instead at a cheaper price,or wait to the price of the X6 starts to fall,an that might be quick because loads will not be able to afford it so how can the mobile sellers sell it at the Nokia price tag
Nokia have the cheaper X6 (without the CwM bundle) coming in March.
The slider lock problem is being exaggerated and over stated. On the demo on in 4U that I looked at, the slider operation wasn't even noticeable. I think there are a few wimpys out there amongst the phone geeks.
The X6 case design though, is a bit strange. In order to try and get a funky look it has some sharpish dig-in edges top and bottom which killed the deal for me. Otherwise, excellent phone.
ILoveGadgets wrote:Shouldn't there be a hyphen in "anal pedantic" 😃ILG
No.