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Review: Nokia X6 - Part 2: The Music
I was posting some weeks ago a please Nokia make me proud thread.
It seems that the ambition of Nokia IS to leave the market in a complete failure.
I got burned so many Times and since 9210 ihaven't seen a proper business phone.
Ma Be excepting my blackberry, at 1/2 of tke commmi .
This review confirm me that there IS no quality control an (profound) Respect for the customers.
And as someone said before....i still have my Pride.
Nokia, we had 1.000's ending 9500 we had n's, e's s's an x's...
Make up Your mind, Be innovative and consistent Or leave us....
We had enough....no more Failures.....
Not based on our pockets and wallets.
X comes closer to the alphabet ending.
Z series will Be final i guess.
Food& luck
What is with all this 'I still have my pride' stuff about Android? What is wrong with Android? If you ask me, I can tell you right now that it is leaps and bounds better than anything Nokia has put out lately. I don't get this whole ' I still want to keep my pride ' attitude.
IF you do have ANY 'pride' whatsoever, you might actually want to consider looking at either the older E71/51 or start looking at Android or Apple if you want more bleeding edge technology.
Seriously. I'm only saying this because I am actually concerned about those who continue to pull out their fingernails with pliers; then to buy something that is different and that works. Creepy.
Thank you AAS and thank you Ewan. Finally an objective review, not a 'love fest'.
It's a disgrace what Nokia is trying to push these days with Symbian 5th edition.
Jouten wrote:What is with all this 'I still have my pride' stuff about Android? What is wrong with Android? If you ask me, I can tell you right now that it is leaps and bounds better than anything Nokia has put out lately. I don't get this whole ' I still want to keep my pride ' attitude.IF you do have ANY 'pride' whatsoever, you might actually want to consider looking at either the older E71/51 or start looking at Android or Apple if you want more bleeding edge technology.
Seriously. I'm only saying this because I am actually concerned about those who continue to pull out their fingernails with pliers; then to buy something that is different and that works. Creepy.
Yes, really.
I said google phone, not Android:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/08/google_nexus_partner_friendly/
Oh no Nokia! :frown: Part 1 had me concerned. Part 2 make me very sad. Simple, hire someone to make you or just buy a better multimedia app/expertise. Apple did that you know? They didn't invent iTunes out of thin air! Your engineers are failing you. Sorry.
Wow, I gotta say. I'm really liking this reviewer, he IS actually reviewing a device without being completely biased.
And this device, just seems worse than I thought it could be.[Used to think of it just as an too expensive 5800, now it seems like a crashing too expensive 5800]
It doesn't surprise me to hear that the X6 is full of bugs and slow and it clearly indicates that Nokia haven't learnt a single thing from the N97 debacle.
IMHO the only thing that Nokia does well now is in the design of the device form but as for the rest they stubbornly stick to underpowered hardware choices, continue to release buggy firmware and software, have poorly thought out services, and lack any decent support.
What really baffles me is this business model of releasing purposefully crippled devices so that they won't be better than a previously released device in a higher class. Newer devices should be better than the previous ones, this is the way to keep pushing the boundaries but unfortunately it seems that Nokia is just content to rest on their laurels.
Dear Ewan and others, it seems to be really pathetic to complain about how bad is the Nokia built in music player. If you want gapless play you can use Floder Play which can handle it apart of support for FLAC, OGG, Monkey Audio and other sweet bits.
mato3113 wrote:Dear Ewan and others, it seems to be really pathetic to complain about how bad is the Nokia built in music player. If you want gapless play you can use Floder Play which can handle it apart of support for FLAC, OGG, Monkey Audio and other sweet bits.
Is it so sinful to have expectations with the music on an express music device. The xpress music brand was made keeping the convergence of mobile phones and MP3 players in mind (remember the 'say n play' feature). And don't rely on 3rd party apps that much.they seldom work as efficient and may not promise better battery life and music playback. The nokia built in music player has much better sound.
Not too up on this 'gapless play', but if it means that one song goes seamlessly straight into another, then the i8910 does this. Tried it yesterday (i listen to podcasts more than music, so i've never really played with the music part), and it certainly appeared to go from one track straight onto the next, on several different albums i have on the internal memory.
We (i8910 owners) do have search as well. I've not really used it as i don't have loads of music (see the above), but nice to know its there.
I didn't seem to have the 'now playing' icon that you mentioned while scrolling through other albums (or even the same album), not sure if i was doing it right though.
Similarly for album art, i may not have it set up right but the album art doesn't show except while the song is playing.
As i said in the comments for part 1, there's nothing in your reviews that has made me wish i waited for Nokia's capacative 5th edition phone instead of getting Samsung's one.
BTW, when you do the video playback review (part 3) can you try playing the VGA (ie full fat)version of "the phones show" on the X6?
@scully
" If you search for a contact and you only remember his company name, well guess what your all business phone wont know you're looking for a business because it only searches the names of your contacts!"
>>Nokia have Search Application which can search even the notes attached to the contact. FYIP. Thanks.
@brendandonegan
""Their touch screens are so ridiculous, if you want to use the N97/mini and all their touch screen phones for that matter, you better sharpen your nail on your index finger and make it pointy in the middle otherwise the phone wont properly recognize when you try to touch it. "
I'm really getting tired of this hoary old clich� about resistive screens - get over it everybody, you know you're exaggerating when you say this."
>>I also disagree with these overstatement... Look, LCD was once known for extremely low vieing angles but things can be studied and researched to improve and look what we have, LCD's are still widely used for displays. And I was a witness to lots of reviewers who was surprised by the quality of display (since resistive screens are known to dull the display) and sensitivity (since resistive screens are known for stylus-borne interfaces) of Nokia 5800 touch screen.
myReply:
Oh my dear Nokia.. You still have my loyalty on your capabilities. I still have trust on your Symbian Series. I hope there will be a lot of changes to commercial units. Mr. Ewan, I believe your review unit is not a commercial unit.
I remember my old Nokia 5700 which I "do not" have hard times navigating the Music Player. While on my current 5800, I remember when it had problem refreshing Music Library (refreshing for lifetime-- I left the phone refreshing before I sleep and attemted multiple suicide the next day to found out that it was still refreshing when I woke up) but when I inserted the same 5800 8GB memory card to my old 5700, it was refreshed for just a couple of minutes.
Also, I think there is a marketing strategy here. Remember the big "functionality gap" between the Nokia 6630 and the smartphone before it (Nokia 7610 as far as I remember), hence the 6630 bragged a quote "New Generation, New Power." I think, Nokia will just surprise the market with a fully upgraded version of Symbian. They will try to deprive these current versions just to make the upcoming Symbian ^3 or ^4 more appealing. But I still do not get the point thinking that there is a risk tha the market will get tired of waiting.
I also want to see gesture-based controls of Music Player so as to replace dedicated music keys on phone. Let us say while on Music Player (now playing), swiping skips the tracks and tapping the center pauses/plays or an option to do it while the display is off.
The 32GB built in memory on the X6 specs amazes me but at the same time scares me since the 8GB memory card of my Nokia 5800 have problem working with each other resulting to files corruption.
I also read an article from mobile-review and other techie sites regarding Nokia's upgrade to Symbian ^3 and ^4 which I predict to be a life-changing update.
Nokia, please do listen to us. It is for the consumers who will "not" understand what is happening. Don't worry, for a loyal consumer like me, I still have my bet on you. Thank you for this part 2 of the review, Mr. Ewan. I am still excited for the conclusion of this review and other future trivial insights about Nokia X6 when it was already released for a long time.
~Marvin from Philippines
All the people dissing Nokia here forget one thing: PRICE.
You have your fancy Iphones and HD2s and Omnias. You tout their specs. What you forget is that Nokia offers an effing smartphone (5230) in the Corby price bracket. They have all but the lowest sectors covered with smartphones. Every price range has a Symbian phone in it. There is no such spread for Blackberry, Or Iphone (which is just a feature phone really), WinMo, or Android. So yes, 128 MB of RAM in a 2010 smartphone is ridiculous, but buddy, vanilla Symbian doesn't need more!
So compare price first and plug your brands of choice later.