Friday will see the Nokia X6 arrive for sale in the UK

Published by Ewan Spence at 11:44 UTC, November 24th 2009

Nokia's latest music phone, the X6 is due to hit UK stores this Friday (27th November). Shipping on Orange, and packaged with Comes with Music, the monthly tariff is £35 (or £25 if you trade in another Nseries handset). Alternatively, you can go for the SIM free version direct from Nokia's webstore at £449.

The X6 is a clear successor to the successful 5800 series, and ups the specs considerably with 32GB of on board storage; the same 16:9 ratio screen but now with a capacitive touch layer; and a five megapixel Carl Zeiss lensed camera.

And I love the fact that while stand-by time is no longer promoted, music playing time is – in this case the X6 is rated at 35 hours from Nokia.

Arriving just in time for the Christmas rush, this could be an interesting handset to watch in terms of sales figures and promotions. Will you be queueing up on Friday?

Categories: Hardware
Platforms: S60 5th Edition

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Originally Posted by Unregistered Good God, resistive is better? What on this earth does make u think that any resistive screen can take it on with a capacitive screen as the one of the iPhone?? Have you ever used an iphone? I have and I swear I will NEVER EVER return to symbian (as it is now) or to resistive screens. NEVER, its just a pain in the arse in comparison to the "californian phone"! So for now, Im waiting for the capacitive Maemo 6 devices comming next year.

Ever try using your iPhone with the tip of a chop stick? Wearing driving gloves? Glad Cupertino has trained you like Skinners rat. Some of us want to control our technology - not be controlled by it.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered Chop sticks? Driving gloves? Thank God Nokia has those important niches covered. I've got both types of phone. I agree with the previous poster. I'll never buy another resistive screen phone. Thankfully Nokia seem to have twigged that capacitive screens are worth the extra cost.

I used to cycle to work regularly in all conditions, from sub zero all the way up. I could never have used an iPhone in those conditions.

I have no issues whatsoever with resistive screens, most of the negativity towards them ultimately seems totally unfounded. So what if it doesn't support multi-touch. Multi touch is still a gimmick - I rarely used it on the iPod Touch. Give me a call when something truly useful comes along that uses it.

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Originally Posted by clonmult I used to cycle to work regularly in all conditions, from sub zero all the way up. I could never have used an iPhone in those conditions. I have no issues whatsoever with resistive screens, most of the negativity towards them ultimately seems totally unfounded. So what if it doesn't support multi-touch. Multi touch is still a gimmick - I rarely used it on the iPod Touch. Give me a call when something truly useful comes along that uses it.

Multi-touch requires the use of two hand (or other support for the handset) that could just as well be done with one hand. Idiotic gimmick.
I can see it being a good thing for gaming, but a single handed method should always be offered for zooming maps.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered The 5800 shocked everyone an the sales were unbeliavable,if the X6 follows suite an is as loud an as simple to use,this will be everyones xmas present,this also might get Nokia to release better camera touch screen mobiles as well,as we only got the N86 uptil now from Nokia,but hope we do get a 8 or 12mega-pixel camera touch screen mobile in 2010,i will definetly calling in to Phones4u on Friday to have a look at the X6 an can"t wait to see an try the X6 out

5800 is a very low cost phone with a full feature set. Guaranteed big seller.
X6 is expensive, with no much more features wise - 5MP camera, capacitive screen (possible negative especially in Asia and later OS with kinetic scrolling (whoopee, 200 more euros so I can flick-scroll).

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Originally Posted by Unregistered A flagship phone would need more than an 8MP camera. If needs to improve on: ARM 11 434 MHz processor, and the so-called 3d engine to add some snappiness.

Why? The pixel count is (sadly) generally little more than a stupid pissing contest and has no direct bearing on image quality until you get onto the seriously high end SLRs.

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Originally Posted by clonmult Why? The pixel count is (sadly) generally little more than a stupid pissing contest and has no direct bearing on image quality until you get onto the seriously high end SLRs.

To add some snappiness. To the response of the phone in general. I didn't mean for the camera.

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Originally Posted by moonshot To high a price for what it is and at £35.00 Orange are having a laugh. (I said this on the N97 mini thread, so at the risk of repeating myself). I have the Nokia 5530 which I bought for £129.00. So what am I getting extra from the X6 for the additional £320.00 cost , Other than being ripped off.

Presumably more memory, a capacitive screen, a higher build-quality etc. Whether it's worth the price difference is open to question, but for people who have the money and like the design/specification, it's presumably worth it; you clearly don't fall into that camp, which is fine, but just because it's more expensive does not make it a rip-off...

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Originally Posted by moonshot To high a price for what it is and at £35.00 Orange are having a laugh. (I said this on the N97 mini thread, so at the risk of repeating myself). I have the Nokia 5530 which I bought for £129.00. So what am I getting extra from the X6 for the additional £320.00 cost , Other than being ripped off.

That 5530 phone can now be had for £99 sim-free unlocked. I don't think the X6 will stay at that price for long, definitely worth holding off until Jan/Feb if you are thinking about having one.

The X6 adds RAM, 3.5G and capacitive plus a higher quality case design and 5MP camera, but packs the same CPU/internals. I don't think it represents good value at the release price and although I could easily afford to buy one, I object to just wasting cash.

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