[Poothevokprot]

http://conversations.nokia.com/2009/...a-x6-launched/

this is what is lacking in the market: a thin Music Phone with Touchscreen and very good battery life

[mXr8icOB]

don't tell me your one of the apple strokers?

[SpecialOFFER]

this is what is lacking in the market: a thin Music Phone with Touchscreen and very good battery life

don't tell me your one of the apple strokers?

Two very contradictory statements.

[quack!]

Looks like a very solid phone. I wonder if it'll come stateside?

[Wrasialat]

As a point of interest, it is also Nokia's first capacitive screen.

[mXr8icOB]

As a point of interest, it is also Nokia's first capacitive screen.

hmm interesting.

nice phone tho

[funnyPasds]

Looks like a great phone but unless Nokia have invented an entirely new type of battery there is no way the one in that thing can manage half of the run times claimed.

[frkksptn]

Silly thread title really unless you have experience of any of the latest Nokia phones? I use a 5800 xpressmusic and certainly doesnt suck, not had a single problem with it since day one, unlike my previous 3 Sony Ericssons which I really liked but all randonly froze / crashed.

[mobiphones]

that doe slook really good.. i need a new phone too.
And indeed, all of the really nice phones had crappy battery life, especially because I'm used to SE phones

[Poothevokprot]

If they don't mess up with the menu system and performance, maybe even make it work with a lot of formats and not requiring a special program on the PC for uploading music, it would be the first true iPhone alternative for some people that does an important thing BETTER than the iPhone (battery life).

[VotsUtegems]

If they don't mess up with the menu system and performance, maybe even make it work with a lot of formats and not requiring a special program on the PC for uploading music

And how is the iPhone any different? You need iTunes to manage your music and even iTune itself s*cks @ss and half the time doesn't do what you want it too. The only other way to get music on your iPhone is via a special program and I don't think it supports many formats.

Come to think of it I have the feeling you were referring to the iPhone in the first place. My gf hates her iPhone, well actually the only thing she hates is the fact the screen smudges up very fast and very easy and it doesn't always recognize when your touching it (pain in the ass when adjusting settings such as volume). And it's this very reason she wants to get rid of it for a cheaper phone when her contract expires.

[Poothevokprot]

And how is the iPhone any different? You need iTunes to manage your music and even iTune itself s*cks @ss and half the time doesn't do what you want it too. The only other way to get music on your iPhone is via a special program and I don't think it supports many formats.

That is the point, the iPhone still is the best smartphone DESPITE the shortcomings because the competition is ****ing up the simplest things (HTC chin and slow cpu, Nokia still keeping the physical keyboard, Palm using WinMobile).

Now for a music phone (media phone would be a better description), the competition was also not offering something usefull until now.


You don't seem to get that I want to have alternatives to Apple and I want them to be better but I am pissed off that the competition keeps failing simple at things that would not happen under my lead. I am not happy either that the MBPs are the best Windows notebooks, but if people keep saying they are too expensive without being able to show something that is really comparable they are in denial because they just don't like Apple. They should be hating the competition for not delivering instead.

[Pyuvjzwf]

There may be one drawback with this phone for some, series 60 5th edition.

Coming from past experience with the N95 I was used to the way S60 worked on my 5800 but there have been many complaints from those alien to S60 about the way it works (double tapping to open some things, single tapping on others for example).

I can't say how well S60 5th edition performs now or if Nokia has sorted that behaviour out with updates, it would be nice if they have.

On the iPhone, there are only two things missing from iPhone OS now that I'd love Multitasking and an open application platform. You can't believe how nice it is moving from iPhone to Android now that I don't have to close 3rd party apps to do anything else with it (last.fm streaming/scrobbling being one of the biggest for me).

Once multitasking is sorted iPhone OS will (in my eyes) be the best smartphone OS out there. I doubt Apple will ever change their application approval ways nor will they let 3rd parties have a free reign on the phone (this is what jailbreak is for) but Apple have done so much right with their entry into the smartphone Arena that the other big hitters are still wondering what hit them.

I'll be sticking with Android due to the openness of the platform myself but I look forward to the Symbian OS, Maemo, Windows Mobile, Palm and iPhone OS competition.

It's never been a better time to be into smartphones!

[Poothevokprot]

I think I know how Nokia got the battery life so high, they simply inserted a bigger battery hence the phone is thicker.


Uh oh, I just noticed that I think of buying it after I just decided against the Hero.

[zoppereurvito]

I don't like these touchscreen only phones, thats why I don't like the Iphone.
I prefer a phone with a real keypad for starters, I can understand the use of touchscreen for some things but not everything!

[scemHeish]

I had the touch screen only instinct but I got sick of it real fast and went back to a blackberry. Blackberry's do everything and feel just more "refined" than any phone I have ever used.