Nokia X6 Comes with Music and capacitive touchscreen: shipping now
By Thomas Ricker 
posted November 26th 2009 8:05AM
posted November 26th 2009 8:05AM
posted November 26th 2009 8:05AM
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that looks pretty nice.
awesome.!!!
Same old crappy ARM11 434 Mhz and 128 MB RAM powering this phone! At this price I at least expect a Cortex A8 or a peppier ARM11 (say 800 Mhz a-la samsung)
@karthikrg
Or you would expect it to be subsidised and free on contract. Which it will be.
S60 is a bit meh...
@groggit
Hurry up and migrate to Maemo.
Look, S60 was awesome when it came out and continued to be for quite some time, but the technology is really stagnating these days. I'd rather Maemo, WinMo or WebOS any time.
Yeah, one of the nicest nokias recently..
If only it had Maemo.
iRicker strikes again with a negative tone.
Who cares about DRM or not, the music is yours to keep forever and ever on your Nokia-device... And if you actually manage to fill up the memory with music, you save tens of thousands of dollars, compared to if you would buy the music to your iPhone through iTunes.
@(Unverified)
Oh wow, you actually took those Microsoft "thousands of dollars of music" ads at face value? I have 40 GB of music, and I've only ever bought one album online.
@(Unverified) "music is yours to keep forever and ever on your Nokia-device." Really, is that how you want your music stored, on multiple devices over your lifetime?
The music is locked to the handset. You have to buy an additional CWM handset to transfer previously downloaded music. If you want to burn the music to CD you have to buy additional rights.
@Thomas Ricker
Your point being? It's locked to the handset / player, as it is on iphone / ipod, whatever. It's still all-you-can-eat free music basically: The price of the handset is on par with handsets that don't have the CWM type of functionality, so I'm still facepalming here until you give me a clue of what your point is.
@Thomas Ricker
You need to see the CWM as a free Premium membership on Spotify, without the buffering etc. Who cares if you can move them to another device. You listen to music on your phone. I guess you've heard of the iPhone. I've heard that you can use it to listen to music. Protip.
@(Unverified) The price is not "on par," CWM handsets are more expensive. The 5230 CWM, for example, is 110 euro more expensive than the standard model, nearly twice the price.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/video-nokia-5230-touchscreen-s een-lagging-the-competition/
Oh, and iTunes is DRM-free so there is no device lock-in. But why do YOU keep bringing up iTunes / Apple / iPhone / iPod? I personally have a Rhapsody account. But why should I bother trying to be rational when it's so easy to taunt from behind your anonymity?
@Thomas Ricker
Just so that every Nokia hater on Engadget knows; you can actually listen to the CWM tracks on your computer as well! You just have to use their music player which is synced with their music store exactly in the same manner as iTunes on the mac.
@Gaxel "every Nokia hater on Engadget"
Look, it's NOT about Nokia, it's about DRM. It's NOT about Apple, it's about DRM:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/16/drm-the-state-of-disrepair/
Maybe in your world it boils down to us vs. them. Not ours. In our world it's good vs. mediocre, great vs. shit. It is not Nokia vs. Apple no matter how much you wish it were true.
@Gaxel: Except you don't have to use iTunes to play the music. And iTunes doesn't have DRM music.
@(Unverified) And what if you don't want another phone with CWM? You lose all your music then?
@MrAffrox
Well technically it's not your music. Just think of it as an spotify premium account that you actually haven't really paid anything for (except give or take 50-100e but that's peanuts, less than 1 year subscription on Spotify). It's worth the money.
And when I get another phone a few years later, the way we consume music has probably changed and there is some other services in store for us. Maybe it's Spotify, maybe something else. What is clear is that the traditional models of iTunes etc. won't cut it. So it's quite ridiculous in this day and time to "own" music, unless it really is in a physical format such as CD or Vinyl.
@(Unverified)
Well I do listen to music on my PC with Winamp and I copy some of them to a flash drive to listen to in car and some to my cell phone to listen while on the move otherwise. I want to have my music everywhere as standard mp3. Not tied to some application or device. And I want to keep them forever.
Very beautiful phone.
OOOO pretty......
it is sharp
That compass icon on the bottom left corner looks familiar.
=)
@Aziz S
Why yes, Aziz, it does look familiar. In fact it looks JUST like the Nokia Maps icon, arguably the world's most widely used mobile navigation program.
@(Unverified) I up-voted you which beats the sole purpose of my comment.
But I don't care, I loved you reply.
Nokia flagship smartphone will still be the N97 which is also more expensive than the X6 and the N900, to make sure that the N900 would not endanger the N97 status as reigning Nokia flagship Nokia witheld from the N900 a few phone functions (although maemo should make it easy for devs to add them along the way).
All this comes from the very lips of an high ranking Nokia Denmark employee with whom I talked during the last edition of "N97 academy" at Nokia's Copenhagen headquarters about a month ago.
By the way, the N97 after 3 new ROMs in 6 months and a gazillion of updates and firmwares, and after the free hardware fixes offered by Nokia has been transformed from toad to prince.
So much so that even though I just got my new HTC HD2 (preordered when the N97 sucked) I keep on using the N97 as my primary phone.
I know it is hard to belive,but my N97 came back from Nokia repair shop with the excellent 2.0 ROM, ar free subscription to the last (beautiful) version of Ovi maps (worth more than 100$ and curtesy of Nokia DK), and lots more of available RAM and phone memory (achieved by some software vodoo I guess).
Now I love this N97 nearly as much as I hated it when I first got it 6 months ago.
If I knew how well Nokia would have patched it up I would never have bought this (admitedly fab) HTC HD2.
@(Unverified) Good information.
Even thought, the N900 is a very promising device, it's not for the mainstream. Nokia is aware of this and that's reflected on how they marketed it and in the way they released it. Nokia will need a couple more iterations of Maemo-enabled devices before we see one "ready for primetime".
As for the N97, glad that Nokia did a good job fixing it but sad that people have to go through this unnecessary shenanigan in order to have a good working phone.
Me Like!!!! Nokia is better then all of them!(even apple)
@Spensar Actually, Google (Android + Chrome OS) is the king of the party. Apple is second (iPhone OS), and Nokia third (Symbian + Maemo).
BTW, I'm not correcting you, I'm only giving my opinion ;)
@Marcos BC If you are talking about phones, Nokia would be a little under HTC :)
@Marcos BC
*Looks at sales volume*
FAIL.
Phone looks sweet but the O.S. doesn't.
@Hydraulics
Why doesn't my avatar work? I've tried it twice now.
@Hydraulics
im looking right at your android dood... i think it works fine (unless you were trying to change it)
@skyblaze
Yay it works.
the red trim look like will glow as red led when you receive a call?
@va jj That would be pretty sweet. I like bells and whistles like this... Except when it's only half done (Like the Samsung Eternity). I really liked it on the Sony Erriccson w580i and w810i along with the Motorola Rokr.
laptop battery
It looks not bad
HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
does not have 7.2Mbps
@va jj
i think 3.6 is enough even if you want to use it as a PC modem which is the largest bandwidth function
Why buy a phone because you can get free music? The funtions of the phone - what it is supposed to do should be the reason. If I wanted free music, I will carry an FM radio.
Another overpriced fatty. Finland price with 22% VAT is 599€.
@(Unverified)
Nah, the operators in both Finland and the UK offer it for way cheaper on contract deals, if that's what you like. For example, Sonera in Finland has it for 21 EUR a month on a 2-year contract:
https://kauppa.sonera.fi/yksityisille/puhelin_ja_liittyma/puhelin.aspx?Mode=Subvention&Period=24&Installment=Monthly&PhoneKey=L273
That's pretty cheap on a monthly basis.
This phone looks sexy. I wonder how well it functions.
Same old turtle processor +small screen + forced music subscription = fail
@HiTek
Small screen?
Anything bigger than that would be harder to carry in a pocket and to use with one hand.
You can't have portability and a big screen.
3.5" is probably the maximum while still comfortable enough. Then again the iPhone at 3.5" is already too wide...
Oh yeah. It's playing Paparazzi by my lady, Lady GaGa!!!
It's heartening to know that Nokia is finally joining the capacitive touch device race. They are already lagging way behind the competition. I do feel though that maybe, just maybe, they've fallen behind a bit too far. Especially with the current S60 5th edition firmware. S60 is just too dated to be able to successfully compete against the iPhones, Palms, and Androids of our times.