Well, hey, Nokia just officially launched the X5 in Singapore, apparently as a followup to the
Twist and the latest chubby square slider to hit in the past few months after the
Motorola Flipout and
Kin One. No, we're not sure why this form factor is suddenly a Thing either. This guy is actually Nokia's second X5 --a China-only X5 with a totally different design was announced in April, so that's nice and confusing. We don't have an official spec sheet on this new X5 yet, but we're told it runs Symbian S60, and has a five megapixel camera, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube integration, as well as some sort of shake-based notification feature we don't really understand. It comes in black, hot pink, bright blue, and, um, unattractive yellow, and it's pretty thick, if the hands-on photos are to be believed. That's all we know for now -- hit the source links for a bunch more photos, and we'll let you know if we hear anything else.
[Thanks, Gabriel]
posted June 14th 2010 12:33AM
Fail.
The screen is like only 50% of the phones size.. and so thik? No Touch?
Come on.. this is 2010
That looks.... cheap.
Me thinks Nokia has an infinite supply of 320 by 240 screens.
Oh no !
Detailed Secs can be found here:
http://www.nokia.com/NOKIA_COM_1/Press/Materials/White_Papers/pdf_files/data_sheets_2010/Nokia_X5_01_data%20sheet.pdf
Probably fits well in hand and has nice social network integration but it looks damn ugly.
Are we sure this is actually nokia.. and not n0kia or nok1a? ;)
UGLY!
It's a bit too thick and too bulky, with a small screen. Looks like the Motorola's attempt to create a square shaped box. I don't think it will sell well... but who knows, time will show.
Did most of you not read that this device is specifically for APAC markets? Not everything we like works for the rest of the globe. We can hate all we want, but Nokia will sell these well, and everyone else will want to have their sales.
@christexaport I agree. It is specifically for Asia Pacific markets, or even South East Asia. Or else they wouldn't announce it in Singapore and make Indonesia their first market.