Nokia X6 Review

Nokia actually managed to keep a couple of surprises back for the start of Nokia World 2009, and the pick of the bunch is the new Nokia X6.

Despite being accompanied by a much cheaper little brother, the X6 managed to steal the show with some exciting new looks and the lovely title of being Nokia's fifth proper touch phone.

This is clearly positioned as Nokia's flagship music device, as the manufacturer said that it would only be available as a Comes with Music device.

Packing a whopping 36GB of memory out the box (32GB internal, 4GB on a microSD card) the X6 is a serious piece of kit for the music lover, and we reckon you'll probably fill your boots early on with loads of OTA music downloads.

The Nokia X6 is a pretty good phone to look at, with a sharp, angular chassis and a lovely chrome rim. It's packing the S60 5th edition OS, and with it, something of a first for Nokia.

A capacitive screen, the first on a touchscreen phone from Nokia. We've seen it on the Samsung i8910HD, so proving it works on the platform, but up until now Nokia has been content to ply us with all manner of styluses to keep the resistive train going.

The new screen, a 3.2-inch effort, is a lot, lot better than previous resistive options from Nokia (although bizarrely not as good as the N900) meaning that scrolling through things like contacts isn't actually a problem any more.

We struggled terribly to swipe through the contact picture on our home screen with the 5530 XpressMusic recently, but the new X6 seems to have solved that problem nicely.