Nokia's X6 follows the 5800's footsteps, while the X3 brings Ovi Store to Series 40
By Paul Miller 
posted Sep 2nd 2009 4:24AM
posted Sep 2nd 2009 4:24AM
We'd be tempted to use the word "featurephone" on the X6 (pictured) if it wasn't Nokia behind the handset, pumping the relatively chubby 0.55-inch thick form factor with 32GB of storage, a 5 megapixel camera, a dual LED flash, TV-out, and a 3.2-inch touchscreen. The phone is also a Comes with Music only handset, so don't expect to get all boring and old with this phone in your pocket -- or to pay for a voice plan that doesn't include the service. Otherwise, the phone seems to be a slightly slimmed down Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, sporting the same OS, A-GPS (with Ovi Maps), and we suppose a similar resistive touchscreen. Nokia was kind enough to include a free copy of Spore along with the Ovi Store, and plans to ship the handset in Q4 2009 for 459 Euros (about $652 US) before subsidy.
The X3 is a much tamer affair than the X6, offering a 2.2 non-touchscreen, a slide-out keypad, and Series 40 for an OS. There's a 3.2 megapixel camera, but you'll have to spring for a microSD card if you need significant onboard storage. What's new is that the X3 is the first Series 40 handset to include the Ovi Store, which should help it edge out the competition when it comes to functionality. The price isn't bad either, at 115 Euros (about $163 US) before subsidy. It'll be out in Q4 as well.
Update: We've added a brief video after the break.
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Oh come ON you can't be serious. Featurephone? Honestly, please tell me how this phone differs in ANY way to your description of a smartphone - especially when you used it to describe previous iterations of the iphone...
series60: might be old and ugly, but it pretty much DEFINED the concept of smartphone...
I'd be tempted to use the word "ignorant" on the author (not pictured) if it wasn't Engadget behind the post, pumping this sloppy and inaccurate post intro with its normally solid credibility in the phone space.
totally agree.
on top of that, this "featurephone" is capable of multitasking which some other "smartphones" still don't offer...
From what I'm hearing, people handling the X6 say it doesn't respond to fingernails, only fingers, so it apparently is a capacitive touch device. Although honestly, the 5800 I had the touchscreen was just about everything I could have wanted.
The X6 is just incredible, but it's sad they make it "Comes with music" only, it will never find carriers this way (because most of them have their own music offers, at least in europe).
Anyway, Nokia shows new touchscreen devices all the time these days, it looks like the war with Samsung can really start now :
N900
N97/N97 mini
X6
5800 XM
5530
5230
If you look at price and functionnality Nokia is far beyond the competition on each market segment with all these devices. Samsung and LG will suffer. They only need a keyboardless version of the N900 to fight with the iPhone (because most people wants a slim phone, even if the keyboard is fine for me).
Nokia really decided that it would not follow SE on the road to oblivion.
I bought an N97 about a month ago , and I was so disappointed by it that I had to buy myself an HTC Hero the week after.
However in just a month Nokia released two full new ROMs (11.xx and12.xx) and more than one OTA firmware updates and fixes A DAY for the past 3 weeks, which added to 1000s of super cool free themes available for the "old and ugly " S60 and the 1000s of free apps from OVI or from the dozens of Symbian dedicated web pages, ave contributed to make the N97 the all in one Superphone which was not when it first got released.
Nokia even invited me and all the N97 owners in my area to their swanky Copenhagen campus, where after feeding us, they gave us free Nokia accessories (Lanyards, cool, alu 2GB USB memory keys, etc.) and explained how to get over any possible problem we may have encountered with the N97.
The main problem, which was the dearth of phone memory was easily overcome by moving all apps from phone memory to mass memory, which was a boring but extremely effective operation.
Have you ever heard of another phone company doing that?
Now I look forward to exchange my N97 with an N900, which as the rejouvenated N97
suggests will probably be an amazing machine to use.
I also love the HTC hero and also my old and trusty HTC ToucHD (which I still think is the best win mob handset around) but the N97 now has become my main phone and until I'll be able to grab an N900 it's likely to remain so.
It's a capacitive touch screen...