The Nokia X6 should be shimmying on to UK shop shelves right now, with the music phone available on the Orange network from Friday.
Boasting a beefy 35 hours of music playback, the handset packs 32GB of onboard memory and comes with, err, Nokia’s Comes with Music service Comes with Music which offers unlimited access to over 6 million tracks from the Nokia Music Store.
Being a Nokia, the camera department is better attended to than most, with a five megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics onboard while a 3.2-inch widescreen capacitive touchscreen dominates t’other side.
It’s quite a chunky beast though, likely to cause a stir in the trouser department for all the wrong reasons at a truly hefty 111.0 x 51.0 x 13.8 mm.
The X6 will be available from free from £35 per month or £25 per month if you trade in an N-Series handset, and is also available to pre- order now from the Nokia store for £449 SIM-free.
Full specs
Size
- Form: Classic with finger-operated touch screen user interface
- Dimensions: 111.0 x 51.0 x 13.8 mm
- Weight: 122 g
Display and 3D
- Capacitive touch screen
- Size: 3.2″
- Resolution: 640 x 360 pixels (nHD)
- Up to 16.7 million colours
- Automatic orientation sensor (Accelerometer) for display rotation
- 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio
Keys and input method
- Finger-operated touch screen for text input and user interface control (alphanumeric keypad and QWERTY that are automatically changed with display rotation, full screen handwriting for Chinese language)
- Dedicated Media Bar touch key for access to music, gallery, share online, Video Centre and web browser
- Physical keys for application launch (menu key), send and end, power, camera, lock, volume up and down
- Dedicated personal Contacts Bar for direct access to contacts, feeds and status updates
- Voice commands
Colours and covers
- Available in-box colours:
– White/Blue
– Black/Red
Connectors
- Micro USB connector for USB 2.0 High Speed to PC
- 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector for audio and TV-out
- Small DC jack
Memory
- 32 GB internal memory
Power
- BL-5J 1320 mAh Li-Ion standard battery
- Talk time (maximum):
– GSM 8 h 30 min
– WCDMA 6 h - Standby time (maximum):
– GSM 401 h
– WCDMA 420 h - Video playback time (maximum): H51nHD 25 fps up to 3 h 36 min
- Video recording time (maximum): 3 h 30 min
- Video call time (maximum): 2 h 42 min
- Music playback time (maximum): 35 h
Operating frequency
- WCDMA 900/1900/2100, GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
- GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 (Latin America and Brazil variant only)
- WCDMA 900/1900/2100, GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, 2G QB (China variant)
- Automatic switching between GSM bands
- Flight mode
Data network
- CSD
- HSCSD
- GPRS/EDGE class A, multislot class 11, with similtaneous voice and packet data mode support
- GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 32
- WCDMA 2100/1900 with similtaneous voice and packet data mode support
- HSDPA cat 6, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps (DL)
- WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g
- TCP/IP support
Local connectivity and synchronisation
- Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
- MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) support
- TV out (PAL)
- Support for PC synchronisation with Nokia Ovi Suite
Call features
- Integrated hands-free speakerphone
- Number screening for messaging and calls
- Automatic answer with headset or car kit
- Any key answer
- Call waiting, call hold, call divert
- Call timer
- Logging of dialled, received and missed calls
- Automatic redial
- Speed dialling
- Speaker-independent name dialling (SIND)
- Fixed dialling number support
- Vibrating alert (internal)
- Side volume keys
- Mute/unmute
- Contacts Bar for 20 contacts with images and comminication history (SMS, calls, instant messaging, email, web feeds)
- Talking ring tones
- Conference calling with up to 6 participants
- Video calling: up to 176 x 144 pixels, low up to 5 fps, normal up to 10 fps, smooth up to 15 fps
Messaging
- SMS with support for concatenated SMS for long messages
- Multiple SMS deletion
- MMS version 13, message size up to 600 kb
- Automatic resizing of images for MMS
- Nokia Xpress audio messaging
- Common inbox for SMS and MMS messages
- Number screening for messaging
- Distribution lists for messaging
- Instant messaging client
- Cell broadcast
- Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP
- Support for email attachments
- OMA email notification support
- Nokia Email
- Mail for Exchange*
* Some services may be available only by downloading or upgrading. Only devices that offer compatible multimedia message or e-mail features can receive and display multimedia messages. Content appearance may vary. Some images and ring tones can not be forwarded.
Web browsing
- Supported mark-up languages: HTML, XHTML, WML
- Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP, JavaScript
- TCP/IP support
- OSS web browser
- Nokia Mobile Search
GPS and navigation
- Integrated A-GPS
- Ovi Maps 3.0
Photography
- 5.0 megapixel AF camera (2592 x 1944 pixels)
- Image formats: JPEG/EXIF
- Carl Zeiss optics
- 4x digital zoom
- Autofocus
- Dual LED flash
- Flash modes: On, off, automatic, red-eye reduction
- White balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
- Centre weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.5 step
- Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video
- Scene modes: automatic, manual, portrait, landscape, night, night portrait
- Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative
- Dedicated camera key
- Landscape (horizontal) orientation
- Image editor on device
- Direct printing to compatible picture printers
- TV out (PAL)
Video
- Main camera
– Video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps (TV quality), up to 640 x 352 pixels and up to 30 fps (widescreen quality), up to 320 x 240 pixels and up to 30 fps/15 fps (email high/normal quality), up to 176 x 144 and up to 15 fps (sharing quality)
– Up to 4x digital video zoom - Front camera
– Video recording at up to 176 x 144 pixels, low up to 5 fps, normal up to 10 fps, smooth up to 15 fps - Video recording file formats: MP4, 3GP
- Audio recording formats: WAV (normal), AMR (MMS), AAC/MP4 (high quality)
- Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
- Scene modes: automatic, night
- Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative
- Clip length (maximum): 1 h 30 min (high or normal quality). Depending on available memory
- RealPlayer
- Video playback file formats: MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps VGA, MPEG4-AVC playback 30 fps QVGA, WMV9 playback 30 fps QVGA, MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps nHD
- Video streaming: 3GPP, CIF
- Landscape mode video playback
- Video calling: up to 176 x 144 pixels, low up to 5 fps, normal up to 10 fps, smooth up to 15 fps
- TV out (PAL)
- Video editor on device
- Video Centre service supported: download and stream video content, WMV support, video feeds
Music and audio playback
- Nokia Nseries digital music player
– Playlists
– 8-band graphical equaliser
– Selection by artist, composers, album and genre
– Album graphics display
– Bass booster, stereo widening, loudness - Music playback file formats: mp3, SPMidi, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA
- Dedicated volume keys and immediate access to the Music Player from the Media Bar
- Stereo FM radio
- 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
- Nokia Music
- Nokia Music Store support
- Nokia Podcasting support
- Ring tones: 3D stereo ring tones, 64-tone polyphonic, mp3 & video ring tones (3 videos and 9 mp3 songs built-in)
- Integrated 3D sound effect stereo speakers (dedicated audio chip for crystal clear hi-fi sound quality)
Voice and audio recording
- Voice commands
- Speaker-independent name dialling (SIND)
- Voice recorder
- Audio recording formats: AMR, NB-AMR, FR, EFR
- Digital stereo microphone
Personalisation: profiles, themes, ring tones
- Customisable profiles
- Ring tones: 3D stereo ring tones, 64-tone polyphonic, mp3 & video ring tones
Software platform and user interface
- S60 5th Edition
- Symbian OS version 9.4
- Active standby
- Media Bar
- Contacts Bar
Personal information management (PIM): contacts, clock, calendar etc.
- Support for assigning images to contacts
- Support for contact groups
- Clock: analog, digital, world clock
- Alarm clock
- Reminders
- Calculator
- Converter
- Notes
- To-do list
Applications
- Java™ MIDP 2.0
- Flash Lite 3.0
- Contacts on Ovi
- OSS web browser
- Switch, Say and Play
- Shazam
- Aircasting
- Pic2Themes
- Nokia Music Store
- Ovi Maps 3.0
- Map loader
- Nokia Ovi Suite
- Download!
- Settings Wizard
- Image editor
- Video editor
- Nokia Video Centre
- Share on Ovi
- Adding more applications:
– Over-the-air (OTA) downloads
Gaming
- Included games:
– Spore
– D Mix Tour
– Asphalt4
