No more four-digit product names: Nokia's latest Comes With Music phone is merely the Nokia X6. No XpressMusic tag (though that's probably what the X means), no confusing numbered monikers.
And on paper it's a well-specced phone: 31mm (3.2-inch) touchscreen, 32GB of internal memory, 5-megapixel camera with video recording, HSDPA, iTunes Plus downloads support, A-GPS navigation, Wi-Fi and stereo Bluetooth.
But specs have never been the problem for Nokia's touchscreen phones -- it's the software inside them and irritating resistive touchscreens that grind our gears into a fine metallic paste, and this looks no different.
We hold out hope this isn't just a 5800 in an admittedly pretty 14mm-thick shell, because if it is, we're just going to have to hate it. So please Nokia, let this be an XpressMusic phone we can smother in adoration.
It'll be on sale in the UK before the end of the year for around £400 SIM-free, and hopefully free on contracts. No matter how you buy it, it'll come with a Comes With Music subscription.
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Anonymous 5 October, 2010 00:02
I really like my 5800. Check out comparison sites like Esato. It still beats the iPhone 4 and the HTC Desire on features, despite being 18 months old and well under half the price. It had a front facing camera, folders for apps, multitasking, long before they did. And that's before you even mention the free offline maps and navigation.
Resistive touchscreen? USE THE TIP OF YOUR FINGERNAIL! Or the stylus. I really don't know why Nokia fail to mention this (they are very bad at marketing). You can get much better accuracy for on-screen keyboards or diminutive web links than you can with a fat finger capacitive screen.
If my 5800 ever breaks down I may well get....another 5800.