The Nokia X6 is the first Nokia phone to use a capacitive touchscreen. Does it make a big difference? Or is it too little too late for Nokia? Read our complete Nokia X6 review: screen analysis and we’ll run you through every detail, including just how good it looks when slinging out video and browsing the web.
Read the rest of our Nokia X6 review:
Nokia X6 review: Overall verdict
Nokia X6 review: Design and build
Nokia X6 review: Music player
As mentioned in our overall Nokia X6 review, the capacitive panel has its major plus points. It makes getting around Symbian S60 much more straightforward, without those nasty repeated prods that have been required on previous Nokia touch phones in order to drill down through the menu system and sort through your Facebook and IM bumph.
There are some issues however when it comes to using the Nokia X6′s virtual keyboard. The (landscape only) QWERTY version is not up to scratch and has all the previous awkward looks and design of similar virtual efforts, as seen on the likes of the Sony Ericsson Satio. The capacitive panel on the Nokia X6 helps but typing out messages in this way is difficult and leads to plenty of mistakes being made, especially since you can see so few lines of text at one time.
On the flip side, the on screen Nokia X6 T9 pad feels far more assured and handles messages in a much more straightforward manner. It’s correct all the time and has the same reassuring thunk as a normal hard keypad when you hammer the touchscreen. With the Nokia X6, Espoo has shown once again that it still needs to tinker with details like the virtual keyboard to get it up to the same level as iPhone and Android.
The Nokia X6’s 3.2-inch screen real estate, with sharp 640×360 resolution is more than ample for video snacking. Nokia boasts that it can handle 16 million colours and when we watched back the first episode of series two of The Wire, we thought it looked bright, with the pictures rendering well and in good detail. There were no issues with things looking nasty and low res, a result for a phone that operates towards the budget end of the touchscreen market.
Web browsing also looks ace on the Nokia X6. That’s largely thanks to the panel’s sharpness, which delivers clean pics and easy to read text. However, Symbian’s browser remains an acquired taste. We recommend loading it up with Opera if you want a better browsing experience, with easier zooming.
Read the rest of our Nokia X6 review:
Nokia X6 review: Overall verdict
Nokia X6 review: Design and build
Nokia X6 review: Music player
