Monday, January 11, 2010
Nokia X6 Is Music To My Ears
Ok, so I dont do this sort of thing often, but how much longer can I refrain myself from shouting from the rooftops how awesome Nokia is? =D
When they gave me the brand new Nokia X6-00 (32GB) Comes With Music edition!
About a week ago, I was one of the very privileged few to attend a special session (thanks Text 100) where they explained to us how Nokia's latest music platform, the Nokia Ovi Player, works.
I'm terrible at explaining tech-y stuff, but basically "Comes With Music" means that the X6 gives the user a special code that allows them unlimited music downloads, for FREE, for 12 months from the Nokia Music Store in its 32GB internal memory capacity! An all-you-can-eat song buffet for an entire year. All completely legal, so you can sleep soundly at night knowing that Adam Lambert is now able to afford more eyeliner thanks to you.
They've got all the major music labels like Sony Music, Universal and even some indie labels. Also there are a ton of genres from Rock, Pop, Children and ye olde fave - Bollywood *jingle*
Very excited about getting this new phone (even more so when I just *coughs* won *coughs* an N97 Mini just over a month ago).
Front & back of the box, for people who like to know this sort of thing.
The Nokia X6 in my hand. Hehe.
Its pretty light, feels kinda plastic-y but not too flimsy, and is easy on the eye. Its a full touch-screen (scratch-resistant glass) phone that responds pretty well. But its the sort where.. How do I explain this.. You have to use your finger pad to touch and slide around. It wont respond to your fingernail (ala iPhone and my N97 Mini), hence a stylus wont work on this phone either.
Some display specs:
There is also a dedicated Media key at the top right of the screen (next to the NOKIA word) which has convenient shortcuts to my Music, Gallery, Share Online feature, Video Centre and Web Browser. So no need to go poking around the menu and waste precious music time.
Other than reporting that the touch-screen works, that's about it for this bit.
Back of the Nokia X6.
Now where the front part is all shine and gloss, the back part of the X6 is a plastic casing (in my model, white) with the 5MP camera (Carl Zeiss optics yo) sitting at the usual spot.
Those 2 small lines/gaps at the side of the phone are the stereo speakers (this is a music phone afterall). Sound quality is pretty good as expected, though it of course also depends on the quality of the music you're listening to (i.e. Miley Cyrus will still sound like a dying pack of hyenas).
The Nokia X6 also comes with some extra goodies that are pretty nifty.
Like this sexy black cloth pouch!!
Which of course encased within is..
A Nokia Stereo Headset (WH-500). Phwoar.
Which unfolds to this! Sweet.
Also, the X6 came with this adorable handphone-accessory guitar in blue and pink stripes (which seem to be a common factor in their music phones).
The downside about "Comes With Music" is that the songs you download are only limited to 1 device, that can only be switched once every 3 months. Not exactly too sure what the term is, but if you move the songs to another MP3 player or something, you wont be able to listen to it. Bummer. But, the X6 is a pretty good phone, so I dont think people will be changing it too often anyway.
Still cant believe I have a new handphone =P
Apparently everyone else who received the phone is on a massive downloading spree. Cant wait to do the same!
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