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The Nokia X6-00 is the first Xseries phone from Nokia. It's a touchscreen smartphone running the Symbian operating system, but it's not based on the Nseries phones. Instead, the X series is an evolution of Nokia's XpressMusic range, and this a welcome relief, as the XpressMusic phones seem to have been much more robust than the bug-ridden Nseries.

The Xseries moves the range substantially upmarket, and the X6 doesn't come cheap. Nokia have taken the hugely popular mid-range 5800 and pimped it to the max. It's physically almost the same size as the 5800, although a few millimetres have been shaved off, making it nice and slim to hold. At the same time the weight has increased slightly, lending it a purposeful and solid feel. It's a good phone to hold, and certainly a lot less bulky than most touchscreens. In fact it's one of the few touchscreen phones that you can easily operate single-handedly.

The display is a capacitive touchscreen, and is very responsive. It's the same size and resolution as the 5800: 3.2 inches across and with 640x360 pixels. This gives it one of the smaller screen sizes amongst the high-end touchscreen phones, but that's the price you pay for having a compact form factor. The screen isn't the biggest, but it's big enough to do the job. It offers a choice of virtual alphanumeric and QWERTY keypads with automatic display rotation. The user interface is nice, sharing much with the 5800, including the contacts bar which lets you easily access friends on your home screen. The contacts bar gives you access to dialling, call records and texts for up to 20 friends. The capacitative touchscreen is very responsive and we think that this is a very easy phone to use.

X stands for XpressMusic, so you'd expect the X6 to be pretty good in the music arena. And it is! The X6 comes with an Nseries music player and an FM radio. The music player handles most digital music formats, including MP3, WMA and AAC, and supports selection of songs by artist, composer, album and genre, with album graphics displayed. A dedicated audio chip and 3D surround sound from stereo speakers delivers excellent performance, especially when the bass booster, stereo widening and loudness effects are added. There's also an 8-band graphic equaliser for additional control. Naturally a 3.5mm audio jack is included, so you can plug in your own headphones, and perhaps best of all is the massive 32GB of built-in memory. The optional Comes With Music feature gives you free unlimited music downloads for a whole year!

The X6 isn't just a phone with a music player attached though. It's also got an impressive camera. With 5 megapixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and dual LED flash, this is an excellent camera, and it punches above its 5 megapixel weight too. It's the optics that matter most, and the X6 has quality, so don't worry too much that there are cameras with more megapixels available. The X6 has a really excellent still camera. The video recording capability is good too, with recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels and 30 frames per second, which is standard definition TV quality. A second front-mounted video camera enables video calls to be made too.

A-GPS is included, which works with the new Ovi Maps. The phone has outstanding connectivity, with quadband GSM and triband 3G, so your phone will work wherever you take it on your travels. You should always have the fastest data connection too, with HSDPA giving downloads of up to 3.6 Mbps and WLAN available too for even faster data transfer in a WiFi zone. You can connect wirelessly via Bluetooth, or via USB cable, 3.5mm audio connection and a TV-Out socket.

Web browsing on the X6 is quite satisfactory. As mentioned, the screen isn't the biggest available, but 3.2 inches is a respectable size, and the responsive touchscreen and fast data speeds make for a good mobile browsing experience overall. The X6 runs the same Series 60 5th Edition Symbian version 9.4 OS/interface as the 5800, so there are already a good number of apps available to download from the Ovi store.

The X6 comes with a massive 1320 mAh Li-Ion battery which gives very impressive performance. Theoretically the X6 is capable of 8.5 hours of talktime or 35 hours of music playback between charges. Although real world performance will never match this, it still means that you'll be able to use the phone for several days between charges in most cases.

Overall, the X6 is a star performer. It's a very high powered smartphone in a compact form, with a feeling of quality and durability. It may not have the biggest screen around, but the screen is by no means small, and is superbly responsive. The music player and camera are superb. The X6 ticks all the connectivity boxes and has outstanding memory and battery life to boot. And perhaps the best thing is that it's built on a stable operating system that has been tested in the Nokia 5800, further refined and polished in the 5530 and now seems to be very robust and stable. Revolutionary it is not, but it is exactly what we've been wanting Nokia to do for such a long time: take an existing proven product and just make it better. With the X6, this is exactly what they have done. This will be mobile-phones-uk.org.uk's last review before Christmas 2009, and we're delighted to award the Nokia X6 a full 5 stars!

Features of the Nokia X6 include:

• Series 60 5th Edition Symbian version 9.4 3G Smartphone
• 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, 4x digital zoom and double LED flash
• Video recording (up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps), 4x digital video zoom, front camera for 3G video calling
• Display: Touchscreen, 16.7 million colours, 640 x 360 pixels (3.2 inches) with automatic display rotation
• NSeries music player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA formats) with 8-band graphical equaliser
• FM radio with Visual Radio
• Stereo loudspeakers with 3D effect
• Ringtones: MP3 & video ringtones, 64-voice polyphonic ringtones, vibration alert
• Voice commands: speaker independent dialling and voice commands
• Voice recorder (digital stereo microphone)
• Integrated handsfree speaker
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (support for IMAP, POP, SMTP) plus attachments, Audio messaging
• Advanced Series 60 personal organiser functions, Flash Lite 3.0
• Integrated A-GPS with Ovi Maps 3.0
• Internet: HSCSD, GPRS, EDGE, 3G HSDPA (3.6 Mbps), XHTML web browser
• Connectivity: WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, 3.5 mm audio jack, TV-Out
• Memory: 16GB / 32GB
• Flight mode
• Quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz) plus 3G (WCDMA 900/1900/2100 MHz)
• Size: 111 x 51 x 13.8 mm
• Weight: 122g
• Talktime: 6 hours (3G) - 8.5 hours (2G)
• Battery standby: 420 hours
• Music playback: up to 35 hours