Nokia actually managed to keep a couple of surprises back for the start of Nokia World 2009, and the pick of the bunch is the new Nokia X6.

Despite being accompanied by a much cheaper little brother, the X6 managed to steal the show with some exciting new looks and the lovely title of being Nokia's fifth proper touch phone.



This is clearly positioned as Nokia's flagship music device, as the manufacturer said that it would only be available as a Comes with Music device.



Packing a whopping 36GB of memory out the box (32GB internal, 4GB on a microSD card) the X6 is a serious piece of kit for the music lover, and we reckon you'll probably fill your boots early on with loads of OTA music downloads.

The Nokia X6 is a pretty good phone to look at, with a sharp, angular chassis and a lovely chrome rim. It's packing the S60 5th edition OS, and with it, something of a first for Nokia.



A capacitive screen, the first on a touchscreen phone from Nokia. We've seen it on the Samsung i8910HD, so proving it works on the platform, but up until now Nokia has been content to ply us with all manner of styluses to keep the resistive train going.



The new screen, a 3.2-inch effort, is a lot, lot better than previous resistive options from Nokia (although bizarrely not as good as the N900) meaning that scrolling through things like contacts isn't actually a problem any more.



We struggled terribly to swipe through the contact picture on our home screen with the 5530 XpressMusic recently, but the new X6 seems to have solved that problem nicely.

The phone itself is actually fairly chunky at 13.8mm thick (considering it doesn't have a keyboard) but isn't too bad in the pocket (putting it in there seemed to give the guy giving us the demo a few heart palpitations).

It's essentially the same Symbian S60 5th edition OS we've been used to before, but with a few tweaks here and there. This means the decent scroll bars are back again, RSS feeds of friends via their contact details, but in the X6, the contact list features a larger thumbnail picture than usual (we know, it's not a big thing).


The internet has been tweaked too - now a double tap will zoom you in, a triple tap will take you in even further, bouncing in and out in three steps with each prod.
The X6 also comes with three games 'designed exclusively for it' according to our stand bunny, although we think Asphalt 4 has already appeared on a number of other Nokia phones. Still, we liked the DJ Mix Tour game, even if it is a blatant rip off of Guitar Hero.


Another neat option is the ability to choose a playlist of songs depending on your mood. You simply swipe a few slide bars up and down, for sad, long music or fast and happy tracks, and the phone will refresh and display these for you.



The Nokia X6 apparently uses an internet database to work out which kind of song you're after, so if you don't have all the necessary metadata on the track, this feature might not work.



The camera, another 5MP Carl Zeiss effort with dual LED flash, doesn't come with a lens cover, so you'll need to keep it safe in the pocket.



For nearly £400, the Nokia X6 is a pricey device. It might have a million billion tracks available for download thanks to Comes with Music integration, but it will be interesting to see whether a capacitive touchscreen and a few very minor tweaks to the OS entice enough away from the likes of the 5800 XpressMusic or the Samsung i8910HD.
-techradar.com