Tag: x6

Quote of the Day on my Sanity

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Nokia’s X6 smartphone is starting to get some traction in the marketplace, with Ricky over at Symbian-Guru pointing out it’s arrival with them and an upcoming review. In the meantime he’s highlighted some other X6 content on the internet, including my unboxing video from Christmas. But it was Adam’s comment to the article that made me laugh: I maintain that Ewan Spence is the most insanely entertaining man in the world of Symbian. Because he is insane! Sorry Ricky and Rita, I love you both, but there’s nothing funnier than a sock puppet throwing a brand new $600 phone away

The Nokia X6 and Epic Music Phone Fail

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So the Nokia X6 I have for review has already had a bit of a rough ride thanks to an unboxing video with Emu, but my look at the core function of the phone, how it works as a music device, has been pretty disappointing. Yet again, the lack of joined up thinking from Nokia seems to be hurting a damn good product. Instead of just grafting on bits to an app that was pretty spiffy on the N95, they should have started again. If they were smart, the experience on the X6 would be very similar to the experience

Best… Unboxing…. Video… Ever?

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I’ll add the question mark, but one of the comments on my Nokia X6 Unboxing Video did suggest the above accolade, which makes me pretty happy. The Unboxing Video is a rather maligned tradition on gadget sites. Its essential function is to be “first” with a review device and get something up to capture traffic on a new device. Not that informative, not that critical, but something which gives page views and ad impressions. It’s also something I rarely do properly, although I do like to subvert the genre both with my “lets go through a conference schwag bag” group