NOKIA X6 AND X3

The Nokia X6 and X3: One's smart, one's not.

One smartphone and one dumbphone. That’s the ultimate breakdown of the X6 and X3, two new Nokia handsets coming in the fourth quarter of 2009. Both of them are, shall we say, sleek as hell.

The X3 isn’t so much impressive as it is impressive-looking. Compare this to the older Nokia 5610 and 5310 XpressMusic phones, and you’ll probably notice at first glance that Nokia’s S40 phone designs have come a long way since the XpressMusic days.

Under the hood, the X3 is a quad-band slider phone (no 3G, unfortunately) with a 3.2 megapixel camera. There’s integrated stereo speakers, hopefully on par with the 5800XM and not the N97, dedicated music keys, a 3.5mm connector, and Bluetooth 2.1 (A2DP and AVRCP profiles supported). You also get a lighted Navi-key.

Moving on, the X6 is the phone to watch out for. In a nutshell, it’s the next evolution of the 5800 XpressMusic. You get a full touch-screen running Symbian S60 Fifth Edition, 3G, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash, A-GPS, WLAN, and a 434 mhz processor. Internal memory matches the N97’s 32 gigabytes but leaves out the external card slots. No real love lost there. The screen size is the same as the 5800XM, at 3.2 inches (16:9 widescreen resolution). Battery has dropped a bit to up to 8 hours on GSM and 5 hours on 3G.

Like I mentioned before, both phones are slated for release in Q4 of this year. Pricing is what you’d expect: 450 euros for the X6, a mere 115 euros for the X3.