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Anyone explain where there is such a diffeence in the price of the black vs the yellow? In some websites it's as much as more than a $100 difference. I personally do not see any difference besides the color. But that just does NOT explain such a huge difference in price though.
 
I'm definitely going to go to a back-up E66 for my daily phone and will prep the Omnia for an ebay sale, to get what I can from it. It's definitely a huge let down of a device, given its hardware.

The last straw was this weekend: a huge bunch of friends and I went on a weekend long trip to Atlantic City, NJ, to have fun and do a little gambling at Trump, Tropicana, Ceasars, et al. For the journey there and back, we rented a two tier, big silver party bus with amenities, food, drinks, second floor exotic girl poles, etc.

I brought my Omnia for its supposed picture capabilities only to be hugely let down. Nearly every single picture I took was a FAIL, all blurry, all awful, nearly all had to be deleted. My old 6650 flip managed impromptu quick shots better.

That, along with a large list of small things that bother me about it, make it not fun to have around.

It's definitely a phone for someone who likes to fiddle with settings, hacks, throwing custom ROMs on to it, etc. Phone hackers would probably love it.

Honestly, even as a tech nerd, I can't be bothered with that. Life's too short to spend all your time getting your expensive, high end phone to an acceptable, usable level. Besides, Symbian only really shines with button based hardware; with a touch level added on, it's like that animated gif head repeatedly slamming itself into a brick wall.

With what I recoup from it, I'll either go with a Nexus One or wait two months and pick up an iPhone 4.
 
I can't find a thread for the X6, if there is one please merge this post.

Anyone got one yet? 4 Questions:

1) is it stable?
2) better or worse than the currently available S60 devices?
3) Is it worth the $$
4) Best and worst things about it

First hand account preferred, thanks
 
Usually with touchscreen Nokias, as opposed to other touchscreen phones I've used, it would be better to go to the T9 option if you have it, though I'm not sure if the X6 has this like the 5530. The width of the phone makes it good for portrait T9 texting. Unless you hold the phone sideways and want to do two thumb entry like the way most people do with landscape qwerty. The thing is, the touchscreen Nokias as a group tend to be thicker than other TS phones which tend to be as thin as possible, and in my experience, doesn't not make it as nice to hold for landscape thumb typing. The physical form of Nokias --- candybar shape --- is optimized for one hand portrait T9 texting.

The touchscreen T9 text entry on the 5530 was quite a pleasant experience. If I can get a hold on an X6 once again, I'll see if it got a portrait T9 texting keyboard.
 
So, has anyone tried the new FW on their X6 yet? I'm really curious to see how this thing is performing after all of these updates --
 
Yep,portrait T9/Multitap is best on Nokia S60v5 phones, the ergonomics of the phones are made for this.
As for battery life,have you tried lowering display brightness to just below the middle?
 
I bought the Nokia X6 on Amazon for $299 (yellow) and my Fiance took it the day after it arrived
after she found out it has free Navigation. I'm going to install SPB Shell 3.5 this weekend and see
how it is with it. From my 2 weeks of playing with the X6, I found that multitasking on it isn't that
great compare to my N95. When running Fring, Ovi Mail, watching a video, the memory would crap
out and kick me out of watching a video. So my Fiance only have a few items running, mostly
Ovi Mail, Facebook (Opera), and Fring. But when she wants to open a video or play music she closes
Fring so the memory error doesn't kick her out. Other than that I think it's a great phone and the
capacitive touch is nice.

I was going to hop on the Dell deal last week but it didn't last long. Dell has it back in stock for
$449. Amazon is still $299 in stock. Maybe I'll pick one up when the X6 8GB version comes out for
$200.

Edit: Amazon price jst went up to $335 for the yellow

Can't wait for the N8 to come out, but I won't show my Fiance she might jsut take that from me.
 
Yeh, put it down a notch so its in the middle now. I'm a heavy user so I do tend to run a battery down very fast, thats where the Proporta comes in handy. Been trying out the camera today, pics look good, nice and bright, may post a pic later. Signal strength's not bad, pretty much the same as the N79.
 
I just got one last week; its probably going to replace my N95 as the backup to my N97. To answer your items.

1) Yes; so far no issues with it performance wise
2) Its not better than the N97/N97 Mini in respect to what you can do with the homescreen, but other than that its on the same level as every other S^1 device Nokia sells.
3) Depends on what device you are coming from, and what your expectations are for it. Its essentially a more refined and performance tuned version of the 5800. If I were coming from the 5800, I'd be disappointed. If coming from anything but probably an E75 or N86, I'd be fine (after some adjustment time).
4) Best: performance; Worst: build quality seems cheap.
 
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