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  Nokia X6 16GB

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  A value for money, full-fledged smartphone

  Attractive design, good display quality and touchscreen response, excellent audio quality and powerful loudspeakers, 16GB memory, Ovi Music offers unlimited music download for one year, Ovi Maps 3.0 with turn by turn voice navigation, excellent bundle

  Build quality not up to the mark, poor display visibility under sunlight, interface is not very user friendly, no auto-correct for text input, no native support for DivX/XviD video playback (only through third party apps)

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Battery Life

The Nokia X6 comes with a 1320 mAh Li-Ion battery. During our testing process, the phone gave us one-and-half day of battery life on a full charge. The usage included a couple of calls, messages, about two hours of web browsing on Wi-Fi, light multi tasking, about half an hour of GPS usage and about three hours of EDGE usage.


Verdict

The Nokia X6 is sold officially for Rs. 16,499 (although you can get it for about thousand rupees less). At that price you get a music phone with a 3.2", 640 x 360 pixel capacitive touchscreen display, 5 megaixel camera with autofocus and flash, 16GB built-in memory, Wi-Fi, GPS, one year subscription to Nokia music service along with free unlimited turn by turn voice navigation. It's hard to come across all those specs in one phone, especially in this price range. To be honest we weren't expecting the price to be this low but now that it is it makes the X6 very good value.

The looks and audio performance are some of the strong points of the phone. The fact that it is a full-fledged smartphone makes it even better. We did expect better build quality though and the display is difficult to read under sunlight. Symbian OS too has a long way to go before it can truly be user friendly and we are glad that the X6 will be one of the last phones to run this operating system.

If you can live with the build, low display visibility in sunlight and the quirks of Symbian, we think this is the best phone that you can buy in this price range right now. The combination of excellent features, good performance and superb pricing makes it great value for money.

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  Olive FrvrOn: Runs on AAA battery

  Frazier Barretto, Apr 01, 2010 1400 hrs IST

  An innovative handset that accommodates a AAA battery

  Build quality, AAA battery charging, FM tuner, color screen

  No real cons for what's being offered at this price

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There have been several innovative handsets from mobile phone manufacturers in the past, and today we have one such mobile phone for review. This is a handset that smartly charges itself from a AAA battery that can be accommodated in the phone. The manufacturer we are looking at today is Olive and the handset is called FrvrOn. The handset has gained attention globally because of its simple and yet innovative idea.

Bundle

• Olive FrvrOn
• Stereo Headset
• Charger
• AAA Battery
• Manual