Manual Service Nokia X6

The Nokia X6-00 is the first Xseries phone from Nokia. It's a touchscreen smartphone running the Symbian operating system, but it's not based on the Nseries phones. Instead, the X series is an evolution of Nokia's XpressMusic range, and this a welcome relief, as the XpressMusic phones seem to have been much more robust than the bug-ridden Nseries.

The Xseries moves the range substantially upmarket, and the X6 doesn't come cheap. Nokia have taken the hugely popular mid-range 5800 and pimped it to the max. It's physically almost the same size as the 5800, although a few millimetres have been shaved off, making it nice and slim to hold. At the same time the weight has increased slightly, lending it a purposeful and solid feel. It's a good phone to hold, and certainly a lot less bulky than most touchscreens. In fact it's one of the few touchscreen phones that you can easily operate single-handedly.

The display is a capacitive touchscreen, and is very responsive. It's the same size and resolution as the 5800: 3.2 inches across and with 640x360 pixels. This gives it one of the smaller screen sizes amongst the high-end touchscreen phones, but that's the price you pay for having a compact form factor. The screen isn't the biggest, but it's big enough to do the job. It offers a choice of virtual alphanumeric and QWERTY keypads with automatic display rotation. The user interface is nice, sharing much with the 5800, including the contacts bar which lets you easily access friends on your home screen. The contacts bar gives you access to dialling, call records and texts for up to 20 friends. The capacitative touchscreen is very responsive and we think that this is a very easy phone to use.