Nokia X6 Specs

Features:

• Screen: 640×360 (16:9 nHD) TFT LCD
• Camera: 5.0 megapixel with Carl Zeiss optics, 4x digital zoom, dual LED flash , Front-facing CIF camera
• Input: Capacitive Touchscreen (Single touch only), Proximity sensor, Accelerometer
• CPU: ARM 11 clocked at 433.9 Mhz
• Memory: 128MB SDRAM, 512MB ROM, 32,16 or 8GB NAND memory
• Networks: (3.5G), UMTS, Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE GSM-800,GSM-850,GSM-1800 and GSM-1900, EGSM-900
• Connectivity: WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g with UPnP,MicroUSB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, TV-out(PAL/NTSC), WiMax, GPS, aGPS
• Battery: BL-5J (1320mAh) , AC-8U (2.0mm power connector)
• Physical size: 111.0 x 51.0 x 13.8 mm
• Weight: 122 g
• Form factor: Candybar
• Series: Nokia Xseries (Previously XpressMusic)

Other services, features or applications:

• Image and video editor, Video centre, Online Share, Download (where Ovi Store is not supported), Email Settings wizard, Switch, Playlist DJ, Nokia Maps 3.0, Embedded premium game Spore, Online Search, Email clients
• OVI services: Nokia Music Store, Ovi Store, Nokia Messaging, Ovi Maps, Ovi Share, Ovi Contacts, Ovi Files, Ovi Suite 1.1 for PC
• Downloadable Symbian (sis), Java applications, and widgets
• 3 games included: Spore by EA, Asphalt4 and DJ Mix Tour by Gameloft

Operating times:

• Talk time: Up to 8 hours
• Standby time: Up to 406 hours
• Music playback: up to 35 hours
• Video playback: up to 4 hours

Nokia X6 Review

The Nokia X6 is a music-centred touchscreen smartphone and portable entertainment device by Nokia. It was announced in early September 2009 during Nokia World 2009 in Germany.

The X6 replaces the Nokia 5800 as Nokia's flagship music-centred model. Both still slot below some hi-end touchscreen models like Nokia N97. The X6 and the Nokia X3 are the first devices in newly installed Nokia X series. Before the X series, Nokia's music-centred devices were branded XpressMusic.

The original X6 includes the Comes With Music program and a licence for unlimited free downloads from the Nokia Music Store. The Comes With Music version shipped in late 2009 for an estimated retail price of £529.99 or €605.

A version without Comes With Music support at €200 less was released on February 23, 2010. This version has 16GB of on-board storage. Another cheaper variation of the X6 also without Comes With Music support was released by Nokia in mid-2010. This version has 8GB of on-board storage and was released in Asia.

The X6 is notable for its slimmer body than the 5800 (13.8 mm) and 35 hours of continuous music playback. For social networking, it supports easy access to Facebook, MySpace, Ovi, Yahoo IM, YouTube, VK, Windows Live and more.

What is the AMOLED description in new mobile phones today?

You may have noticed the word AMOLED appearing in descriptions of new mobile phones, such as the forthcoming Nokia N8. But what is this new technology, what problems does it help to solve and why is it a desirable thing to have? Here’s our quick five-minute guide to what AMOLED is and why you might want it on your next phone.

There are two main areas on your mobile phone that eat through your battery power like it’s going out of fashion; the display and the transmitter and receiver. Phone manufacturers have succeeded in reducing the amount of power the transmitter/receiver uses and now they’re focusing on the display.

When screens were small, the amount of power the display used wasn’t so much of a problem, but now screens are getting larger, the amount of energy they use has become critical. Reading web pages and watching video on a big 3-inch+ screen eats through power, especially if you’re using it in a outdoors where you may need to increase the brightness.

AMOLED displays consume less power than traditional Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and Light Emitting Diode (LED) mobile displays, plus they’re also faster, and the colours are more natural.

AMOLED is short for Active-Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AM-OLED) and, as it says in the description, it’s a type of LED. The display is built up of four layers: a cathode layer, an emissive polymer layer, a conducting polymer layer and an anode layer, and when a current is passed through the layers, the polymer layers give off light.

However unlike conventional LED screen technologies, AMOLED displays do not require a back light, which is the part of a normal mobile display that uses the most power. Hence, AMOLED displays use a fraction of the energy of existing technologies.

Additionally, AMOLED displays are created by depositing organic compounds on a flexible plastic base (substrate) rather than the conventional silicon substrate. The advantage of using plastic is that the amoled display is thin, lightweight and rugged, unlike silicon which many mobile users know to their cost, is brittle, and easily broken.

One of the future uses for AMOLED is in foldable or roll-away displays. Those futuristic roll-up displays that we keep seeing on sci-fi films like Minority Report are just around the corner. The display engineers are working on them right now, and at some point in the next 5-10 years they will be appearing on your mobile phone.

The Nokia PC Suite

Nokia PC Suite is a software package used to establish an interface between Nokia mobile devices and computers that run Microsoft Windows operating system. It can be used to transfer music, photos and applications. It can also be used to send Short Message Service (SMS) messages or act as a modem to connect the computer to the Internet. A mobile phone can be connected by USB, Bluetooth, or infrared. Nokia PC Suite is closed-source software and is required to access certain aspects of Nokia handsets.

While Nokia PC Suite is still being updated, it is slated to be replaced by Nokia's next generation phone suite software, Nokia Ovi Suite, which will support other platforms in addition to Windows.

Features:

• Nokia Communication Centre for controlling contacts, contact groups, messages and a full calendar (v7.1+).
• Memory view (v7.1+).
• Battery view and control and low-battery alert (v7.1+).
• Pop up notification for incoming calls and messages (v7.0+). Ability to initiate and answer calls (v7.1+).
• Direct quick handling of the cell phone's calendar (v7.0+).
• Nokia PC Sync for contacts, calendar, notes, to-do items, e-mails, bookmarks and files/folders
• Nokia Content Copier for backup and restore
• Nokia Application Installer for installing Java and Symbian applications
• Nokia File Manager for file transfer
• Nokia Contacts for contacts handling (replaced with Nokia Communication Centre in v7.1)
• Nokia Messages for messages handling
• One touch Access for connecting to the Internet using the phone as a modem
• Nokia Music Manager for CD ripping and music transfer
• Nokia Image Store for transferring pictures from phone to PC
• Notification when new phone software (firmware) updates are available (for Nokia Software Updater)

You can download the latest version in this link: Nokia PC Suite

Nokia's Involvement to GSM

Nokia was one of the key developers of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), the second-generation mobile technology which could carry data as well as voice traffic. NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephony), the world's first mobile telephony standard that enabled international roaming, provided valuable experience for Nokia for its close participation in developing GSM, which was adopted in 1987 as the new European standard for digital mobile technology.

Nokia delivered its first GSM network to the Finnish operator Radiolinja in 1989. The world's first commercial GSM call was made on July 1, 1991 in Helsinki, Finland over a Nokia-supplied network, by then Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri, using a prototype Nokia GSM phone. In 1992, the first GSM phone, the Nokia 1011, was launched. The model number refers to its launch date, 10 November. The Nokia 1011 did not yet employ Nokia's characteristic ringtone, the Nokia tune. It was introduced as a ringtone in 1994 with the Nokia 2100 series.

GSM's high-quality voice calls, easy international roaming and support for new services like text messaging (SMS) laid the foundations for a worldwide boom in mobile phone use. GSM came to dominate the world of mobile telephony in the 1990s, in mid-2008 accounting for about three billion mobile telephone subscribers in the world, with more than 700 mobile operators across 218 countries and territories. New connections are added at the rate of 15 per second, or 1.3 million per day.

History of the Nokia Mobile Phones

The technologies that preceded modern cellular mobile telephony systems were the various "0G" pre-cellular mobile radio telephony standards. Nokia had been producing commercial and some military mobile radio communications technology since the 1960s, although this part of the company was sold some time before the later company rationalization. Since 1964, Nokia had developed VHF radio simultaneously with Salora Oy. In 1966, Nokia and Salora started developing the ARP standard (which stands for Autoradiopuhelin, or car radio phone in English), a car-based mobile radio telephony system and the first commercially operated public mobile phone network in Finland. It went online in 1971 and offered 100% coverage in 1978.

In 1979, the merger of Nokia and Salora resulted in the establishment of Mobira Oy. Mobira began developing mobile phones for the NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephony) network standard, the first-generation, first fully-automatic cellular phone system that went online in 1981. In 1982, Mobira introduced its first car phone, the Mobira Senator for NMT-450 networks.

Nokia bought Salora Oy in 1984 and now owning 100% of the company, changed the company's telecommunications branch name to Nokia-Mobira Oy. The Mobira Talkman, launched in 1984, was one of the world's first transportable phones. In 1987, Nokia introduced one of the world's first handheld phones, the Mobira Cityman 900 for NMT-900 networks (which, compared to NMT-450, offered a better signal, yet a shorter roam). While the Mobira Senator of 1982 had weighed 9.8 kg (22 lb) and the Talkman just under 5 kg (11 lb), the Mobira Cityman weighed only 800 g (28 oz) with the battery and had a price tag of 24,000 Finnish marks (approximately €4,560).[44] Despite the high price, the first phones were almost snatched from the sales assistants’ hands. Initially, the mobile phone was a "yuppie" product and a status symbol.

Nokia's mobile phones got a big publicity boost in 1987, when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was pictured using a Mobira Cityman to make a call from Helsinki to his communications minister in Moscow. This led to the phone's nickname of the "Gorba".

In 1988, Jorma Nieminen, resigning from the post of CEO of the mobile phone unit, along with two other employees from the unit, started a notable mobile phone company of their own, Benefon Oy (since renamed to GeoSentric). One year later, Nokia-Mobira Oy became Nokia Mobile Phones.