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In a nutshell: The
Nokia X3 is an inexpensive slide-design music phone. It has a good
music player, FM radio, memory card slot, 3.5mm headphone jack and
stereo speakers. It also comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera and has
good battery life, but is let down by a poor quality keypad. Check
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X3 Review
Review:
February 2010.
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we’re not big fans of Nokia’s slide phones. They never seem to get
them right. First, there’s the infamous Nokia wobble, then there’s
usually a whole load of problems that emerge when you start using
them. But let’s not get distracted by all that now. Read the review
and find out a bit more about the X3 first.
So, the X3. What is it? It’s a budget music player
with a slide design. Everyone wants touchscreen phones these days,
but maybe not everyone. You maybe want a phone with a normal keypad
because all that touchy-feely stuff never seems to work properly.
That’s good. Here’s the X3.
So, it’s a budget phone. Costs less than £100.
It’s a music phone. It plays music and has stereo loudspeakers.
You can play your music out loud, if you like that kind of thing.
If not, it comes with a 3.5mm headphone jack so you can use some
proper grown-up headphones. There’s an FM radio too, and you can
add a microSD memory card up to 16GB and store your whole collection.
It’s an Xseries phone too, so it has dedicated music keys on the
front. That’s all good.
What else? Well, it’s a slide phone, so it’s nice
and compact and not too heavy. No 3G, but battery life is good.
The screen’s average, perhaps a bit below-average. The camera’s
average for the price too, meaning no autofocus or flash, so don’t
expect to do a lot with it.
So, why only three stars for this rather unexceptional
phone? It’s the keyboard, it’s just awful. The first one we tested,
we actually thought it was broken. So we tried another. It was the
same. The keyboard just has a totally non-clicky,
flaccid response. And that’s just unacceptable.
What a shame, as it could have been a nice inexpensive
music phone. The question then, is what to buy instead? There’s
no obvious answer. You could try the Nokia
6303 Classic, which may not be as stylish, but costs the same
and is far superior, or you could even downgrade to the old Nokia
5310 XpressMusic, which has the key advantage of actually working.
Features of the Nokia X3 include:
- 3.2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom
- Video recording at up to 176 x 144 pixels (QCIF)
and up to 15 fps - Display: 262,000 colours, 320 x 240 pixels (2.2
inches) - Music player
- Stereo FM radio with RDS support
- Stereo loudspeakers
- Ringtones: MP3 & video ringtones, 64-voice
polyphonic ringtones, vibration alert - Voice commands: speaker independent dialling
- Voice recorder
- Integrated handsfree speaker
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, Audio messaging
- Internet: GPRS, EDGE, web browser
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.1 with Enhanced Data
Rate, USB 2.0, 3.5 mm audio jack - Memory: microSD memory card (up to 16GB)
- Flight mode
- Quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
- Size: 96 x 49 x 14 mm
- Weight: 103g
- Talktime: 7.5 hours
- Battery standby: 380 hours
- Music playback: up to 35 hours
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