Design, call quality, and Apps3.8 1.9 X3 measures 0.6 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.6 ounces. It is made of some cheap-feeling plastic silver with black front panel, a pair of vertical blue lines to add some 'pizazz, a separate hardware built-in music player controls on the left track. Red and white version is also available. 2.2-inch LCD sports 240 x 320 pixel resolution, as dozens of unlocked Nokia Series 40 phones before it. The sliding mechanism is solid, but reveals the numeric keypad is a bit 'scrunched. I found it difficult to press the buttons in the top row of numbers quickly, while, at least when using one hand. X3 is a quad-band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) device without 3G or Wi-Fi.
I tested the phone from AT & T SIM card, although it also acts as T-Mobile and prepaid cards, both here and abroad.
Call quality was good, as with most Nokia devices. Headset was not very high, but it sounded clear and full, without any background noise. There is a hint of your side too. Uniforms callers said I sounded good with this handset as well, and the reception seemed solid. Invite sounded clear through an icon Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth Headset ($ 99, 4 stars). There is a Bluetooth voice recognition application, but it requires practice and did not even get close to function properly. The speaker sounds surprisingly clear and complete, and it was not super strong, but he was good enough for use in moderately noisy situations. Battery life was acceptable if not great at 6 hours and 45 minutes of talk time.The Series 40 6 version of the OS is not designed for third-party applications, but it does the job for tasks base. The customizable home screen has four sections from top to bottom. Everything happens very messy, but it is also very informative in an instant.
A separate class applications that leads to a second storage for downloading additional applications from Nokia Music Store clumsy. Without a QWERTY keyboard, limited phone, a native e-mail and instant messaging capabilities are pretty useless. Nokia reserves browser did a great job with WAP sites, but the HTML office phone is too much for a 2G.Multimedia, a camera and conclusions
The standard size headphone jack, 3.5 mm lateral and MicroSD card slot makes it a good substitute for your iPod. I had to keep the door open with one finger, when you remove the card, otherwise the rubber hinge must be a way. My 32GB SanDisk card worked fine, and lay the cards Nokia 2 GB to start. Even 42 MB of internal memory free.
The music sounded pretty bad, if a bit 'confused with the Samsung HM6450 Modus ($ 99, 4 stars), a Bluetooth headset. Music player is easy to navigate, and I enjoyed the controls playback hardware. There's also a built-in FM radio, but you must be connected to a sound surprisingly good headphone cable reception. Independent WMV and 3GP video also played smoothly in full screen mode, though choked on my MP4 test file.
The 3.2 megapixel camera was a disaster. It has no autofocus or LED flash, but it was not the main issue, it saves each image as a NRW (RAW Nikon) file. Later, he performs a conversion utility in the background for the change in JPG files. It provides fast file saved while taking pictures, but you have to wait indefinitely for it to work conversions. Otherwise you will end up with these files NRW. Sometimes it just does not perform the conversion, in this case, a restart is in order. The images themselves so bad, the results were generally ok outside, but inside too soft and weak to be of much use. The camcorder records too disturbed to 320 by 240 pixels video at an average of only eight frames per second.
Often, the travelers of the world, sometimes need an extra unlocked GSM phone that accepts SIM cards, prepaid international, and not too expensive to buy in advance. These people are like the X3, or, for that matter, X3-02, C3-01 ($ 179, 4 stars), or the only other latest Nokia device. But up to when Nokia is ready to upgrade to Windows Mobile 7, and also provides a line of cheap, subsidized phones for customers in the United States for U.S. airlines, telephones, such as the X3 is still a target very limited market here in America.
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Continuous talk time: 6 hours and 45 minutes
