Getting The Best Of Two Worlds On The Nokia X3 Touch And Type

The world of mobiles phones can be categorized easily into distinct types based on form factors

. You have the conventional candybars with the traditional alphanumeric keypads, the sliders with either landscape or portrait QWERTY sliders and monolithic touchscreens, among others.

This time around, you have the worlds largest mobile phone maker Nokia innovating with a combination of alphanumeric candybar and touchscreen features.

The result is the Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type which aptly describes the versatile data input capabilities of the handset. Sporting the sharp-cornered styling elegance of the earlier X3 and X6 models, the subtype X3-02 has both touchscreen and a typical 4-row alphanumeric keypad that create Nokias very first handset of its kinds in the market.

It foregoes with the navigational center keys and thats where the touchscreen becomes useful in navigating through menus.

Features at a Glance

Revising the standard S40 UI to become the S40 Touch, Nokia is expected to use the new UI as standard on all its S40 candybar handsets, with or without touchscreen as it is often just a matter of activating the feature with the right display technology.

It does just with the S40 Touch UI on the Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type. Its display technology uses resistive touchscreen on a 2.4-inch TFT LCD with QVGA resolution and 256k colors.

As a candybar phone, it measures a slim 106.2 x 48.4 x 9.6mm and weighs a very pocketable 77.4g. Its four stylish colors of lilac pink, white silver, petrol blue and dark metal should appeal to the stylish trendy segments of a wider market for touchscreen and conventional candybar.

The Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type is a 3G phone on a quad band UMTS with HDDPA/HSUPA data speeds and a 2G on the quad band GSM radio with class 10 GPRS/EDGE.

Theres no GPS but it comes with WiFi 802/11 b/g/n for hotspot surfing and has the usual Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and miniUSB v2.0 for wireless and wired data transfers and syncing, respectively.

Imaging gets an upscalish 5 megapixel fixed focus camera without flash but enjoys 4X digital zoom. Video recording is supported at VGA resolution at 18fps frame rates.

Its also a Music Phone

You can safely forget about Nokia XpressMusic or Comes with Music handsets. The Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type is as capable as any top ranked music phone on the markets and better than others.

With a 3.5mm headphone jack that many so-called music phones miss out, this one sports the requisite stereo FM radio with RDS, the media players for popular audio and video files and dedicated music playback keys on its body that defines a mobile phone as a formidable music phone.

Its paltry 50 MB of onboard memory wont get all your multimedia files in but thats better done with a microSD card of up to 32 GB which the handset supports. Your music playback times can go up to 28 hours nonstop with its 860 mAh li-ion battery that also pumps out 5.3 hours of talk time on 2G and 3.3 hours on 3G while standby time can reach 408 hours.

by: Simon Drew

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