Purrings on the X6 - Purr 2 The Final Purr

Rodney

We kitties have very delicate hearing so music playback quality is very important - unfortunately although the X6 is quite good Nokia still ignore the true music lovers need for Ogg and Flac. We may be a small niche market but its a market Nokia does not cater for. Hopefully with Symbian going open source future devices will get this support whether via Nokia directly (our prefurred option) or by 3rd party developers. Nokia purrlease help us poor kitties out or we will invade Nokia House and drop fur everywhere (not really but it would be fun to try)

Del (A Paw Gamer)

I, like my fellow felines like to get out paws dirty with a bit of gaming - now you would think as the X6 has a nice capacitive screen that gaming would be superb. Especially as we now know thanks to my brother that the fur between our pads does not impede the responsiveness of the screen. But no. Sadly this was not the case. I happen to be a bit of a Skyforce reloaded fan and have played this game on daddies N97 and N97 mini (shh he doesn't know) but on the X6 it only worked with accelerometer control and not touch. I was so disappointed. However I must say other games worked great especially the Nokia published games such as Dance Fabulous (great for kitty grooving) and Climate Mission for the more concientious kitties out there.


Must Have Kitty Applications:




We kitties do not travel well and are prone to pooping and being sick when we are upset so making a journey as short and stress free as possible is very important to us. This is why we use Waze a social GPS turn by turn navigation application that is actually fun too. You can find Waze here. It supports all S60 V5 devices and V3 devices too that have a GPS module. The application is pretty easy to use plus if you like mapping you get to draw new roads as Waze is totally user generated. You get points for mapping roads, updating these roads using the online map editor, adding street numbers etc. These points generate a world rank (daddy is only ranked 1402 at moment - pretty lame but what can you do). Because waze is user generated you get all important traffic reports which is purrfect for keeping journey times to a minimum thus helping to prevent nasty smells and keeping daddy happy. Waze also has a Chat feature so we can also have kitty chats with fellow feline wazers - all in all a purrfect (well nearly) navigation app for kitties and humans alike.






Are you a musical kitty? - do you have a last.fm subscription? Then you need Mobbler. It does everything a kitty could want from a last.fm client. Start a new station, view friends, shoutbox, playlists, recent tracks etc. Its simple (great for us technically challenged kitties).





Well what can I say about Gravity that hasn't been said before. Nothing as it is quite simply the best (Better than all the rest) . It does everything a Twitty client should and a lot more too. I can checkin on Foursquare at all my favourite hangouts (The Back Yard, The local kitty Club, The Back Alley, everywhere a kitty wants to be) and it tells me where all my pawpals are. Great for a Tomcat if you know what I mean. If that wasn't enough I can also see my friends facebook updates and comment when I want to. And the great thing about Gravity is its developer. Jan Ole Suhr continues to improve it and add features. Not an easy task when you consider how good it is already.

These 3 applications are all top treats. Mobbler and Gravity can be found in Ovi Store. Waze is just downloaded from Waze's website.


Final conclusions on the X6

Its a good device considering the usual hardware limitations of the current S60 V5 devices. But its let down by the terrible onscreen keyboard forcing us kitty cats to use the T9 keypad. Which is very responsive but not particularly fast. The UI still needs improvements and kinetic scrolling throughout. Hopefully these will come in future firmware updates.
So without further ado our Final Paw Score is