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With a number of phones having been released during the Nokia World Event in Stuttgart, Nokia have clearly demonstrated their intentions to continue as the global mobile phone leader. The phones that generated a lot of interest at the event were the members of the new X-series, the Nokia X3 and the Nokia X6. The Nokia X3 Reviews have been quite positive, so let’s see what’s under the hood.

Coming in a very sleek body, the slider phone really looks great. It is a music – centric device which has a large number of features in a very compact design. The phone has a 2.2 inch display which is capable of displaying a maximum of 256,000 colours and has a resolution of 240×320 pixels. The D-pad navigation key is present under the screen. The phone also has music dedicated keys. The phone is fairly slim at 14 mm and weighs in at a light 103 grams. The keypad is a flat metallic one, reminiscent of the keypad on the famous MOTORazr V3.

The music player is of the highest quality, capable of supporting MP3, WMA and AAC songs. The phone has an internal memory of 70 MB and is expandable to 16 GB via the microSD memory card slot. There is a 3.5 mm headset jack on the phone, enabling you to use your favourite headset with the phone. The presence of stereo Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP profiles means that you can use your stereo Bluetooth headset as well.

The X3 is unique in that it is the first S40 phone to support direct access to the Nokia OVI store. The store has a number of apps and games and the likes which can be purchased. Music and video clips are also present. The phone is armed with a 3.2 MP camera which has fixed focus and an LED flash to aid taking pictures in low – light.

With a great package like this, why wouldn’t this phone be a success? The X3 is set to be released in the 4th quarter of this year, perhaps during Christmas, for an estimated price of 105 pounds, so make sure you have some money saved up to make the most of one of the great Nokia X3 deals that will be on offer.

If the X6 is Nokia’s newest, all singing, all dancing music phone, then the Nokia X3 is, erm, well, it’s slightly less loudly singing and kind of bobbing along to the music but not really, you know, getting into it or breaking a sweat or drawing attention to itself in anyway kind of phone.

Make sense? Probably not. Well, try this one: the X6 is really highly spec’ed and does lots of things as well as the very best phones out there whilst also being a top notch music phone. Whereas the Nokia X3 does lots of things in an average kind of way, whilst also being a top notch music phone. And here’s where we think there’s something interesting going on. Because while you might expect the allegedly ‘better’ X6 to do well, sell more, attract more attention, make an appearance in more people’s pockets over the coming months, we actually think the streamlined X3 is going to steal the limelight. Obviously price is an issue, and coming in at an almost obscenely cheap 115 Euros, the X3 is about as cheap as any phones comes, let alone top notch music phones. But we think people are also going to be all excited by the sheer (or kind of sheer) understatedness of the X3 compared to its bigger bro. Not to mention the fact that it’s substantially smaller and lighter, which ticks a lot of people’s boxes.

It’s all well and good being the best of the best, the shiniest of the shiny, the touchiest of the touchscreens, but we think you lot out there are getting a bit sick of it. And if we don’t know you better than you know you, then who else does, huh? But it’s true though, isn’t it: there’s a hundred “best of the best” phones out there, which means there’s 99 phones that are just plain being lied about.

Which is why we’re so sure this modest, competent little number (or little letter+number) is going to be flying off the shelves quicker than people can put together Nokia X3 deals like this. Check out this Nokia X3 review, or have a look at the video below if you need more convincing.