The 3 network is considered to be one of the highest available 3g Networks in the UK, and this compliments Internet Integrated Smartphones, and makes social networking easy and enjoyable.

The Nokia X6 comes complete with a high quality 5MP camera, so high quality photo’s shouldn’t be a problem, and will look great on the 3.2″ touch screen

The phone runs the Symbian Operating system, so finding an app for any occasion or to meet any requirement, and a free turn-by-turn Sat Nav Application is included.

As you would expect from a Nokia Smartphone Multimedia isn’t a problem and Video and Audio capabilities (including access to 3′s Spotify Service) are impressive, and as with all phones on 3 you will have unlimited access Skype and Windows Live Messenger for free.

The Nokia X6 is available online, in 3 Stores and telesales from today.

PhoneArena have reviewed the Nokia X6  and their review can be seen below.

It works really well if you just want to listen to your favourite songs or discover new music, however, where for me Itunes is a better solution is you can save your music, copy to your Ipod and you own it.

Spotify is a nice product and you can’t go wrong with free music.

The video quality is great and the programs look fantastic on the great widescreen monitor of the F8, you can either stream the video or if your Broadband connection isn’t up to it you can download the programs to your hard disk for 30 days.

A fantastic service by the BBC and it really works well on the Panasonic CF-F8.

They took some getting used to, as I’m used to in ear phones and the output on the RP-HT225 is very bassy, but after getting used to them I was impressed. The headphones are very comfortable and with them sitting over the ear you get a nice roomy echo effect, they also shield noise very well, hiding external noise and making sure that you don’t disturb anyone near you.

I’ve used them to listen to my Itunes library and they certainly make music sound very good, much better then the built in Speakers of the Toughbook.

The Panasonic F8 is a business focused laptop and therefore the speakers aren’t designed for multimedia
purposes, and the Panasonic RP-HT225 headphones provide a cost effective way to provide high quality and personal Sound output.

The easiest way to do this (although not suitable for groups) is to use a pair of headphones.

So I’ve purchased a pair of Panasonic RP-HT225 headphones and I’ll report back here how I get on with them.

Even though the room was small the sound from the DVD was not loud enough to be heard by everyone in the room, even though all volume levels were turned up to full level, and in the end I had to set up external speakers.

I know that the F8 is aimed at business users, but sound may be needed to give presentations, and I would prefer if the speakers were a little louder.

Below is a video of how well Street Fighter Alpha 3 runs on MAME – to me it looks absolutely arcade perfect.

To scroll up and down through Web pages or documents your can move your finger in a circular fashion clockwise or anti-clockwise on the mouse pad and the page will move up and down accordingly.

However it needs quite a lot of force to keep your finger constantly on the pad to activate it, it works ok for me but my wife struggles due to arthritis to be able to push down long enough for it to work.

I’m now looking for away to make it more sensitive.

Fortunatly linus-lim was able to post a solution in a comment on the post.

Here’s the solution:

1. Click on the Touch Pad Utility on the task bar to launch the utility.
2. On the General settings Page set the scroll speed to Fast.
3. On the Scroll Area Setting’s page set the scroll activiation area to large, like shown below.
4. Click on Ok

This has sorted our problem and has made the quick scroll function much easier to use for my wife.

As I enjoyed Civ when I was younger I thought I would see how easy it was to installed and how well it performed under Windows Vista on the Panasonic CF-F8

To install FreeCiv:

1. Download the application from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freeciv/Freeciv-2.1.8-win32-gtk2-setup.exe?download
2. Run the set up application



3. Agree to the license agreement and keep clicking Next until the option to choose the installation location.
4. Select where you want to install FreeCiv and start the install.

FreeCiv is now installed.

When run you get the option of which game type you want to play (single player, Network game Etc) and there are various gameplay options to tweek (eg your nation & the number of AI players).
The game plays in a very similar way to the original Civilisation, and plays very well on the Panasonic F8. The graphics are functional rather then beautiful do they do look very clear on the nice screen of the F8.