With Steve borrowing an X6 for a few weeks (expect his thoughts on Nokia’s first capacitive screened smartphone next week) one thing we wanted to look at was the relatively slow speed of the music player on my X6. While we’re comparing over Skype and not side by side, there’s still a marked difference between Steve’s 16GB X6 and my 32GB X6. And we have a theory....

And we think that it comes down to the speed of the chips used in the mass memory of the device, or at least seems the most likely explanation.

The simple answer is that Nokia are “using slow chips because they are cheaper”, but that doesn’t tell the full story, or the thinking behind that decision.