Just after the news of the Nokia N8 preview, which in turn is Nokia’s first Symbian 3 mobile phone which has a multi-touch capacitive touchscreen display, Nokia have announced the need to have accessory for those old-school touch screen enthusiasts; a stylus.

Even though this might not sound like breaking news, just stay with us on this and you are going to see why you should be fascinated. Capacitive touchscreen mobile phones, which have been put to excellent use in the iPhone and HTC Desire handsets, don’t generally play nice with your ordinary stylus because they interact to heat instead of pressure. Not only does this rule out the use of a stylus pen, in addition, it makes using your touch screen mobile phone with gloves nigh on unimaginable.

Fear not though, as Nokia are going to release their stylus pen that will work with the firms capacitive offerings like the recently announced Nokia N8 and first capacitive touchscreen phone the Nokia X6. The stylus pen has been said to help you “simply enter and personalise information on the compatible phone’s capacitive touchscreen display” and is collapsible and comes complete with a strap to fit for a mobile phone of preference. No word on costs or availability, but expect this to begin shipping once the Nokia N8 roll-outs later in the year.

The Nokia X6 16GB has an impressive 3.2 inch touchscreen which covers almost the whole face of the mobile phone. It is pocket and hand friendly with dimensions of just 111 x 51 x 13mm but it’s excellent for watching films using the 16:9 aspect ratio display. With 16GB of internal memory there is lots of storage to boot. The Nokia x6 runs on Symbian OS v9.4 and features a 434 MHz processor, that’s adequate to compete with loads of other smartphones in its class. The brand new XSeries family by Nokia will being replacing the XpressMusic group of mobile phones, it’ll focus on entertainment and social networking sites.

The Nokia x6′s TFT capacitive touchscreen gives a crisp, vivid picture and comes with scratch resistant glass. There’s a in-built accelerometer used for automatically switching the screen from portrait to landscape, intended for widescreen images and video clips. For texts and emails the Nokia x6 also supports writing recognition. The 5 megapixel camera is identical unit from the N97, they have Carl Zeiss optics, auto focus, LED flash and geo-tagging to take fantastic images and stamp them with their accurate point in time and location by means of GPS. The digital camera also offers video recording capabilities and there’s a chance to edit images using the software program provided.

Connectivity-wise, the Nokia X6 has all the standard features you’ll anticipate inside a smartphone, 3G, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS plus a microUSB slot to transfer files with or without wires. To make sure you never stray the X6 has Ovi maps sat nav pre-installed, which is now subscription-free. The Nokia x6 combines design and technology to bring an incredible, feature packed flagship phone to the revolutionary XSeries group of mobile phones. You can compare Nokia X6 Deals or take a look at the entry level Nokia X3 Deals in the new XSeries family.