Nokia 5530 XpressMusic touch screen smartphone uses a scrolling 'people carousel' to view up to 20 friends' emails, phone calls, photos and social media updates
That 5800 XpressMusic phone Nokia's so proud of now has a variant: the 5530 XpressMusic. It's one of those 'the same, but different' jobs. Though perhaps a more fitting description would be 'the same, but with some 'good' syphoned off'.
You aren't left with a mere shadow of a phone, but rather one that's cheaper than the 5800 -- which is already free on sub-£20 per month contracts. It's got a 74mm (2.9-inch) touchscreen, a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera, 70MB of internal memory (it comes with a 4GB microSD card for storing music), a 3.5mm headphone socket, stereo Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and the usual roster of mid-range Nokia features. It'll also support MP3, AAC and WMA music (including iTunes Plus downloads), as well as basic MPEG-4 video.
Unlike the 5800, the home screen on the 5530 will multitask with contacts at the top, your favourite four apps at the bottom and a music player widget in the centre. The interface on 5800 makes users choose between favourite people and favourite programs, a choice that leads to many excursions to the main menu and mournful soul-searching for owners of the phone who decided a shortcut to Snake was more important than their buddies. Hopefully this firmware enhancement will be rolled out to 5800 XpressMusic handsets as well.
The handset also features a pop-up Media Bar to quickly access music, photos, videos, Internet and on-line sharing applications such as Ovi Share, Flickr and VOX.
Videos from social media sites such as Youtube and Facebook can be viewed on its 2.9-inch widescreen display.
The smartphone has a built-in music player with 27 hours of playback time and a 4GB memory card. Users can buy new music from Nokia Music Store.
Nokia said the 5530 XpressMusic will start shipping in the third quarter and sell for $280 before subsidies and taxes.
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Specifications:
- Dimensions: 104 x 49 x 13 mm
- Weight: 107 g
- Display: 2.9 inch widescreen (640 x 360 pixels) with up to 16 million colors
- Camera: 3.2 megapixels with autofocus and LED flash
- Video capture: widescreen 640x 360 px up to 30 frames-per-second
- Memory: Up to 70Mb phone memory with 4GB in-box MicroSD card, supports up to 16GB MicroSD memory
- Connectivity: High speed MicroUSB connector, 3.5mm stereo headphone jack, Bluetooth 2.0
- Data connectivity: GPRS/EDGE, WLAN (IEEE 802.11 b/g)
- Talk time: Up to 4.9 hours
- Standby time: Up to 14 days
- Music playback: Up to 27 hours
- Video playback: Up to 7.3 hours
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