The 3 best accepted phones on this website are currently (at the time of autograph this review) the LG Cookie, Samsung Tocco Lite and the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. What makes these phones so popular? They are all affordable touchscreen phones. Judging by these facts, the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic looks set to be a stonking success! The 5530 can be admired as a stripped-down adaptation of the 5800. The 5530 is added compact, with a abate screen, no 3G, no Carl Zeiss eyes in the camera, and costs about �50 beneath than the 5800. Alternatively, you can attending at the 5530 as a souped-up Cookie / Tocco Lite. The 5530 has a college resolution screen, a beam on the camera, WiFi, a 3.5mm audio jack, and costs about �70 added than the Cookie or the Tocco Lite on Pay as you Go. You can see that the 5530 is positioned appropriate in the average ground, both in agreement of appearance and price.
So abundant for comparisons with added phones, let's booty a acceptable attending at the 5530 in its own right. The aboriginal affair to say is that Nokia's accomplishing of a touchscreen interface is actual good. You can use the 5530 either with your fingers, or with the stylus provided. Either way, it's acknowledging and accessible to use. The affectation is a acceptable size, at 2.9 inches, and has a phenomenally aerial resolution of 640 x 320 pixels and 16 actor colours, authoritative it calmly the best awning in its class. And back you're talking touchscreen, the affection of the awning absolutely matters! The home awning is customisable, giving one-touch admission to Facebook, emails, music, etc. The fresh Contacts Bar is additionally absolutely fun, absolution you put your 20 best accompany & ancestors on the home screen. We additionally charge to acknowledgment that the awning auto rotates back you about-face the buzz on its side. In account approach you can access numbers and argument application a basic alphanumeric keypad with predictive argument or approved argument input. In mural mode, a abounding QWERTY keypad becomes available, which is ideal for bodies like us who like to use punctuation in their argument messages! Watch the audience video beneath for more.
The buzz forms allotment of Nokia's XpressMusic line-up, so let's booty a attending at the audio next. It's impressive. Not alone is there a absolutely featured music amateur with abutment for all accepted music formats, additional an equaliser, but there's additionally an FM radio congenital in. There are two speakers - one at the top and one at the basal (you can see the apostle grilles in the photo) - giving accomplished stereo addition and a 3D beleaguer effect. A bass booster adds bite to your music. Another benefit is the 3.5mm audio jack, acceptation that you can accept to use the headphones supplied or advancement to any aerial affection headphones that use a accepted AV connection. We candidly can't accountability the music capabilities of this device.
The camera isn't absolutely as impressive, actuality a accepted 3.2 megapixel offering, but it does accept autofocus and a flash. And, to its credit, it is acutely accessible to use, authoritative acceptable use of the touchscreen menus, and is actual fast to almanac pictures too. To be fair, it's added than able for demography photos to be uploaded to Facebook, and alike book affection images are possible. Video recording is additionally available, and this is absolutely decidedly good. The video camera annal at resolutions all the way up to up to VGA (640 x 480 pixels) - admitting the Nokia website claiming 176 x 220 pixels! - and there are accessible appearance such as video zoom, a video ablaze and the adeptness to abeyance recording and again continue, enabling you to become a absolute cine director!
We're afflicted by the connectivity too. As able-bodied as Bluetooth and USB connections, the 5530 is one of the few phones in its chic that incorporates a WLAN connection. This goes some way to accomplish up for the abridgement of 3G. Indeed, if you can get a wireless connection, again you'll acquaintance faster abstracts alteration speeds with WiFi than with 3G.
The 5530 additionally impresses back it comes to memory. With a acceptable 70 MB of congenital anamnesis and a 4GB agenda supplied as standard, you can abundance about 1,000 - 2,000 songs, and the microSD anamnesis agenda can be upgraded to 16GB for alike added storage. Similarly, the array activity is excellent, giving up to 27 hours of music playback time. Back you accede the admeasurement and weight of the device, this is as abundant as anyone could achievement for. It's additionally account advertence that we begin the 5530 to accept awfully acceptable reception, acceptance us to allocution in locations that accept absolutely defeated added phones we've tested.
We're actual afflicted with the 5530 overall. It offers a actual acceptable affection set for a mid-range phone, and aggregate works smoothly. A added good camera would accept been the icing on the cake, but bethink that this is actuality marketed as a music phone, so we'd say that it fulfils its purpose actual able-bodied indeed. At launch, it's abundant added good amount on arrangement than on Pay as you Go, but we ahead that the PAYG amount will abatement after in the year. On contract, there are some amazing deals around, authoritative it hardly any added big-ticket than the LG Cookie, and we'd say that it's absolutely a added good shop for than the Cookie.
- Symbian S60 5th edition smartphone
- 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, 4x digital zoom and LED flash
- Video recording at up to VGA resolution and up to 15 fps, 4x digital video zoom
- Display: Touchscreen, 16.7 million colours, 640 x 360 pixels (2.9 inches) with automatic display rotation
- Music player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA formats) with equaliser, stereo widening and bass booster
- 3D surround sound stereo speakers
- FM radio
- Ringtones: MP3 & video ringtones, 64-voice polyphonic ringtones, vibration alert
- Voice commands: speaker independent dialling and voice commands
- Voice recorder
- Integrated handsfree speaker
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (support for IMAP, POP, SMTP) plus attachments, Audio messaging
- Internet: HSCSD, GPRS, EDGE, XHTML web browser
- Connectivity: WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, micro USB 2.0, 3.5 mm audio jack
- Memory: 70 Mbytes plus 4GB microSD memory card (up to 16 GB supported)
- Offline mode
- Quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
- Size: 104 x 49 x 13 mm
- Weight: 107g
- Talktime: 5 hours
- Battery standby: 350 hours
- Music playback: up to 27 hours
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