Nokia 5530 Xpressmusic: Just Touch And Groove

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London, Jan 03 (PRINTWORDS NEWS) – nokia5530 Nokia 5530 Xpressmusic: Just Touch And Groove Nokia, the leading cellphone maker of the world is going through troubled times. 2009 was not a good year for the Finnish company and it had to pull the curtains on its flagship UK store which was launched a year back with much fanfare. Its much touted N97 just did not match up to the hype it created before the launch. The engineers at Nokia are back to the drawing table and they seriously need to come up with some killer models in 2010. Meanwhile the company has launched a new music oriented phone named Xpressmusic 5530. The earlier Xpressmusic phones got mixed reception from the users and experts. While they offered good audio quality, these models are marred by some design and usability flaws. The Xpressmusic 5800, for example, was a good product but it got overshadowed by other offerings from Samsung and LG.

Nokia has learnt the lesson from its first generation of Xpressmusic phones and the 5530 model tries to address the issues. While the Xpressmusic 5530 is slimmer and better looking than the 5800 it has plenty of buttons all over its body, which does not give it a fashionable look.

Nowadays, most of the high end or even mid range phones do not have separate keys for locking the keypad and switching the phone off. The good thing is that you can access the microSD card from the side of the phone and do not need to open the back cover. Having said that, the back cover is not very sturdy. Nokia should have made the screen surface resistant to scratch and smudges considering it is a touch screen phone. Rival touchscreen phones offer better surfaces. Nokia still continues with its fondness of resistive touchscreen which makes typing on the screen a slow affair.

However, the screen has a resolution of 640×480 and hence viewing web pages on it is a pleasant experience. The viewing angles are generous too. The presence of a 3.5mm headphone jack means you can plug in your own headsets and enjoy better sound quality if you desire so. The phone comes with a 4GB memory card and you can put in cards up to 16GB capacity. The 3.2 MP camera takes good quality picture in daylight and for nocturnal shooting it has a LED flash. Video recording at 640 x 480 resolution is also possible.

Nokia needs to polish up its ageing S60 user Interface and implement something faster. The Android OS based phones offer better speed and response. However, the bundled web browser is quite competent. The call quality is loud and clear in this model. It supports EDGE but misses out on HSPA. However, the inclusion of Wi-Fi means accessing wireless networks is easier. The battery is pretty good but tends to drain fast if Wi-Fi is used a lot and the LED flash is kept on while shooting. Overall, Nokia Xpressmusic 5530 scores well in the audio quality and improves on its predecessor on some aspects. It still misses out on some important features and its dated UI may give the competing music oriented phones an edge over it.