New Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Now Offers Complete Text Messaging

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:47:55 +0000

As expected, Nokia has announced three XpressMusic phones today, with one of them (Nokia 5030) being branded as XpressRadio phones. The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is Nokia’s first music-optimized device to offer a full QWERTY keyboard – ideal for quick messaging. Its Homescreen features an improved contacts bar with up to 20 friends and family members and provides direct access to music, N-Gage and other applications, like Facebook, Photos, Ovi Contacts, Maps, messaging and more. With Ovi Contacts, people see which friends are online, chat and even view what music they are listening to.

The Music shortcut offers a quick access to the music stored on the device as well as to the Nokia Music Store where they can find for information on artists, music and over-the-air downloads, directly on the device. With the dedicated gaming keys the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is a true N-Gage gadget. Direct access to the N-Gage Arena community and the preloaded N-Gage games invite to connect and compete and check high scores with online friends.

The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is expected to begin shipping in the third quarter of 2009 for an estimated retail price of 280 EUR before subsidies and taxes.

Nokia 5730 Specifications:

Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900,WCDMA 900/1900/2100
User Interface: S60
Dimensions: 112 x 51 x 15,4 mm (L x W x T)
Weight: 135 g
Display: 2.4 inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) with up to 16 million colors
Battery: Nokia Battery BL-4U,1000mAh Lion
Memory: up to 100 MB internal memory, support for up to 16GB microSD memory card
Talk time: Up to 5 hours
Standby time: Up to 300 hours
Music playback: Upto 25hours
HSDPA cat6 (max download 3,6 Mbps)
GSM GPRS/EGPRS multi slot class 32, max download 296 kbps; upload 177,6 kbps
WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g with UPnP support
MicroUSB, 3.5 mm AV connector
Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0 with A2DP & AVRCP
FM stereo radio with RDS
3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and 8x digital zoom with flash
Secondary camera, VGA

More Photos of the Nokia 5730 available at next page

Rumor: Nokia to Announce 5330 XpressMusic, 5730 XpressMusic and 5030 XpressMusic Phones

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:51:48 +0000

Leaked just before Nokia’s upcoming official music event tomorrow, 3 XpressMusic phones are expected to be presented for the event. First XpressMusic is the Nokia 5730, said to be the XpressMusic version of the recent announced Nokia E75, featuring a traditional numeric keypad and a sliding QWERTY keyboard. The Nokia 5730 also comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera, built in WiFi, GPS, FM Receiver and bluetooth. It will be available in Q2 this year for about 280 euro.

The second XpressMusic phone is the Nokia 5330, a slider phone that will be priced at 160 euro and available in Q3 this year. Like other XpressMusic phones, it has dedicated music control keys at the side. The battery will allow you to enjoy up to 24 hours of music listening time.

The last music phone is the Nokia 5030, featuring a built in FM Radio receiver and low price. When available, its suggested retail price is only 40 euro.

[via engadgetmobile]

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New Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Now Offers Complete Text Messaging

Rumor: Nokia to Announce 5330 XpressMusic, 5730 XpressMusic and 5030 XpressMusic Phones