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Nokia are really getting into their music nowadays. Not only have you got the Ovi Portal and Comes With Musicpromising to bring music direct to your phone, but now there’s 3 new phones dedicated to the art of makin’ noise.new nokia phones,nokia new phonesNokia 5730 XpressMusic
First up is the flagship of this little trio, the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic… which is best described as a Nokia E75 that’s been musicified. You get the same brilliant Symbian S60 interface, but with some added music widgets on the front-end, and it really is genuinely nice to see S60 moving down out of the top-end E and Nseries phones, to make its way into the more feature-phone oriented bits of Nokia’s portfolio.
Oh, and of course, just like the E75, it’s got a full, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, although I’d argue that it’s less about emails in the Nokia 5730, and more about things like Facebook, MySpace, instant messaging, and that perennial favourite, texting. Y’know, since the 5730, in a very definite way, isn’t a business oriented phone.
Rounding out the list of features is a 3 megapixel, Carl Zeiss-lensed camera, WiFi, GPS, and my favourite, a little feature called Say-and-Play, where you just say out loud the music track you want to listen to, and the phone finds, and plays it. That’s pretty damn cool, that is! Granted, it’s no Nokia N97 (their better known QWERTY phone), but it is rather nice.
Nokia 5330 XpressMusic
Next up is something a bit more traditional, in the shape of the Nokia 5330 Xpress, which isn’t powered by Symbian, is in a very definite way not a smart phone, and still looks rather tasty! In fact, it has inherited something from the Nseries line, in that its looks are a dead ringer for a slightly more squared off Nokia N96.
However, what it does have is touch-sensitive buttons next to the screen, to control music playback, and considering it’s a feature phone, it’s actually got some rather nice, almost top-end gimmicks. GPS comes as standard, and you even get a version of Nokia Maps, and the 5730′s also got HSDPA internet access, making it as fast online as its big brothers.
Other than that, there’s not much to say about it.
Not a top-end smartphone, dead ringer for its predecessor, the Nokia 5610, but looks rather pretty, and I bet it’s gonna be pretty cheap, as well. Can’t really go wrong, on that logic…
Nokia 5030 XpressRadio
Ah, but not all of the phones that wear the Xpress badge are big, multi-talented music players. With the launch of the Nokia 5030, a new breed’s appeared that isn’t about having top-end music players, or anything like that, because it’s an Xpress Radio phone. Surely I don’t need to spell out what its big feature is…?
However, it is kind of exciting, as it’s the first Nokia phone to have a built-in FM antenna, meaning you don’t need to plug in a hands free kit to listen to the radio. And since you don’t need a hands free kit to listen to it, they’ve included a whacking great speaker on the back, that’s guaranteed to produce a better bass sound than a tiny, tinny speaker somewhere round the posterior of the phone.
Fair enough, it’s no way near as exciting as something like the Nokia 5800 (the big daddy of the Xpress Music range), but in its own way, the 5030′s got a lot of things going for it, not least of which, I suspect, will be the price. With this being the baby of the bunch, and a very definite entry level phone, expect to see this costing less than a loaf of bread.
Ok, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but I bet it ain’t much more than that…