The 5530 is a cheap touch screen music phone that Nokia’s answer to the LG and the Samsung Tocco is Cookie Lite. It is a bit more expensive than the competition, but offers a whole lot more. As well as shows with the highest resolution in its class, it has a 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, an excellent video camera, excellent music player and an FM radio, 4 GB of memory, WiFi, a 3, 5-mm headphone jack and excellent battery life.
The Nokia 5530 Xpress Music can be a stripped down version of the be considered 5800th The 5530 is compact, with a smaller screen, no 3G, no Carl Zeiss optics in the camera, and costs about 70 less than the 5800th Alternatively, you can look at 5530 as a souped Cookie Lite Tocco. The 5530 has a higher screen resolution, a flash of the camera, WiFi, a 3.5 mm audio jack, and costs about 60 pounds more than the cookie or the Tocco Lite on a pay as you go. You can see that the 5530 is positioned exactly in the middle ground, both in terms of features and price.
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So much for comparisons with other mobile phones, let’s take a good look at the 5530 in their own right. The first thing is to say that Nokia to implement a touch screen interface is pretty good. You can put the 5530 either with your fingers or the stylus usage. Either way, it’s responsive and easy to use. The display is a good size, with 2.9 inches and has a phenomenally high resolution of 640 x 320 pixels and 16 million colors, making it one of the best screens in its class. And if you’re talking touch screen, the quality of the screen really matters! The home screen is customizable, allowing one-touch access to Facebook, e-mail, music, etc. The new Contacts bar is also very funny, so you put your 20 best friends and family on the Home screen. We must also mention that the screen rotates automatically when you turn the phone on its side. In portrait mode to enter numbers and text using a virtual alphanumeric keypad with predictive text or regular text. In landscape mode, a full QWERTY keyboard is available, the ideal would like to use for people like us, the punctuation in their text messages! Watch the demo video below.
The phone is part of the Nokia Xpress Music line-up, so let’s take a look at the next video. It is impressive. Not only is it a fully featured music player with support for all popular music formats as well as an equalizer, but there’s also an FM radio built in. There are two speakers – one on the top and one on the bottom (you can use the speaker grid to see in the photo) – with excellent stereo widening and a 3D surround effect. A bass booster add punch to your music. Another bonus is the 3.5mm audio jack, which you can choose to use the supplied headphones or an upgrade to high-quality headphones that use a standard AV connection. We honestly can not blame the music features of this device.
The camera is not quite so impressive that a standard provides 3.2 megapixels, but it has autofocus and flash. And to its credit, it is extremely easy to use, making good use of touch-screen menus, and is very fast in order to record images. To be fair, it is more than sufficient to be uploaded for the inclusion of photos on Facebook, and the print quality images are possible. Video recording is also available, and that is really surprisingly good. The video camera records at resolutions all the way up to up to VGA (640 x 480 pixels) – despite the Nokia site says 176 x 220 pixels! – And there are practical functions such as video zoom, video light and the ability to pause recording and continue to be a real film director are!
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We are impressed with the connectivity. As well as Bluetooth and USB connections, the 5530 is one of the few phones in its class that has a wireless connection. This goes some way to make for the lack of 3G. In fact, if you can get a wireless connection, then you will experience a faster data transfer speeds with WiFi than 3G.
The 5530 also stands out when it comes to memory. Supplied with a generous 70 MB of onboard memory and a 4GB card as standard, you can around 1000-2000 songs, and the microSD memory card can store up to 16 GB storage capacity even further upgraded. Similarly, the battery life is excellent, which up to 27 hours of music playback time. If you consider the size and weight of the device, this is as much as you hope. It is also worth mentioning that we have found the 5530, exceptionally well-cast, so that we have in places that have completely different phones we tested, beaten to speak.
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We are very pleased with the 5530 overall very impressed. It offers a good feature for a mid-range phone, and everything works smoothly. A better camera would have been the icing on the cake, but remember that this being marketed as a music phone, we would say it served its purpose very well. Like all Symbian-smartphones, it has the occasional glitch, but nothing to spoil things too much. We awarded five stars, the 5530 at launch. A year later, so does the price does not seem like that appear, despite new competitors with improved properties, and so we fall our rating to 4
