Nokia 5730 XpressMusic review: Full musical keyboard
Gsmarena have posted a review of the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic. Here are the phone's key features, main disadvantages and final conclusion.
Key features:
- 2.4" 16M-color TFT display of QVGA resolution
- Four-row side-slide QWERTY keyboard
- Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G (with HSDPA) support
- Symbian OS with S60 3.2 UI
- 369 MHz ARM11 CPU
- 3.5mm standard audio jack
- microSD card slot, 8GB microSD card prebundled
- 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera with a dedicated shutter key, geotagging and VGA video at 30fps
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g with UPnP technology
- Built-in GPS receiver and preinstalled Nokia Maps
- USB and stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) connectivity
- FM radio with RDS plus Internet radio
- Dedicated music keys
- N-Gage support
- Dedicated gaming keys
- Ovi Contacts integration
- Office document viewer
- Smart dialing
- Contacts bar on the homescreen
- N-Series-like gallery
- Nokia Say and Play (voice control to music player)
Main disadvantages:
- Fingerprint-prone cheap-looking plastic build
- No DivX/XviD support out of the box (can be installed, possibly requiring a purchase)
- Average camera performance
- Poor battery life
- Doesn't charge off microUSB connection
- No TV-out functionality
Whether you call it Eseries in baggy jeans and headphones, or XpressMusic on steroids, the 5730 will raise its QWERTY hand. What are you gonna do? Hit the streets in a cheap sporty roadster (5630) or a budget crossover (5730), which rides like dad's luxury sedan (E75)? We guess the carmaker (Nokia) will be happy either way.
Well, for starters it can't have been too hard to build the 5730 XpressMusic. Just squeeze all the already available technology in an already available design - with a reinforced QWERTY suspension, alright. Well, the QWERTY keyboard makes all the difference between the 5730 and the 5630 XpressMusic. And it may be more than the 5730 is prepared to handle.
The QWERTY enabled XpressMusic handset is a niche version and the niche of all-in-one smart messengers isn't exactly friendly, to say the least. So, if you go around boasting Eseries and Nseries skill, you'd better be ready to take some Eseries and Nseries beating. It's true most of the big fish there are touchscreens and the 5730 XpressMusic is even more painfully out of its league. The good thing is its price is extremely competitive.
In fact, the brand new Nokia 5730 XpressMusic costs a good 100 euro less than a year-old WinMo messenger that's even a few things short of a perfect match in terms of specs. Still, it's almost impossible to imagine direct competition between the conservative and mature HTC S740 and the happy-go-lucky 5730 XpressMusic.
Another important thing to note here is that the XpressMusic lineup feels utterly unchallenged. Even the 5630 XpressMusic was too much already for the competing music-centric phones to beat at such a reasonable price. The 5730 goes even further to add GPS and a full QWERTY keyboard to WLAN.
It feels like the 5730 XpressMusic is trespassing into higher Eseries and Nseries grounds, but perhaps Nokia don't mind as long as it doesn't cost a thing to develop. The 5630 XpressMusic is still more important to them we guess in terms of sales. We're sure QWERTY will make music in the right ears but one 5730 to every ten 5630 units sold sounds like a reasonable target to us.
Key features:
- 2.4" 16M-color TFT display of QVGA resolution
- Four-row side-slide QWERTY keyboard
- Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G (with HSDPA) support
- Symbian OS with S60 3.2 UI
- 369 MHz ARM11 CPU
- 3.5mm standard audio jack
- microSD card slot, 8GB microSD card prebundled
- 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera with a dedicated shutter key, geotagging and VGA video at 30fps
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g with UPnP technology
- Built-in GPS receiver and preinstalled Nokia Maps
- USB and stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) connectivity
- FM radio with RDS plus Internet radio
- Dedicated music keys
- N-Gage support
- Dedicated gaming keys
- Ovi Contacts integration
- Office document viewer
- Smart dialing
- Contacts bar on the homescreen
- N-Series-like gallery
- Nokia Say and Play (voice control to music player)
Main disadvantages:
- Fingerprint-prone cheap-looking plastic build
- No DivX/XviD support out of the box (can be installed, possibly requiring a purchase)
- Average camera performance
- Poor battery life
- Doesn't charge off microUSB connection
- No TV-out functionality
Whether you call it Eseries in baggy jeans and headphones, or XpressMusic on steroids, the 5730 will raise its QWERTY hand. What are you gonna do? Hit the streets in a cheap sporty roadster (5630) or a budget crossover (5730), which rides like dad's luxury sedan (E75)? We guess the carmaker (Nokia) will be happy either way.
Well, for starters it can't have been too hard to build the 5730 XpressMusic. Just squeeze all the already available technology in an already available design - with a reinforced QWERTY suspension, alright. Well, the QWERTY keyboard makes all the difference between the 5730 and the 5630 XpressMusic. And it may be more than the 5730 is prepared to handle.
The QWERTY enabled XpressMusic handset is a niche version and the niche of all-in-one smart messengers isn't exactly friendly, to say the least. So, if you go around boasting Eseries and Nseries skill, you'd better be ready to take some Eseries and Nseries beating. It's true most of the big fish there are touchscreens and the 5730 XpressMusic is even more painfully out of its league. The good thing is its price is extremely competitive.
In fact, the brand new Nokia 5730 XpressMusic costs a good 100 euro less than a year-old WinMo messenger that's even a few things short of a perfect match in terms of specs. Still, it's almost impossible to imagine direct competition between the conservative and mature HTC S740 and the happy-go-lucky 5730 XpressMusic.
Another important thing to note here is that the XpressMusic lineup feels utterly unchallenged. Even the 5630 XpressMusic was too much already for the competing music-centric phones to beat at such a reasonable price. The 5730 goes even further to add GPS and a full QWERTY keyboard to WLAN.
It feels like the 5730 XpressMusic is trespassing into higher Eseries and Nseries grounds, but perhaps Nokia don't mind as long as it doesn't cost a thing to develop. The 5630 XpressMusic is still more important to them we guess in terms of sales. We're sure QWERTY will make music in the right ears but one 5730 to every ten 5630 units sold sounds like a reasonable target to us.
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