Nokia 5530

Nokia 5530 – A Low Cost Touch Screen Music Phone

Nokia 5530 is a remarkable phone in the XpressMusic series that includes as many features as possible for a low price tag, making technology more affordable for everyone. This 2G mobile phone was basically designed to bring the touch screen to everyone so that people can enjoy the UI of the Symbian S60 operating system. The Nokia 5530 is a slim version measuring 104 x 49 x 13 mm and weighing 107 g. The Li-Ion 1000 mAh battery provides superior talk time of 4 hours 54 minutes, music play for 27 hours and standby time of 336 hours.

The front side of the Nokia 5530 is dominated by touch screen. The call keys and menu hardware keys too are touch operated. A proximity sensor is found at the front side. The Nokia 5530 has a 2.9” resistive touch screen with a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels and it can display 16 million colors. The sensitivity is very much improved than its predecessors and you won't find the need to use the stylus as you use the phone. The major problem with the screen is that it has very poor legibility under sunlight. The accelerometer rotates the view of the phone when you change the phone mode from portrait to landscape and vice versa.

The Symbian S60 user interface is pretty much inspiring to use. The finger scrolling option in the interface is very much improved, making the phone more finger-friendly. However, the list scrolling is confusing with the Nokia 5530. Also, the opening items in the list are different from the opening icons. You need to get used to the interface in order to use the Nokia 5530 in an efficient way. The home screen is very much customizable and you can access all your favorite applications from the main screen itself.

The phonebook of the Nokia 5530 brings in no new options. The search feature is made much more user friendly. Telephony is perfect as with any other Nokia mobile phone, but there is no smart dialing feature. However, the voice dialing option compensates for the absence of smart dialing. You can silence the mobile phone by flipping it because of the accelerometer. All types of messaging such as SMS, MMS and emails can be sent using a common editor. For typing, you can use the alphanumeric keypad in portrait mode or tilt the phone to landscape mode to bring up the full QWERTY keyboard. Handwriting recognition is another interesting feature that requires you to input your handwriting using stylus.

The Nokia 5530 has a 3.15MP camera with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels. However, the camera is not of very good quality as in the case of 5800 XpressMusic model. There is a LED flash; however the picture quality is not quite good. Photos can be Geo tagged and a number of image editing options are available. The video is also disappointing, but there are few settings which you can use for your captured videos.

As the Nokia 5530 is a XpressMusic mobile phone, the music player is as good as expected. There are quite a few cosmetic changes made to the music player and it is completely touch optimized. A huge number of file formats are supported by the media player and the equalizer is available to change the way you want to listen to your favorite music. The FM player with RDS support makes it possible to listen to music when you are on the go. Watching a video in the Nokia 5530 is pretty satisfactory; however, the small screen limits the enjoyment. Further, DivX and XviD formats are not supported by the player.

Wi-Fi connectivity is a welcome addition to the Nokia 5530 aside from Bluetooth and USB connection options. Web browser is also good to use with a few modern features including flash support. However, the Nokia 5530 doesn’t have a GPS receiver.

Specifications:

2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced	2009, June
Status	Available. Released 2009, August
Dimensions	104 x 49 x 13 mm, 68 cc
Weight	107 g
Type	TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size	360 x 640 pixels, 2.9 inches
	- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate - Handwriting recognition
Alert types	Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone	Yes, with stereo speakers
	- 3.5 mm audio jack
Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records	Detailed, max 30 days
Internal	70 MB storage, 128 MB SDRAM
Card slot	microSD, up to 16GB, 4GB included
GPRS	Class 32
EDGE	Class 32
3G	No
WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth	Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port	No
USB	Yes, v2.0 microUSB
Primary	3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Video	Yes, VGA@30fps (verified)
Secondary	No
OS Symbian	OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
CPU	ARM 11 434 MHz processor
Messaging	SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games	Yes + Java downloadable
Colors	Red on black, Blue on white, Grey on black, Pink on white, Yellow on white
GPS	No
Java	Yes, MIDP 2.1
	- WMV/RV/MP4/3GP video player - MP3/WMA/WAV/RA/AAC/M4A music player - Photo editor - Organizer - Flash Lite 3.0 - Voice command/dial - T9
Battery	Li-Ion 1000 mAh (BL-4U)
Stand-by	Up to 336 h
Talk time	Up to 4 h 54 min
Music play	Up to 27 h