Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Review | Specs | Price

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic

Verdict

Pros:	Slide-out QWERTY keyboard makes quick messaging GPS and Wi-Fi
Cons:	Screen resolution is very low for displaying web pages Slow processor cheap-looking plastic build
Outline

Nokia 5730 xpressmusic Specs :-
2GNetwork---------->GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3GNetwork---------->HSDPA 1700 / 2100 / 900
Available------------>Released 2009, June
CPU------------------>ARM 11 369 MHz processor

OS------------------->Symbian OS, S60 rel. 3.2

Dimensions-------->112 x 51 x 15.4 mm

Weight-------------->135 g
Display-------------->TFT, 16M colors

Full QWERTY keyboard

Size----------------->240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches

Internal------------->100 MB storage, 128 MB RAM
Cardslot------------->microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB, 8GB included,

WLAN-------------->Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA
Java---------------->Yes, MIDP 2.1
Camera------------->3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics

autofocus, LED flash

Secondary---------->Yes,QVGA videocall camera

Video--------------->Yes, 30fps
Bluetooth----------->Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infraredport-------->No
AudioJack---------->3.5 mm audio jack
USB---------------->microUSB v2.0
Battery------------->Li-Ion 1000 mAh (BL-4U)

Stand-by----------->Up to 300 h (2G) / Up to 270 h (3G)

Talktime----------->Up to 5 h (2G) / Up to 4 h (3G)

Price --------------->240 USD approx

14000 inr approx

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Review

The handset is extremely well balanced for a solid hand feel and the QWERTY keyboard will let you take full advantage of the messaging and office document support on the 5730 XpressMusic. Once you slide the phone open, you are in for very comfortable typing and there are very few handsets to rival it.

A nice touch to the 5730 is the vast number of customizable options for the slider action. You can pick an application to launch upon sliding the keyboard out and you can set it to return to homescreen upon closing.

The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic may lack the thin and compact body of its candybar counterpart but full QWERTY keyboard is not its only edge. Screen estate is another major point in favor. The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic has a nice 2.4” QVGA display of great sunlight legibility. In direct sunlight, even if the colors get washed out, the display remains perfectly readable even on the brightest of days.

The Nokia 5730 runs on the Symbian 9.3 OS with S60 3rd Edition user interface. It has Feature Pack 2 but there have been changes since its previous incarnations.

The biggest (and best) change is the Contacts bar option for the standby screen which we also saw while reviewing the 5630 XpressMusic. It is similar to the typical Active standby screen but things have been reordered and as the name suggests - a bar with contacts has been added at the top.

Each contact is represented by the contact photo and their first name - and it's possible to have three contacts visible at a time though the list allows for scrolling left or right.

For each contact you can add an RSS feed, so we guess a nice trick is to add a contact that isn't a person just so that you'll have quick access to your favorite feeds from the homescreen.

Selecting a contact from the Contact bar brings up a screen with info on the contact (a different one than you get if you select the contact from the Contacts list). It has the contact photo, name and phone number. Under that are four buttons - call, send message, update feed and settings.

The results from our loudspeaker test are at your disposal - unfortunately, Nokia 5730 XpressMusic turned out to be an average performer in this respect. You can't count on getting just everything in noisier environments, and calm and subdued ringtones surely won't do. Still, though the phone may not be as loud as others, playing music through the loudspeaker sounds quite nice.

The XpressMusic branding raises the bar high for the Nokia 5730 music player. While it's pretty good, it's by no means exceptional: just on a par with other recent Symbian devices. It has a huge number of supported audio formats, including MP3, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA but little to top the business-oriented Nokia E71 for example.

However, the dedicated music keys and the active standby layout, where the music player is one click away, are things that enhance the sonic experience. Quite naturally, the player can also be minimized to play in background. In this case a tab replaces the E-mail tab on the stand-by screen and indicates the currently running track.

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic also features an innovative feature called Say and Play. By using the phone's built-in speaker independent voice recognition, it allows you to play any stored track by simply saying its title or artist.

The Nokia Say and Play feature currently supports English and the pre-installed UI languages. However it should be able to pick up titles in any languages if they are pronounced in an English manner or with UI language pronunciation.

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic features Real player for playing your video clips and the video player can be displayed in both normal and fullscreen modes. When in full screen, the softkey functions are hidden so that they don't spoil the viewing experience and only pop up when a key is pressed.

With its not particularly big screen though, video playback is not this phone's strongest suit. And to confirm that, if you want DivX/XviD playback you'll need to install a third-party player.

The 5730 doesn’t demand too much on the camera side, with just 3.2-megapixels to play with - but it has got auto focus and an LED flash and, unsurprisingly, the photos are identical to that of the E75. Good, but not amazing in a world of 5, 8 and now 12-megapixels. Video recording tops out at VGA (640x480) at 30 frames per second, which isn’t as big a gap between handsets now offering widescreen and HD modes.

Browsing the internet with the Nokia 5730, like with all Nokia smartphones, is a pleasant experience. Even the most elaborate pages are rendered well and finding your way around them is a piece of cake.

The virtual mouse cursor earns the browser another point as it is easy to control and generally works great. A mini-map can be activated to help you find your way around large sites where lots of scrolling is required. The zoom level is also easily adjustable and searching for text on a page is easy.

The large amount of RAM is surely one of the best things that could happen to the browser, as it is clearly one of the most RAM-intensive applications. Now, even if you load very heavy web pages and have a few applications running in the background, you are extremely unlikely to run out of RAM.

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