Nokia launched its newest mass market touch screen music phone, the 5530 XpressMusic yesterday at the Nokia Connection 2009. The phone, which has no 3G, but all the functions and features of its well known big brother, Nokia 5800 will be priced in India around INR 13K to 14K. I stumbled across some live pics of the phone on ePrice and though why not share my thoughts on these pics with all my readers.
The front look of the 5530 is a bit different and I liked it as compared to the front look of the Nokia 5800. The 5530 has some kind of mesh design on it where as there is no design on the Nokia 5800. Looks a bit bland. Also they have changed the Call, End Call and Menu button on the 5530. It is better than the 5800, where there are just three buttons with three back lights, green, white and red.
The backside of the Nokia 5530 is more interesting than the 5800 with some kind of flowery design. I am not sure if Nokia is planning to give XpressOn covers with the 5530, if yes then thats a damn good idea. Even the camera position has changed in the 5530, its in the top center now as compared to the top left based camera of the 5800. No changes in the camera specs of both the phones.
On the left hand side both the phones have slots for the memory card as well as the SIM card. There is also a slot for keeping the stylus, which I think comes pretty handy while using the 5800, as the phone sometimes is not that responsive to your fingers.
Again no change in the right side buttons of the Nokia 5530. There are three buttons, which let you controls volume, lock/unlock the phone/screen and take pictures.
There is a major change here in the design of the Nokia 5530. If you see, Nokia 5800's top side was cluttered with charging slot, power button, 3.5 mm standard head phone jack and USB slot. But in 5530, Nokia has made it less cluttered (see the picture) and moved the entire thing at the bottom of the phone. Thats nice, guess Nokia heard the pleas of lots of Nokia 5800 users.
Nokia has made the homescreen of the 5530 more interesting and interactive with the Contacts bar that shows 20 of your contacts and you can scroll through them, this was not possible with the 5800. The shortcut bar has moved to the bottom of the phone and the home screen now looks more geeky, which I really like as I hate the plain look of any home screen.
The menu view of both the phones looks almost identical and I am not sure if there will be much enhancements in the menu in the 5530 as compared to the Nokia 5800. Overall, 5530 looks as promising as the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and mass market appeal is its biggest advantage.
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