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So here I am finally switched to a smartphone and that too a Nokia 553o (my friends will be surprised by my choice as I am a avid Sony ericsson fan). The main reason for this being a smartphone within my budget and that being 200$ and with a choice of good softwares. Even though I considered the likes of HTC Touch Viva , HTC Tatoo, Blackberry 8520 what the Nokia 5530 offered me at this price was fantastic atleast on the paper (only time will tell its real world performance)

• Package Contents: The usual stuff along with the phone there was a ear plug type earphones, a very very short usb data cable, travel charger, 4GB micro SDHC card, ovi suite mini dvd
• Looks : The phone is much more visually attractive than its elder brother 5800 with its front metal frame but the finish is not that solid with the battery back cover flimsy as paper and quite flexible too. The lock button, usb port flap and the top button all seems a bit hard for me to access. Anyway it seems to function properly and the phone’s glossy plastic is a finger print night mare
• Phone: The 2.9″ screen was real nice with its 360 x 640 pixel resolution. The call quality was good but the reception was quite jumpy but didnt notice any voice disruptions
• Symbian S60: Since this is my first tryst with Symbian (I’ve read lots of criticism on Nokia’s S60) I found it quite easy to use but still there is a way to go I am fluent with it.
• TouchScreen: Since this is also my first touchscreen phone (and this phone has no hardware keys even the call / answer / menu keys are touch based) it was quite tricky but the resistive touchscreen is quite good and I am easily adapting to it.

More on Nokia 5530 in the coming days…..

written by Vignesh \\ tags: 5800, nokia 5530

So for the last few days I came across two of my friend’s Nokia own Touch screen phone 5800 running on the Symbian Series 60 5th edition. Curios to see how Nokia’s touch screen phone will be and seeing a Nokia touchscreen phone a long time after 7710. Here are some of my initial thoughts on the phone.

• One seeing the phone its quite OK in its size and weight, but the fit and finish doesn’t reflect of a high end phone. Still at 20,500 rs (420$) its comparatively cheaper than Iphone / Omnia / HTC Touch 3G
• The screen resolution of 640 x 360 pixels is nice and bright to view at
• The touch screen response is quite good but still sometimes it didn’t quite respond to my touch. The touch swipes could have been better when viewing pictures and in some areas like handwriting, scrolling and playing games the stylus is the better option
• The User Interface is plain and does the job kind of stuff with no fancy icons & effects. But the speed of the phone is quite good
• The 3.2 MP camera was good but didn’t check out its full range of snaps and video shooting features
• The onscreen QWERTY keypad was nice and easy to use
• The screen orientation feature was quite smooth is changing over and sometimes very sensitive (irking me a bit)
• Music quality was good but surprisingly not loud as other Nokia phones. The media player was same as that of other symbian series 60 phones
• Applications were quite sparse with no document viewer, dictionary, pdf viewer and there were only two games but their graphics were quite nice.
• The box had the usual stuff along with 8 GB micro SD card, TV out cable, additional stylus and Sennheisser headphones (FREE)

I might add some of my thoughts about 5800 much later when I get to use it more. As always your views / comments are always welcome.

written by Vignesh \\ tags: 5800, Nokia, touchscreen