Nokia today announced the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic; its a S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 phone with a music and multimedia focus. It features a slim design (12mm thick and just 55 cc in volume), music focused hardware (playback controls, 3.5mm audio jack, 4GB memory card) and software ('Say and Play' enabled music player, Nokia Music Store access and Comes with Music compatibility), an enhanced homescreen (Contacts Bar and Shortcut Bar), rich connectivity options (3.5G and WLAN), US charging and a 3.2 megapixel camera. The 5630 will be available, in select markets, in the second quarter, at a price of €199 before taxes and subsidies.
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Surprising that they are still launching 3rd edition phones after launching a 5th generation phone.
The good thing I guess is that if nokia are still launching 3rd edition phones, support for that Symbian version will stay around for more time.
Wow excellent dimensions, also WLan on a Numbered S60 phone at this price is excellent.
Another website mentioned the 5630 also has a 600MHz ARM11 CPU,any news on that?
The 600Mhz are mentioned on the 5630XM Forum Nokia page - and confirmed by a few sources I trust 😉
http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/5630_XpressMusic
You can expect S60 3.2 to be around for a while yet - there will definitely be further phones announced. S60 5th Edition was optimised for touch and it may be a little while before we see the first non touch devices running Symbian OS 9.4.
I've added a brief comment on the 600 mhz processor, but as I've said many times the speed of the processor is not a very good indicator of performance.
It's another impressively priced device from Nokia. For 200 Euros you're getting an awful lot of features. The absence of a GPS may rule it out for some, but for the target market it really is very very impressive. Nokia's Ovi services are really going to start hurting their competitors when you do direct comparisons for a device like this.
Good price but it would be better to release it at the time of 5320XP(delete 5320xp portfolio instead)
I just bought 5320xp last year and whining for a little bigger screen and Wifi
Also, this phone is slimmer and lighter
It definitely fits my needs.
Surprising that they are still launching 3rd edition phones after launching a 5th generation phone.
Maybe they see S60 3rd as a platform for cheaper smartphones? Nokia said earlier this year that they wanted to put S60 on lower end devices, and presumably S60 3rd Edition devices are very cheap to manufacture now.
And how funny: owners of the more expensive 5800 XM cannot have that fab standby screen. Thank you Nokia.
And how funny: owners of the more expensive 5800 XM cannot have that fab standby screen. Thank you Nokia.
No one has that standby screen yet, the phone isn't out! 😉
I'm sure they could add this through another firmware update before the 5630 is released. (Hint hint hint, if anyone from Nokia is reading this.)
Interesting that the camera is listed as "3.2 megapixel �Full Focus� camera with Enhanced Depth of Field"
In other words, it's probably not a focussing camera, it's fixed focus. Hmmm...... OK, I guess, for the intended youth market?
What I really really REALLY wish for right now, is that next week Nokia will announce a device similiar to this, but with a proper camera and xenon flash. A 6220 classic successor, if you will, but with the 600 MHz ARM11 CPU. And that it isn’t as plastic as the 6220 classic, but a bit metal and more solid. That would be a phone I could use for many years.
Here we have a CPU that will easily play AntSNES without any problems, and make me wish for a S60 port of UAE. It's awesome 😎
Among all nokia xpress-music phone, the only 2 phone : 5700xm and 5800xm that have duel stereo speaker or 2 stereo speaker .... ! I was wondering if nokia still produce xpress-music (5630xm) with only one stereo speaker like 5320, 5610, ... it would be disappointed for all nokia fans ....!
Hhhmmm... the 5800XM should have been this slim or at least close to it... I wonder what makes the 5800XM so thick as it is anyways? The stereo speakers perhaps?
P888 wrote:Hhhmmm... the 5800XM should have been this slim or at least close to it... I wonder what makes the 5800XM so thick as it is anyways? The stereo speakers perhaps?
Maybe it been a touch device has something to do with it.
I don't understand why Nokia has not powered big devices like 5800 and its new flagship N97 with 600MHz CPU but kept it for this device.
5800 started selling Q4/2008 and this will hit markets Q2/09, see the half a year difference? Also we know next to nothing concrete about N97's processor. Its supposed to be improved ARM 11 processor. N97 could easily have this 600Mhz processor in it, who knows...
One possibility: The development cycle/time for the new hardware in this phone did not match the development cycle of the 5800 (or N97). This apparently just happens to be the first model out-the-door with this processor/chipset (whatever it is), and presumably will be followed by others. Nokia typically (but not always) has used the same processor/chipset (more or less) in several models and often for several years.
Both the core hardware and even the actual phone model is usually in development for 1-2 years, sometimes longer (especially if there's a totally new generation of hardware involved).
If you compare device specifications on Forum Nokia, then all the models that list the same processor architecture, same clock speed, etc., are those based on the same "engine" in most cases:
http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/matrix_all_1.html
I wonder whether this phone has a button(s) near the speaker to play n-gage games( like 5320XM)
thanks,
3rd edition will be around for a long time. Just because Nokia has done one proper touchscreen, doesn't mean all further phones will be.
Unregistered wrote:I wonder whether this phone has a button(s) near the speaker to play n-gage games( like 5320XM)thanks,
That's on my list of questions for next week. Also want to know more about the camera technology.
Rafe wrote:
I've added a brief comment on the 600 mhz processor, but as I've said many times the speed of the processor is not a very good indicator of performance.
My experience are the opposite, all of the phones which I have tried that uses the 369 MHz ARM 11 chip feels a lot snappier and renders webpages faster than my 332 MHz N82 even though the later has the famous 3D acceleration.
Unregistered wrote:My experience are the opposite, all of the phones which I have tried that uses the 369 MHz ARM 11 chip feels a lot snappier and renders webpages faster than my 332 MHz N82 even though the later has the famous 3D acceleration.
"3D acceleration" has nothing to do with menus or webpages - those are 2-dimensional images.
Unless the menu has spinning 3-D objects, which is not the case on the phones in question.
haven't you seen the ngage icon on the screen?watch closely
Unregistered wrote:haven't you seen the ngage icon on the screen?watch closely
What's your point? The press release already stated N-Gage compatibility. That also hasn't anything to do with whether the hardware has or hasn't 3D graphics hardware acceleration. Or is your reply meant to refer to something else?
With regard to the 5800XPM's thickness: yes, partly because of the speakers, but mostly because the 5800's got a whopping battery in it. 1320mAh is perfect for the job. Also, I don't understand this modern obsession with thinness - I keep dropping my iPod Touch because it's TOO thin. The 5800 (and N82) are both perfect phone form factors, IMHO, in terms of grippability.
Please any1 clarify that what is the real inbuilt memory of nokia 5630, is it 60 mb or 256 mb ?
Thank you.
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