Running S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, Nokia has launched the 5730 XpressMusic, with E75-style side-sliding qwerty keyboard. There's a 3.2 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and GPS, plus the “Say and Play” feature first introduced in the Nokia 5320. It has the same customised home screen, to directly access contacts and Ovi services, as the Nokia 5630. More below.
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Nice phone, but if they were giving it a QWERTY, they should have toned the looks down a bit. Some business users might prefer it over the E75, but will be scared by all the red accents.
And - WHEN ARE WE GETTING THAT HOME SCREEN FOR THE 5800?? When, Nokia?
It will also be available in black/grey, so that's good for business-users. I really don't see the advantage off a E75 anymore.
This looks like a nice succesor too my E71. A shame it doesn't have a more decent camera, but then again, it's not an N-series, and rather cheap.
As long as its the same 3.2mp sensor they've used in previous phones, and they put on the right software to back it up, the camera will be just fine.
@Delta: you are right. I am not saying that it won't be GOOD for biz users, I am just saying they might not get over their prejudice over carrying an XpressMusic branded device into their fancy offices. Thats where E75 comes in I guess. Clever move by Nokia IMHO.
Hello, why does Nokia use S60 3rd Edition instead of 5h Edition? I know 5th Edition is for touchscreen, but didn't Nokia say, that 5th Edition can also drive non-touch-phones? So they have to maintain only one Operationsystem. AFAIK 5th Edition can be used for this phones because its UI is scalable and have all softkey-buttons and so on.
Is "say und play" also aviable on Nokia N85?
Thanks, best regard, sorry for my poor english.
They must have increased the screen to 3.2" like 5800 which I would prefer....
Would be nice to get this particular home screen with a mixture of contacts bar and calendar/shortcuts in a future firmware update for the 5800XM! Can't be that hard to implement surely?!
This is a pretty experimental device really, I don't think there has ever been a QWERTY phone aimed at music-lovers.
Nice phone, but if they were giving it a QWERTY, they should have toned the looks down a bit. Some business users might prefer it over the E75, but will be scared by all the red accents.
I don't think this is aimed at business users at all, IMHO it's meant more for ordinary users who want to do a lot of texting, e-mailing and other kinds of messaging.
Incidentally, tucked away on the same press release is a non-Symbian phone with an interesting feature:
Nokia 5030
Nokia 5030 is the company's first phone with an internal FM radio antenna, which eliminates the need for a headset or external speakers.
Finally a phone radio which doesn't need an external aerial!
Nice,nice,nice..wifi n gps! 100mb internal memory, 128mb ram! That qwerty's gonna great for ngage.
Hello, why does Nokia use S60 3rd Edition instead of 5h Edition? I know 5th Edition is for touchscreen, but didn't Nokia say, that 5th Edition can also drive non-touch-phones?
Probably because 5th Edition wasn't ready when they began developing this phone.
The changeover from 2nd Edition to 3rd Edition was gradual too, they released a few more 2nd Edition devices after first the 3rd Edition devices (for example the N72 was 2nd Edition).
LED FLASH! HURRAH!
/sarcasm
Unregistered, you expected a Xenon in an XpressMusic device? REALLY?!
Why would I buy E75 over this?
METAL!!!
Did Nokia learn anything from plastic double sliders (written on my N96)?
Well obviously no because then they'd know that plastic sliders get weak.
Want to know 1 think
can we view system files in s60v3 by any means as its possible in s60v2
MaterAos, I gather the slider mechanism itself may or may not be plastic. But hey, they have to cut the cost somewhere to take the price point down and still maintain strong margins. And also to differentiate the product lines a bit more clearly.
Trust me, they DO know plastic sliders get weak.
Is it just me or does it seem like Nokia intentinally keeps certain features off certain devices just to add selling points to other devices?
For example, why don't they push out the "Say and Play" feature to all S60 phones via firmware upgrades? What's the point of restricting it to select (read esoteric) models while the rest of us, sporting the higher priced devices such as N95, N85 etc. are stuck with the useless rudimentary "launch application" voice commands? (yay, I can launch my music player with a voice command while driving. Now what?)
'.... Ovi Contacts, Nokia's combined presence and instant massaging application'
Did not realise the full capabilities of Ovi Contacts until now. Would definitely benefit from the instant massaging it offers.
For example, why don't they push out the "Say and Play" feature to all S60 phones via firmware upgrades?
Because "say and play" is a load of rubbish which doesn't work properly. 😊
Before I get accused of being a troll/hater/unreasonable pessimist, I should point out I did AAS's review of the first "say and play" device, the 5320. Generally it was a good phone for the price, but say-and-play was not one of its best points.
It works sometimes, perhaps most of the time depending on your voice, but not enough of the time to depend on it. Essentially it's just a marketing novelty that very few people would actually use in the long term. My current phone doesn't have "say and play", but I don't miss the feature one bit.
To be honest I don't think any voice control systems work reliably enough to be used in mainstream products as anything but a novelty. That's just my opinion of course, I know some are a lot more enthusiastic about it. 😊
Why, oh why, oh why does the term 'business user' keep coming up! It's a weird term that actually means nothing. Even Nokia have finally realised that this is a misnomer. Mobile phones are taken to work or taken home afterwards depending on how you look at it.
Music, text or email, photo - seem like better ways to differentiate between phones or simply by cost.
I still think they should just concentrate on making a decent phone at a given price point. I would like to listen to music, watch videos, play games, find my way around, have wifi, take photos (with a proper flash), browse the internet etc all with my phone. Just because I might enjoy taking photos more doesn't mean the other things are not important to me.
The 5730 might be ok but is probably too much of a compromise to be really good.
Too much of a compromise? Oh come on..look at the price point man. Its as good as the N82 with the exception of the camera n the lack of graphics accelerator. We're not talking about what features you or I need to have in a phone for it to be good enough. What you want will probably be catered with by the N86 or the N97. We're talking about the 5730 and what it can do! PRICE PRICE PRICE!!! Thats what matters! Look at the features, then look at the price. Look at what it has intstead of what it doesnt, coz of the price limitations! Its pretty damn fu****g good for its intended market!
Tzer2 wrote:This is a pretty experimental device really, I don't think there has ever been a QWERTY phone aimed at music-lovers.Actually, there has been such a thing. The 5510: http://www.nokia.com/EUROPE_NOKIA_COM_3/r2/support/tutorials/5510/english/index.html It was released some 6-7 years ago.
Hi folks! Thats the phone I have search for a long time. Now it comes to market. It's a music specialist, the N-Gage plattform is included and Nokia Maps. And it has a quwerty keybord, if I would write longer Mails or SMS - with T9 it's not really fun 😃. And it has ca. 100 MB phone memory free and it can drive 16GB microSD cards.
This phone replaces my then 2 year old N81 8GB. It was a very good device, but the low phone memory was a bad idea from Nokia
can nokia 5730 write alphabat with qwerty key by just slide open the qwerty keyboard? i have try, it can write numbers but not alphabat.