In the first part of my coverage of the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, I compare three slide-sliders (two of them Symbian) and reckon that a) on the whole, you get what you pay for(!) and b) that the 5730 XpressMusic contains a number of unforgivable hardware design flaws. Rather surprisingly, too, I'd been really looking forward to trying this phone. Watch this space for a full, detailed multi-part review.
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I hope you compare the sound quality with the E75. AFAIK, the 5730XM offers better headphone-out in comparison. This may tip music lovers into its direction whatever its fault. I had the E75 and was disappointed with the audio playback. Much better than most E-series I've played in the past, but no where near the 5800XM.
looking forward to your review steve. I have been using it for the last one month and m loving it. I have used e75 as well and i dont know why no one has reported e75 poor network reception. E75 has weakest antena on a phone i have used in recent times. There is only one video on youtube with this issue. I moved to 5730 only because of E75's issue and i have tried couple of them with the same problem. The only issue i have with 5730 is that the notification light doesnt blink on nokia messaging. I have tried everything but it just doesnt work. Steve look into that and come up with a solution please. Otherwise a very good handset. A good value for money. Wonder why nokia hasnt advertised it at all and there are no firmware upgrades either. My firmware is 101
and steve i dont think the sound is muffled. Surprisingly its quite ok. I think the back cover is designed in a way that gives slight hollowness but causes the battery to wobble a bit. Would have been perfect if stereo speakers and tv out option were given but i guess nokia cant give everything in one phone. No 1 reason to still have around 47 percent share😉
I dont know what you guys think but all three of those phones look like crap to me! The E75 and 5530 shouldn't have front keys at all but should be one continuous capacitive touch screen all the way with the slide out keys when you need them. The OS needs to be touch friendly not this S60 v5 crap! When Steve Jobs said the iphone was going to be 5years ahead of its competition I didnt believe him and curiously waited Nokia to answer with something mind blowing! Well, to this day i'm still waiting! And it looks like Steve Jobs was right in many ways! :S The only company to bring out something compelling to the touch friendliness that phones need is Palm but their limited hardware components along with its infant software state of the device only shows that its still premature but needless to say very promising indeed, I'm excited about their future products! Nokia has nothing promising in their line up! S60 v5 is awful just like those two phones shown from them, I see nothing exciting in them. Until Nokia comes out with an OS as friendly as webOS or OS X then I see them losing out in this segment. The only one thing i like about the Nokia phones right now is the live front screen widgets, now thats very convenient and very great idea! The decision not to include that in all their touch phones only shows that their not in touch with their customer base. I'm a long time Nokia user and at one point the were the none plus ultra but now I no longer am satisfied.
realtalk. The Nokia phones don't suit you then. I prefer them to the others for a number of reasons, but basically they suit me. The iPhone isn't 5 years ahead of the competition, it's user interface is about 3 years ahead. It's still a large and bulky expensive phone with an inflexible sales package. Nokia make smaller cheaper phones that do everything the iPhone does, but without the inflexible network options. Choose Nokia and you only lose the user interface, but you gain a shedload of cash. I will happily take that cash and use it to enjoy life, instead of fiddling round with a gadget in your palm.
Responding to the two main issues above, I'm 99% sure that the wireless antennae on the E75 and 5730 are identical. Ditto audio output. These things have exactly the same insides. However, in the light of your comments, I will of course do some proper testing 8-)
I'm even about 80% sure that the cameras are identical, despite one being advertised as Carl Zeiss and the other not!
steve do check the reception in areas with weak signals. i had noticed that signals would drop when i wld cover the bottom part of the phone with my palm. and this would happen with only one operator while other networks worked fine and that particular network worked fine on my e71, 5730 and 5530. i have checked this on 3 e75s so thought of faulty phone was ruled out. btw i still cant understand what is so cool about iphone. five years ahead!!! so u guys think in coming five years things like mms, sms forwarding, flash videos on web browsers and sending stuff via bluetooth will become out of fashion???? well i dont want to sit in steve jobs time machine.... i would rather prefer to remain 5 years behind the rest of the world.
Quote: while it didn't appeal to me ('Mr Usability'😉, maybe it's more of a young person's device?
Not every older person wants a phone with a hundred applications, but in reality only use six or seven of them; and some older people do listen to music. Or should they avoid the Nokia gimmick (if that�s what the express music phones are) and buy the real thing...... an i pod.
I have the 5530 and it does all I want. Or rather it would do if Nokia had spent a little more time with it and got things right before churning out more of the same.
Reponding to my own comments on it being a young person's device, I've noticed (playing with the 5730 in the evening here in the UK) that the translucent plastic edges and dot matrix key legends all work VERY well when backlit.
So - an E75 for the day and then a 5730 for heading out to the pub or club? 8-)))
Having owned an iPhone, I can say that the UI is anything but user friendly. Flashy maybe, but intuitive? lol. You must be kidding me. And you can't even multitask with it.
Sorry, I'll stick with S60v3 and S60v5 for the time being.
Its nice to see 5730 reviewed here on AAS, looking forward to read about E72 😊
Having owned an iPhone, I can say that the UI is anything but user friendly
That must by why nobody is buying iPhones.
Unregistered wrote:Having owned an iPhone, I can say that the UI is anything but user friendly. Flashy maybe, but intuitive? lol. You must be kidding me. And you can't even multitask with it.Sorry, I'll stick with S60v3 and S60v5 for the time being.
Whilst I prefer S60 over the iPhone (own N73, N95, N85 and an iPod Touch), I wouldn't ever say that the iPhone UI isn't intuitive. Its relatively easy to use.
Bloody irritating at times though. Organising possibly hundreds of apps on a flat menu structure is mind-numbingly stupid. The screen can only be used with your fingers, not with gloves on (thank the gods that I'm no longer doing a cycle commute to work). Screen auto-rotates exactly when you don't want it to, with no (obvious) way of switching the function off.
clonmult wrote: The screen can only be used with your fingers, not with gloves on (thank the gods that I'm no longer doing a cycle commute to work).
Yep. I spend my days looking after 28 horses (give of take) and spend a lot of time gloved. Capacitive screens are a royal pain in the Rs.
Unregistered wrote:Yep. I spend my days looking after 28 horses (give of take) and spend a lot of time gloved. Capacitive screens are a royal pain in the Rs.
But now this pain is not limited to iphones only. The i8910 has a capacitive screen and finally Nokia has also given in and introducing capacitive screens. I believe the 1st one is the X6. So this rant should now be for capacitive screens in general and not specific to the iphone, even though it debuted on the iphone and was exclusive to it for a long time.
am abt to buy this nokai 5730 tomoro and i really need to knw tht is its front camera good at taking quality pics???