My Nokia 5530 Xpress Music mini review.
I thought I would do a mini review since an official one has not appeared here.
It�s a touch screen; obvious maybe, so if you don�t want a touch screen it�s not for you.
It�s my first touch screen phone and I got it because I think the future of smart phones will be touch screen. Five years from now you will be lucky to see a smart phone with keys. In development now are bendy screens that can be folded in half and that will change the mobile phone industry forever.
Back to the 5530, at 107 grams it�s the lightest and most compact touch screen phone and too me that is a big plus. Ok only 2grams lighter that the 5800 but almost 30 grams lighter than Nokia�s new X6. To me the idea of a touch screen should mean lighter phones, bigger screens.
The 5530 has all I need in a phone, a good 3.5mp camera, (the results did not look any different that the results I got from my 6220c which had a 5mp camera). It has the usual Nokia stuff like contacts, calendar etc. that can be found in most s60 Nokia�s and it is very easy to use. It will store thousands of music tracks if your card if large enough and the sound quality through the headphones supplied is excellent. If you are one of these people who feel that they must to browse the internet on a small mobile screen rather that a notebook, then you can do this on the 5530; but maybe you would be better off with a apple iphone.
The kenetic stuff is good when it works but frustrating when it does not. If you turn the phone on its side a qwerty keypad appears, but 50 % of the time it reverts back to normal screen and you end up shacking the device to get it to revert back. This can happen while you are in the middle of writing a text.
Apart from the temperamental kenetic stuff there are three main faults.
Its almost impossible to read the screen in sunlight.
You are not able to have your scrolling contacts and your calendar entries on the screen together; even though the screen is 2.9 inches.
The notes you may keep with your contacts; you can only read six lines of text. So even though Nokia contacts allow you to input unlimited words into the contact notes, the 5530 won�t let you read them.
To me these three faults are just sloppy on Nokia�s part. I want to see my screen outside and I want to read the notes in my phone. Touch screens are nothing new, the old Palm I had 10 years ago was touch screen.
I bet the X6 is no better.