Nokia Announces 3 New XpressMusic Phones

Nokia Announces 3 New XpressMusic Phones

Techtree News Staff, Mar 12, 2009 1459 hrs IST

All handsets will be available before year-end

Not withstanding the recent issues with the 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia has gone ahead and announced as many as three new XpressMusic handsets.

The new phones to see the light of the day are the Nokia 5730, 5330 and the low-end 5030. Let's take a closer look at each of these devices.

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic:
The 5730 XpressMusic is not new to us at all. We have been hearing rumors and seeing leaked images of this phone for the past few months before Nokia finally made it official. We had an inkling regarding the specs as well. However, it is always good to see what the final spec-sheet looks like. So what's in store for us? Well, this might just be the first music oriented phone from Nokia to sport a QWERTY keyboard - and a rather good one at that. The slide out keyboard looks good and so does the other features that include integrated Wi-Fi, EDGE, 3G, and Bluetooth.

As for the imaging abilities, the device sports a 3.2 megapixel camera with flash. With 8 GB of memory, there is enough space for your music and videos. This can of course be expanded to 16GB with another 8GB micro SD card. There is NGage support as well and decent support for office applications.

The device is expected to be priced at around the 280 Euros mark ($357 or Rs. 18,500 approx.) and will be available in the third quarter of this year.