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Nokia 5530 Xpress Music Review

March 10th, 2010

Nokia’s designers came up with innovative idea of music phones and Xpress Music series born with music to rule the tapping world. Since its advent Xpress music has collected rave reviews. Well there has always been a question if 5530 can capture a decent market share. Nokia is gearing up to bring more music centric phones as against to arch rival Sony Ericsson, which has pioneered segment in terms of better market share, Quality and functionality.

Well Nokia designers have added many musical design components to give you best musical phone but they kept the basic user interface in mind and never compromised with handset quality and basic features. 5530 carries feature rich functionality like any other Nokia handset.

As soon as you look into phone it shines like a true winner, with sleek black body teamed up with two top & bottom speaker looks stunning with wide screen. It gives feel of smaller version of 5800 but it is great value of money. Well designed 2.9 inches touch screen comes with accelerometer, proximity sensor and handwriting recognition.

5530 comes with 3.2 mega pixel auto focus, VGA video camera. Internet browser is available but no 3G support so there has to be wireless hot spot to get connectivity. It uses Symbian S60 operating system technology, which makes it intelligent smart phone. You can download or install Google MAP and Skype etc.

With 4GB memory upgradeable up to 16GB using microSD card, Stereo speaker is quite impressive & comes wit 3.5mm jack. Xpress Music 5530 is no doubt a mid lever musical smart phone including features like good quality, intelligent functionality, capacity and most importantly smart looks.

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Nokia 7230 Features and Review

March 9th, 2010

Nokia 7230 is an adorable model for slide phone lovers. The phone has a 2.4″ wide, vivid colour screen that comes in two outlooks - glamorous hot pink and lavishing graphite. A 3.2 MP camera with 4 X zoom allows you to capture live and still pictures of memorable moments which cannot to be forgotten and also don’t forget to share them with your beloved ones using the all-new, exclusive Ovishare platform, which allows you to transfer and upload pictures and videos over the web like Flickr and YouTube. You can connect with your friends and business partners on the move using the chat application on instant messaging services and also connect with your closed networks from the home screen of the mobile to face book or other social networks. You can also access all the popular email accounts on your mobile, and/or have your own Ovimail account on your mobile as well. The all-new ovi platform allows you to back up the whole lot on your mobile to your PC. In addition, enjoy your favourite music with a built-in music player. Manage and add music to the Music manager from PC or directly into the phone and browse from Nokia music store.

However, the phone has a very poor internal memory capacity of 70 MB and one can only add a 16 GB MicroSD card. The phone has a low battery backup facility of about 324 hours of talk time and also 370 hours of standby time. Moreover, this model does not have features like touch screen or a QWERTY keyboard which are the things which makes a mobile user-friendly.

Nevertheless, the model features Nokia Life Tools that will help farmers by giving updates on agricultural services including weather reports, gives important career information, education and entertainment services. You can now know where you are using the GPS services offered by Nokia Ovi maps, even while on the drive, thanks to the wide screen. All thi Read the rest of this entry »