Nokia 5730 XpressMusic

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic

Nokia announced the arrival of new Nokia Music Stores, more Comes With Music launches and a new Nokia music cell phone. The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic handset brings people's music to life with features that give music lovers easy access to the music they love. By expanding the music cell phone line-up to different price points, introducing more markets with Comes With Music service and the Nokia Music Store as well as making the integration of these elements as easy as possible, on both on the mobile phone and the Personal Computer, Nokia is changing the way music is enjoyed. The digital music player that rings in your pocket is also the library, the shop and the platform to manage all your music.

The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is Nokia's first music-optimized device to offer a full QWERTY keyboard - ideal for quick messaging. The heart of this music device is the Homescreen for XpressMusic, providing access and dynamic information on music, people, games, email and calendar. The Homescreen of the XpressMusic 5730 features an improved contacts bar with up to 20 friends and family members and provides direct access to music, N-Gage and other applications, like Facebook, Photos, Ovi Contacts, Maps, messaging and more. With Ovi Contacts, people see which friends are online, chat and view what music they are listening to.

Key features

• 2.4" 16M-color TFT display of QVGA resolution
• Four-row side-slide QWERTY keyboard
• Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G (with HSDPA) support
• Symbian OS with S60 3.2 UI
• 369 MHz ARM11 CPU
• 3.5mm standard audio jack
• microSD card slot, 8GB microSD card prebundled
• 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera with a dedicated shutter key, geotagging and VGA video at 30fps
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g with UPnP technology
• Built-in GPS receiver and preinstalled Nokia Maps
• USB and stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) connectivity
• FM radio with RDS plus Internet radio
• Dedicated music keys
• N-Gage support
• Dedicated gaming keys
• Ovi Contacts integration
• Office document viewer
• Smart dialing
• Contacts bar on the homescreen
• N-Series-like gallery
• Nokia Say and Play (voice control to music player)

Main disadvantages:

• Fingerprint-prone cheap-looking plastic build
• No DivX/XviD support out of the box (can be installed, possibly requiring a purchase)
• Average camera performance
• Poor battery life
• No TV-out functionality

Samsung I8000 Omnia II

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Samsung I8000 Omnia II

Its raining cellphones today and all the big names are surfacing. The latest in the list is the new Samsung Omnia II i8000 which was unveiled with the (a tad low-profile) Samsung Omnia Lite B7300.

Beginning with the Omnia II i8000, this (Windows Mobile) smartphone wold be another heartthrob just like its flagship for it comes loaded with features like DVD-like (480p) video recording & playback with a storage memory of up to 48GB. The best bit about the phone is beclouded as it has an 8MP camera and GPS navigation.

The Omnia Lite is for the more circumspect buyers and as a consequence the features aren’t amazing but still acceptable with HSDPA, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Opera Browser and a 3MP camera.


Specifications

General	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
	Announced	2009, June
	Status	Coming soon. Exp. release 2009, Q3

Size		Dimensions		118 x 59.6 x 11.9 mm
		Weight		117 g

Display	Type	AMOLED resistive touchscreen, 65K colors
	Size	480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches
		- TouchWiz 2.0 UI - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and Motion UI - Handwriting recognition

Sound	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Speakerphone	Yes
		- 3.5 mm audio jack

Memory	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Practically unlimited
	Internal	2/8/16 GB storage
	Card slot	microSD (TransFlash), up to 32GB

Data	GPRS	Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
	HSCSD	Yes
	EDGE	Class 10, 236.8 kbps
	3G	HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
	Bluetooth	Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, microUSB v2.0

Camera	Primary	5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, Dual Power LED flash
	Features	Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, mobile blogging
	Video	Yes, 720x480@30fps
	Secondary	VGA videocall camera

Features	OS	Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5
	CPU	ARM 1176 800MHz processor, dedicated graphics
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, IM
	Browser	HTML, Opera Browser v9.5
	Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
	Games	Yes, 3D interactive games
	Colors	Black
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	Yes, MIDP 2.0
		- Photo editor, video editor - DixX / XviD / MPEG4/ H.263/ H.264/ WMV player - MP3/ e-AAC+/ WMA / WMDRM / OMA DRM 2.1 player - Find Music service - Media Gate 3D

Battery		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
	Stand-by	Up to 430 h (2G) / Up to 430 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 10 h (2G) / Up to 10 h (3G)