Nokia 5730 Xpress Music is so nice to finally meet you! This admittedly odd looking Nokia has been brought to our attention courtesy of Russia’s own Mobile-Review, and while we’re still trying to decide whether or not the QWERTY slide-out keyboard is a turn off or totally awesome (with its dot matrix-styled font), we figured it prudent to pass along the information, anyway. Said mobile sports a 2-inch QVGA screen, backlit keys, a 1,000mAh battery good for 4.5 hours of yappin’, EDGE data, inbuilt GPS, 128MB of RAM, a micro SD card slot, USB / Bluetooth and Symbian S60 running the show.
If there was a prize for fitting the most number of buttons on a handset then the 5730 would probably win hands down because it’s practically laden down with them. As well as the standard keypad, d-pad, camera and volume rocker buttons, there are also extra music transport controls down the left hand edge of the phone and a pair of gaming buttons mounted just under the ear piece. The latter can be used when you’re running N-Gage games in landscape mode to provide you with the games console button layout. While we’re by no means against lots of physical controls, it does make the front face of the handset look somewhat cluttered. Nokia N900 is also very popular.
On the plus side, the sliding mechanism for the keyboard is excellent as it glides smoothly open, but also feels very robust. As the individual keys are relatively large and have a decent amount of travel they’re quite responsive to the touch. Nevertheless, they’re quite tightly packed together with no spaces in-between them so it’s fairly easy to hit a neighboring key by mistake when you’re tapping out messages or emails at speed.
Given that the phone is being pushed on the basis of its multimedia prowess, the handset’s screen is obviously a key ingredient. At 2.5 inches, the display is small compared to the massive screens we now see on touch screen phones, but on a candy bar phone like this it takes up most of the handset’s face and the resolution of 320×240 pixels isn’t bad. It can feel a little bit cramped when viewing WebPages, but for watching the odd video clip or for playing N-Gage games it’s more than adequate especially as it’s nice and bright and produces impressively vivid colors.
Since its release in Feb 2010, the Nokia X6 16 GB has been released in several color variants. This includes the stylish Black version. With the same specs as the rest of the range, the black color scheme offers added aesthetic appeal to the range.
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