Thursday, October 15, 2009

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic

NOKIA 5530 XpressMusic

Specifications

Size

  • Form: Classic with full touch
  • Dimensions: 4.09 x 1.92 x .51 in
  • Weight: 3.77 oz
  • Full touch interface

Display and 3D
  • Size: 2.9"
  • Resolution: 640 x 360 pixels
  • Up to 16.7 million colors
  • AFFS technology
  • Brightness control

Keys and input method
  • Touch screen with pen or finger input
  • Touch input methods
    - Full screen QWERTY
    - Alphanumeric keypad
    - Handwriting
  • Power key
  • Volume key
  • Camera key
  • Keylock switch
  • Dedicated touch keys: send, end, home
  • Voice commands with speaker independent name dialing

Colors and covers
  • Available in-box colors:
    - Black with red accents
    - White with blue accents

Connectors
  • Micro-USB connector
  • 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug

Memory
  • microSD memory card slot with hot swap, up to 16 GB (4 GB memory card included)
  • 70 MB internal user memory

Power
  • BL-4U 1000 mAh Li-Ion battery
  • Talk time: up to 4 h 54 min (GSM)
  • Standby time: up to 351 h (GSM)
  • Video playback time: up to 3 h 45 min (QCIF, 15 fps) Music playback time: up to 27 h

Battery talk and standby times are estimates only and depend on network configuration, signal strength, features used, battery age and condition, charging practices, temperatures to which battery is exposed, whether use is in digital mode (or analog mode, if any), and many other factors. The amount of time a phone is used for calls will affect its standby time. Likewise, the amount of time that the phone is turned on and in standby mode will affect its talk time.

Operating frequency

  • Quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900
  • Automatic switching between GSM bands
  • Flight mode

Data network
  • CSD
  • HSCSD
  • GPRS / EDGE class B, Multi Slot Class 32 (5 Rx +3Tx, Max Su7m 6), maximum speed 177/296 kbps (UL/DL)
  • WLAN; IEEE 802.11 b/g
  • TCP/IP support

Local connectivity and synchronization
  • Bluetooth version 2.0 (A2DP & AVRCP)
  • MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) support

Call features
  • Call waiting, call hold, call divert
  • Logging of dialed, received and missed calls
  • Automatic redial
  • Contacts Bar; speed dialing
  • Vibrating alert (internal)
  • Side volume keys (dedicated)
  • Mute/unmute
  • Contacts with images
  • Talking ring tones
  • Conference calling

Messaging
  • Automatically switch between keypad and QWERTY keyboard when the device is rotated
  • SMS
  • SMS storage: limited available memory (70 MB internal, 4 GB on memory card)
  • Contacts bar for up to 20 contacts
  • Multiple SMS deletion
  • Text-to-speech message reader
  • MMS (OMA 1.3)
  • Automatic resizing of images for MMS
  • Audio Messaging (AMS)
  • Common inbox for SMS and MMS messages
  • Distribution lists for messaging
  • Cell broadcast

E-mail
  • Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP
  • Support for e-mail attachments
  • Support for e-mail with filtering
  • IMAP IDLE support

Only devices that offer compatible multimedia message or e-mail features can receive and display multimedia messages. Content appearance may vary. Some images and ring tones can not be forwarded.

Web browsing

  • Supported mark-up languages: HTML, XHTML, WML
  • Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP
  • TCP/IP support
  • eb browser with full screen
  • Nokia Mobile Search

Requires data service. Data Services may not be available in all networks. Data transmission speeds may be as high as 3.6 Mbps, but may vary based upon network capabilities and other conditions. The establishment and continuation of a data connection depends on network availability, provider support and signal strength.

Photography

  • 3.2 megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels)
  • Image formats: JPEG
  • 4x digital zoom
  • Autofocus
  • Focal length: 3.7 mm
  • Focus range: 10 cm to infinity
  • Macro focus: 10-60 cm
  • LED flash
  • Flash modes: On, off, automatic, red-eye reduction
  • White balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
  • Center weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: 1/10000 ~ 1/5 s
  • Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video
  • Scene modes: automatic, user defined, close-up, portrait, landscape, sports, night, night portrait
  • Color tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative
  • Light sensitivity modes: high, medium, low, automatic
  • Full-screen viewfinder with grid
  • Active toolbar
  • Dedicated camera key
  • Photo editor on device

Video
  • Video recording at up to 176 x 220 pixels (QCIF) and up to 15 fps
  • Up to 4x digital video zoom
  • Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp
  • Audio recording format: AMR
  • Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
  • Scene modes: automatic, low light mode, night
  • Color tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative
  • Clip length (maximum): 1 h 30 min
  • RealPlayer
  • Video playback file formats: .3gp, .mp4, RealPlayer
  • Video streaming: .3gp, .rm
  • Landscape mode video playback
  • Video ring tones
  • Video editor on device

Music and audio playback
  • Nokia music player
    - Playlists
    - Shuffle
    - Repeat
    - Equalizer
    - Use music as ringtone
    - Assign song to contact
    - Loudness
    - Stereo widening
    - Bass booster
  • Music playback file formats: .mp3, SpMidi, AAC AAC+, eAAC+, WMA. MTP support
  • Audio streaming
  • Dedicated volume keys
  • Dedicated touch music keys on Homescreen
  • Touch volume switch when using video player
  • Stereo FM radio
  • 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug
  • Nokia Podcasting support
  • Nokia Music Store support
  • Ring tones: mp3, aac, 64-tone polyphonic
  • 3D surround sound stereo speakers

Voice and audio recording
  • Voice commands
  • Voice dialing
  • Voice recorder
  • Audio recording formats: AMR
  • FR, EFR, WCDMA, and GSM AMR
  • Digital stereo microphone
  • Text-to-speech

Personalization: profiles, themes, ring tones
  • Customizable profiles
  • Ring tones: mp3, aac, 64-tone polyphonic
  • Video ring tones
  • Support for talking ring tones
  • Themes
  • Homescreen elements customizable
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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Symbian to maintain OS dominance

01 October 2009 – A new report from Juniper Research finds that recent concern over the future health of the Symbian platform may be ill-judged, with the analyst firm predicting that it will remain the dominant mobile operating system (OS) for the next five years. Juniper expects shipments of open source Symbian handsets to more than double between now and 2014, reaching 180 million (up from 87 million today). Although Juniper asserts that the platform faces strong competition in a smartphone marketplace increasingly targeting consumers, 'prosumers,' as well as corporate customers, Symbian's overall market share will remain virtually unchanged over that period. According to Gartner, Symbian held a 51 percent share of the smartphone OS market in 2Q09. Recent reports talking up the heavily-hyped Android platform (from Google), and Apple's iPhone OS, have suggested that the Symbian platform may struggle to maintain dominance. A move announced in August by Nokia - traditionally Symbian's biggest supporter - to use Windows in its upcoming netbook and Linux in its N900 smartphone has also fuelled such concern.
Juniper adds that Symbian's growth, allied to a steady increase in Android and LiMo OS shipments, will push the total open source handset market beyond 220 million by 2014 (from 106 million this year). Although rival platforms from Apple, RIM, Microsoft and Palm use proprietary operating systems, Juniper notes that, with over 60 percent of the smartphone market now using an open source OS, there has been a significant shift in position from proprietary to open source.