Nokia 5530 : Touch screen mobile with low cost

Nokia 5530 is a new mobile in the XpressMusic collection, which got a lot of features at with Competitive price, making the technology more Accessible to the most people. The 2G mobile phone is essentially designed to bring the touch screen to everyone so that people can enjoy the user interface of the operating system Symbian S60. The Nokia 5530 is a slim version measuring 104 x 49 x 13 mm and weighing 107 g. The Li-Ion 1000 mAh provides talk time greater than 4 hours 54 minutes, play music for 27 hours and standby time of 336 hours.

The front of the Nokia 5530 is dominated by the touchscreen. The call buttons and menu keys are too physical touch operated. A proximity sensor located at the front. The Nokia 5530 features a 2.9 "resistive touch screen with a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels and can display 16 million colors. The sensitivity is much improved than its predecessors and you will not find the need to use the stylus as you use the phone. The major problem with the screen, it has very low visibility in bright sunlight. The accelerometer rotates the display of the phone when you change the phone mode from portrait mode landscape and vice versa.

The user interface Symbian S60 is almost inspiring to use. The finger scrolling option in the interface is significantly improved, making the phone more finger friendly. However, scrolling list is confusing with the Nokia 5530. Also, the opening points of the list are different from icons to open. You must get used to the interface to use the Nokia 5530 effectively. The home screen is very customizable and you can access all your favorite applications from the main screen itself.

The repertoire of the Nokia 5530 allows any new options. The search function is made much more user friendly. Telephony is perfect like any other Nokia mobile phone, but there is no smart dialing feature. However, the option of voice dialing up for the lack of intelligent numbering. You can silence the phone by flipping it because of the accelerometer. All types of messaging such as SMS, MMS and emails can be sent using a common publisher. To enter, you can use the alphanumeric keypad in portrait mode and tilt the phone in landscape mode to reveal the full QWERTY keyboard. Handwriting recognition is another interesting feature that requires you to enter your handwriting using the stylus.

The Nokia 5530 has a 3.15MP camera with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels. However, the camera is not very good as in the case of 5800 XpressMusic model. There is an LED flash, but the image quality is not good enough. Photos can be geo tagged and a number of options for image editing are available. The video is also disappointing, but there are some settings you can use your captured videos.

As is the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic mobile phone, music player is as good as expected. There are quite a few cosmetic changes made to the music player and is fully optimized touch. A large number of file formats are supported by the media player and equalizer is available to change the way you want to listen to your favorite music. The player with FM RDS support for listening to music when you're away. Watch a video on the Nokia 5530 is quite satisfactory, but the small screen limits the enjoyment. In addition, DivX and XviD are not supported by the player.

Wi-Fi is a welcome addition to the Nokia 5530 apart from the connectivity options Bluetooth and USB. Web browser is also good to use with some modern features including support flash. However, the Nokia 5530 does not have a GPS receiver.