Nokia X5-01, an affordable Symbian smartphone launched in India

Nokia X5, a Symbian Series 60 v3.2 UI based smartphone has been launched in India at an affordable price of Rs.9500. The pretty good smartphone X5-01 is a cool gadget, available in bright colours such as Yellow Green, Purple, Pink, Graphite Black and Azure. Targeted at youth, the device has been optimized for a great music experience and easy messaging. Studded with good multimedia options, dedicated music keys and loud speakers, Nokia X5 is one to envy in this department.

The screen size of the LCD transmissive display of the Nokia X5-01 handset is 2.36” and its physical dimensions are 74.3 x 66.44 x 16.85 mm. This squarish QWERTY slider weighs 129 grams and boasts of 3 Labeled Soft Keys, Media Keys,Navi™ Key and Volume Keys. The device has made messaging easy with its full QWERTY keyboard that shows up when slider is moved up and intelligent text input feature. The joy of watching photos taken with its 5 MP full focus camera, enjoying videos, music, and graphics is one of its kind on its large square screen with resolution of 320X240 pixels.

Other principal connectivity features incorporated in Nokia X5-01includes uPnP, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, and USB 2.0 High-Speed. For social networking on sites viz. Facebook, Twitter, Hi5 and MySpace, Nokia X5 is fully capable. It enjoys 200MB of internal memory expandable to up to 32 GB. The unique spin and shake feature of Nokia X5 allows you to change music tracks and view unread text messages in a spin of wrist.

IM, MMS+SMIL and SMS alongwith Email Solutions viz. Mail for Exchange, Nokia Messaging 2, OMA E-mail Notification v1.0 and Ovi Mail are supported on Nokia X5-01 that supports IMAP4, POP3, SMTP email protocols. Excel, PDF, Powerpoint, Word are the supported document formats on Nokia X5-01.The handset supports EGPRS, WCDMA (depends on region) and HSDPA/HSUPA networks. It is a 3.5G handset that sports WLAN. Additionally, there is accelerometer sensor, Flash Lite v3.0, Doc viewer and Stereo FM radio features in Nokia X5.

Its powerful BL-5F 3.7V 950mAh battery offers more talktime on GSM i.e. 9 hours and just 4 hours on WCDMA network. The standby time of up to19 days and music playback time of up to 30 hours is available for use of the Nokia X5 users.

Nokia X5-01 square QWERTY slider smartphone to launch in 2010

Nokia X5 (also known as Nokia X5-01) is an excellent music-oriented smartphone with awesome messaging and social networking tools. It is certainly targeted at youth of India as evident from its looks and features. Announced sometime back at Nokia event at Singapore, Nokia X5 (the successor of the Nokia X5) has now launched in India at a price tag of Rs.9500. It is an unusually shaped mobile phone. Nokia X5-01 is a squarish vertical slider that debuts in India in bold shades viz. Yellow Green, Purple, Pink, Azure and Graphite Black. Its stylish looks are augmented with its full QWERTY keyboard and its most significant highlight is its Symbian S60 3rd edition operating system.

Nokia X5-01 has a 5 MP camera with LED flash for excellent image quality even in the dark. Its 2.36-inches display with QVGA resolution is simply excellent and so are the most advanced connectivity features of this smartphone. There is 3.5G HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and high speed microUSB 2.0 support. Then there is 3.5mm audio jack and loudspeakers for excellent sound quality. The clever new gestures let users spin the phone to jump to a random track and change tracks or send text messages. The phone packs in 128MB of RAM, and 200MB of internal storage. The 200 MB of internal memory which can be expanded up to 32GB using microSD card (2GB card is included in the box).

There are music packages via Ovi Music enabled on this phone that is supported on quad-band GSM network. Nokia X5-01 supports popular social networking services viz. Facebook, Twitter, Hi5, and MySpace and also popular Instant Messengers and multiple email accounts. Additional features include uPnP technology. Nokia X5-01 has landed in the Indian handset market at a price of Rs.9500.

Nokia 5250 lands on mobile retail stores in India

A new Symbian 1 smartphone from Nokia referred to as Nokia 5250 has finally launched in India and is available at all major mobile retail stores at a price of Rs. 7590. Rumours were ripe on Net that the Nokia 5250 will release around Diwali and they have become true with its unleashing now. It is targeted towards budget conscious buyers and it has landed in Indian handset market within a week of announcement of its launch. It is a touchscreen mobile phone that boasts a 2.8-inch wide HVGA display with a resolution of 640x360 pixels. For a speedy operation, Nokia 5250 works on a Symbian 1, S60 edition operating system. It has 51MB of internal memory storage which may be further expanded to 16GB.

The Nokia 5250 may be easily referred to as a music-oriented phone as it comes with a Hero Guitar mobile for free. Also users may access Ovi Music Unlimited on the phone in restricted places for downloading music of choice, as many as 4000 songs may be downloaded and stored in this phone. Its music capabilities are certainly cool. The smartphones usually lacks it but 5250 Nokia has an in-built FM and a universal 3.5 mm audio jack. The music player of the phone appears on its home screen which is another highlight. Ovi Share is pre-installed on it lets you upload photos on Net that you have clicked with your 2MP camera. The video player plays videos in formats like H263, MP4. In all, Nokia 5250 gives a superb multimedia experience to its users. Nokia 5250, however, lack a 3G and Wi-Fi capability which is quite disappointing.

On social networking front, Nokia 5250 again works splendidly. It facilitates instant access to social networking sites as Facebook, MySpace etc. on its homescreen along with access to multiple email accounts and IM accounts namely Ovi Mail, Gmail and Yahoo. The Nokia 5250 also has Bluetooth with A2DP for data transfer and comes equipped with SMS, MMS, Nimbuzz apps as well. The super smart smartphone has a good battery back up with 18 days of standby time and seven hours of talktime. The music play of 24 hours is also possible on the phone without interruption.

The physical measurement of phone stands at 104mm x 49mm x 14mm. The quad-band GSM/ EDGE network supports connection on Nokia 5250. There is GPRS connectivity for browsing that let users remain connected and also helps in downloading and using ‘n’ number of applications. Nokia 5250 is available in multiple colours as Black, Blue, White and Purple. This Nokia 5250 is a successor of Nokia 5230 and is a right mix of style and performance.