New Nokia 5730 XpressMusic with Slide Out Qwerty Keyboard

[Pugsly]

The 5730 XpressMusic is stated to run on S60 3rd Edition version 9.3 Feature pack 2. It has a 2" screen at QVGA resolution, a 3.2 Megapixel Carl Zeiss Camera with Auto-Focus and has 128mb of ram, 140mb of built in memory, shipping with an 8GB micoSD card in-box. It is powered by a BL-4U 1000 mAh battery.

The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic sports a trio of music-playback keys along the edge, with the standard S60 navigational cluster and standard numeric keypad. It’s running S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, and has a handful of cool little software enhancements, including a number of new Active Standby themes.

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Specifications

• 2-inch QVGA screen
• 1,000mAh battery
• 4.5 hours talk time
• EDGE data
• inbuilt GPS
• 128MB of RAM
• microSD card slot
• USB / Bluetooth
• Symbian S60

[Pugsly]

5730 XpressMusic, 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 microSD card slot, USB / Bluetooth and Symbian S60 running the show. We're told to expect it out in European markets this April for €220 ($289), though worldwide availability remains a mystery. Have a look in the read link for eleventy billion more images and a poorly translated preview.

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 microSD card slot, USB / Bluetooth and Symbian S60 running the show.

In the apparatus used 2-inch display with a resolution of QVGA (240h320 points 31h42 mm). The display shows up to 16 million colors (TFT), the picture is bright, well visible in various conditions. In general, the screen leaves a pleasant impression on the apparatus set good. The screen displays up to 8 lines of text and 3 service lines. In some modes may show up to 14 lines of text. Font good read.

Block function keys large, medium-sized buttons are soft clicking. Nice keyboard, in all senses. Backlight keys white, not very bright, at the time. The navigation key has a built-sensor. Overall comfort keyboard can be assessed as above average.

You use lithium-ion battery BL-4U, it has a capacity of 1000 mAh. According to the manufacturer, the phone is able to work out until 4.55 hours of talktime, up to 270 hours in standby mode. Playback of music - up to 26 hours, video recording at maximum capacity - up to 150 minutes, playing a video - up to 180 minutes.

[Walby]

hi,
looks too flat, like it would be distinction between the keys.

[Pugsly]

Here is the maximum time in different modes:
GPS-navigation - 3.5-4 hours

View video - 4 hours 45 minutes

WEB-surfing (EDGE-connection) - 3 hours

Wi-Fi (constant loading of data) - 3.5 hours

Listening to music on the headphones - 21 hours

Radio - 12.5 hours

Internet radio (Wi-Fi-connection) - 6 hours

Games - 4.5 hours

[Woodrow]

As to the screen, i can understand being in love with a capacitive screen as your favorite phone has one, and it reacts "differently" than resistive touchscreens.