MUMBAI: Nokia’s latest addition in its touch screen portfolio in the Indian market is the Nokia 5230 and 5530 XpressMusic.
The 5230 sports a 3.2-inch touchscreen with a 360 x 640 pixel resolution and 16 million colors with a proximity sensor, accelerometer and handwriting recognition support. It also features a 2 megapixel camera. It also supports 3.5mm earphone socket a MicroSD card along with 3G, EDGE/GPRS. It supports Bluetooth with A2DP and USB 2.0 along with GPS and A-GPS support (Ovi Maps). It also a music player with 33 hours of playback time.
The 5530 XpressMusic handset features a 2.9-inch touchscreen display with a 360 x 640 pixels 16 million colors with a proximity sensor, accelerometer and handwriting recognition support. It features a 3.5mm earphone socket, aMicroSD card support along with 3G, EDGE/GPRS. The handset also supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth with A2DP and USB 2.0 (micro) 3 megapixel camera with LED flash and a stereo FM radio. It has a music player with 27 hours of playback time.
This handset has the home screen feature with one touch shortcuts to content and popular social networks, like Facebook and MySpace. The innovative ‘people carousel’, like the other models features thumbnail images of up to 20 friends with access to their communications history including emails, phone calls, photos or other social media updates.
The difference between the two is that the 5530 is equipped with Wi-Fi but lacks GPS and the 5230 has GPS but no Wi-Fi.
Vineet Taneja, Director Marketing Nokia India said, As the market leader, Nokia’s value proposition is to offer products that combine aesthetics, technology and ease of use. Nokia’s touch devices are also based on these strengths and with the new Nokia 5230 and Nokia 5530 XpressMusic we aim to give our consumers phones that look great, provide enhanced touch and music experience and, at the same time, are competitively priced….
The Nokia 5230 is expected to begin shipping in the fourth quarter of 2009 and will be priced at Rs. 18,068 (259 Euro) for the Comes with Music edition, before subsidies and taxes.
