As expected, Nokia has announced three XpressMusic phones today, with one of them (Nokia 5030) being branded as XpressRadio phones. The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is Nokia’s first music-optimized device to offer a full QWERTY keyboard - ideal for quick messaging. Its Homescreen features an improved contacts bar with up to 20 friends and family members and provides direct access to music, N-Gage and other applications, like Facebook, Photos, Ovi Contacts, Maps, messaging and more. With Ovi Contacts, people see which friends are online, chat and even view what music they are listening to.

The Music shortcut offers a quick access to the music stored on the device as well as to the Nokia Music Store where they can find for information on artists, music and over-the-air downloads, directly on the device. With the dedicated gaming keys the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is a true N-Gage gadget. Direct access to the N-Gage Arena community and the preloaded N-Gage games invite to connect and compete and check high scores with online friends.

The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is expected to begin shipping in the third quarter of 2009 for an estimated retail price of 280 EUR before subsidies and taxes.

Nokia 5730 Specifications:

* Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900,WCDMA 900/1900/2100
* User Interface: S60
* Dimensions: 112 x 51 x 15,4 mm (L x W x T)
* Weight: 135 g
* Display: 2.4 inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) with up to 16 million colors
* Battery: Nokia Battery BL-4U,1000mAh Lion
* Memory: up to 100 MB internal memory, support for up to 16GB microSD memory card
* Talk time: Up to 5 hours
* Standby time: Up to 300 hours
* Music playback: Upto 25hours
* HSDPA cat6 (max download 3,6 Mbps)
* GSM GPRS/EGPRS multi slot class 32, max download 296 kbps; upload 177,6 kbps
* WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g with UPnP support
* MicroUSB, 3.5 mm AV connector
* Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0 with A2DP & AVRCP
* FM stereo radio with RDS
* 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and 8x digital zoom with flash
* Secondary camera, VGA

Labels: Nokia

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