Nokia 5730 XpressMusic gets exhaustively previewed

Well, hello there 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.

[Thanks, momchil]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 6:43PM]

please fix the link - there is an english version http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-5730-en.shtml

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 8:44PM]

US T Mobile release plz.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 8:50PM]

I think there's a good chance T-Mobile picks it up. They've picked up other XpressMusic phones. Doubt it will have 1700 trough

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 20th 2009 7:09AM]

Um, EDGE data? On an S60 phone? For the European market? Not very likely. I really cannot imagine Nokia releasing an S60 phone without 3G in 2009. Besides, that qwerty would make it excellent for web surfing -- something that EDGE would completely ruin.

The Mobile-review article only mentions running web surfing battery tests on EDGE -- not that EDGE would be the only data connectivity option. The phone probably does have 3G as well.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 20th 2009 12:23PM]

Well, this is Nokia. They've been known to do stupid things that don't make sense in the past.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 20th 2009 8:07PM]

There's a front-facing camera, so I'll say there's a good chance it has 3G.