Mobile Review

the Nokia 5800 is sure to have a very big effect on their portfolio of mobile phones. And the inspiration of it can be traced back to the release of the iPhone, so you can be absolutely sure they've made the Nokia 5800 as slick and as user-friendly as possible. The new S60 Touch interface in the Nokia 5800 is tremendously elegant, as well as being really rather powerful. Put simply, it's a joy to navigate round, and so much nicer than many other mobile phones on the market. Combine with a list of top-notch features, like 3 megapixel camera, HSDPA and so on, and you get a really cool smartphone. But it's with music that the Nokia 5800 really shines, as it's music that this beautiful mobile phone lives for, with a music player that really is second to none. In conclusion, I can sincerely say that the Nokia 5800 is one of the most impressive mobile phones I've seen in a long time.

The touchscreen devices are increasingly popular, Nokia and the first attempt in this market - Nokia 5800 release - promises to be fruitful. As announced earlier, on October Nokia finally presented its first smartphone multimedia touch screen on Symbian - Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

Taking advantage of touch screen technology, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic introduces the 'Media Bar', a handy drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, including favourite tracks, videos and photos. The Media Bar also offers a direct link to the web and to online sharing. Because the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic supports Flash content, individuals can surf the entire web, not just pieces of it.

It is slightly with 3.2 sensor with 640 x 360 display resolution, which is larger than the iPhone and is capable of displaying images or movies very lively and brilliant, 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and dual LED flashlight, GPS. Wireless Bluetooth and Nokia Wi-Fi, which, in combination with its high resolution display makes 5800 a great Web browsing. Built in accelerometer adjusts the image on the screen if the position of the smartphone is changed portrait to landscape mode, this feature is present in almost all modern multimedia smartphone

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, a mobile device for music that brings innovative new features to the mass market. Delivering on Nokia's vision to provide the best total music experience possible, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be among the first devices to support Comes With Music, Nokia's groundbreaking service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalogue.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic also features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and, with a single touch, images or videos can be shared via a favorite online community, such as Share on Ovi, Flickr, or Facebook. Music playlist song titles can also be shared through Bluetooth, MMS or online sharing.

In addition, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers all the music essentials, including a graphic equalizer, 8GB memory for up to 6000 tracks and support for all main digital music formats, and a 3.5mm jack. Built-in surround sound stereo speakers offer the industry's most powerful sound. Additional features include Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, and USB 2.0 High-Speed

the Nokia 5800 is a mid-range mobile phone, not a top-ender. So what will happen, when the Nokia 5800 magically morphs into the first touchscreen Nseries mobile phone. The first version of this smartphone interest will be published very soon - on black, red and blue will be sold at attractive price - 279 euros (about 380 U.S. dollars), with special edition “Nokia Comes With Music” launch in early 2009.

Design and style of Nokia 5320 xPressMusic is catch. Nokia 5320 XpressMusic is a musical mobile phone of Nokia. All the latest and newborn technologies are available in Nokia 5320 XpressMusic. All the latest and new functions of the music are available in Nokia 5320 XpressMusic. Users will never feel boring in the company of the Nokia 5320 XpressMusic.

The exterior of the phone shows it's a music device with its playback controls, and these work very well as noted in the hardware section above. They feel much more natural to use than the Nokia N81's d-pad-centric playback controls or the Nokia N95's two-handed playback controls.

On the music front, the Nokia 5320 includes dedicated XpressMusic keys which are down the left-hand side of the bright, crisp screen. Here you get fastforward, skipback, play and pause, with volume controls on the other side.

The actual audio quality of Nokia 5320 xPressMusic is very good, perhaps thanks to its dedicated audio chip. Music on the Nokia 5320 xPressMusic sounds more detailed than on the Nokia N95 for example, and it somehow has a lot of "oomph". There's no background hiss during moments of silence. On the old chestnut of gapless playback, there is still a brief pause between tracks, though it's perhaps a bit shorter than on previous S60 devices.

The external speaker is mono as there's only one, but it's fairly good quality and very loud. If you use the speaker on its loudest setting it will drain the battery quite quickly though.

On the Nokia 5320 XpressMusic there is HSDPA connectivity for downloading tracks on the go as well as uploading images or surfing the web, Bluetooth 2.0 so you can connect wireless speakers and a 2 megapixel camera around the back for snapping your mates at a gig.

Transfer of music via the USB cable is very fast thanks to USB 2.0 High Speed compatibility. As with other S60 devices there's no automatic refreshing of the music library, so you have to remember to manually refresh the music player after adding more tracks, which is a bit annoying. The 5320 has a memory card slot compatible with microSDHC cards up to 8 gigabytes officially, though unofficially you may be able to use cards with much higher capacities. As a rough estimate, 8 gigabytes is enough for about 2000 to 3000 tracks.

The Nokia 5320 XpressMusic has a 3.5mm headphone socket on the bottom of the device so you can use any headphones you want. The phone supports A2DP and AVRCP Bluetooth profiles, so you can also use it with most wireless Bluetooth stereo headphones. The music player app contains an eight band graphic equaliser featuring a number of presets, and you can add your own custom presets too.

The Nokia 5320 XpressMusic mobile phone offers extendable memory up to 8GB, HS-USB for fast music transfer and HSDPA for fast access to data. Superior audio quality with dedicated audio chip, fast and easy music downloads with HSDPA and USB 2.0, up to 8 GB external memory.

Via the internet browser, users can get access to the usual Nokia offerings: Ovi and Nokia Search 4.1 while the dedicated N-Gage gaming keys and landscape view are said to "deliver a true gaming experience" meaning that as promised Nokia has expanded the N-Gage platform's availability beyond its Nseries range.

The Nokia 5320 XpressMusic is a Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 phone, like the N78 and 6220 Classic. As has been mentioned in those devices' reviews, Feature Pack 2 is an evolution of S60 rather than a revolution, so don't expect any huge changes.

While many tech sites concentrate on high-end 600 euro devices such as the N96 and iPhone, it's cheaper models like this that will quietly creep into far more people's pockets. Nokia 5320 XpressMusic is a phone that ordinary people would feel comfortable buying. It's got flaws (some of which could be corrected through a firmware update) but this is exactly the kind of device that Nokia needs if it wants to get larger numbers of people using its online services and buying its smartphones.


Design
• Type : Candybar
• A streamlined design with glossy surfaces and refined details.
• 3G/HSPDA connectivity for fast data transfer
• Dedicated keys for music and N-Gage gaming. Gaming optimised 8-way Navi?key.
• A 2.0?TFT display with the landscape N-Gage gaming experience.
• SMS, MMS, and Xpress Audio messaging, and email ?share your life easily from camera and gallery to online services, such as Ovi, Flickr and VOX.
• Music player with Nokia Say and Play application.
• Superior audio quality with dedicated audio chip, fast and easy music downloads with HSDPA and USB 2.0, up to 8 GB external memory (microSD card).

User interface
• Series 60 user interface with Active Standby
• 8-way NaviTM with select, two soft keys, send, end, clear and menu key
• Music keys (rewind, forward, play/pause), My Own key for Say and Play, and N-Gage games

Voice and audio
• Mono speaker with integrated handsfree
• Circuit Switched video call, Video sharing
• High quality text to speech functionality (SMS reader)
• Nokia Say and Play (voice control to music player)
• Enhanced voice dialling

Applications
• N-Gage is available via download (Games folder) or online at www.ngage.com
• JavaTM Mobile Information Device Profile 2.1
• Macromedia Flash Lite 3.0
• Windows Live available via download
• Flickr
• Yahoo Go!
• Yahoo Messenger

The factor of communication has been upgraded by various innovations. We have witnessed the invention of various gadgets in different ages such as telephones and mobile phones etc. Actually this important factor that is communication helps to keep the factories and businesses running. Now this century is being lead by the VoIP phones. As a matter of fact, the VoIP calls are very cost-effective and come with various additional features.

VoIP is increasingly becoming the most preferred medium for making phone calls to friends and relatives living locally or in international locations. Cost is the main factor for this, by donning on the role of a minimal problem creating entity. When put in simple words, the cost that is a feature of calls made to locations which either can fall in the category of local or overseas, is an entity that is quite low. A user, therefore, has to pay a very low price for making calls to international locations even if the duration of the call is quite long, and the major fact is that now most of the VoIP phone calls are free.

The VoIP call service is one of the finest telephony means available today. This telephony allows people to connect with others at a very low call cost. It has various useful features such as exchanging files in addition to making voice calls. The user-friendliness of the technology is what makes people make use of this broadband telephony to make distant calls.

Long distance calling has definitely become easy with the VoIP network. People find this system convenient and cost saving. The users just need to have internet connection and a computer to avail Voice over IP. It is very common to find computers at every household. So, accessing the VoIP telephony is possible as users simply has to avail internet connection. Thus making cheap international calls as well as local calls has become possible with the technology reaching every place of the world.

Voice over Internet Protocol more popular as VoIP has the capability to transmit the voice over the Internet. This has become the most preferred alternative option for the user due to various positive factors. Basically this option is regarded as the most viable option for the corporate houses to access international calls at very cheap rates. The unbelievable saving factor is actually gearing up the popularity of this technology. The VoIP phone is far more better than the PSTN services as they hardly require any additional maintenance charges.

The primary process involved in VoIP phone calls is the modification of human voice into digital signals the next step is the sending of these signals in the form of data packets across the internet with the help of fibre optics serving the role of the physical medium.

The cost that is generated in the usage of standard telephone lines is extremely high when compared to the cost generated when using a fibre optics cable. This explains the low costs involved in the process of using the benefits of VoIP phone service.

The system is blessed with a direct inward dial number(DID). It enables the users to receive or dial calls at the same local call cost. For example if ones service provider is located in UK, than callers simply dial the UK DID number to make calls to the person at local call rate. However, if the same person, happens to move to US, than callers can still make calls to the person at the UK DID number at local call cost. This is the reason why it is said that the technology enables cheap long distance calling.

Thus, Voice over Internet Protocol has an easy access worldwide. The users too are not bound by any contract. They can access the service on gadgets such as PC phones, WiFi Phones, telephones and PDAs. These gadgets being compact, the users can easily carry them anywhere and so can stay connected with VoIP.

Like a lot of other inventions that have altered the face of human civilisation, VoIP is keen to give it a nice makeover and that too with zero fees! There was a time when people craved for luxuries. But today, life is a lot cosier than before. More than luxury, affordability is what everyone looks for. VoIP came as a messiah at this juncture when prices are touching skies and fitting everything in the budget seems close to impossible. With VoIP, talking endlessly has been made within the reach of a middle class user. Humans can show miracles. VoIP telephony do justifies that.

Nokia is one of the biggest names in the telecommunication industry. One of its most potent examples is its much awaited N series. This time, the manufacturer has come a step ahead and introduced Nokia N96, which has 5 mega pixel camera. It offers amazing picture quality at high pixels resolution. Let us get to know more about 5 mega pixel Nokia N96 mobile phone.

Nokia N96 is a 3G smart phone, which is fully equipped with multimedia features to enhance your communication. It offers LCD display that adds to the picture quality of this mobile phone handset. Its 2.8 inch colour screen exhibits sixteen million colours at high pixels resolution of 240 by 320 pixels.

It comes with 16GB built-in memory that is expandable up to 24 GB with the help of Micro SD card. If you are a music lover, then you will be bewildered with the storage capability where you can store up to 3500 songs . it is also more than capable of playing video for hours & capable of broadcasting TV as it has an inbuilt DVB-H receiver.

Another attractive quality of the gadget is its media player which erode a sense of boredom prevailing around the user.The player promises of delivering high sound quality which is crisp and uninterrupted. The player is able to support various music files which implies that the user will be entitled to unlimited entertainment. Music apart, the user can also enjoy listening to the FM radio by tuning in to his favourite radio station. The radio feature will keep the listener updated and informed on the latest happenings, traffic conditions, social events and much more.

The camera is 5 megapixel (2592 x 1944 pixels) affair with Carl Zeiss optics which makes a considerable difference to the quality of images/video - more so than just megapixels alone. Auto focus, auto exposure, dual-LED camera flash, video light, recording indicator, auto-focus assist light are all featured. The autofocus will produce high quality images with clarity and sharpness and the LED flash will nullify any kind of blurriness cropped up due to dim lighting conditions.

Being a multimedia leviathan, the Nokia N96 is equipped to the hilt on every score. All the usual audio visual file formats are supported, along with full Flash, Web browser, FM radio, 3G, GPRS, EDGE, WLAN, Bluetooth & WiFi. Now attending urgent calls while driving will not be cumbersome as the built-in handsfree will let you entertain calls in an easygoing way. Internet has made the world a smaller place and the modern day phones are furnished with some of the best connectivity options. The high quality browser adds fun to whole browsing experience and the Wi-Fi helps internet surfing and checking of mails. The Bluetooth and USB technology will allow transfer of data with other devices whereas the HSDPA makes the process of data transferring speedy and efficient. The presence of GPRS and EDGE also have a substantial impact on the speed with which data is transferred.

The various messaging options enable the user to instantly convey casual as well as important messages within seconds. SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging are an array of messaging choices which enable the user to remain in touch with his near and dear ones. Nokia N96 is exalted with exciting games which are purely entertaining at the same time help in developing defence tactics of the player. Select amusing Polyphonic (64 channels), Monophonic, True Tones, MP3 ringtones to personalise the gadget and make the mobile experience more entertaining. As the phone supports quadband network the user can travel around the world and yet stay connected with close ones. The phone is enriched with an appreciable memory size which can be utilised to store entries,contact details, games and much more.

With the help of GPS navigation, it shows maps of 150 countries. The GPS navigation allows the users to travel to their desired locations without any hassle. It weighs just 125 grams and quite easy to use and operate.

Operating Frequency
• WCDMA 850/1900 (HSDPA) / EGSM900, GSM850/1800/1900 MHz (EGPRS)
• Automatic switching between bands and modes

Dimensions
• Weight: 4.4 oz
• Length: 4.10 in
• Width: 2.20 in
• Depth: 0.79 in

Memory Functions
• Up to 16GB internal flash memory, plus microSD memory card slot (hot swappable) for expandability and flexibility
• Up to 128MB RAM, Up to 256MB system memory (operating system plus dynamic user data area)

Power Management
• Battery: Nokia Battery BL-5F, 950 mAh
• Talk time: up to 150 / 220 minutes (WCDMA / GSM)
• Stand-by time: up to 8 / 9 days (WCDMA / GSM)
• Video playback: up to 5 hours (offline mode)
• Music playback: up to 14 hours (offline mode)

Display and User Interface
• 2.8” QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) LCD TFT display with up to 16 million colors
• User Interface: S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2
• Active standby screen, Multimedia menu

Data Transfer
• WCDMA HSDPA 850/1900 MHz with simultaneous voice and packet data (PS max speed DL/UL= 3.6Mbps/384kbps, CS max speed 64kbps)
• Dual Transfer Mode (DTM) support for simultaneous voice and packet data connection in GSM/EDGE networks. Simple class A, multi slot class 11, max speed DL/UL: 177.6/118.4kbps
• EGPRS class B, multi slot class 32, max speed DL/UL= 296/177.6kbps
• GPRS class B, multi slot class 32, max speed DL/UL= 107/64.2kbps

Music Features
• Digital music player – supports MP3, AAC, eAAC+, WMA, album art
• Playlist editing and sharing
• Equalizer and visualization

Radio
• Stereo FM radio (87.5-108MHz, 76-90MHz) with support for RDS, use of FM radio in offline mode

Main camera
• Up to 5 megapixel (2592 x 1944 pixels)
• Carl Zeiss Optics: Tessar™ lens
• Auto-focus, auto-exposure
• F-number/aperture: F2.8
• Focal length: 5.2 mm
• Focus range 10 cm to infinity
• Dual-LED camera flash, video light, recording indicator, auto-focus assist light

Secondary camera
• VGA (640 x 480 pixels) sensor
Video Recording
• Video capture in MPEG-4 up to VGA at 30 fps
• Digital Video Stabilization
• Video clip length: limited by storage
• Video file format: .mp4 (default), .3gp (for MMS)
• Settings for scene, video light, white balance, color tone

Photography
• Still Image resolutions: up to 5 Megapixel (2592 x 1944 pixels)
• Still Image file format: JPEG, EXIF
• Location tagging: automatic insertion of capture location into images
• Settings for scene, flash, sequence, self-timer, color, white balance, contrast, exposure compensation, guides