
The Folks at Nokia Conversation was once again first with unveiling another Nokia touchscreen phone. Heres the Nokia 5230 Press release:
Nokia has just popped open its paint pot and pulled out the new Nokia 5230 in a range of custom colours. The latest handset to join the touchscreen fold, the Nokia 5230 has been designed to serve up slick on-the-go entertainment, location-based services and act as an easy pocket portal for social networking at low cost. Read on for more details and get a close-up look at the 5230 in our photo gallery.
Brandishing a 3.2-inch widescreen touch display with full-screen QWERTY keyboard and handwriting recognition, the Nokia 5230 is geared up to enable you to rattle out messages at speed. Paired with speedy HSDPA connectivity, this means staying in the loop and keeping your Facebook and Twitter streams promises to be a no-wait affair. Ovi Store is nestled neatly on the homescreen from the moment you switch on the device, ensuring you can get instant anywhere access to quality bite-size apps.
Music is its first love though, with the 5230 bringing 33 hours of playback time (long battery life was recently voted the most important feature in a music phone by you guys - so we’re stoked to see that), a 3.5mm headphone jack and memory expandable up to 16GB via a microSD card. Two versions of the phone will launch - a standard device costing 149 Euros, and in some select areas a Comes With Music version will be available for 259 Euros for those keen on all-you-can-eat downloads.
Jo Harlow is Vice President at Nokia, and had this to say about today’s news of the upcoming 5230:
“Competitively priced at 149 Euros, we believe the Nokia 5230 is an unbeatable offer for many new customers who aspire a device that stars in music, mingles with social networks from Facebook to MySpace, navigates you to where it happens, when it happens, and comes in array of dazzling colors”
Other features include assisted-GPS with Ovi Maps, Nokia’s new Contacts bar on the homescreen, a 2 megapixel camera and Bluetooth 2.0.
FULL SPECIFICATION
Physical, Power and Memory
Size
* Form: Classic with touchscreen
* Dimensions: 111 x 51.7 x 14.5/15.5 mm
* Weight: 113 g (without stylus)
* Weight: 115 g (with stylus)
* Volume: 78 cc (without stylus) / 83 cc (with stylus)
* Responsive touchscreen with tactile feedback
* Accelerometer for auto-rotate
* Proximity sensor to save power and prevent inadvertent touches
Display and 3D
* Size: 3.2"
* Resolution: 640 x 360 pixels (nHD) with 16:9 picture
* Up to 16.7 million colours
* Full touchscreen display
Keys and input method
* Touchscreen
* Dedicated keys for camera, volume, power, send & end, and application launch (menu), plus the media bar touch key for accessing music, gallery, share online, video centre and web browser
* Homescreen music plug-in for pause/play, forward, back
* Voice commands
Colours and covers
* Available in-box colours:
- White/Red
- White/Dark Silver
- White/Pink
- White/Yellow
- White/Blue
- Black/Red
- Black/Dark Silver
* Changeable colour battery covers
Connectors
* Micro-USB connector, USB 2.0 high speed
* 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
Memory
* microSD memory card slot, with hot swap max. 16 GB
* 70 MB internal dynamic memory
Power
* BL-5J 1320 mAh Li-Ion standard battery
* Talk time (maximum)
- GSM 7 h
- WCDMA 4 h 18 min
* Standby time (maximum)
- GSM up to 438 h
- WCDMA up to 458 h
* Video playback time (maximum): Mpeg-4 4.6hours, nHD 3 hours
* Music playback time (maximum): 33 h
Communication & Navigation
Operating frequency
* Dual band 900/2100 WCDMA and 850/1900 WCDMA
* GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
* Automatic switching between GSM bands
* Flight mode
Data network
* CSD
* HSCSD
* GPRS/EGPRS Class B, multislot class 32, maximum speed 177/296kbps (DL/UL)
* EDGE class B, multislot class 32, maximum speed 177/296 kbps (DL/UL)
* WCDMA 2100, maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (UL/DL),
CS 64 kbps
* HSDPA, cat. 6, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps (DL)
* TCP/IP support
Local connectivity and synchronisation
* Bluetooth version 2.0
- Bluetooth profiles: A2DP, AVRCP
* MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) support
* Direct printing to compatible picture printers
* Support for PC synchronisation with Nokia Ovi Suite
Service
* Speaker-independent name dialling (SIND)
Call features
* Integrated hands-free speakerphone
* Number screening for messaging and calls
* Automatic answer with headset or car kit
* Any key answer
* Call waiting, call hold, call divert
* Call timer
* Logging of dialled, received and missed calls
* Automatic redial
* Speed dialling
* Voice dialling: speaker independent dialling and voice commands (SIND)
* Fixed dialling number support
* Vibrating alert (internal), also with tactile feedback
* Side volume keys
* Mute/unmute
* Contacts bar for 20 contacts with images and communication history (SMS, email, web feeds)
* Talking ring tones
* Conference calling with up to 6 participants
Messaging
* SMS
* Multiple SMS deletion
* MMS version 1.3, message size up to 600 kb
* Automatic resizing of images for MMS
* Nokia Xpress audio messaging
* Common inbox for SMS and MMS messages
* Number screening for messaging
* Distribution lists for messaging
* Cell broadcast
E-mail
* Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP
* Support for e-mail attachments
* OMA e-mail notification support
* Mail for Exchange 2008 preinstalled
Web browsing
* Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML, WML
* Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP, JavaScript
* TCP/IP support
* OSS browser
* Nokia Mobile Search
GPS and navigation
* Integrated A-GPS
* Ovi Maps 3.0 application
Image & Sound
Photography
* 2 megapixel camera
* Image formats: JPEG
* CMOS sensor
* 3x digital zoom
* White balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
* Center weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.5 step
* Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative
* Dedicated camera key
* Landscape (horizontal) orientation
* Photo editor on device
Video
* Main camera
- Video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps (TV high quality), up to 640 x 352 pixels and up to 30 fps (widescreen quality), up to 320 x 240 pixels and up to 30 fps/15 fps (email high/normal quality), up to 176 x 144 and up to 15 fps (sharing quality)
- Up to 4x digital zoom
* Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp
* Audio recording formats: WAV (normal), AMR (MMS), AAC/MP4 (high quality)
* Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
* Scene modes: automatic, night
* Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative
* Clip length (maximum): 1 h 30 min (high or normal quality). Dependable on available memory
* RealPlayer
* Video playback file formats: MPEG4-SP playback 30fps VGA, MPEG4-AVC playback 30fps QVGA, WMV9 playback 30fps QVGA, MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps nHD
* Video streaming: 3GPP and CIF
* Landscape mode video playback
* Video ring tones
* Video editor on device
* Video Centre service supported: download and stream video content, WMV support, video feeds
Music and audio playback
* Music playback file formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC+, WMA
* Dedicated music keys
* FM radio
* 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug
* 2.5 mm Nokia AV connector
* Nokia Music
* Nokia Music Store support
* Nokia Podcasting support
* Ring tones: mp3, aac, 64-tone polyphonic (64 built-in tones)
* Integrated speaker
Voice and audio recording
* Voice commands
* Voice dialling
Personalisation: profiles, themes, ring tones
* Ring tones: 3D, 64-tone polyphonic, mp3 and video ring tones
* Video ring tone