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Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Phone Features

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Well, looks like Nokia has been cashing in on the success of Nokia 5800 big time.I’m talking about the new model Nokia 5530 XpressMusic on the lines of Nokia 5800, Nokia 5230 & Nokia 5233.

Off late, Nokia has been just shuffling the features of Nokia 5800 to make it more affordable to the mid range mobile users.

And yeah, Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is another XpressMusic phone with touchscreen, 3.15 MP camera, great music player, Wi-Fi and what not.Weighs 107g, 2 geams lesser than the Nokia 5800.

The cons of the phone are lack of 3G and GPS.The phone was launched in August 2009 but is hardly found in stores.

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Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Full Specifications

Weight & Dimensions Dimensions: 104.0 x 49 x 13 mm

Weight: 107 g
Touch screen Touch screen with pen or finger input
– Full screen QWERTY
– Alphanumeric keypad
– Handwriting
Display
  • Size: 2.9″
  • Resolution: 640 x 360 pixels
  • Up to 16.7 million colours
  • AFFS technology
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    Battery Power (BL-4U) Talk time: up to 4 h 54 min (GSM)

    Standby time: up to 351 h (GSM)

    Video playback time: up to 3 h 45 min (QCIF, 15 fps)

    Music playback time: up to 27 h
    Camera 3.2 megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels)

  • 4x digital zoom
  • Autofocus
  • LED flash (On, off, automatic, red-eye reduction)
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    Video recording
  • Video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels (VGA) and up to 30 fps
  • Up to 4x digital video zoom
  • Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp
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    Music Nokia music player
    Playback file formats: .mp3, SpMidi, AAC AAC+, eAAC+, WMA. MTP support

  • Stereo FM radio
  • 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug
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    Memory microSD memory card slot with hot swap, up to 16 GB (4 GB memory card included)
    70 MB internal user memory
    Connectors Micro-USB connector

    3.5 mm stereo headphone plug
    Connectivity Bluetooth version 2.0 (A2DP & AVRCP)

    MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) support

    3G: NO
    WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
    Software S60 5th Edition, Symbian OS v9.4
    Applications Nokia Music Player, Nokia Music Store, Nokia Email, FM Radio, Flash Lite 2.0
    Launchers:- Friendster
    – Hi5
    – Facebook
    – MySpace
    – Amazon
    – YouTube
    Colours – Black with red accents
    – White with blue accents
    – White with yellow accents
    – Black with grey accents
    – White with pink accents

    Nokia 5530 Price review:

    US – $219.00

    UK     – £185.00

    India  – Rs.11,700 INR

    Nokia 5530 Xpress Music Pictures:

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    Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro Announced

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    Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro has been announced. Both are smart phones with 5-megapixel Autofocus Camera, full touchscreen and a lot more. Both of the smart phones runs on a 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor and Android 1.6 operating system. The Pro Version comes with full Qwerty keypad.

    XPERIA X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro

    Both of the sister models are almost of same specification and design. let us see the specification and features of the phones.

    Xperia X10 mini pro Xperia X10 mini

    XPERIA X10 Mini Pro                                                      XPERIA X10 Mini

    Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro Features:

    Features Description
    Camera 5 megapixel,Flash, Auto focus, Geo tagging, Video recording
    Connectivity 3.5 mm audio jack, aGPS, Bluetooth™ Technology, Synchronisation, USB mass storage, WiFi™
    Design Touchscreen, Auto rotate, QWERTY keyboard(in Pro Only)
    Messaging Conversations, Email, Exchange ActiveSync®, Instant messaging, Predictive text input, Text messaging (SMS), Picture messaging (MMS)
    Memory Phone memory Up to128MB, SanDisk microSD™ (up to 16GB)
    Entertainment Radio – FM radio with RDS, 3D games, Facebook™ application, Walk Mate, Video streaming, YouTube™
    Music MP3, AAC, Album art, PlayNow™, Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
    Processor 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor
    Operating System Google Android 1.6™
    Screen 16,777,216 color TFT touchscreen, 2.55 inches, 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA), Scratch-resistant
    Available Colors Xperia™ X10 Mini: 

    Black, Pearl White, Lime, Pink, Red, Silver

    Xperia™ X10 mini pro:

    Black, Red
    Battery Talk time GSM/GPRS: Up to 4 hours 

    Standby time: GSM/GPRS: Up to 285hrs

    This phone will be available in almost all continents. It will be released early in certain countries like USA, Canada, UK, France, India, China, Japan etc. due to high demand of the model.

    The official price of both the models has not been announced. We will update the price as soon as it is known.

    But Wall Street Journal Reported on NOVEMBER 18, 2009 that it may cost $879 or 6,000 Swedish kronor or around Rs 40000 INR . But it may cost lesser than this expected price.

    Update on Price: Sony Ericcson Xperia X10 Mini is available in India @ Rs. 15,000 INR.

    Nokia 2730 Classic 3G: The Cheapest Nokia 3G Phone

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    Nokia has revamped it’s low cost mobile model Nokia 2730 Classic with adding 3G to it.With this, Nokia 2730 Classic 3G becomes the cheapest Nokia 3G model mobile phone available in the market.Nokia just re-launched this version in India.

    Check out Nokia 2730 Classic Pictures and Specifications:

    nokia-2730-classic

    The price of Nokia 2730 Classic in India is Rs. 4499 INR and in UK it’s £89.00

    Specifications:

    Size 109.6 x 46.9 x 14.4 mm
    Weight 87.7 g (with battery)
    Display -Size: 2.0″-Resolution: 320 x 240 pixel (QVGA)

    -Up to 262,144 colours
    Input Numeric keypad
    Memory 30 MB internal dynamic memory
    microSD memory card slot with hot swap, max. 2 GB
    Operating system Series 40
    Talk time – GSM 3 h 50 min
    – WCDMA 3 h 30 min (Ectel)
    Standby Time – GSM 340 h
    – WCDMA 430 h (Ectel)
    Camera
    		 -2 megapixel camera-4x digital zoom
    Connectivity Bluetooth 2.0MicroUSB connector, USB 2.0

    3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
    Colours – Black
    – Dark Magenta

    Just review the above features and you can easily conclude that this may be the cheapest phone in the market with good features like an 2MP cam, 3G, Music player etc.That too at 4,500 INR, it’s worth the deal if you are looking to buy a phone in the range Rs. 4,000 to 5,000 INR.BTW, it costs  Rs. 2000 more than the non-3G version of the same model Nokia 2730 Classic.

    Gmail Emerges As No.1 Email Service in India

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    Google’s Gmail has probably officially took the honour for their outstanding features provided to the users allowing Gmail to takeover it’s rival Yahoo mail as the top email service provider site in India.

    According to an online audience measurement and analytics organization ViziSense, Gmail has managed to get 18.2 million users in India to use its services at a growth rate of 2.82 % in September 2009 and 6.63 % in the previous month August 2009.

    The classic Yahoo mail India, which continued to stay at No.1 till the last month had to settle with No #2 position with a negative growth of -7.69 % and with 16.8 million users approximately.

    Gmail overtake Yahoo mail India

    Yahoo Mail which dominated as the most popular email service in India is loosing ground to Gmail .But for the big internet company which has recently launched ‘It’s You’ campaign in India to attract more users, this news may not be so encouraging .

    Probably it’s time for us to say- “Wake Up Yahoo !! ” 🙂

    Gmail Goes Desi – Adds Five Indian Languages To The Mail Editor

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    Composing Gmail in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam or Kannada made easy.

    There was a time when Indian users had no option to send a mail in their own language, and later few software’s like Baraha had made it easier the task,and after sometime Google had come up with fantastic Google Indic Transliteration tool, an online translator which automatically translates the words that you type in English to the five Indian languages, and later extended to other Google services like Blogger, Orkut, iGoogle .Now Google finally thinks that it’s time to add this feature to the users of Gmail in India.

    The Gmail editor (composer) much like other editors such as Blogger editor will also have an option to choose the language from the drop down listgmail 5 different indian languages choice (currently five Indian languages Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil are available) to compose mail in that particular language.

    gmail compose in 5 inidc languages -www.techrena.net

    This is a really cool feature for Indian Gmail users and I’m sure they gonna love it.

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