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Nokia 5530 Review
Unboxing 5530
The best feature of the phone starts from the box itself, the box comes in bubbly
colors of flavors. The colors give us a unique feel, of a music edition phone. After the colorful welcoming, look the phone is unveiled on unpacking the box. The box also has the usual commodities of the phone like charger, USB cable, 4GB micro SD, and an extra stylus.
Design and Construction
The best feature of the phone is the fact the phone is a complete touch-based device. The 16:9, is an excellent aspect ratio, that offers the best video resolution one can view. The touchscreen on the other hand, is recessed into frames, and is perfectly blend to balance the touch on the sides of the phone, too. The phone is available in different flavors of colors like – Red on black, Blue on white, Grey on black, Pink on white, and Yellow on white. The pink version will have a dotted pattern the others lack.
The keys could have been evenly distributed, because from left to right you can observe the charger plug, the 3.5 mm audio jack and the microUSB port. The other biggest dis-advantage is, the device doesn’t get charged with the microUSB. The right side has the volume rocker, screen lock and the camera button.
The right side holds the compartment for placing your SIM, nevertheless, the back cover must be opened to insert the SIM. Opening the back cover reveals the LI-Ion battery, beneath which is the compartment to place your SIM.
Mixed Bag Screen.
5530 comes with a 2.9 “display size. When compared to its big brother, 5800, 5530 is truly smaller in size, and the letters appear pretty smaller. It is of course a brave attempt of Nokia, to try to reproduce the same effect of 5800, on a smaller screen. The touch-based screen is of course demanding a little more pressure, that its counter parts like Samsung and Apple. The stylus effect on the phone is brilliant.
But, using your fingers to input is not only an individual effect to your fingers but also, makes you forget your stylus. But an issue being, the display under sunlight is thoroughly bad and requires lots of improvement over this area.
Matured User Interface.
Though the 5530, is a budget version of 5800, Nokia has compromised to give all iits loyal buyers, reasonable features of 5800. infact the features available to 5530, makes its users feel that these features would have also, much suited 5800. The best thing about the user interface is the support for kinetic scrolling that is available through-out. Also, the finger quality has been greatly improved.
A better improvement in the user interface feature, is the fact that the contacts can also be scrolled sideways, making more details available to us. One thing that all of us will have to mind about the phone is that every opening folder is associated with two actions, one being the folder has to be highlighted and second being confirmation of the action.
Missing smart dial functionality
The features and improvements implemented in 5530, truly makes it stand apart from 5800, so does the dis-advantage of missing smart dial functionality. Voice dialing is yet another feature that is activated by simply holding the “Call Key”, and the best part is that it doesn’t require speakers and doesn’t need any pre-recording.
Built-in accelerometer is a great piece of drive, and helps to manipulate the screen along the direction the user is holding the screen. The audio speaker quality test values are listed below
Voice, dBPink noise/ Music, dBRinging phone, dBOverall score
70.6 69.7 75.7 Good
The touch-based messaging feature is also, good and the user can input in either alpha-numeric way or the traditional QWERTY way. Messaging is not just confined to text but also, includes a special editor that can handle, audio messaging, too. Below is the result of stereo cross read talking.
Frequency Noise level Dynamic range THD IMD + Noise Stereo
+0.11 -0.84 -90.9 90.8 0.010 0.454
Crosstalk Nokia
-90.6
Being a descendant of 5800, the video player is truly disappointing. While, the image gallery is very similar to that of 5800. Images can be sorted by any attributes like date, time, size. You can send them as a MMS. The photo can be zoomed in and out, but the camera quality is actually very uninspiring – 3.15 Megapixel. All settings are available along with the main menu except, for flash settings.
Music player reminds us of the traditional S60 3rd edition versions and assuredly needing a better look. The music player comes with all built in facilities and functionalities that are more than enough. The music library is automatically sorted by artist, album, genre and composer and searching tracks by gradual typing is available.