Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Announced

Nokia’s third phone announcement of the day involves the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic. This is the first music-oriented phone from Nokia to offer a sideways-sliding QWERTY keyboard, which should suit text message junkies just fine. Improvements in this phone include the contacts bar which now houses 20 contacts, N-Gage, applications such as Facebook, Photos, Ovi Contacts, Maps, messaging and more. The Nokia 5730 will be shipping around Q3 of 2009 and will retail for about 280 Euros. Features of the device include:

• Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900,WCDMA 900/1900/2100
• User Interface: S60
• Dimensions: 112 x 51 x 15,4 mm (L x W x T)
• Weight: 135 g
• Display: 2.4 inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) with up to 16 million colors
• Battery: Nokia Battery BL-4U,1000mAh Lion
• Memory: up to 100 MB internal memory, support for up to 16GB microSD memory card
• Talk time: Up to 5 hours
• Standby time: Up to 300 hours
• Music playback: Up to 25hours
• HSDPA cat6 (max download 3,6 Mbps)
• GSM GPRS/EGPRS multi slot class 32, max download 296 kbps; upload 177,6 kbps
• WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g with UPnP support
• MicroUSB, 3.5 mm AV connector
• Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0 with A2DP & AVRCP
• FM stereo radio with RDS
• 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and 8x digital zoom with flash
• Secondary camera, VGA