Nokia unveiled the Nokia 5230 149€ touch-screen handset
Posted by Norman John in 5230, Nokia
Just a week before Nokia World in Stuttgart, Nokia have unveiled the 5230. Nokia is offering the mid-tier handset for 149€ (before taxes and subsidies) which is indeed a really attractive price point. Running on S60 5th Edition it features assisted-GPS with Ovi Maps, Nokia’s new Contacts bar on the homescreen, a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 3.2” touch screen. Taking a look at the 5320 some may see the big brother, the 5800. However, the 5230 comes in six color variants: red, pink, blue, yellow, silver, dark silver.
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”
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That picture just looks like a white version of the 5800 (if you ask me)
NO QWERTY keyboard on screen. Its a down feature on this mobile.
Windows mobile users find it difficult pressing the same alphanumeric keypad on screen.
Doesnt make any sense having big screen without qwerty keyboard.
the wide screen though boasted doesnt allow to use more than 320 * 240. Unnecessary buttons occupy the screen while browsing.
Replying a mail would be a tough task on this phat mobile.