Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Comes With Music
After the launching of iPhone 3G recently followed by the announcement of Google T-Mobile G1 soon to be release on October 22, 2008… Nokia had announced Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, an every inch rival of the first two handheld touchscreen devices.
Its been a year of waiting and thinking of a better smartphone that suits my needs. I don’t have any second thoughts now, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is made for my needs. I loved Nokia because of its user friendly interface, in fact I haven’t used any brand at all except Nokia.
Here’s some of technical specifications.
Weight: 109 g
Memory: 81MB internal memory, 8GB MicroSD expandable up to 16GB
Screen: 640 x 360 pixel, 3.2″ touch display
Input methods: Stylus, plectrum and finger touch support
- Alphanumeric keypad, full and mini QWERTY keyboards
- Handwriting recognition
Music Player: Stereo speaker with surround sound and hi-fi sound quality
Camera: 3.2 megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels)
Video: Recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps (TV quality)
- Clip length 90 minutes (with available memory)
- Front camera for video calls
Symbian: S60 5th Edition, Symbian OS version 9.4
Operating Frequency:
- WCDMA 900/2100
- GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
- WCDMA 850/1900 (Latin America and Brazil variant only)
- Automatic switching between GSM bands
Power: BL-5J 1320 mAh Li-lon battery
- Talk time: GSM 8.8 h / WCDMA 5 h
- Standby time: GSM 406.2 h / WCDMA 400 h
- Music playback time: 35 h
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic featuring Comes With Music will be available early next year.
Back Up Your Contacts
Need to transfer your contacts from one mobile phone to another? Most of the time, I’ve encountered people saying that they’ve accidentally deleted an important contact or in some way they’ve lost their contacts. It made me wonder, they’re using a 3G phone or maybe a symbian 60 phone and yet they haven’t heard of this mobile application.
We cannot use mobile as a form of communication if we don’t have contacts on our phone book, right? Just like our mobile files, we also need to back them up. Contacts are more important than our files, copying them on our sim card wasn’t enough. Sim cards have limited memory.
This application wasn’t new to me, I’ve been using this mobile application for a long time and haven’t found any application better than this one. Backup Contacts v1.10 is a freeware and long time available in the market.
Import All – retrieve contacts from your backup file
Export All – back up your entire contacts to a file
Import Sel - retrieve a selected contact
Export Sel – back up a selected contact
Receiv File – receive file via bluetooth
Send File – send backup file via bluetoothHow to back up contacts:
- Open Bkup Contacts, click “export All”
- Choose “to Local File”, choose the drive or directory you want the file to be saved. I save them both on memory card and phone memory.
- Type the filename, click ok.
- If you open your file manager or FExplorer, you already have your backup named as “yourchosenbackupname.vcf”
Download: Backup Contacts v1.10
Compatible Devices:
Nokia N-Gage QD, Nokia N-Gage, 3230, 3600, 3620, 3650, 3660, 6260, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6681, 7610, 7650, N70 and other nokia s60 phones.
What’s Your Mobile Requirements?
When we’re on the lookout for a new cellphone, we have certain requirements before deciding which brand and model we buy. And that requirements depends on our needs, lifestyle, hobbies, etc. Before going to cellphone shop, it is better that we take a look first the specification of mobile phones on the web before going to see the actial phone units. These are the things I consider:
- Internal or cellphone memory size – the flash memory or the internal memory divided into two parts. The operating system and the user data. The larger the flash memory size, the better. I love browsing the web using Opera, I need large RAM in doing so.
- Multimedia Card or MMC capacity – this is the extended memory of the phone. Some mobile phones doesn’t have or require MMC for many reasons.
- Built-in camera megapixel – usually, older mobile models have lower camera megapixel. I seldom use the built-in camera but when I use it I want quality pictures since I don’t usually bring my digicam.
- Built-in application – most of the sites I browsed doesn’t include the details of the built-in application installed on the unit. I asked for brochures or flyers in the cellphone shops to know these things. (eg. radio, MP3 player)
- OS or Operating System – this is the most important thing you shouldn’t miss!
Exploring N6300
My cousin who happened to be also my dentist asked me a favor yesterday. I’ve always gave her a helping hand on mobile phones especially if its a symbian phone.
Her new unit now is Nokia 6300, a S40 3G. She get rid of her nokia s60 after getting a virus through mms. I helped her removed the virus but she simply don’t like the idea of mobile viruses. Well, I told her the good news that virus is impossible to her new phone since it is a S40. I didn’t suggested her to buy this unit, but I think she fell in love with its slim feature. I do, my 6630 is too bulky compared to her unit. A FM radio and mp3 player are plus factor to her. I forgot to try the FM Radio. For her, mobile phone is also for entertainment.
All along she always heard me saying “maximize the capability of mobile phone by installing application suited to the user’s needs.” She bought a new 1GB MMC, so, she asked for audio files, themes, games, applications and some eBooks. I made her left her unit to me for 6 hours.
Yup! It took me 6 hours… ripping and converting her favorite 8 CDs to mp3 files, 40 kbit/s… gathering the themes from the net. Its amusing to know that the extension name for 6300 theme is nth. I’m quite new to this kind of format. I’ve converted some eBook java format, gave her some games and application. For the record, I didn’t use PC Suite.
Which s60 Are You?
Sometimes, mobile applications have different versions categorized for different symbian series. Some got confused on which their mobile phone belong and trying different application version that will work. Does it have to be always a ”trial and error”?
The S60 Platform (formerly Series 60 User Interface) is a software platform for mobile phones that uses Symbian OS. S60 is currently amongst the leading smartphone platforms in the world.
These are a few common features in S60:
- Devices’ display resolution is originally 176×208. Since 2nd Edition Feature Pack 3, S60 supports multiple resolutions, i.e. Basic (176×208), QVGA (240×320) and Double (352×416). Nokia N90 is the first S60 device that supports higher resolution (352×416). Some devices, however, have non-standard resolutions, like the Siemens SX1, with 176×220. Nokia 5500 has a 208×208 screen resolution.
- It supports Java (J2ME MIDP 2.0 commonly, but varies from phone to phone.) applications and Symbian C++ applications.
- Certain buttons are standardized, such as left and right select, Menu, Clear, and Input Settings.
There have been three releases of S60: “Series 60″, “Series 60 Second Edition” and “Series 60 3rd Edition”.
- S60 First Edition:
Nokia N-Gage, N-Gage QD, 3650, 3660, 7650*, 3260, 3600, Siemens SX1
- S60 Second Edition:
Nokia 6600, 6620, 7610, 6260, 6630, 6670, 3230, 6680, 6681, 6682, N90, N70, N72
Lenovo P930
Panasonic X700, Panasonic X800
Samsung SGH Z600, Samsung SGH D730, Samsung SGH D720
- S60 Third Edition:
LG KS10
Nokia E51, N95 8gb, N81, N81 8gb, 6121, 6120, 5700, N77, E90, E61i, E65, 6110 Navigator, N93i, N76, 6290, N75, N95, E62, E50, 5500 Sport, N73, N93, N92, N71, N80, E70, E61, E60, 3250, N91
Samsung SGH-i560, SGH-i550, SGH-i450, SGH-i400, SGH-i520
*no memory card slot
