subject: Nokia X5 A Social Messaging Centre With Awesome Audio Entertainment [print this page] The Nokia X5 mobile phone is the newest addition to the Finnish companys X Series product line. The X5 bears the quirkiness in design typically found in some mobile devices rolling out of the Nokia assembly line.
Coming in a variety of vibrant colours, the phone is designed to appeal to the youth market, particularly to those teens who dont want or cant afford to buy a high-end touchscreen smartphone.
Tapping the youth market
Nearly square in its packaging and with the screen in constant view, this unusually designed mobile handset has a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard for effortless text entry as well as a 5 digital megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and an LED flash. The X5 was designed to narrow down the gap between the X3 and the X6.
Patterned after todays new breed of mobile mobile devices, the new X5 has a heavy slant towards the capability to deliver awesome audio as well as tight integration to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Hi5 and Twitter. The Nokia X5 is equipped with an all-round multimedia player which can support all major audio and video formats, plus a 3.5 headphone jack and speakerphones for enhanced audio entertainment.
Geared for sound quality
The X5 runs Symbian S60 3rd Edition and is and powered by a 600 MHz ARM 11 mobile processor. It comes equipped with a 2.36-inch TFT screen, a 5 megapixel camera and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, all combined in a bright-coloured albeit unusually designed case.
Measuring 74.3 x 66.4 x 16.8 mm with a weight of 129 g, the X5 boasts superb audio clarity, dedicated music keys and allows access to download apps and software from the Ovi store.
The handsets got quad-band GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz connectivity on 2G as well as tri-band HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 MHz 3G connection for global roaming. Additional connectivity is provided by Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, microUSB and a built-in 3.5 mm headphone jack.
Music entertainment on the Nokia X5 becomes more enjoyable with the addition of clever device gestures. For one, you can change music track just by spinning the phone.
Office in a box
The handset has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard behind the dash, easily accessible for fast tweets, text messages and status updates. The X5 works well with all the popular IM and webmail services and enables fast access to the leading social networking websites and other online services.
More work can be done even when out of the workplace through the devices business applications which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF document viewer, as well as an Organiser and Voice Memo.
The Nokia X5-01 comes with a BL-5F 950 mAh battery which can generate enough power for 3 1/2 hours of talk time on 3G, up to 16 days of standby time and 24 hours of uninterrupted music playback. The handset can be purchased in a variety of vibrant colours which include Yellow Green, Azure, Pink, Graphite Black and Purple.
