First Look: Nokia X5
Nokia never fails to show off their new phone in their Nokia Connection event held in Singapore. Last year, they unveiled the E72 to the world for the first time. This year, Nokia unveiled the Nokia X5. Again, Singapore media (together with regional media) are the first in the world to see the latest Nokia product.
The Nokia X5 is rather interesting. I managed to play with it for 5 to 10 minutes. It’s a square-ish slider phone. I don’t remember seeing any phones with this shape. It’s a 2.36″ QVGA screen with up to 262k colors (320×240). And surprisingly, it felt pretty comfortable when I held it. 7.43 x 6.64 x 1.68 cm and 129 grams. Keyboard is wide and generous. Very comfortable to type. I certainly don’t mind chatting with that keyboard.
The Nokia X5 is targeted at the trendy youth. It has easy access to the major social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Hi5 and MySpace. It’s available in Pink, Azure, Graphite Black, Yellow Green and Purple colour which I think the youth will like. There are some gimmicky features like shaking the phone to find out the number of unread message. Or spin the phone when music is playing to jump to a random track. Sounds like a cool feature to have, but I’m not sure how practical is that.
And although the Nokia X5 seems to be targeted at the youth, it comes with a metallic body and keyboard which reminds me of phones targeted at the working professionals. In fact, if you choose Graphite Black colour, it might pass off as a professional looking phone (Just don’t shake the phone to find out how many unread message you have). Which I guess isn’t anything bad. After all, youth do grow up and become working adults right?
Oh, in case you are still wondering, the Nokia X5 is running on Symbian S60. It has WIFI and Bluetooth. There is no mention of GPS and Digital compass, so I’ll assume there isn’t any for now. 200 MB internal memory and supports up to 32GB microSD card. 5 megapixel camera. Charging and data transfer is thru a MicroUSB port. The review unit that I’m playing with comes with a rubber thumb ring for me to wear so that the X5 won’t fall off my hands if someone knocks me. The Nokia representative I spoke to said that they are still considering if they want to include the rubber thumb ring in the retail package. If you ask me, I’ll definitely say yes. It’s pretty cool to wear that.
The Nokia X5 will be available in Q3 2010.
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How is the sms like? Is it like the iphone which have a full history, or it’s just like those normal sms?
Xinyi: Sorry, I don’t remember the SMS portion. But if I’m not wrong, it is the same as all Symbian phone. Which means no threaded conversation like iPhone.
But I cannot be 100% sure. So it’s best you check before buying.
Xinyi: Just found out that there is no threaded conversation for SMS. It’s the traditional everything in the same inbox sorted by date SMS received format.