Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
The 5530 can be regarded as a stripped-down version of the 5800. The 5530 is more compact, with a smaller screen, no 3G, no Carl Zeiss optics in the camera, and costs about £50 less than the 5800. Alternatively, you can look at the 5530 as a souped-up Cookie / Tocco Lite. The 5530 has a higher resolution screen, a flash on the camera, WiFi, a 3.5mm audio jack, and costs about £70 more than the Cookie or the Tocco Lite on Pay as you Go. You can see that the 5530 is positioned right in the middle ground, both in terms of features and price.
So much for comparisons with other phones, let's take a good look at the 5530 in its own right. The first thing to say is that Nokia's implementation of a touchscreen interface is very good. You can use the 5530 either with your fingers, or with the stylus provided. Either way, it's responsive and easy to use. The display is a good size, at 2.9 inches, and has a phenomenally high resolution of 640 x 320 pixels and 16 million colours, making it easily the best screen in its class.
And when you're talking touchscreen, the quality of the screen really matters! The home screen is customisable, giving one-touch access to Facebook, emails, music, etc. The new Contacts Bar is also quite fun, letting you put your 20 best friends & family on the home screen. We also need to mention that the screen auto rotates when you turn the phone on its side.
In portrait mode you can enter numbers and text using a virtual alphanumeric keypad with predictive text or regular text input. In landscape mode, a full QWERTY keypad becomes available, which is ideal for people like us who like to use punctuation in their text messages! Watch the demo video below for more.
Sony Ericsson X10
Coming Soon - April 2010
The incredible Sony Ericsson X10 is powered by Android™. So it's easy to sync with your Google™ account - and with Picasa™, Google's popular photo sharing site.
It's a looker too, with a huge four inch touchscreen that'll blow you away. Switch fast to widescreen by turning the X10 on its side. Then enjoy movies and the web in stunning definition - as well as photos taken with its 8.1 megapixel camera.
Want great apps for your X10? Choose from hundreds at the online Android market. Get everything from the latest sports, news or weather updates to favourites like Last.fm and Facebook.
Sony Ericsson Vivaz
Users can now pre-order the handset - whose older brother the Vivaz Pro was announced just last week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
Vodafone is offering the handset for free on 18-month contracts with 600 and 900 minutes for £35 and £40 a month respectively.
The Vivaz was first announced as part of Sony's new communications entertainment family - which includes the X10 - last month. It features an 8.1 megapixel camera, autofocus and video recording capabilities among other multimedia features.
“User-generated content, especially video, is exploding on the web,” Lennard Hoornik, head of marketing at Sony Ericsson, said in a statement at the time.
“With Sony Ericsson Vivaz, we have created a mobile phone that makes it easy to catch life in high quality video and upload that self expression onto the web to share with the world. Sony Ericsson Vivaz offers beauty inside and out with an open and intuitive user experience allowing consumers to capture, view and share their lives and spontaneity in HD quality.”