After several weeks, Nokia has finally released the highly-anticipated v40.2.005 firmware update for the North American 3G variant of the popular 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen smartphone. This update is rather huge, and brings a number of features that should have been on the 5800 XpressMusic to begin with. You’ll be pleased to find kinetic scrolling throughout [...]
I realize it’s a bit late, but I’ve been spending some quality time with Mrs. Guru and our families for the past couple of days, celebrating the holidays. It’s been an awesome year here at Symbian-Guru, and we’re way thankful that you guys and girls have kept coming back to the site day after day. [...]
Now that we’ve covered the hardware of the 5530 XpressMusic, which is surprisingly good, considering its budget-oriented target market, I want to take a look at the software side of things. This, in my opinion, is where the 5530 XpressMusic really shines, specifically in Nokia’s current touchscreen smartphone lineup. System The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, on [...]
I’ve shared the top 5 things I love and hate about this little bitty touchscreen smartphone, so now it’s time to dig right in with the full review. We’ll start with hardware today, and move to the software tomorrow. It’s no secret that the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is a budget-oriented smartphone, but does that mean [...]
When the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic was first unwrapped, I thought it was lame. Who on earth would want a touchscreen smartphone with no 3G and no built-in GPS receiver? When I received the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, then, and unboxed it for myself, I was pleasantly surprised. Of course, those two crucial (for me) features are [...]
The Nokia X6 touchscreen musicphone is a Symbian-powered handset which sets focus on media and especially music. Being the newest big brother of music handsets such as the 5230 XpressMusic it features more advanced means to play music. One of the features that was highlighted was the Playlist DJ which lets you create playlist based [...]
The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic which was unwrapped rather than announced the usual way has now hit the FCC. This handset features kinetic scrolling, a new widget for music playback on the homescreen and a virtual qwerty keyboard for text input, as well as the full Symbian S60 5th Edition software. It’s a quadband handset, with [...]
Last time we posted something about a new Python version, was when the version 1.9.4 was released. Another update have now surfaced bringing the Python version up to 1.9.6. Following the same trend, it moves towards richer functions and support for handsets like the N97, 5800 XpressMusic and it’s little sibling the 5530 XpressMusic. Some [...]
Many of you have asked about my statement that the N97 produces better sound than the 5800 XpressMusic, specifically when listening to music through the built-in stereo speakers. As promised, I’ve put together a video that will hopefully give a bit more proof behind my statements. For the video, I recorded it using my Nokia [...]
