Nokia injects ‘fashion’ into global CDMA range of handsets

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Friday, 30 March 2007 13:17

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In other Nokia news, they have also launched two other GSM handsets, one offering 3G, mp3 and swiveling camera capabilities, while the other is more of a budget handset with emphasis on voice features.

Nokia’s 3G enabled 5700 XpressMusic features the swiveling camera design seen in a previous Nokia model, with the camera able to be swiveled to the front for use as a 3G videophone camera. The lower swiveling part of the phone also features a traditional phone keypad on the front, that 2 megapixel camera on an edge, and music control keys on the back. Naturally the camera can also be used to record video as is common today.

The phone also supports a range of audio codecs including WMA, MP3, AAC, as well as eAAC+ and MP4 for video. It supports Bluetooth stereo audio streaming, Windows Media DRM, album art, playlists, has a 5-band equalizer and offers a range of iTunes like visualizations and can support MicroSD cards up to 2Gb in size.

This swivel phone should appeal to youngsters, especially now that it supports 3G and Bluetooth stereo streaming. It’s expected to retail for an estimated EUR 350 before taxes and subsidies during the second quarter of 2007.
 
The final new phone from Nokia is the 5070. Designed for ‘young consumers’, Nokia says that it has “strong messaging, leisure and personalization features [and] has everything that the mobile social set needs”.

It’s a 2G phone, so no video calls, but has an FM radio, the now-standard wired stereo headset, the ability to send voice messages using Nokia’s “Xpress Audio Messaging” and take photos with the included camera.

A range of Java-based games are included, although only Sudoku is mentioned in the press release, while a mobile web browser is included as standard, as you’d expect on just about any mobile phone sold today.

Nokia says the 5070 has talk time up to 3.5 hours, standby time of up to 12 days and comes in red or blue. It’ll be available in the second quarter of 2007 with an estimated retail price of EUR 100 excluding taxes and subsidies.