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Nokia 5630 XpressMusic unveiled
By Mike on 10 February 2009
ESPOO, Finland – Nokia has just revealed the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic handset. In the same vein as it’s 5800 XpressMusic sibling the new Nokia 5630 is far from a conventional music phone – a fully fledged member of the S60 family, this slender smartphone has a host of unlikely talents, such as being the slimmest N-Gage device yet at just 12mm thin.
Read on for details of Nokia’s newest music phone and get the full lowdown on its surprising features.
Of course, Nokia has first ensured that the new 5630 XpressMusic ticks the musical boxes. Comes with Music enabled in selected countries, it’s ready to soak up to 3,000 songs into its slender shell via a 4GB microSD memory card that comes in the box. Likewise, its tuneful talents extend to the ’say and play’ feature (first debuted on the 5320 XpressMusic last year), letting you speak the name of an artist of track to automatically play it. Plus, the Nokia 5630 comes loaded with a 3.5mm headphone connector, stereo Bluetooth, FM stereo and Internet radio to wrap up its music credentials. Now here comes the twist…
Alongside those core talents sit some unusual but welcome suspects on the features front. For starters it’s a full blown S60 device with fast HSDPA connectivity, meaning it’s primed to be loaded with apps and able to exploit many of the best Internet services out there, such as widgets (a la the 5800 and upcoming N97), Ovi Share and Nokia Messaging.
Similarly, it throws N-Gage gaming into the mix – only the second time Nokia’s premium gaming platform has been available on a non Nseries device (the 6210 just got there first). However, at just 12mm slim and weighing only 83g, this makes the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic the slimmest and lightest N-Gage gaming device to date.
Another smart addition is the home screen, which features a new Contacts Bar that has a definite widget feel to it – smartly animated, you can scroll through icons for up to 20 contacts and interact with them directly from the home screen.
It doesn’t shirk its responsibilities imaging wise, delivering digital shots via a 3.2 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash and 4x zoom, and recording video, both of which can be uploaded and shared online via Flickr and Share on Ovi. And this is where another of the 5630’s more subtle skills steps into the limelight – as well as being HSDPA enabled, it’s also HSUPA enabled, meaning it can upload data over your network at speeds of up to 2mbps (following in the footsteps of the 6260 slide, Nokia’s first HSUPA phone last November) and making video and photo sharing on the move a significantly faster and more engaging option.
It will go on sale in selected countries in the second quarter of 2009 for around 199 Euros (before the usual taxes and subsidies).
Click on the gallery thumbnails below to see details photos of the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic up close, and let us know what you think in the comments section.
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Tags | 5630, 6210, N-Gage, N97, Nokia, s60, Widgets, XpressMusic
February 10th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Please tell me you didn’t write Series 60 in the first paragraph… I think a little bit of the S60 marketing team just died (OK, it happens during keynotes to0..).
Other than that looks like a very impressive mid range handset. Some of the extras like HSUPA (back ported from OS 9.5 I guess) and UPnP really make it stand out against its competitors.
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charlie Reply:
February 10th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
@Rafe, Heh, they have to contend with me always saying it. Carita charges me a euro every time I let “Series 60″ slip.
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February 10th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
One key item was forgotten: WLAN
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Anonymous Reply:
March 5th, 2009 at 10:47 am
umm janne, it does have WLAN check the pics
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janne Reply:
March 5th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I know it has WLAN. I meant that WLAN was forgotten to be mentioned in this story.
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Anonymous Reply:
October 23rd, 2009 at 3:56 am
it has WLAN check it on nokia.com
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February 10th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
if you check the specs this is the first non-autofocus camera that has a digital focus
as in its got autofocus but the lens doesnt move, so should be better than a fixed focus and nearing as good as moving lens autofocus
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February 10th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I hear that it offers EDOF (extended depth of focus)… is this a feature from DxO Labs; and if so, will we be seeing Adaptive Lighting and other stuff from there?
Active standby screen is great- LOVE the contacts feature… though the fact that you can have 20 items in there with this FP2 device makes me really wonder even more what they were thinking with the 4 contact items with my 5800. We can’t even have contacts and app shortcuts together on that miserable standby screen- speaking of which, 6 app shortcuts here, and four on the 5800. Seriously? At any rate, I’d love to see a scrolling setup with the app shortcuts like the contact bar- let us define a few more shortcuts.
Overall, pretty sweet release for an XpressMusic device. Really like the EDOF feature, and would like to hear more about it and (hopefully) other camera features.
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charlie Reply:
February 10th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
@PseudoFinn, The 5800 was the first to really use the active contacts. I think the 5630 is the evolution of that.
Hm, I wonder if they can get it into the 5800 with a SW update. Wouldn’t that be sweet? Especially with all that screen space.
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PseudoFinn Reply:
February 10th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
@charlie, Yeah- this new active contact feature would indeed be pretty sweet on the 5800.
Is there someone I can get in contact with to ask some questions about the new EDoF/digital focusing feature?
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February 11th, 2009 at 12:34 am
It should come from Tessera and not DXO
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February 11th, 2009 at 12:38 am
I heard the full focus feature in this model comes from Tessera
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PseudoFinn Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
@Camera Ex., Cool- thanks guys. So are the chances of seeing an OptiML Zoom solution from Tessera in a Nokia handset sometime soon any good? :-0
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February 11th, 2009 at 8:05 am
EDoF (Extended Depth of Field) does Auto Focus “automatically” without that looping back and forth trying to get the focus right. It should be much better than the normal Auto Focus.
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Nokia Mobiles Reply:
February 12th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
@Manu, Can you tell me its availability in India. Thanks in advance
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February 11th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Hi ,
is 5630 being seen as the non-touchscreen successor to the 5800 , as i see that most features are either same or better in 5630
Thoughts ?
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February 12th, 2009 at 3:20 am
Is there any chance that we will see a NAM version of this phone? It happens to have almost exactly the feature set that I am willing to pay for.
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February 12th, 2009 at 9:33 am
hope that they will release another phone with the same specs but better design…love to see a music dedicated phone and a cool camera phone into one with an edgy design…
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February 12th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Will it be available in Hong Kong?
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February 12th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Is there an A-GPS? If not, then why?
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Anonymous Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 11:45 am
@Thomas,
no it has no GPS available in it…!
maybe it’s in mid range of price thats why nokia dosen’t give this feature
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February 13th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Did you try the camera on this thing?! It’s absolutely AMAZING!!! I just upgraded my Sony Ericsson (2 MP) to this one and frankly, I never thought I would get such quality from a cellphone camera.
Way to go Nokia!!
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February 17th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
hey guys did this phone has accelerometer for autorotate?
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Roy Reply:
April 10th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
@jaydatt, no man. this one doesn’t have that, according to it’s specs in nokia.com
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Anonymous Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 11:46 am
@jaydatt,
no it dosn’t have it…!
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February 22nd, 2009 at 7:45 am
i want this mobile as soon as possible when its comes in to indian market.in this price range this is the best mobile i get this is a good apportunity.
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Anonymous Reply:
March 31st, 2009 at 1:01 pm
@kiran,
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Anonymous Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 11:49 am
@kiran,
may be it’ll be available up to August 2009 in indian market
i am also waiting for this
beside late in launching in india
i am also looking other brands who supports
3MP with wifi support
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February 23rd, 2009 at 10:47 am
Btw,that phone has wlan,what you’re talking about..
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Anonymous Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 11:50 am
@Andr31,
yes it does have WLAN support
also it supports 3G with up to 10mbps speed
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February 24th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Will it be available in Pakistan??
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February 25th, 2009 at 1:29 am
plzzz tell me the launch date.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 10:22 am
what is a launching date?
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March 13th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
i am gone have the mobile
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March 14th, 2009 at 4:32 am
availability in india..????????????????????
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jeffery Reply:
May 31st, 2009 at 2:57 pm
@joshu, sometime around june – august
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March 15th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
i’m waiting for this beauty. i dont know how much it will cost but i will get it for sure…
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March 20th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
when will this phone come up in india ?
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March 26th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
when is it available in ireland.i will gef it
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April 8th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
When it will be available in market
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April 13th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Does this Nokia 5630 have WLAN ???
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Xypher Reply:
April 19th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
why is this device tagged as fixed focus all over?
is it a good or bad?
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Debbie Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 6:19 pm
@John, Although not mentioned in the story, on earlier posts it is mentioned that it does in fact have WLAN
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Attte Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 10:06 am
@Yes, it does
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April 21st, 2009 at 6:15 pm
It Is said to be about £175 pounds innit…?
Anyway I can’t wait for this phone to come out, it’s kinda sad ‘cos i would be able to get this unless it’s coming out this week or something. Phone broke and need another one ASAP. Sony Erricsson C902 Anyone? Or Nokia N79?
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April 29th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
can anyone tell me weather nokia 5630 is being released in india or not.
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May 3rd, 2009 at 8:25 am
Can you please tell mw when this Phone will be launched in INDIA?
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May 7th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
it sounds great but i think its design may have a difficult time exceding the market just because the competition for phones out there at the minute is emense but i do like thos phone.
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May 9th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Does have nokia 5630 voice command ??
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Anonymous Reply:
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:47 am
@sajjad, yes it has voice command, i saw it on nokia.com, check the features on nokia.com
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May 14th, 2009 at 9:11 am
when it will available in hyderabad andhra pradesh india
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May 31st, 2009 at 3:00 pm
@aswin, it will cost around Rs.11000 – 13000 max
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June 10th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
how much is it
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June 22nd, 2009 at 9:40 am
when will it be available in philippines pls tell..and how much is it…i can’t w8 to buy it this phone fits to wt i want..hope it will release as soon as possible….tnxxxxxxx
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June 22nd, 2009 at 10:18 am
does it applicable to any universal bluetooth headset?,coz i have one motorola H715 and im using it ryt now on my nokia 6120..im just wonderrin if it is also applicable to 5630..my bluetooth headset will be useless if i buy 5630 and its not fit to use the bluetooth headset..tnsss..hoping someone will reply me…tnnnxxx to alll…
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June 26th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Does it have “auto-focus” ??
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July 2nd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
i love you babydes ko
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July 24th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Does it hav ms office-excel, word etc. Editor or viewer?
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niel Reply:
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:49 am
@Ntarangwi, yes it has,,,check it on nokia.com or watch the features on youtube.
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August 2nd, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Just got this phone! Awesome stuff, but the camera’s a bit lame though. Music quality is great, and it has WILAN!!! Regret getting it in red though
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Deepika Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 6:51 am
@Nani010,
hey from where u gt dis phone i also wana purchase it n hw abt thge camera z it good quality cam.. overall hwz ur xperience wit dis cell plz tell me…
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Anonymous Reply:
August 13th, 2009 at 11:24 am
hey, can u tell me from where did u get this phone? when will it be available in nagpur??
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August 5th, 2009 at 8:57 am
where is ir made?????pls someone reply me….coz if it is made from china i wont gonna buy it anymore..plsss someone reply….
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August 18th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
@niel, No need to worry. Our production and the materials used are of the same high standard for Nokia globally, no matter where the manufacturing is made or the manufacturing unit is located.
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August 19th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
how much the nokia 5630 xpressmusic??
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August 19th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
@yhvi, Around 199 Euros before the usual taxes and subsidies. You better check the price from your local retail or online store.
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August 28th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
when will be available of nokia5630xm plz reply
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August 29th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
when this handset will be launched in india?? please specify.. i am waitinn 4 this phone till 5 months.
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August 29th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
when this handset will be launched in india?? please specify.. i am waiting 4 this phone till 5 months.
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September 11th, 2009 at 9:00 am
hiiiiiiii i want to know,
when this mob is going to launch in india??????
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October 1st, 2009 at 2:44 pm
when will be 5630 available in india ???????
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October 31st, 2009 at 11:01 am
I bought this phone 2 weeks ago. The cam now is not working. Any suggestions?
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November 9th, 2009 at 4:57 am
hey, friends when will be it releasing in India? i’m waiting for this phone since feb. will it come in this year? unless I will buy a sony ericson phone.
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