XpressMusic
Encyclopedia
XpressMusic is a brand name
for a line of Nokia
phones that are specially designed for music playback.
All of Nokia's
XpressMusic come with expandable MicroSD memory slots, so these phones can also be used as MP3 players.
The XpressMusic range of phones was launched to compete with the Walkman brand series of Sony Ericsson
.
In September 2009, Nokia announced the X3-00 and X6
. The new Xseries will replace the XpressMusic brand which has been applied to 5000 series models (except the first).
XpressMusic phones, first the 5610 and later the 5320, which included HSDPA. The lineup also added support for MicroSDHC, allowing cards larger than 2GiB.
) to use the new touch-based S60 5th edition, likely designed as a response to the increasing popularity of Apple's iPhone
. And apart from the 5130, the rest of the lineup are 3G phones running S60.
Brand
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for a line of Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
phones that are specially designed for music playback.
All of Nokia's
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
XpressMusic come with expandable MicroSD memory slots, so these phones can also be used as MP3 players.
The XpressMusic range of phones was launched to compete with the Walkman brand series of Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB is a joint venture established on October 1, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to manufacture mobile phones....
.
In September 2009, Nokia announced the X3-00 and X6
Nokia X6
The Nokia X6 is a music-oriented capacitive touchscreen smartphone and portable entertainment device by Nokia. It was announced in early September 2009 during Nokia World 2009 in Germany.The X6 replaces the Nokia 5800 as Nokia's flagship music-centred model...
. The new Xseries will replace the XpressMusic brand which has been applied to 5000 series models (except the first).
2006
The 2006 lineup consists of just one phone, the 3250. It has a unique form factor where the bottom part containing the keypad twists, exposing the camera on the side, and dedicated music controls on the reverse. The twisting action activates different modes in the software - music player for when the music controls are facing the user, or the photo/video recorder when the camera is facing either forward or to the user.Model | Announced date | Platform | Form factor | Screen | Networks | Memory card (max size) |
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3250 Nokia 3250 The Nokia 3250 is a cellular phone which features a unique 'twist' design that transforms the traditional phone keypad into a camera and dedicated music control keys . It can store up to 2 gigabytes of music and other data thanks to a microSD memory card slot, and features a two-megapixel camera... |
S60 S60 (software platform) The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic... 3rd Edition |
Candybar (Keypad twists) |
176 × 208 (18-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... |
MicroSD (2 GiB) |
2007
In 2007 Nokia added the almost identical 5200 and 5300 sliders. They later added the 5700, using a twisting keypad like the 3250.Model | Announced date | Platform | Form factor | Screen | Networks | Memory card (max size) |
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5200 Nokia 5200 The Nokia 5200 is a Nokia Series 40 mobile phone manufactured by Nokia. It's less featured than its counter-part, the Nokia 5300.-5200/5300 Differences:... |
S40 3rd Ed., FP 2 | Slider | 128 × 160 (18-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... |
MicroSD (2 GiB) |
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5300 Nokia 5300 Nokia 5300 XpressMusic is a Nokia Series 40 3rd Edition FP2 mobile phone by Nokia. It was launched in the third quarter of 2006. Nokia 5300 is the most popular and many units sold in all XpressMusic phones, and among one of the most favorite Nokia unit phones.... |
S40 3rd Ed., FP 2 | Slider | 240 × 320 (18-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... |
MicroSD (2 GiB) |
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5700 | S60 S60 (software platform) The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic... 3rd Ed., FP 1 |
Candybar (Keypad twists) |
240 × 320 (24-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... |
MicroSD (2 GiB) |
2008
The 2008 lineup saw the first 3G3G
3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...
XpressMusic phones, first the 5610 and later the 5320, which included HSDPA. The lineup also added support for MicroSDHC, allowing cards larger than 2GiB.
Model | Announced date | Platform | Form factor | Screen | Networks | Memory card (max size) |
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5310 Nokia 5310 The Nokia 5310 is an XpressMusic mobile phone, released in the fourth quarter of 2007. It is less than a centimeter thick and is available with blue, red, purple, pink, orange, silver or black trim, the main body also being available in grey, black or white. It is currently available in the U.S... |
S40 5th Ed., FP 1 | Candybar | 240 × 320 (24-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... |
MicroSDHC (32 GiB) |
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5610 | S40 5th Ed., FP 1 | Slider | 240 × 320 (24-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... ; W-CDMA W-CDMA (UMTS) W-CDMA , UMTS-FDD, UTRA-FDD, or IMT-2000 CDMA Direct Spread is an air interface standard found in 3G mobile telecommunications networks. It is the basis of Japan's NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service and the most-commonly used member of the UMTS family and sometimes used as a synonym for UMTS... |
MicroSDHC (4 GiB) |
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5220 Nokia 5220 The Nokia 5220 XpressMusic is a mobile telephone handset Nokia released in Q3 2008. Its design features an unusual asymmetric shape.- Specifications :- External links :* *... |
S40 5th Ed., FP 1 | Candybar | 240 × 320 (18-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... |
MicroSDHC (8 GiB) |
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5320 Nokia 5320 XpressMusic The Nokia 5320 Xpress Music is a Symbian OS S60 smartphone, released by Nokia in 2008 as a part of their XpressMusic line of portable devices. The phone has a rugged candybar body with outlined keypads. It emphasizes music and multimedia playback... |
S60 S60 (software platform) The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic... 3rd Ed., FP 2 |
Candybar | 240 × 320 (24-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... ; W-CDMA W-CDMA (UMTS) W-CDMA , UMTS-FDD, UTRA-FDD, or IMT-2000 CDMA Direct Spread is an air interface standard found in 3G mobile telecommunications networks. It is the basis of Japan's NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service and the most-commonly used member of the UMTS family and sometimes used as a synonym for UMTS... / HSDPA High-Speed Downlink Packet Access High-Speed Downlink Packet Access is an enhanced 3G mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access family, also dubbed 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity... |
MicroSDHC (16 GiB) |
2009
The 2009 lineup started with the 5800, one of two new phones (the other being the N97Nokia N97
Nokia N97 is a touch screen mobile phone in the Nseries of smartphones by Nokia, with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard...
) to use the new touch-based S60 5th edition, likely designed as a response to the increasing popularity of Apple's iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
. And apart from the 5130, the rest of the lineup are 3G phones running S60.
Model | Announced date | Platform | Form factor | Input | Screen | Networks | Memory card (max size) |
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5800 | S60 S60 (software platform) The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic... 5th Edition |
Slate | Touch | 360 × 640 (24-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... ; W-CDMA W-CDMA (UMTS) W-CDMA , UMTS-FDD, UTRA-FDD, or IMT-2000 CDMA Direct Spread is an air interface standard found in 3G mobile telecommunications networks. It is the basis of Japan's NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service and the most-commonly used member of the UMTS family and sometimes used as a synonym for UMTS... / HSDPA High-Speed Downlink Packet Access High-Speed Downlink Packet Access is an enhanced 3G mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access family, also dubbed 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity... ; Wi-Fi Wi-Fi Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20... |
MicroSDHC (16 GiB) |
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5130 Nokia 5130 Nokia 5130 XpressMusic is one of Nokia's mobile phones in the series of XpressMusic. Nokia 5130 is manufactured in Romania and it is a Java MIDP 2.0 enabled phone with Flash Lite 3.0. It also has a music player which supports the formats MP3, AAC, WMA, etc. For Internet access it has the Opera Mini... |
S40 5th Ed., FP 1 | Candybar | Keypad | 240 × 320 (18-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... |
MicroSDHC (16 GiB) |
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5630 Nokia 5630 XpressMusic The Nokia 5630 XpressMusic is a multimedia and music-dedicated smartphone announced in March and released in May 2009.-External links:* *... |
S60 S60 (software platform) The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic... 3rd Ed., FP 2 |
Candybar | Keypad | 240 × 320 (24-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... ; W-CDMA W-CDMA (UMTS) W-CDMA , UMTS-FDD, UTRA-FDD, or IMT-2000 CDMA Direct Spread is an air interface standard found in 3G mobile telecommunications networks. It is the basis of Japan's NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service and the most-commonly used member of the UMTS family and sometimes used as a synonym for UMTS... / HSDPA High-Speed Downlink Packet Access High-Speed Downlink Packet Access is an enhanced 3G mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access family, also dubbed 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity... / HSUPA High-Speed Uplink Packet Access High-Speed Uplink Packet Access is a 3G mobile telephony protocol in the HSPA family with up-link speeds up to 5.76 Mbit/s. The name HSUPA was created by Nokia... ; Wi-Fi Wi-Fi Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20... |
MicroSDHC (16 GiB) |
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5730 Nokia 5730 XpressMusic The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is a multimedia and music-dedicated sliding smartphone announced in March and released in June 2009. Its features include a full backlit slide-out QWERTY keyboard, dedicated camera, volume, gaming and music keys as well as Wi-Fi connectivity and a basic accelerometer... |
S60 S60 (software platform) The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic... 3rd Ed., FP 2 |
Slider | Keypad, QWERTY QWERTY QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout. The name comes from the first six letters appearing in the topleft letter row of the keyboard, read left to right: Q-W-E-R-T-Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in the... keyboard |
240 × 320 (24-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... ; W-CDMA W-CDMA (UMTS) W-CDMA , UMTS-FDD, UTRA-FDD, or IMT-2000 CDMA Direct Spread is an air interface standard found in 3G mobile telecommunications networks. It is the basis of Japan's NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service and the most-commonly used member of the UMTS family and sometimes used as a synonym for UMTS... / HSDPA High-Speed Downlink Packet Access High-Speed Downlink Packet Access is an enhanced 3G mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access family, also dubbed 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity... / HSUPA High-Speed Uplink Packet Access High-Speed Uplink Packet Access is a 3G mobile telephony protocol in the HSPA family with up-link speeds up to 5.76 Mbit/s. The name HSUPA was created by Nokia... ; Wi-Fi Wi-Fi Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20... |
MicroSDHC (32 GiB) |
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5530 Nokia 5530 The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is a smartphone by Nokia. Part of the XpressMusic series of phones, it emphasizes music and multimedia playback. It is Nokia's third touchscreen phone based on the Symbian OS S60 5th edition platform.... |
S60 S60 (software platform) The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic... 5th Edition |
Slate | Touch | 360 × 640 (24-bit) |
GSM / (E)GPRS General Packet Radio Service General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode... ; Wi-Fi Wi-Fi Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20... |
MicroSDHC (16 GiB) |