The Nokia 5630 (specs) can easily be mistaken for a typical slim music phone, but hardware-wise it's actually one of the most capable smartphones to date. It simply gives a taste of Nokia's intention of making Symbian an operating system for mass market phones. Of course, now that we're waiting for the Samsung S8300 to hit store shelves, it would have been cool if the Nokia 5630 actually was a slider version of the Nokia 5800 touchscreen phone.
Oh well, the Nokia 5630 will at least be among the first phones to offer voice control based on Nuance's NVC 2.0 voice recognition engine. Although the NVC 2.0 engine enables features such as voice-controlled SMS dictation, free-form Web search and GPS navigation, the Nokia 5630 will offer music search specifically. Dubbed "Say and Play", this music search will let users say the name of an artist or song to automatically play it. Further optimized for music, the Nokia 5630 sports a 3.5mm headphone jack, dedicated music keys and a 4GB microSD card will be bundled in the sales package.
If you have a thing for theoretical data speeds, and live in Europe, the Nokia 5630 will likely not disappoint either. In addition to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, it supports 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2.0 Mbps HSUPA networks. Other key features include the Nokia Web browser (with support for YouTube videos), Real Player, N-Gage, Nokia Maps, Nokia Music, Mail for Exchange, Windows Live and a range of Ovi cloud services such as personal e-mail, contacts, files and share.
When it comes to imaging, the Nokia 5630 boasts a "Full Focus Camera", promising enhanced Depth of Field so the entire image stays in focus, subsequently aiming to let users capture spontaneous moments quicker. The camera also supports VGA video recording at 15 fps. Additionally, a front-faced QCIF camera has been incorporated for video calling.
The Nokia 5630 XpressMusic will be released in Q2 2009, and will cost approximately 200 EUR. There's no word on an American version at the time of writing, which likely means there will be none.
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