Mobile Phones Blog

A post over on the Mobiles.co.uk blog has alerted us to the presence of the forthcoming Nokia 5220 music mobile, a slimline candybar handset that’s part of the Xpress Music range of phones which are focussed primarily on music playing capabilities.

Boasting a mighty 24 hour MP3 playback time on a single battery charge, the 5220 comes with dedicated music keys, and a 3.5mm audio output jack, allowing for a variety of headphones to be used with the phone. Full Bluetooth 2.0 support is included as standard for headset pairing and file swapping, and stereo FM radio is also on board. The handset comes with 30MB of internal memory, but this can be increased with the addition of a microSD memory card, beefing capacity up to 8GB.

Despite coming in a more conventional candybar shape, Nokia haven’t forfeited design and style with the 5220 - as you can see from the pic, its outline conforms to a pleasing, asymmetric, curved shape, and as you can’t see from the pic, the backlights of the handset flash and pulse in time to the rhythms and beats of the song the phone is playing.

As we’ve said, the main focus of the phone is music playback - with this in mind, people should not be so disappointed to learn that the on-board camera is only a mere 2 Megapixel affair. There may be more powerful cameraphones on the market, but how many will be able to match the 5220 in terms of dedication to music playback?

The Nokia 5220 measures up at 108mm x 43.5mm x 10.5mm, weighs in at a very lightweight 78g and is expected to ship sometime during Q3 2008.

The Samsung Soul, featured on our site right now, has already been performing as well as was expected, and is all set to become one of the big sellers this summer. Samsung have just launched a new luxury Silver model of the Soul; this version comes encased in a sexy, highly reflective metallic jacket, and boasts all of the great features of the original (5 Megapixel camera, with autofocus and flash, MP3/WMA/AAC and eAAC+ support, and Bluetooth just for starters).

The powerful handset, which comes with 128MB of onboard memory (microSD expandable) HSDPA browsing, and an innovative touchscreen interface could only really be improved superficially.

The Silver Samsung Soul is currently only available through Mobiles.co.uk, and is available on all the main networks. Interested? Click here for more details.