Nokia 5530 XM – The Soft Side
Although Nokia5530 XM is smaller in size as compared to it’s elder sibling Nokia 5800 XM , it brings the new meaning to Good Things Comes In Small Packages.
Although the base of 5530 and 5800 are same i.e Series 60 v5 and when OVI Store is connected on Nokia 5530 XM it’s recognized as 5800 XM still in functionality Nokia has brought it one step further with User Interface Enhancements .
One of the greatest improvements over the Flagship N97 is that 5530 has above 70mb of User available memory unlike 50mb on N97 causing it to hang.
Press the Menu Key and it will be like Broadway curtains are splitting. The screen will split from between and slide back to the opposite directions to shift to and from standby to menu key .
Nokia 5530 features the carrousel type 20 contact scroll on the Standby Menu . This is not your standard contact list with name and telephone numbers , but these are smart contacts when I receive or make a phone call to the particular contact or even send or receive a text message , I can see it on the history list for that contact , want to be more closer to the contact , you can even add their RSS feed either from their blog or Facebook profile . In case of a missed call or SMS the contact icon will show it visually .
Like 5800 XM , 5530 XM also features intelligent keyboard in contacts , if you want to search for Farhan and you also have contacts as Frank and Fiona , type F and the keypad will only show you A , I and R letters corresponding to the available contacts next letters , no need to hunt around 26 letters anymore
One development which Nokia brought over 5800 is T9 to QWERTY keyboard auto switch based on accelerometer thanks to S60mobi to bring it to my attention on twitter , keep the phone in portrait mode and use T9 , shift to landscape and it shifts to QWERTY keyboard.
The scrolling now seems much smoother , this coming from my experience with N97 use where I had to drag my finger to move the screen , I’ve developed a technique to use the scroll bar only to scroll the menu , else always end up selecting an App instead , Nokia please release Kinetic Scrolling for 5530 also beside for 5800
OVI Store is still web based and does not work as an installed client on the phone and recognize the phone as 5800 XM
OVI Maps does not work , I don;t know why , I understand the phone does not have inbuilt GPS but still I can always use a Bluetooth GPS Receiver , if it’s working for you please inform .
Being a Music Phone ( I am still unable to check out the Music Menu ) there is no Office folder so no editing for Office files via Quick Office , a bummer considering Nokia 5800 has it .
Overall the experience I had the phone was great , in my 5 days of use , not a single hiccup , the internet flowed smoothly , WiFi connected like a charm , but it annoyed me asking all the time to select a connection when using in Offline / No SIM mode . The interface was responsive , my only wish if the phone gets Kinetic scrolling with its’ falling price in Pakistan , it may become one of the best and most inexpensive touch based ‘smartphone’ in the market well until %230 Xm arrives .
Below is the video of the interface in action , they are rather crude as I was unable to find my long lost mini tripod 
Do tell me what you think of the Nokia 5530 Xpress Music
Did you find it ”bug free”?
Because i am running 5800 on v30,and last night it developed a strange bug of not being able to restart; to restart properly i had to remove the sim card and the memory card, and insert them after the phone had restarted. Had to perorm a hard reset to fix it.
@ Danish , I also got me a 5800 yesterday , FOTA upgraded it to V30 via WiFi , right after that upgraded to FlashLite 3.1 and MfE , till now no problems and since yesterday I’m been abusing
nice,, 5800 mubarak ho!!!!,
I had another question, go to applications>file manager>phone memory,, there you might see alot of .txt files, such as hxmd_engine, hxtn_engine etc etc… My question is can i delete those files? Will they cause any trouble??
Right now my phone memory has 70mb free, i wanted to squeez out as much memory as i can
Thanks , the 5800 is for my Mom than I’ll get my N958Gb back
waiting to purchase N900 while playing with N86 , 5530 , N97 , E52 iPhone and 8910i
All I got in text files is Easy Upgrade , Map installed and R1mobile.config , removed all of them no problems .
If you want Free Phone memory go to Settings , Applications Manager and remove extra programs which you don’t need installed on phone memory , like Nokia MAps 3.XXX has taken 7 Mb of phone memory , plus I have 3000 plus contacts but I’m saving my messages on Memory Card
yes, i have deleted that .txt files mentioned by Danish, no problem occurred!!
But again that files recreated i don’t know why?
@Farhan
As this phone doesn’t have GPS ect., Does Nokia Maps having any usage on this?
They could be temo files created when a program is run
You can still use an external Bluetooth GPS Device with it
samsung I8910i HD is available in karachi, pakistan? and at what is the price?
I bought 5530 yesterday from Nokia Retail Outlet at Al Hafeez Shopping Mall (across the road from Pace on main boulevard).
…tapping the screen during normal use creates thumping effect as if battery or something inside the set is loose. That is disappointing.
I think I have to take it back to them today
And any idea how can I save messages on memory stick in 5530 instead of sim?
@Abu Ayenab
Yes battery is shaky only when u shake the phone!!
But for every screen tab its not so as you mention
Go to your Profile settings and let the touch screen vibration Off.
i think it will solve ur problem.
is nokia 5530xm launched in india ? is it available in delhi if yes then where and wats d price ?? plz rpl
@Farhan
In the application menu if one is going to install number of applications and organize them according to his desire, then is it possible to reorder the applications according to default settings i.e.factory settings?
please guide!!
Thanks
You can try Factory Reset option in Control Panel – Settings – General – Factory Settings , it may do the trick