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Nokia announces a £95 touchscreen phone
FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia has announced a €115 (£95) touchscreen 'feature phone' after weeks of not very fevered speculation.
The 5250 will be running the low rent Symbian^1 operating system, though the rest of the device looks pretty decent given the price. The firm is saying that the 2.8-inch touchscreen will have a resolution of 640x360, a 2 megapixel camera and will come with the all you can consume Ovi Music package.
While internal storage is somewhat disappointing at just 51MB, an SD card slot allows expansion up to 16GB. Nokia has also managed to stick an FM radio inside the 5250. Apparently the battery is good for 18 days standby or seven hours of talking, though as usual, it's best to take those figures with an unhealthy amount of salt.
The reason why Nokia reports such impressive battery life is because the 5250 isn't actually a 3G phone, supporting GPRS and EDGE data connections. It doesn't seem a bad decision given that the unit is being pitched more as a portable music player that happens to have phone capabilities.
While Nokia might be faffing about with its high-end N-series smartphones, devices like the 5250 go some way to restore faith in the outfit.
It's a shame that the firm kept on trying to hype up the phone through its Ovi Store because at less than £100 contract free, the 5250 appears to have a good mix of form and function that won't require a load of marketing guff to help flog it.
Nokia is saying that the 5250 will tip up some time before Christmas. µ
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Nokia seems to be late delivering everything. Paper launches of phones, poor choices in their OSs. And poor execution now mark that company.
The n900 was late, is now over priced, and was riddled with bugs and gremlins. It should have been their complete and focused answer to the other market offerings, instead its been a fail.
Did I fail to mention cronically short supply and ever sliding delivery dates through almost all partners?
Nokia has been caught stone cold dead in the headlines of an industry that was spooling up, and is now utterly behind. It now needs to start executing handsets, and getting into the OS race properly if its not going to use android. Stale, old, slow, poor execution, buggy releases and behind in every area.
Anyway, now utter confusion exists because Nokia can't make up its mind wether to use Symbian or *nix, and as such the weight of trying to make and support both = fail. Sybian 3 will solve all the previous issues. Well there were plenty of those.
All things aside, Nokia should be executing an android phone now. And it needs to make a corporate choice about what and where it is going.
You feeling alright Lawrence, that sounded almost positive!