Nokia 5730 XpressMusic (Mobile Phones & Smartphones)

Nokia's 5730 XpressMuisc phone is stuffed to the gills with features, but is it actually any good? Niall investigates.

With its slide out keyboard, onboard GPS, dedicated music buttons and N-Gage support, the 5730 is certainly packed with features. However, we found it a difficult phone to love because of its chunky dimensions and awkward controls. The simple fact of...

You have to admire the sheer range of features that the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic has to offer. But these features come at a cost, as the handset is very bulky and quite fiddly to use. For the price, we think there are much better devices on the market

Good music player ; On-board GPS ; Support for N-Gage gaming platform

Bulky and heavy ; Fiddly buttons

Conclusion The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic comes across as a phone that's trying too hard to be all things to all people. It seems like Nokia has taken a design it was working on for its Eseries handsets, tacked a few extra buttons on and stuck in support...

The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is the latest addition to Nokia's music range of mobile phones.

Battery life is impressive considering the number of features crammed into the phone. Overall, the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is a great addition to the XpressMusic mobile phone range. Anyone who likes their music and phone bundled together should take a...

The 5730 XpressMusic is Nokia's latest music phone

Wi-Fi and HSDPA connectivity; Excellent music player audio performance; 3.5mm headphone socket; A-GPS satellite positioning and Nokia Maps; S60 smartphone functionality; Slide out full QWERTY keyboard; Good earphones; 8GB MicroSD card supplied

Bulky design; 3.2-megapixel camera isn't great; Control pad awkward; Some feature options buried in menus; No touchscreen operation

Its typical S60 multimedia capabilities are supplemented by a 3.2-megapixel camera, sporting a Carl Zeiss Tessar lens

"The Nokia 5730 Xpress Music has its music controls situated handily on the side of the front panel."

With GPS, you can use the onboard map apps to navigate your way around, and the handset offers HSDPA connectivity (super-fast 3G) and Wi-Fi.

This Nokia is like the mullet of mobile phones; business up front, party out the back. The mix of business and consumer features will be welcomed by some, but could leave the 5730 in a techno-limbo.

Enjoy music, messaging, games and transferring files with this excellent Nokia 5730 XpressMusic mobile phone. Use the Nokia Music application for the PC to fill the 8 GB microSD memory card with music, to manage playlists, and then play them through...

All the talk around Nokia lately has been about the imminent N97 Mini and the sharp as hell Nokia Booklet 3G. However, the new Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is just as deserving of the spotlight. Taking its cue from the E75 dual-slider business blower, it...

Great keyboards, loads of features and great value

Screen is a bit too small for our tastes

A brilliant take on the E75 with features to keep all mobile fanatics happy

In part 1 of this review, I looked at the 5730 XpressMusic's hardware and reckoned it was the red-headed, counter-culture twin of the more staid E75. Now it's time to look at the 5730's software bundle, at its multimedia, and to deliver my overall...

The New S60 Homescreen Themes It's perhaps a measure of how mature the main one-handed UI is in S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, that the principal things to talk about in terms of interface on the 5730 XpressMusic concern just its homescreen. As with a...

The consumer-focussed sister phone to the successful Nokia E75 has now appeared and we tracked one down to explore what's different, what's good and what's bad. Is the 5730 really a case of 'fashion over functionality'? Or is it one of the most feature...

Comparisons with the E75 The very first thing you should know about the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is that 98% of it is identical to the Nokia E75, the side sliding business smartphone that debuted in Spring 2009 and which has been reviewed extensively...