News - Nokia raises its smartphone game

[HEXUS]

In danger of being marginalised in the smartphone market, Nokia refreshes range at Singapore event.

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[Crevan]

I guess with 5530, they did some homework on the home screen. Seems like there's more than 4 contacts that you can put on quick access (I assume there's scrolling), and you can have additional buttons for access to various functions as well. On 5800, you can have either the contacts bar, or the functions bar.

I wonder if they could include this functionality in 5800 as a software upgrade.

[Brewster0101]

I have a E71 for personal use which I got on three and a Blackberry bold on O2 for work. The bold is so much better in many many was.

Nokia needs a scroller like the blackberry, this is so nice and quick. The E71 screen is too small. The blackberry bold is only slightly smaller but it makes so much difference, and this goes for the keys.

People say you get used to the small keys on the E71, which is true, but it is too easy to press the wrong buttom.

Blackberry's home screen is better too, much more you can put on there like a real desktop.

But the Nokia does have software power behind it. The blackberry doesn't come with things like word editor or spreadsheet editor, E71 comes with office lite which is pretty cool..

E71 with a bigger case, bigger screen and bigger keys would be better upgrades, instead of the E72 which is just the same.