Nokia E72 And 5530 XpressMusic Are Now Official

After a successful promotional video leakage over the weekend, Nokia have officially unveiled the E72 - their new QWERTY smartphone followup to the fantastic E71- at the Connection 09 event in Singapore.



Compared to its older brother, the E72 will see its camera upgraded to 5 megapixels along with the addition of an integrated compass, an optical navigation key (not unlike the BlackBerry Gemini's) and sensibly a 3.5mm headphone jack. Nokia say the S60 handset features a "desktop like email experience" and will begin shipping third quarter of 2009 for $485 without contract.

Also revealed was the 5530 XpressMusic - essentially a smaller, cheaper 5800 - featuring a 2.9 inch widescreen display, 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash and a 4GB memory card. The GSM/EDGE phone doesn't use 3G but can at least connect via wifi; it will also be available third quarter of 2009 for around $275 unsubsidized.

5800's Little Brother: Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Out in September

Nokia 5800's little brother, the 5530 will soon be released come September this year according to a reliable source from Daily Mobile.

They also added that the 5530 XpressMusic is a touchscreen handset similar to the 5800. The 5530 looks like an obvious downgrade from the 5800 (seen below) as it has a smaller 2.9-inch screen compared to 3.2-inch of the 5800. And that could also mean lower price than the 5800.



And since it was also recently reported that Nokia wants to launch three touchscreen phone this fall, then there seems to be no reason to doubt this report.

No unit photos were released yet, but we do have some of its features. These are said to include:

* 2.9 inch touchscreen display
* Symbian S60 5th Edition
* Wi-Fi
* 3.2 MP camera
* 3.5mm headset jack
* FM radio with RDS
* 150MB of internal memory
* MicroSD card support