Back to square one: Nokia announces X5
Looks like the square form factor is gaining popularity. First there was the KIN One and then we saw the tastefully executed, Android 2.1 running Moto FlipOut, now Nokia shows us how it’s definitely hip to be square.
The Finnish phone maker today announced the introduction of its latest “entertainment-oriented” mobile phone sporting the square form factor dubbed Nokia X5.
Sitting between the X3 and X6, the Nokia X5 sports a distinct square QWERTY slider form factor. Nokia is saying that this phone is a music powerhouse with excellent sound quality, dedicated music keys and loud speakers.
Besides the music inclinations, the full QWERTY keyboard lends the X5 some serious messaging cred. The device supports all the major IM and webmail services out of the box and also offers easy access to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Hi5.
The QWERTY keyboard is not the only input option available. There’s sensors built into the X5 that when you spin the phone while listening to music, it will play a new random track, and if you shake it, the X5 will show you how many unread messages you have in the phone.
More details on the X5 and a demo video awaits you after the jump.
(UPDATE 1433hrs 140610) Here is a more straight forward Vuvuzela app that closely replicates the real thing. Hope you have fun annoying the hell out of your friends!
For those of you who’s keeping close tabs on World Cup, you’ll notice that the Vuvuzelas is one of the main conversations in the 2010 installment of the tournament.
It is a cause of interruption for many with commentators calling the sign the horn makes as “annoying” and compared it with “a stampede of noisy elephants“, “a deafening swarm of locusts”, “a goat on the way to slaughter” and “a giant hive full of very angry bees“.
The hearing lost inducing horns are making such a racket that the organizers of the World Cup is thinking of banning them altogether.
But that’s not stopping developers coming up with a Vuvuzela app for the iPhone and it’s available for FREE. The app makes Vuvuzela sound straight from the iPhone.
We doubt that the iPhone’s speaker will be able to induce any hearing lost but it sure doesn’t get any less annoying for some people
Hit up the iTunes link to download.