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There’s probably some stats somewhere to back this up, and if we weren’t too busy playing with new phones all day, we’d probably try and dig them out. But instead, we’re going to make some up instead. So, let’s say someone’s just bought phone X. Phone X has the following functions, and next to each function is how much the new owner uses each function in the first two weeks of buying there phone:

Making / receiving telephone calls -  35%
Sending / receiving SMS messages - 20%
Listening to music - 15%
Taking pictures - 9%
Using the 3G connection - 8%
Using the Wifi - 5%
Using the GPS function - 5%
Everything else - 3%

Then, most interestingly, is what happens after those first two new shiny and exciting weeks, after you’ve bored everyone around you by showing them all the cool apps and noisy fake shutter releases and how look! the phone knows where we are! type things.

Making / receiving telephone calls – 60%
Sending / receiving SMS messages - 25%
Listening to music - 15%
Taking pictures - 4%
Using the 3G connection - 2%
Using the Wifi - 2%
Using the GPS function - 1%
Everything else - 1%

Now, we’re no scientists, but, that seems scientifically sound in every way, right? Okay, maybe not, but you get the point. The point is, there are certain, normally very basic things that we do with our phones every day, and this is never going to alter that much. If you’ve bought a music phone, for example, chances are you’re going to be listening to music as much 6 months after you buy it as you do 6 days after buying it. But is it ever true of features like GPS? Maybe the odd person it works as a revelation, an oh-my-god-how-did-i-survive-without-GPS effect. But we guess (scientifically) that this is true of a tiny percentage of people.

So, the point (we’re getting to it) is that while you might hear story after story over the coming weeks (until its autumn release) about how the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic has lost its GPS, been stripped of its 3G, has had a bit of its screen size lopped off… pause a minute. Ask yourself if you really need the things it’s missing. Then take a look at the 5530 XpressMusic video below, note the size comparison to the fully featured 5800, and tell us you don’t think the 5530 XpressMusic is better for the streamlining. And if you want more details on what’s there (and what’s not) check out this Nokia 5530 review.

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