Ah, so it looks like we're really in the era of touchscreen mobile phones. Nokia is already on its fourth touchscreen mobile phone since after the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, comes the Nokia 5230, another competitively priced handset and will probably go head to head with the Samsung Tocco Lite and LG Cookie.

The Nokia 5230 sports a larger screen than the 5530, at 3.2 inches. The Nokia 5230 also has a lower res camera at only 2 megapixels compared with the 5530's 3.2 megapixel camera. Another difference from the Nokia 5530 is that the 5230 has foregone the WiFi and went with 3G instead. This mobile phone also offers A-GPS support with Nokia Maps.

Other than that, all other specs seem the same. The Nokia 5230 will be priced a bit lower than the 5530 with a suggested retail price of 149 Euro or 259 EUR if you want the one with Comes with Music.

The Nokia 5230 will be available this fourth quarter of 2009.