Nokia 5300 Review – Xpress Music Phone

If you want a good phone, why not check out the Nokia 5300 otherwise known as Xpress Music? Nokia 5300 belongs to the XpressMusic range which is an great example of how you can have fun with the Nokia phones. Nokia has been working hard on the XpressMusic lineups to compete against Sony Ericsson's Walkman series, today follow us and find out if the 5300 can really bear this responsibility.

Nokia 5300 measures 92.4 x 48.2 x 20.7mm and weights in at a respectable 106g. This dimension in fact makes it rather thick but we all know slimness is not the right point the 5300 relies on to attract your attention. The main colours used in the 5300 are chalk white, silver grey and scarlet red which match really well with its themes and make it a good looking music phone.

The display type on this phone is a 2.1 inch 256k color with a resolution of 240x320 pixels. It is also 18 bit. The 5300 is totally rated at an 8.0 or good category by users that have rated the phone on performance, design and features. While there are some things missing from this particular phone, it is a well featured phone as far as price is concerned. As to communication, Nokia 5300 includes such features as instant messaging, MMS and SMS messaging so that you can stay in touch with your family, friends and other contacts while on the go. It also allows you to get email to your phone that includes SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4. The phone also contains a WAP2.0 HTML web browser.

For your connection needs, you have HSCSD, EDGE and GPRS. Other connectivity features include an USB, Bluetooth and infrared port for all of your connection and data needs. Also included is a 1.3 megapixel camera having a resolution of 1280x1024 pixels. You may also record videos at QCIF with this camera. Graphic formats such as GIF, PNG, BMP and WBMP for photographs taken with this phone are included. For video, you have playback modes of MPEG-4, 3GPP, AVC and H.264. Video features include streaming, player, ringtones and recorder with a 176x144 recording resolution.

For audio purposes, you have a music player included that will allow for both audio streaming and recording. The music player can play a wide range of formats including WMA, MIDI tones, MP4, MP3, SP-MIDI, AAC, eAAC+, True tones, AAC and AMR-NB. There are extra features that include, Visual radio, POC, Stereo FM radio, Themes, SyncML, Presence and hands free speaker. Don't be afraid of lacking of memory to store your favourite music and videos as Nokia offers you a option to expand the memory up to 2GB. For those who want a music cell phone, this one is the tops. Not everyone can afford a smart phone with all its bells and whistles. This is a good phone in its price range and allows for having a high quality slider phone from Nokia.

Business features will include voice memo, T-9, stopwatch and reminders. Games are also included with this particular phone. There are several games on there that may attract attention but the list will vary. Some of the games that could be included are Music Guess, Pro Snowboard and Snake III. These cell phone games will vary by location. Your phone book has a large 1000 limit for your phone. The screen and user friendly controls also rank high on the scale. This is one impressive phone as far as price is concerned. The picture quality is decent and your personalization options are quite high such as wallpapers, animations, sounds, color themes and screen savers for example.

Call quality is exceptional with no distortion and crystal clear clarity. Nokia 5300 will only operate on a tri-band instead of the quad band networks. This is a bit of a drawback, but the rest of the phone makes up for it. The only other drawback, as far as the camera is concerned is that there is no flash present. The music quality is higher than that of other comparable phones and downloading music is also a breeze. All in all Nokia 5300 rates an 80 out of 100 for design, function and ease of use.
Jerry Smith, the editor of http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.