Nokia 5310 XpressMusic

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Voice quality was pretty good too, and the earpiece volume was adequate. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said about the speakerphone function. The loudspeaker isn’t loud enough and I had quite a difficult time trying to hear what the other person was saying.

The 2-megapixel camera on the 5310 churns out average quality photos, which is quite disappointing. Photo-taking is done in portrait mode, as the centre D-pad key is the shutter key. Unfortunately, the 5310 does not have a dedicated shutter/camera key like a lot of phones tend to have these days. There are, however, settings enabling users to take photos in various color modes – black and white, sepia and negative. The white balance was not exactly great during my tests, giving a bluish hue to all the photos taken.

Web browsing is done via the xHTML browser. This handles light websites well, but when it comes to frames and heavily graphical sites, the phone struggles to display them properly. Our 5310 came pre-installed with Snake 3, an updated version of the original Snake game. Apart from Snake, there is also a Sim City-like game called “City Bloxx”. There is a music guessing game as well, that plays a short clip from any music file from your library and requires you to select the right song name from a list.

With good audio quality and battery life, it’s really quite difficult to fault the 5310 and we highly recommended it if you’re looking for a mid-ranged music phone which comes in such a slim candybar form factor. However, Sony Ericsson’s W580i might be a good alternative as well, if you don’t mind slider phones and fancy a nifty motion sensing interface to change tracks.

Screen

• 16 million colors True Color 240 x 320 pixels display

Ringtone

• Supported file formats: MP3, True Tones and 64-chord/voice polyphonic MIDI ringing tones

Memory

• Up to 4GB storage space for your growing playlist
• Combo memory with 64 MB flash and 32 MB RAM
• Hotswap microSD memory card slot

Battery

• Battery:BL-4CT
• Talk time: Up to 5.4 hrs
• Standby time: Up to 300 hrs

Music

• Volume: 44.8 cc
• Music player for MP3/Midi/AAC/eAAC+/WMA formats with skins and album art support
• Playback of up to 18 hours
• Exchangeable music themes
• Dedicated music keys for instant access to favorite tunes

Camera

• 2 mega pixel camera
• 4x digital zoom

Messaging

• Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
• Audio messaging: Record your own voice message and send to compatible devices
• MMS 1.2 for image message creation, receiving, editing and sending (300k)

Connectivity

• Bluetooth: True
• USB (Universal Serial Bus): True
• Vibration: True

Game

• Series 40 Java games and applications

Built-In Software

• Voice recorder
• Alarm clock
• Calculator
• Converter
• Calendar

Operating System (OS)

• Series S40

Additional Featured

• FM radio
• Browser: xHTML
• Animated wallpapers
• Screensavers, color schemes, ringing tones
• 3GPP Streaming / progressive downloading video
• Download and upload images and video sequences
• Plug and play mobile services
• Switch between songs and calls without disruption
• Stylishly sleek and small in design
• Bluetooth, integrated speakers and enhanced S40 player
• GPRS: Class C, multislot class 31
• EGPRS: Class C, multislot class 31
• HSCSD (High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data)* / CSD (Circuit-Switched Data)
• Voice dialing
• Voice commands
• SIND (Speaker Independent Number Dialing)

• Mibile Size: 103.8 x 44.7 x 9.9 mm
• Weight: 70.2 g
• Network: Tri-band EGSM 900/1800/1900 MHz
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0

Package Contains

• Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone
• Nokia Battery BL-4CT
• Nokia Standard Charger AC-3
• Nokia Wired Headset HS-45 with AD-57 (remote control)
• USB cable
• CD ROM
• Nokia 512 MB MicroSD card MU-28
• User Guide