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Nokia - 5300 Cell Phone
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Solid mid-level music phone with great feature set
Blistered from too much texting, having an affair with my cellular device
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NOV
21
2007
As far as the phone itself is concernced it is a rather large, solidly built slider. 5-way nav, 2 soft keys, and the standard Answer and Reject keys adorn the front with a standalone power button on the top of the phone. the 5300 has 3 music buttons on the right side that are perfect for the audio player and on the opposite side are the two volume keys as well as a dedicated camera button.
The camera is a 1.3 megapixel but takes rather nice quality shots for such a low mp; better than the 2megapixel offerings of the comparable Moto RIZR. The phone also offers low-resolution video in the 3gp format. The lens is located on the outside of the phone (not hidden by the slide) and operates in a landscape mode like your classic point and shoot.
As a Symbian S40 phone it is highly customizable. You can easily set your own MP3 and M4A files as ringtones as well as set up custom wallpapers, themes, caller tones and videos.
The menu's move quickly with minimal lag and are easy to navigate with the phone both open and shut.
The keys are tactile and easy to text with, the T9 predictive works quite nicely and is a snap to add your own words to.
Battery life is on the short side but can be greatly helped by keeping bluetooth off, not playing games too much, and using the camera only when you need to, and the biggest (for me) turning off the auto-keylock. The reason for disabling this is that everytime you close the slide it takes several seconds for the display to dim then go to standby, several seconds after that the auto keylock enables which brings your screen back to full brightness so you can read the lovely message proclaiming that your keyguard is on. For an avid texter like myself who opens and shuts the phone regularly, this is a battery killer. Always charge this phone every night if you do anything more than make quick regular calls on it.
The 5300 only has 5mb of onboard memory but offsets that by including a 1gb microsd card in the retail package. The card slot is behind the battery cover but is accesible without removing the battery.
TIP: always open the slide before you remove the battery cover, its trickier to get open than you might think.
The slide is solid but does show some signs of loosening over time
Oh yeah, this has a great antenna and call quality as we've come to expect from the folks at nokia :)
Other features I forgot to mention:
Full-featured Bluetooth/IR
Voice activated functions and dialing
seperate charging and headset ports
easy to install games on
all in all a great phone I would give the Nokia 5300 a 8/10
Product Summary:
The good: The Nokia 5300 world phone has a great display, user-friendly controls, and a wide range of features including a music player, a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, an expandable memory slot, and support for push-to-talk networks. Plus, it delivers on performance as well.
The bad: The Nokia 5300's memory card slot is an inconvenient location, and its internal memory is a measly 5MB.
The bottom line: The Nokia 5300 is a well-designed, user-friendly music cell phone that offers an amazing range of features backed up by outstanding performance.
Specs: Band / mode: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 (Quadband); Combined with: With digital camera / digital player / FM radio; Dimensions (W x D x H): 2 in x 0.8 in x 3.6 in
Last edited on Jan 23, 2008
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