Nokia 5230 review

  
     
  By: IRMGARD DOERSAM  
 

The new 5230, from Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia, is an inexpensive younger brother to the more powerful Nokia N97, sharing many features with this model such as a touch screen, media playback, a digital camera, and GPS navigation.

The list price of the Nokia 5230 is 118GBP, which makes it much more affordable than most of the other touch screen smartphones on the market, such as the Apple iPhone, the Google Nexus One, the Sony Ericsson Satio, and Nokias own N97 and N900 models.

Files such as MP3s and video clips can be stored on removable Micro SD cards, and the 5230 comes with a four gigabyte card pre installed, which is more than adequate for most peoples needs. The camera only has a resolution of two megapixels, but despite this, the image quality is rather good.

You need to use a virtual onscreen keyboard if you want to type anything into the 5230, as there is no hardware equivalent. There are, however, several other buttons on the case, such as red and green call buttons, a lock, a camera button, and a menu button that brings up a list of all the apps that are on your phone.

The phone runs on the Symbian operating system, which despite its popularity has a much smaller range of apps available for it than the competing Android and iPhone operating systems. However, there are a few advantages, such as being able to see how much memory an app is going to take up, and the version number, when you download it.

For an entry level phone, the call quality is surprisingly good, with crystal clear audio and very few drop outs and extraneous noises. Also, the touchscreen is very responsive, particularly when entering text and numbers, and outperforms many more expensive phones in this regard.

All the popular social networking services such as Myspace, Twitter, and Facebook are supported by the phone, and can be easily integrated with other apps. However, the lack of Wi Fi can make internet browsing a slow and somewhat frustrating experience.

Not all of the popular Symbian apps are compatible with this phone, due to the lack of a hardware keyboard. For example, you cannot use the Gmail app for this very reason, although you can still access this service and many others from the built in browser.
  
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