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Nokia 5230

 

Summary

 

Touchscreen goodness in a very nicely affordable package... what more needs to be said?!

 

 

Specs

• 111 x 51.7 x 14.5/15.5 mm
• 115 g
• 3.2" responsive touchscreen with tactile feedback
• Resolution: 640 x 360 pixels (nHD) with 16:9 picture
• Up to 16.7 million colours
• Accelerometer for auto-rotate
• Proximity sensor to save power and prevent inadvertent touches
• Dedicated keys for camera, volume, power, send & end, and application launch (menu)
• Media bar touch key for accessing music, gallery, share online, video centre and web browser
• Available in-box colours:
  - White/Red
  - White/Dark Silver
  - White/Pink
  - White/Yellow
  - White/Blue
  - Black/Red
  - Black/Dark Silver
• Changeable colour battery covers
• Micro-USB connector, 2.0 high speed
• 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
• microSD memory card slot, with hot swap max. 16 GB
• 70 MB internal dynamic memory
• 1320 mAh Li-Ion standard battery
• Talk time (maximum)
  - GSM 7 h
  - WCDMA 4 h 18 min
• Standby time (maximum)
  - GSM up to 438 h
  - WCDMA up to 458 h
• Dual band 900/2100 WCDMA and 850/1900 WCDMA
• GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
• Automatic switching between GSM bands
• Flight mode
• HSDPA, cat. 6, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps (DL)
• Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP
• Support for e-mail attachments
• OMA e-mail notification support
• Mail for Exchange 2008 preinstalled
  Integrated A-GPS
• Ovi Maps 3.0 application
• 2 megapixel camera
  • CMOS sensor
  • 3x digital zoom
  • White balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
  • Video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps (TV high quality), up to 640 x 352 pixels and up to 30 fps (widescreen quality), up to 320 x 240 pixels and up to 30 fps/15 fps (email high/normal quality), up to 176 x 144 and up to 15 fps (sharing quality)
  • Up to 4x digital zoom
• FM radio
• 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug
• 2.5 mm Nokia AV connector
• S60, 5th Edition
• Symbian OS version 9.4
• Included games:
  - Roller Coaster
  - DJ Mix Tour

 

 

Details

 

This little thing is being designed, marketed and outright flogged with those of you who lead an active life very firmly in mind. That is, those of you who use your phone not only as a phone, but as much for music, photos and videos, and all that online life sharing via Facebook and the like. In the words of the people at Nokia, that´s all about people who love ´content´, but all you need to worry about is that this thing more than looks after you and all the fun things you like, be it songs from the Nokia Music Store, apps you´ve found online, 3D games, rude and lewd videos and whatever you can find for yourself on the Ovi Store. All directly using the phone itself. Add to this Nokia´s great on-baord A-GPS navigation working in tandem with Ovi Maps (now with aerial images, 3D landmarks for 200+ cities, terrain map views for pedestrian and drive navigation and a bunch more.

 

Visiting the Ovi Store from the Nokia 5230 is a breeze. Ovi Store is conveniently accessible from the home screen of the phone and customers can immediately begin downloading and personalizing their phones with popular apps and games to make their phone more fun. New apps, games, videos, and more are added regularly and Ovi Store can be enjoyed on more than 75 Nokia devices and has active users from more than 180 countries.

 

The 5230 also has an easy to use music player and boasts up to 33 hours of playback time. You´ll also be getting your sticky fingers on a pass to the Comes With Music service, offering you – literally – all the tracks you can download, absolutely for free (the price of the service being eaten up by part of the price of the handset). You can of course plug any headphones you want into the thing, using its neat little 3.5mm connector. In addition, the Nokia 5230 features a Media Bar with quick access to your favorite media and applications, such as music, photos, YouTube or Ovi Share.

 

The always good to see Contacts Bar lets you use thumbnail images to keep up to date with up to 20 close friends, providing easy access to all your communications history with them, including emails, phone calls, photos and other social media updates such as their Twitter or Facebook statuses.

 

"We believe the Nokia 5230 is an unbeatable offer for many new customers who aspire a device that stars in music, mingles with social networks from Facebook to MySpace, navigates you to where it happens, when it happens, and comes in an array of dazzling colours." So says Jo Harlow, Vice President over at Nokia. And we couldn´t agree more. Especially on the fact that this could well be the device to tempt a lot of ´new´ people over to the brand, given how tempting an offer this is.

 

 

Conclusion

 

Cheap, feature-packed, good-looking and... well, what more do we need to say. A true bargain of a phone, and one well worth getting a hold of.

 

 

 

 

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