Saturday, March 28, 2009

Nokia 5310 XpressMusic mobile phone review: It's Great!

This is my review of the excellent Nokia 5310 XpressMusic mobile phone. The two things you'll love about the Nokia 5310 mobile phone are its incredibly small size and its brilliant color screen. It's less than 1 cm thick, and very slim. For a guy, it fits perfectly in the front of a pair of jeans and it's nearly unnoticable. It's really one of the smallest phoes out there. The Nokia 5310 mobile phone's color screen is really amazing too. The colors are brilliant and not difficult to read outdoors. The screen is high-resolution so that the UI looks great.

The Nokia 5310 mobile phone of course supports Bluetooth. I have found two great uses for Bluetooth on the Nokia 5310. The first is syncing with a computer in order to download photos and synchronize information. I use an Apple MacBook to download the photos from my Nokia 5310 mobile phone wirelessly to my Mac. I can also use iSync to move new contacts from my phone to the Address Book application on my mac, and and new calendar items on my phone into iCal on my mac. I also use a Bluetooth headset to talk hands-free on my Nokia 5310 while driving. It's very easy to set up once you have turned bluetooth on for the Nokia 5310. If you don't have a bluetooth headset, the Nokia 5310 comes with compact headphones including an inline microphone which also allows you to talk handsfree while driving or exercising.

The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic mobile phone is also great for music. It has prominent and useful buttons for controlling your music on the front of the phone. It allows you to directly connect normal headphones with a standard mini-RCA connector to the phone. It also comes with 1 gigabyte Secure Digital card which will hold about 250 songs. It's probably not as good as an iPod, but it works very well and means that you always have music with you if your Nokia 5310 mobile phone is on your pocket.

The Nokia 5310 includes a decent 2 megapixel camera which can be used for still snapshots or for capturing short videos. The Nokia 5310 works great for text messaging too and handles SMS efficiently.

In the US, T-Mobile is the only provider who sells the Nokia 5310 which is a shame since it's such a great phone. If you have a different mobile service provider, you should be able to find a new or nearly new Nokia 5310 mobile phone on eBay or on your local craigslist site. Remember that you'll need to unlock your Nokia 5310 mobile phone before using it with your existing cell phone provider's service.

I highly recommend the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic mobile phone. Thanks for reading my review of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic mobile phone!

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