The best thing I like about this cellphone is its loudness: built-in speaker is loud and speakerphone is loud. This helps a lot if you're in a noisy restraunt (reason I dumped my old cellphone).Pluses:
1. Well designed music player UI and dedicated buttons.
2. Loud speaker for playing music.
3. Standard 1/8" mini jack for headphones.
4. Solid buttons, crisp display
5. Very small, stylish
Minuses:
1. Short battery life -must charge almost every night.
2. Camera is fair in quality.
3. No 3G
Phone is compact
For a small phone has decent MP3 quality
Clean lines
Sturdy casing
Separate ports for charging, USB and earphones
Call quality seems to be good
Simple Bluetooth connectivity
Easy menu interface
Convenient music player controls
All necessary accessories (except for a travel charger) are included in the package (along with 2GB Micro SD)
Seems to retain its charge well (stand-by and talk time)
Nokia technical support, phone features, and website access to options without nickle-and-diming you really stands out.
Cons:
Speakerphone could be louder (however new FCC rulings place limitations on US Version phones with this capability so Nokia is simply abiding by the FCC).
Voice dialing gets it right about 80% of the time.
Using Nokia PC Sync software may still not allow you to Sync with the phone. Was unable to get this problem resolved.
For the most part am very pleased with the phone. My only serious disappointment is my inability to Sync, however that may be unique to myself. Am very pleased with the extent of service by Nokia technical support in providing guidance and support, and appreciate the Nokia website which offers various extras (software and other downloads) free of charge when other manufacturers expect you to purchase some of the same options to fully utilize the features of their phones.
I also commend Amazon.com customer and wireless services personnel for their attentiveness and dedication to true customer service!The Nokia 5310, aka "The Music Xpress", is one nifty little phone! Sure, it's no iPhone, but if you want something that got just about as many bells and whistles for a little less money, you want this phone.
The 5130 is available in purple, orange, red and blue (I own the purple). It's very thin and small, but fits easily in the palm of your hand and doesn't give the impression it's going to fall apart if you look at it cross-eyed.
The buttons are raised up just a bit. The display is bright and vibrant. If you have T-Mobile service with this phone, you'll find it can handle the My Favorites plan just fine, with nice little icons and customizable options fo each person.
The phone has several nifty features, including a 2 megapixel camera that takes good-to-very-good quality pictures. It can also function as a video camera, doing both sound and image. There's no flash or self-portrait mirror, but you can make do. The screen acts as a view finder, of course. There's also four different levels of zoom and several different video effects (like black and white, negative, false color, etc). There's a nifty little mini-USB port you can use to move your files to a computer (assuming you have a cable. Thankfully the phone comes with one).
There's also the usual selection of programs, like a calculator, alarm clock, organizer, etc. The system also comes with a few game demos, none of which are particularly memorable.
Ah, but you want to know about the biggie, right? You want to know all about the music capability!
Well, this phone doesn't disapoint. There's external music controls and an external volume control. You can turn it up loud enough to annoy the people next door if you really try. There's also a headphone jack that, thankfully, allows for normal headphones to be used. I have a neat little set I got on a Delta flight, and they work just fine.
When I bought the phone it came with the USB cable I mentioned earlier, as well as a stereo hands-free headset with a detachable mic, and, joy of joys, a 1 gigabyte memory card! That's a really nice thing to have! I've got quite a bit of music on mine and it isn't even close to being filled. Tiny card, too. About the size of a fingernail.
Overall there's no real reason not to recommend this phone. It's sleek and stylish, has a great price point, comes with plenty of goodies and plays music very, very well. It's worth every penny I paid for it, and that's not something I can often say!Love the compact size... automatically locks when not in use... 4GB of music and videos... great screen and input keys. I'd change the location of the volume controls, currently you have to reposition your hold to change the volume. The PC Sync took some work to get it working with Outlook but now it works like a charm. (Quick tip: try syncing without the SIM and SD card the first time, it'll force the software to reset)This is a great Phone I love mine, but I get so frustrated that Nokia didn't finish their work.
Since the iPhone I have started to expect more from a phone then basic functionality. I don't want a phone, I want an extension to my computer. If life happens and I will miss a meeting I want the numbers and contact information so that I can reschedule my life on the fly. Apple get this. Nokia sells tons and tons of phones, yet they seem to be too busy to do one phone to completion. I have contemplated moving to the iPhone like my wife but the size and capabilities of this phone keep me from making the leap.
What I like about this phone:
1) Size: Nothing beats the size. You don't even know you have a phone on you.
2) Bluetooth: This phone support file transfer and stereo headsets. Two things the iPhone can't do.
3) Cut and Paste: Basic functionality that I have come to expect that is missing on the iPhone. This phone support cut and paste
4) Sound: This things sounds great with apple ear buds! And it has decent sound without a headset (remember it is like 7mm thin)
5) battery: At the end of the day my battery is still full. Last month I talked on the phone all day. Took and over night train to shanghai. I listened to music on the train and then talked the next day on the phone. Amazing!
6) AAC support: This phone can play unencrypted AAC files from iTunes.
What I don't like...
1) Wont sync with Mac. Worse yet People on the net say creating a sync profile is easy! So why doesn't Nokia do it!!!
1.a) won't sync with iCal (very important)
1.b) Won't sync with Address Book (very important)
1.c) Won't sync with iTunes (less important)
Nokia, Apple is eating your lunch. Finish the job. You have a very good product finish it out. Continue to release software for the product. The rules are changing.
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