Nokia 5300 Xpress Phone Review ( not 3G )
Nokia’s quirky 5300 XpressMusic phone provides thumping tunes without bashing your wallet or stretching your pocket.
For all the mobiles out there that can play digital music, if you really want a device that can double as a dedicated music player, your search isconfined to a small (but growing) selection of specialist music phones.
The Nokia 5300, with its dedicated music keys, boxed music software and free 256MB microSD card, aspires to be such a handset and, along with the 5200, forms Nokia’s growing XpressMusic range of phones.
But, while it’s certainly packaged and promoted as a handset for music lovers, does it have the technological talent to be considered alongside the top Sony Ericsson Walkman or Nokia Nseries phones? Or is the 5300 simply a natty little handset that can carry a tune?
When reviewing a phone which boasts a certain killer feature or application, we are often presented with the dilemma of measuring form versus function. For example, there is no doubt that the new 8GB-endowed Nokia N91 is a hugely capable music device with impressive storage space. However, it is also very bulky by modern mobile standards, which will put many people off. The same could be said of the Sony Ericsson Walkman W950i, which excels as a music player, but struggles as a phone and is also a little larger than your average mobile.
Source and more info: 3g