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Nokia 5300 Xpress Music Mobile Phone Review

The Nokia 5300 Xpress Music is 92.4 mm in length and 48.2mm in width. It has a thickness of 20.7 mm and weighs only about 106.5 g. The phone has tri-band EGSM coverage on five continents and also has the capability for automatic switching between bands. It has a QVGA True color TFT main display with up to 262,144 colors. The phone has dedicated music keys, camera key and double functional volume keys that serve as zoom keys when the camera is activated

The Nokia 5300 Xpress Music has a 1.3 megapixel digital camera with 8x digital zoom. It also has a video recorder and video player with landscape mode. The device has MMS, full OMA client provisioning and audio messaging where you can record your own voice message and send to compatible devices. It also has text messaging with concatenated SMS, picture messaging though receiving only and SMS distribution list.

The Nokia 5300 Xpress Music phone has a music player supporting MP3, Midi, AAC and WMA formats and also has FM stereo radio. It can store up to 1500 songs provided a separate 2GB memory card is used .The phone has Nokia PC Suite with Nokia Connectivity Cable and Bluetooth connectivity. It has infrared and also local and remote synchronization. The phone has XHTML browser over TCP/IP and HSCSD/CSD for browsing and as data modem.

The Nokia 5300 Xpress Music has a variety of phone features including animated screensavers, wallpapers, reminders and countdown timer. The voice features of the phone include voice commands, voice recorder and integrated handsfree speaker. The digital services of the phone include support of MP3 ringtones, video ringtones, True tones, alert and gaming tones and 64 polyphonic tones. It also has pre-installed games, themes and applications apart from plug and play mobile services.

The Nokia 5300 Xpress Music phone has free internal user memory up to 5MB expandable up to 2GB memory with microSD hot swap memory card reader. The device uses Nokia battery BL-5B and has a talk time of up to 3.2 hours. It has a standby time up to 223 hours and music play time up to 12 hours.