One of the latest offerings from your friendly Finnish giant is the Nokia 5230 XpressMusic. And it could make a lot of people happy.
Presently, quality comes at a stiff price for mobile phones which promise to delight consumers brave and lucky enough to shell out the extra bucks.
Now what about me? Must I settle for less just because of these darn oil price hikes which may soon land in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest -- and darnest?
Well, despair no more.
The Nokia 5320 XpressMusic won’t hurt your pockets much, but it has the powers to perk up your drab life.
What you get for just about the right ding of the cash register is a 3G/HSDPA-enabled bar shaped smartphone (in these days, being smart is a must).
As the name implies, this is a music-oriented device that offers dedicated external music controls, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), a stereo FM radio and a 3.5mm standard audio jack.
For better audio quality, a smartass suggested buying a dedicated audio chip on a day when we got hit by another oil price bullet (in). Yeah, right.
But another option, if you have the extra bucks, comes via the microSD memory card slot for you to plug a memory card of up to 8GB in capacity.
Frankly, I find no problem with a 512MB, and 1GB card is already a luxury. But hey, that’s why I have birthdays, and generous friends (in some cases, parents are easy targets).
Nokia has introduced the new Say and Play application, which allows users to voice control the music player, in the 5320 XpressMusic.
What is it? Okay, you just say the name of the artist you want and the tune automatically starts playing (I tried it the first time, and it worked).
So what else do we get when we pick up a 5320? Actually, a lot.
After you’ve satisfied your daily dose of music, you can switch to the 5320’s mobile gaming -- the N-Gage. The 5320 XpressMusic’s 8-way navigational D-pad is optimized for that delightful gaming experience on the 2-inch 16M color TFT display with QVGA resolution.
And how good is it? Okay, here’s a short story.
On the day we received a test unit from Nokia, we spent the night bummin’ in a friend’s house, together with a bunch of hyper-kids aged 8, 11 and 12. One of them caught the 5320 outline in our pocket, asked for it, and we obliged thinking finally, a way to keep them busy and silent.
They got busy, alright, but their blabbers got replaced by the loud bangs and strums of the Guitar Rock Tour which they discovered in the 5320.
Did I mention about the 5320 being a 2-megapixel snapper?
The 5320 weighs 90 grams, quite light for a 3G device, and at 108 x 46 x 15 mm. is handy. It has a talktime of 2.5 hours on 3G, 3.5 hours on GSM and it has a maximum of 10 days standby time.
Last time I checked, there’s another oil price hike coming. And while we prepare some very special expletives for that, we reserve the good words for the Nokia 5320.
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