Nokia 5320 XpressMusic

Nokia 5320 XpressMusic is a new cell phone running on Symbian and designed for the youth.

Intro:
Nokia 5320 is targeted at the younger users which is visible in its design and features. The mobile phone has a very good music player and loudspeaker performance, all the connectivity you might need, a lot of RAM and a fast CPU. On the top of that Nokia 5320 has 140MB of internal memory and a card slot should that not be enough.


Nokia 5320 pros:
+ 2 megapixel camera
+ 140 MB of internal memory
+ MicroSD card slot
+ 369MHz CPU
+ 128MB of RAM
+ USB 2.0 and Bluetooth
+ Dedicated music controls
+ Good quality display
+ Nice looks

Nokia 5320 cons:
- Only 2-inch display
- Below-average battery life
- Average camera
- No Wi-Fi


The design:
Nokia 5320 measures 108 x 46 x 15 mm and weights 90 grams. The phone is made of plastic but it does not produce any cracks or any other disturbing sounds. On the front of the camera is the 2” display and above it the earpiece and “My own” key, and the video call camera. Below the display is the keypad which is quite comfortable although it will probably require some getting used to. On the right side of Nokia 5320 is the volume rocker and dedicated camera key, whereas on the left you will find the card slot, and three dedicated music controls. On the back of the cell phone is the camera lens and dual LED flash. The lens is not protected by anything so it is rather susceptible to scratches. At the bottom of Nokia 5320 are the 3.5mm jack, the charger plug and the microUSB slot.

Performance:
As always with Nokia the signal reception is flawless at all times and the speaker quality is very good. As all the modern phones Nokia 5320 has a lot more to offer than just mere making phone calls. The cell phone is one of the Nokia’s XpressMusic line so as the name suggests it ought to assure excellent sound quality. The phone supports all the most popular audio formats, including MP3, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA and the music player can work in the background so that you can do a few other things at the time of listening to music. The music player has 5 pre-installed equalizer presets but you can modify them or create your own settings. Nokia 5320 has also FM radio with RDS and a video player.
Unfortunately it records films only at 15 fps in QVGA resolution. Also the photos taken with the phones camera are, to put it mildly, of average quality, with low contrast, low colors and high noise.
Browsing the Internet would be quite a nice experience if Nokia 5320 had a bigger display. I mean, the websites are generated almost like on your Mac, or PC but sometimes the letters are so small that you cannot read anything. Yet, the mailing and messaging work well.
According to the manufacturer Nokia 5320 has 250 hours of stand-by, 3,5 hours of talk time and 24 h of music time.

Menus / ease of use:
Nokia 5320 runs on Symbian so it is not only easy to use but also very customizable. There are four pre-installed themes but you can get a lot more from the internet. The call log holds 20 recently dialled, missed and received calls. The phonebook has unlimited capacity and multiple fields for each contact. Nokia 5320 comes also with four games, document viewer (editor may be also bought) and applications such as calendar, alarm and a dictionary.
Selected Nokia 5320 specs:
Operating System:
Symbian OS v9.3
Developer Platform:
S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2
Frequency Band:
GSM 850
GSM 900
GSM 1800
GSM 1900
WCDMA 2100
WCDMA 900
Regional Availability:
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Latin America
Middle East
Display:
Resolution: 240 x 320
Color Depth: 24 bit
CPU:
Single CPU
CPU Type: ARM 11
CPU Clock Rate: 369 MHz
Memory:
Max User Storage: 140 MB
NAND Memory: 256 MB
SDRAM Memory: 128 MB
~85 MB Free Executable RAM Memory
Memory Card: Micro SD
Max Memory Card Size: 8 GB
Memory Card Feature: Hot Swap
Unlimited Heap size
Unlimited Jar size
Network Data Support:
HSDPA
WCDMA
EGPRS
GPRS
HSCSD
CSD
Dual Transfer Mode (MSC 11)
OMA Device Management:
OMA Client Provisioning v1.1
OMA Device Management v1.1.2
OMA Data Synchronization:
OMA Data Synchronization v1.2
Local Connectivity:
Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR
Micro USB
Nokia microUSB Cable CA-101
USB 2.0 High-Speed
USB Mass Storage
Bluetooth Profiles:
A2DP, AVRCP, BIP, BPP, DUN, FTP, GAVDP, GOEP, HFP, HID, HSP, OPP, PBAP, SAP, SDP
Java Verified Root Certificate:
UTI Root
Symbian Certificates:
A, B, C, D
Browser:
HTML over TCP/IP
S60 OSS Browser
WAP 2.0
XHTML over TCP/IP
Flash Lite:
Flash Lite 3.0
Messaging:
MMS
MMS+SMIL
SMS
Camera:
Resolution: 1600 x 1200
Sensor: CMOS 2.0 Megapixels
F-Stop/Aperture f/2.8
Focus range 10 cm to infinity
Digital Zoom: 4 x
Image Format: JPEG/Exif
Feature: Flash, Self Timer
Video Resolution: 320 x 240
Video Frame Rate: 15 fps
Video Zoom: 4 x
Video Format: MPEG-4
Audio Formats:
AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, Mobile XMF, SP-MIDI, MIDI Tones (poly 64), RealAudio 7,8,10, True tones, WAV
Document Formats:
Excel, PDF, Powerpoint, Word, Zip
Graphics Formats:
BMP, EXIF, GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, WBMP