Nokia 5300 Xpress Yourself !

Designed to be user friendly, the Nokia 5300 is a music player with features such as Bluetooth , 1.3 megapixel camera and an expandable memory slot.Despite the fact that the phone is slightly bulkier than the conventional anorexic phones these days,the Nokia 5300 is rather light.It's also armed with makes it easy to slide the phone open or close with a gentle push.One can expect the 5300 to be quite sturdy as the midsection is wrapped in a rubber cover to protect the dedicated player key.The handset design is innovative and refreshing, with its target audience obviously aimed toward youth and younger adult.

The sound quality over the stereo speaker is exceptional but fall short compared to a Sony Ericsson W810i stereo speaker.included features are shuffling and repeat modes,stereo widening,an equalizer with five settings and even an ' airplane ' mode. The dedicated media keys of Nokia 5300 are fashionable and highly visible,but require more ' push ' to navigate them than I would have liked. The QVGA screen is 31 x 42 mm and produces good and vivid images.On the bottom of the screen are two soft keys with a five way toggle joystick in the centre.There is a noticeable gap between the button which makes it susceptible to dust.The phone's numeric keypad button are adequately sized for comfortable pressing.

The 1.3 megapixel camera is located at the back of the phone but doesn't come with any flash. It takes pictures at a maximum of 1280 x 1024 and included a variety of image processing features,including five different colour effect,note mode,sequence mode, self timer and an 8x zoom.

Song transfer was simple and convenient as you may directly compose a playlist on the PC before porting it over to the phone.50MB worth of songs took less than 4 minutes to transfer,which is pretty decent.But after transferring the music files,the phone require to update the Music Library to access the new tunes from the player,which my take some time and cause a minor annoyance.My conclusion Nokia 5300 is a solid,fun and musically entertaining phone.