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Nokia 5300 XpressMusic
| Product Description Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. Backed by its experience, innovation, user-friendliness and secure solutions, the company has become the leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed broadband and IP networks. By adding mobility to the Internet Nokia creates new opportunities for companies and further enriches the daily lives of people. PRODUCT FEATURES: Enjoy the fresh, compact design that feels good in your hand; Open slider one-handed with spring mechanism; Access your music quickly and easily with the dedicated music keys; Take great photos and video with the 1.3-megapixel camera with landscape mode; Use it with your own headphones with the 2.5mm Nokia AV connector.
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Top Reviews  This is a GREAT phone! Very user friendly! 5 of 5 people found this review helpful. The phone is highly self-explanatory and has all the features you'd expect from a good phone. The speaker phone is plenty loud with good quality. The volume button is also on the outside of the phone, which is really nice. The camera rotates the image vertically/horizontally to its correct position when you take a picture and it's really easy to import pictures/music onto it from a computer with the USB cord. The buttons are also more raised than many of the recent motorola/samsung phones so it's easier to make sure you push the number you intended- very important for texting, I find. My ONLY complaint is that the "back" button (to clear one letter) when texting is above the "end" button, which results in the "end" button being pushed inadvertently pretty often. You then have to go into "messages" and "drafts" to resume typing. After a handful of these, I've gotten used to it though and just use the button more carefully. I've had many Nokias and this is so far my favorite. Review ID: 10000000004332303 Was this review helpful? Report this review  It just didn't work out for me6 of 7 people found this review helpful. I had the misfortune of owning two of these handsets, and as you can see by my title, I wasn't pleased with either of them. I got the 5300 as an insurance replacement for my Nokia 6133 which was run over by a car (but still worked). Feature for feature the phones are very similar, with a couple notable differences. This phone can actually play MP3 files as ringtones without having to convert them to Windows Media Audio (WMA) files, whereas my older 6133 couldn't, and it had the external player buttons, and a better headset setup. This phone also is not a quadband world capable phone, whereas the 6133 was. TMobile claimed that shouldn't make a difference in the US, but it did seem to affect me, as this phone simply didn't work out for me as well as the 6133. I admit that I had troubles out of the box with both handsets I received. The first one I had would randomly lose audio (which I found out from TMobile wasn't as rare to the model as one would think), and it also kept eating my minutes. Something I later figured out was from poor lock settings. The bad thing about locking the phone is that if you lock it, and set the auto lock, it also locks the external player buttons, a minor nuisance, but it is VERY easy to unlock (just slide the slider up and down). TMobile eventually replaced the first handset I had with a second one, and that one would just randomly lose signal. I would lose signal in areas I usually had excellent service, and when I borrowed other phones from TMobile users, those phones did not have the signal loss I received. This also occured while I was in Columbus, Ohio, and TMobile has VERY GOOD coverage there, but not on my 5300. After that I ended up copntacting TMobile and requesting another 6133 instead of this phone, and I have been much happier, although I did like some of the extras on this phone that weren't on the 6133, I just feel that the 6133 is a better handset altogether. While this didn't happen with my phone, I have also heard that it is easy to ruin the main LCD screens on this handset, and while I didn't ruin my screen, my first handset did get a decent sized scratch on the screen, and I have no idea how it happened, as I never dropped the phone. I hope that if anyone uses this phone they have better luck with it than what I did, because if it actually works as it is supposed to, it could be a really good phone, but it just didn't work out for me Review ID: 10000000004411942 Was this review helpful? Report this review Reviews  Don't Buy Fron This Seller!Review created: 08/18/08 by: I do not like anything about the phone I bought. The screen doesn't light up and it barely functions. I asked him for a refund and he never gave me one nor did he send me his address. I decided to buy it because it looked and said it was in good condition. I lost over seventy dollars and have nothing to show for it. I haven't used the phone more than a couple of days because it is useless. Review ID: 10000000008388367 Was this review helpful? Report this review  Great Phone to use :)Review created: 08/09/08 by: I liked this phone a lot. The only thing was, everytime my friends used it or tried to open it, they tried to pry it open instead of sliding it open, since not too many of them were familiar of the way it worked. I wasnt so crazy about the battery life. I recently bought a new one to replace one that i got crushed by a car. I felt like getting the same phone again since i still had the memory card in one piece and the charger and everything, and i was also very used to the phone. Review ID: 10000000008284837 Was this review helpful? Report this review Nokia 5300 - love it - *ish*Review created: 07/07/08 by: pirate_finder ( 0 ) I loved this phone. It was the first really pretty one I had in a long while. However, sometimes pretty isn't always best. The camera was excellent. You actually turn the phone sideways like an actual camera, which takes some getting used to, but rather nice. Too bad if you really would rather a tall picture than a wide one, the only way I could rotate my picture was to send it to my e-mail, download it, edit in something like paint or any picture viewer, e-mail the improved version back to my phone, and download it there. Don't know why the manufacturers couldn't add a very simply rotate feature on their edit menu. Why go through all the hassle in the first place? Well if you wanted to use one of your wide pictures as your wallpaper, the screen is tall, not wide. So not only will you lose part of the picture to the sides, but you can't even recenter it on the preferred point of focus. While actually using the phone in a call, everything's fine - except for the fact that it's a slider; not a flip phone. This means that unless you hold the phone somewhat uncomfortably low, you'll conversee will have a difficult time of hearing you. Which makes annoying if your conversee is your stubborn mother who unless she hears you like a bell, will make you repeatedly scream into the reciever untill you're blue in the face and forced to leave whatever you were doing and wherever you were. Still, as long as you can get used to holding the phone down low on your face, you'll be fine. Oh, and I would be careful about background noise. The phone picks up everything. Like driving with the car window down, having the tv on, answering the phone around loud friends. Just be aware. And definitely, definitely don't drop the phone. It can handle a few clumsy errors, but one sling off the charger, off the wall, and under the stool later, and the screen is kaput. overall - definitely glad i got it. Pretty, great camera, customizable, mp3 player, and slider. just don't drop it Review ID: 10000000007860525 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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