Nokia 5300 XpressMusic Black Phone (T-Mobile, Phone Only, No Service)

by Nokia

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.6 x 1.9 x 0.8 inches ; 3.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NJ5OO0
• Item model number: 5300
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,384 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Nokia 5300 XpressMusic phone, which features a stylish slider design and can hold up to 1,500 music tracks, keeps the focus on advanced music portability. With dedicated external music keys, stereo Bluetooth, and a memory card slot supporting up to 2 GB of memory, the 5300 offers a comprehensive feature set at an accessible price. Never before has it been as easy or affordable for consumers to own a mobile phone that also offers a first-rate music experience that compares favorably to any stand-alone music player. Other key features include a QVGA display, speakerphone, a 1.3-megapixel camera, EDGE data support, and flashlight. It's the perfect companion to T-Mobile service. It also supports T-Mobile's great myFaves service.

Now you can bring your music and communications with you--all in one place (black version shown). See it in action (requires Flash).

Music controls right where you need them.

A 1.3-megapixel camera on the back kicks the fun up a notch.

Design
The 5300's slider design features a large display that sports an impressive 240 x 320 resolution and support for over 200,000 colors. Even with the slider closed, the 5300 features great music and call control. There are music control keys on the left side and volume adjustment keys on right side of the phone, while a stylish five-way center button resides just below the display. Slide the phone open to reveal its easy to use backlit keypad. The phone's 1.3-megapixel camera lens is discreetly housed on the left edge of the phone. A built-in mini-USB 2.0 port is provided, as well as Bluetooth stereo headset compatibility. The built-in hot-swappable microSD memory expansion slot is compatible with cards up to 2 GB of capacity.

Calling Features
The 5300 supports polyphonic ringtones, as well as MP3-based ringers so you can load your favorite sound effects and music clips to alert you of incoming calls. Plus, with the phone's picture and ringer ID functions, you can assign pictures and ringtones to your most common callers. For when you need to be discreet, there's also a vibrate ringer mode. Meanwhile, voice activated dialing makes calling your friends, family, and associates as easy as saying their names. The 5300's built-in contacts list and phone book will keep track of all your contacts with its ample storage capacity. Lastly, there's an integrated speakerphone for talking hands-free, and the phone's Bluetooth connectivity means that your favorite Bluetooth headset is fully compatible (for music listening, you can still use your favorite wired headphones with the Nokia 2.5mm AV connector, sold separately).

Other calling features include compatibility with T-Mobile's myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, even landlines--without using any of your minutes. Learn more about myFaves.

Messaging, Internet and Tools
The 5300 is a mobile messaging and Internet powerhouse. With support for the MMS (multimedia messaging service), the phone can send picture and text messages, and when coupled with the phone's powerful camera, MMS opens up great opportunities for robust messaging. The phone ships with a built-in email client that supports POP3, IMAP, and SMTP protocols.

Getting on the Internet is easy with the 5300. It supports the GPRS data protocol, as well as the high-speed EDGE wireless data service. When used with your carrier data plan and the phone's USB or Bluetooth data capability, the phone can be used as a wireless modem for laptops and PDAs. The phone is bundled with a mobile Web browser, too, offering hearty Web browsing abilities right on the phone. Meanwhile, T9 text entry, a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.

The 5300 supports PC synchronization via USB or Bluetooth, which means you can manage and synchronize contacts, calendar and other data with your PC. Nokia's PC Suite application makes this process a breeze. A number of handy software tools are bundled with the 5300 including a voice memo recorder, a calculator, a calendar, a to-do list, and an alarm clock.

Imaging and Entertainment
The Nokia 5300 can hold over 100 albums worth of music (approximately 1500 tracks) on a 2 GB microSD card. Thanks to dedicated music keys, you can easily control the playback of music while simultaneously enjoying other functions such as texting, browsing, or taking pictures. For an even louder groove, you can plug in your favorite headphones or external speakers with a 3.5mm headset jack by simply connecting them to the 5300 using the inbox adapter. The 5300 can swiftly transfer albums and music collections to and from a PC using a standard micro USB connector or Bluetooth. When traveling, you can use the Nokia Wireless Audio Gateway (sold separately) to stream music collections and favorite playlists wirelessly to any supported stereo from the 5300.

No one-hit wonder, the Nokia 5300 also comes with the latest messaging functions complemented by a 1.3-megapixel camera. The camera features a selftimer, an 8x digital zoom, and can be used to capture video and view video playback. You can even view video playback in landscape mode, and the volume keys double as zoom keys when the camera mode is activated. And don't forget about the games! The phone supports Java gameplay and other Java-based applications.

The 5300 also sports an airplane mode feature, which allows the user to safely use the non-wireless functions of a phone (such as music, games, or organizer functions) on an airplane during flight.

Vital Statistics
The Nokia 5300 weighs 3.76 ounces and measures 3.64 x 1.90 x .81 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.20 hours of digital talk time, up to 223 hours of digital standby time, and up to 12 hours of music playback time. It runs on the GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900 frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

Product Description

Featuring a music player that can play on wireless stereo headphones and with looks as cool as the music you listen to, the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic is the perfect marriage of music and style.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

61 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good phone/mp3 player; Could have been much better, March 7, 2007

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Puneet Khanna (Tampa, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nokia 5300 XpressMusic Black Phone (T-Mobile, Phone Only, No Service) (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I have had the phone for some days now. It is a good phone overall. However, it seems nokia could have gone the extra mile to make the phone much better. Most people should love it, however some drawbacks might make it terribly frustating to some.

Some pros and cons -

Pros -
1. Good reception/phone quality. Typical of nokia. No problems here
2. Intuitive phone user interface. Again typical Nokia UI. This one has nokia 'S40' interface. Phone is very responsive, and has no sluggishness that was found in some earlier nokia models.
3. Good build quality. Slider is robust and smooth (No loose hinges). Buttons are not as flat as those found on some sliders, thus misdialing should not usually occur. External 'music' buttons can be easily felt by the fingers when phone is inside the pocket, and are hard enough to prevent unintentional pressing.
4. Clear and bright display.
5. Nice assortment of supported bluetooth profiles. Has stereo bluetooth (a2dp).
6. Comes with 1GB card.
7. Music quality is very good (however some noise issues may be experienced - see 'cons')
8. Phone comes with adapter to use regular 3.5mm headphones.
9. External speaker is very loud, and very clear for a phone.

Cons -
1. Music interface is highly frustating. Very difficult to make a custom playlist on the phone. If you want to combine different songs into a playlist (on the phone), the only way I found is to add each of those different songs to 'favorites'. Then open the 'favorites' list and then save as playlist. Even then song order may be lost. Each song from the favorites list then has to be deleted so that a new playlist can be made.

2. Music can be synced on a PC using 'yahoo jukebox' or nokia PC suite software. Yahoo jukebox is a joke, and very confusing to use. 'Nokia PC suite' is a better option, but you may come across occasional bugs in the software. You can also simply drag music into the 'music' folder on the memory card, but you cannot create playlists through the computer that way. Mac users only have this last option to put music on the phone, and so they cannot 'sync' music but just upload it.

3. When the headphone adapter is used (for the standard 3.5 mm jack), there is a slight but definite background noise (a slight hissing) that creeps in. This is not there when the provided earphones are used (which plug in directly into 2.5mm jack). And so though the music playback quality is excellent, the adapter is far from perfect. The provided headphones are functional but stock earbuds. Audiophiles may not like their options in either case. I exchanged the adapter at the store after a few days to see if my adapter was the problem, but the noise still remained. I shall get my phone exchanged to see if only my unit has this problem. Note - inline microphone cannot be used with the 3.5mm adapter.

4. If you are using the phone with the provided headset, and you pull out the headset pin "slowly" (to switch to talking through the phone directly), the call sometimes disconnects. Somehow if you do not pull out the headset jack in a clean swift motion, the pin grazes the inner leads causing the call to disconnect. I realized this problem after my calls disconnected whenever i when tried to pull out the jack using just one hand. I went back to the store and pulled out the headset pin 'slowly' on every phone on display. Sure enough, almost every call disconnected. Even the t-mobile floor rep was surprised to see this, and lodged a trouble case with t-mobile.
If you are careful and take out the pin swiftly, then it never happens.

5. Battery life is very disappointing. The phone has the same battery as in older Nokia phones. However with the large display, bluetooth and music playback, the talktime suffers greatly. Some users might find themselves not using bluetooth for longer periods just to save some battery charge. You cannot afford to forget charging this phone at night.

6. Voice dialing is a joke on this phone. You cannot save your own voice tag. A text to speech algorithm tries to match your voice with the address book entries and fails miserably. It is guaranteed to misdial almost every time.

Other thoughts - Camera is 1.3 MP, and nothing good or bad about it. You can find better and worse cameras on phones.
Mac users can buy isync plugin from [...] for a full featured phonebook and calender sync over bluetooth.

EDIT - My friend bought a 5300 and her phone too has the problem of background hiss through the 3.5mm headphone adapter. So, its there in all phones.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Impressed and Happy to be back with Nokia, March 15, 2007

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G. Rees "artist" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nokia 5300 XpressMusic Black Phone (T-Mobile, Phone Only, No Service) (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I purchased this Nokia 5300 Black at the T-Mobile store. It does come with 1 GB memory card and I was able to easily load up 160 songs last night with no problems. Phone comes with USB cable to connect to your computer. I have a Mac so this was easy to do. You will not be able to download songs bought from iTunes but you can load up AAC files and mp3 and mp4. You can hold up to 500 songs if they are all 3.5 minutes long and compressed to 128 kps. My music is usually remixed and/or longer than 3.5 minutes each.

I wasn't able to sync up with Bluetooth to my iBook but I was able to pair with my Motorola T305 that I will be using in my car. Apple has not approved the Nokia 5300 yet to sync. I am sure it is a matter of time since the phone is rather new.

Overall, I love the feel of this phone, has wonderful 2 in screen, color is great, camera is cool, and it is very intuitive to use.

I have been with Samsung over the last three years and I was concerned about going back to a Nokia. However, the speakerphone is absolutely great compared to the Motorola 195 that I originally got but returned.

Once you load up your songs, the speaker is impressive. This morning, I had the phone playing music in one part of the house, and I had to go get something at the other end of the house, and I could still hear the music perfectly.

Calling on the phone was better than expected. I was talking to my friend during busy traffic and lots of people/background noise and I was able to carry on a pleasant conversation with her unlike my Samsung that was difficult to do this with.

The phone is quite sturdy. And I am happy to have a phone that not everyone has - a Motorola Razor. This Nokia 5300 looks a bit chucky compared to that phone but I feel like I have a very unique phone that is more than a phone.

Who needs an iPod mini when you can get this and your phone all in one?

I just ordered the Boxwave Frost Case for this phone. There is very little to chose from at the T-Mobile store as far as accessories and Nokia.com didn't have much either.

*****

The alarm feature to wake up is cool too. You can choose to wake up to your favorite song that you have downloaded and you can program it to slowly increase the volume of the song for your alarm. It also comes with programmable snooze. What a dream!

*****

You can make calls without even having to slide the phone to dial. As long as you have the number you want already stored in your phone book, then all you have to do is look up and press the green button!

*****

When you are playing your music, if an incoming call comes in, it will stop playing the song and then alert you with the normal ring tone that a call is coming in. Once you are done with the phone call, you can resume playing your music.

*****

As I said, this phone is a gem in all areas - speaker, sturdy, colorful, I think it is contemporary and an acquired taste for sure but nonetheless appealing, call quality is great even in loud areas, and lots of little creature comforts.

Definitely consider this phone if you really like to have music and bluetooth and speakerphone. Else, this may not be the phone for you.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Impressive phone..but some quirks, March 10, 2007

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C. Murua "silent_warrior_" (Anaheim, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nokia 5300 XpressMusic Black Phone (T-Mobile, Phone Only, No Service) (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I just purchased this phone four days ago and have been impressed with it for the most part. The first thing you'll notice is how crisp and clear the screen is. This is a slider phone, and thankfully you can do most things without sliding the screen to expose the number keys. The only things that I can think of thus far that requires you to expose the keys is to dial a new number that's not in your contacts and to text message.

Next, we go to the features. So we got a 1.3MP camera, camcorder, music player, 1GB microSD card, bluetooth support, and infrared port..and *drumroll please* an FM radio. Now, the FM radio isn't satellite based, so you cannot pick up radio stations from across the U.S., just those stations local to you.

Now I will go into the good and bad things about each feature:

1. Camera - Impressive picture quality. Yes it's only 1.3MP compared to those 8MP digital cameras, but can you show me a camera that does what this phone does? 5/5

2. Camcorder - Not all that impressive. While you are recording, the quality seems perfect. However, once you play it, it turns a bit distorted. Plus, it only allows for 20 seconds of recording time regardless of the size of your microSD card. 3/5

3. Music Player - Impressive. The speaker is of good quality, and very loud. However, I still could not find a way to change the order of the songs without making a playlist. There's play, pause, next song, previous song, fast forward, and rewind features as buttons as shown in the pictures. The buttons must be pressed fairly hard, so your music won't start playing spontaneously in your pocket. Also, I was blown away on how the quality of the music improves once you put on those stock earbuds. 4/5

4. FM Radio - I bet those that have this phone tried to use the radio but stopped short and told you to buy an enhancement. Well, the truth is you don't need to buy anything extra. Just plug in the earbuds that came with the phone, and this will serve as an 'antenna' and will allow you to hear stations. And since you need the earbuds to hear the radio, yes the sound will go to the earbuds. However, there's a 'loudspeaker' option that allows the radio to be played through the external speaker, but you still need to keep the earbuds plugged in, as it serves as the 'antenna'. This means that if you want to hear the radio on your phone, you NEED to have the earbuds with you. You may need to play around with the position of the phone and antenna (or you may have to move) in order to get clear reception. 3/5

Misc. Info:

Only two games to included, and both trials. (Lumines, Texas Hold'em)

You can't transfer games from another phone. You must pay and download them again.

You can't delete the pre-created profiles (those that come with the phone). You can just create your own.

In order to change the phone to vibrate, you must make a vibrating profile. Then to use it, it takes several steps, which is not hard, but inconvenient.

The interface shows the month and date, but not the day of the week.

Only two face templates included with the phone.

That's all for now.

Overall: 4/5