Customer Reviews

Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Unlocked Phone with 2 MP Camera, MP3/Video Player, MicroSD Slot--U.S. Version with Warranty (Blue)

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The best thing I like about this cellphone is its loudness: built-in speaker is loud and speakerphone is loud. This helps a lot if you're in a noisy restraunt (reason I dumped my old cellphone).
Pluses:
1. Well designed music player UI and dedicated buttons.
2. Loud speaker for playing music.
3. Standard 1/8" mini jack for headphones.
4. Solid buttons, crisp display
5. Very small, stylish
Minuses:
1. Short battery life -- must charge almost every night.
2. Camera is fair in quality.
3. No 3G

Pros:
- Phone is compact
- For a small phone has decent MP3 quality
- Clean lines
- Sturdy casing
- Separate ports for charging, USB and earphones
- Call quality seems to be good
- Simple Bluetooth connectivity
- Easy menu interface
- Convenient music player controls
- All necessary accessories (except for a travel charger) are included in the package (along with 2GB Micro SD)
- Seems to retain its charge well (stand-by and talk time)
- Nokia technical support, phone features, and website access to options without nickle-and-diming you really stands out.

Cons:
- Speakerphone could be louder (however new FCC rulings place limitations on US Version phones with this capability so Nokia is simply abiding by the FCC).
- Voice dialing gets it right about 80% of the time.
- Using Nokia PC Sync software may still not allow you to Sync with the phone. Was unable to get this problem resolved.

For the most part am very pleased with the phone. My only serious disappointment is my inability to Sync, however that may be unique to myself. Am very pleased with the extent of service by Nokia technical support in providing guidance and support, and appreciate the Nokia website which offers various extras (software and other downloads) free of charge when other manufacturers expect you to purchase some of the same options to fully utilize the features of their phones.

I also commend Amazon.com customer and wireless services personnel for their attentiveness and dedication to true customer service!

The Nokia 5310, aka "The Music Xpress", is one nifty little phone! Sure, it's no iPhone, but if you want something that got just about as many bells and whistles for a little less money, you want this phone.

The 5130 is available in purple, orange, red and blue (I own the purple). It's very thin and small, but fits easily in the palm of your hand and doesn't give the impression it's going to fall apart if you look at it cross-eyed.

The buttons are raised up just a bit. The display is bright and vibrant. If you have T-Mobile service with this phone, you'll find it can handle the My Favorites plan just fine, with nice little icons and customizable options fo each person.

The phone has several nifty features, including a 2 megapixel camera that takes good-to-very-good quality pictures. It can also function as a video camera, doing both sound and image. There's no flash or self-portrait mirror, but you can make do. The screen acts as a view finder, of course. There's also four different levels of zoom and several different video effects (like black and white, negative, false color, etc). There's a nifty little mini-USB port you can use to move your files to a computer (assuming you have a cable. Thankfully the phone comes with one).

There's also the usual selection of programs, like a calculator, alarm clock, organizer, etc. The system also comes with a few game demos, none of which are particularly memorable.

Ah, but you want to know about the biggie, right? You want to know all about the music capability!

Well, this phone doesn't disapoint. There's external music controls and an external volume control. You can turn it up loud enough to annoy the people next door if you really try. There's also a headphone jack that, thankfully, allows for normal headphones to be used. I have a neat little set I got on a Delta flight, and they work just fine.

When I bought the phone it came with the USB cable I mentioned earlier, as well as a stereo hands-free headset with a detachable mic, and, joy of joys, a 1 gigabyte memory card! That's a really nice thing to have! I've got quite a bit of music on mine and it isn't even close to being filled. Tiny card, too. About the size of a fingernail.

Overall there's no real reason not to recommend this phone. It's sleek and stylish, has a great price point, comes with plenty of goodies and plays music very, very well. It's worth every penny I paid for it, and that's not something I can often say!

Love the compact size... automatically locks when not in use... 4GB of music and videos... great screen and input keys. I'd change the location of the volume controls, currently you have to reposition your hold to change the volume. The PC Sync took some work to get it working with Outlook but now it works like a charm. (Quick tip: try syncing without the SIM and SD card the first time, it'll force the software to reset)

This is a great Phone I love mine, but I get so frustrated that Nokia didn't finish their work.

Since the iPhone I have started to expect more from a phone then basic functionality. I don't want a phone, I want an extension to my computer. If life happens and I will miss a meeting I want the numbers and contact information so that I can reschedule my life on the fly. Apple get this. Nokia sells tons and tons of phones, yet they seem to be too busy to do one phone to completion. I have contemplated moving to the iPhone like my wife but the size and capabilities of this phone keep me from making the leap.

What I like about this phone:

1) Size: Nothing beats the size. You don't even know you have a phone on you.
2) Bluetooth: This phone support file transfer and stereo headsets. Two things the iPhone can't do.
3) Cut and Paste: Basic functionality that I have come to expect that is missing on the iPhone. This phone support cut and paste
4) Sound: This things sounds great with apple ear buds! And it has decent sound without a headset (remember it is like 7mm thin)
5) battery: At the end of the day my battery is still full. Last month I talked on the phone all day. Took and over night train to shanghai. I listened to music on the train and then talked the next day on the phone. Amazing!
6) AAC support: This phone can play unencrypted AAC files from iTunes.

What I don't like...

1) Wont sync with Mac. Worse yet People on the net say creating a sync profile is easy! So why doesn't Nokia do it!!!
1.a) won't sync with iCal (very important)
1.b) Won't sync with Address Book (very important)
1.c) Won't sync with iTunes (less important)

Nokia, Apple is eating your lunch. Finish the job. You have a very good product finish it out. Continue to release software for the product. The rules are changing.

I'm not the guy who is looking for the super-fancy, multi-function iPhone type of handset. I just needed something with simple web browsing ability and all the basic functions of a cell phone. I don't like flips or sliders or any of those mechanical lever type phones, I only like these candybar type phones so my options are kind of limited. This phones meets and exceeds my expectations as far as features go. Came with a 2GB chip which I found impressive. The phone works well, reception is good, bluetooth works perfectly with my blueant, web browsing is fast as heck for a little phone not really designed for it. Overall, I'm very happy with the phone. The only down side for me is that the buttons are a little small and not separated enough so I often push the wrong buttons when texting. The reason I'm giving this 4 stars instead of five is because some of the menu systems are a little funky and go against logic. I get frustrated with it a little too often, but overall, the phone is great. It's SUPER thin, sometimes I can't find it in my pocket which is just how I like it. It's actually a powerful little phone for the money, I definitely recommend it.

I purchased this phone to replace my old LG. I've always complained that many phones are primitive an lack most of the functionality a moderate phone user requires. I must say Nokia has impressed me. Everything from free, well programmed PC suite software, to the ability to update the BIOS easily on your own, to the slimness and studiedness of the phone. My only complaint is I wish the battery life was a tad better, but for the size, quality, features, and price you can't beat this phone!

I use to be a cell phone junky before it was trendy to have the latest and greatest phone. When cell phones started to become fashionable (the Razer) is when I backed away from always having the newest model. I have owned phones from every manufacture who has phones in the US. I wanted a new phone, something solid, but not overly expensive. The 5310 is a very nice phone, if it had a few things more I would say almost perfect. The phone's very small, and feels real solid in your hand. It's not heavy, but it's not light either. It's almost too thin, but doesn't slip out of my hand. The speaker on it is pretty good, not as loud as a Nextel, but it's pretty clear. Much better than most other phones on the market. Battery life isn't great, but look how small this phone is. I think Nokia has it rated somewhere around 5 1/2 hours of talk time. I don't know how much I get, but the battery icon seems to diminish pretty quick. But for how thin this phone is I'm not complaining at all. BTW I have the white/gray version. Same exact phone, just a diffent color. You don't see many white phones and I think it looks good. Supports stereo bluetooth, which is nice. I love hearing my ring tones on my headset. Voice commands work reasonably well. I don't use them for anything except calling people. Call quality is pretty good, the built in speaker is loud, and the speakerphone is loud too. Reception isn't as good as my Blackberry Pearl, not bad by any means though.

There are some big issues with it, for me. 1 being the menus, they're ugly. the resolution of the screen is good, the colors on pictures are fantastic. The icons for the menus look horrible. You can download, or even make your own themes. But the default ones suck badly. You have this incredibly sexy phone, with a cheap cheap cheap looking user interface. Making your own with Nokia's software isn't exactly easy either. The phone supports Flash Lite, but I don't know if it supports Flash Lite themes or just screen savers. If it supports themes like my Sony Ericcson w810i, I take back my comment about the ugly UI :)
Another issue, it has a USB port, but you cannot charge the phone thru it, So when I hook it to my PC I have to hook up the charging cable too. Seems pointless to have the Nokia charging port on the side when the USB one would work great. I dunno why they didn't do this :(

What I like:
Size, feel, keypad feels good. Has a standard headphone jack, and comes with a 1gb MicroSD card. I already own an iPod Touch so I don't need tons of storage. But I still like to have some to play around with. Also has an FM radio, which could be considered a minus to some since you need to carry around a connector (antenna) if you want the radio to work.

The price is right on this phone, if Nokia was to release a phone that looks like this built off the s60 platform I'd jump on it in a minute. I honestly find most Nokia phones to be ugly, but this is a very sexy phone.

This phone was a gift so my review is second-handed and not based on any long use but rather on the feedback i received.

Pros:
1. VERY thin and lightweight
2. alot of features
3. Good sound quality and volume
4. Stylish with very good graphic interface and software
5. Bluetooth worked seemlessly
6. Screen quality is amazing
7. 2GB expansion card
8. Very nice music player and radio
9. Flight Mode - so you don't have to turn off during a flight but rather just stop transmitting.
10. For all the features that is packed into this tiny phone i must say the price was right.

Cons:
1. Camera is too slow. Hard to take a picture that is not blurred. A lot of light needed and no flash.
2. The screen flashes for about 30 seconds after a call or message has ended. Not sure if we changed a setting but we can't seem to get it to stop.

Really good phone but i had to take away a star for what i think is a crappy camera. That is very minor because the camera would be under-used anyway.

This is a slim phone. Be careful if you dont wanna break it. The mp3 player is great. Its sound is so good. It's nice that they give u a 2gb memory card. Again, just need to be careful when you open to insert smart chip.