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Nokia 5310 XpressMusic

Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Reviews

CNET UK reviews the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and writes, "There are currently a huge number of music phones on the market and to be honest the 5310 doesn't really stand out from the crowd. The handset may be slim, but the case feels quite plasticky and the range of features on offer is nothing we haven't seen before. It's a decent phone, given its relatively low price of £120 on pay as you go from the Carphone Warehouse (or free on contract), but certainly not an exceptional one."

Trusted Reviews has a review of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and writes, "The camera is a less positive story. It has a 2-megapixel lens which puts it squarely in the average camp. It lacks autofocus, self portrait mirror or flash, and when framing photographs you have to hold the phone still to avoid your subject looking very blurred on screen...Images themselves are disappointing. The coloured dish, which I always photograph under normal household lighting and with the camera set to auto modes, looks washed out. Its colours are a lot more vibrant than the photo suggests. The chair lacks definition and there's evidence of lens distortion along the top of the picture."

The Sydney Morning Herald reviews the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and writes, "It's one of the few phones to sport a standard 3.5-millimetre audio jack, giving you the freedom to use your own headphones such as noise-cancelling earbuds, and the only phone we know of with a bespoke audio processing chip to reproduce your music crisply and clearly. This also helps to keep the music playing smoothly while you carry out other tasks, such as sending text messages or using the two-megapixel camera."

MobileBurn reviews the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and writes, "The 2-megapixel camera on the 5310 churns out average quality photos, which is quite disappointing. Photo-taking is done in portrait mode, as the centre D-pad key is the shutter key. Unfortunately, the 5310 does not have a dedicated shutter/camera key like a lot of phones tend to have these days. There are, however, settings enabling users to take photos in various color modes – black and white, sepia and negative. The white balance was not exactly great during my tests, giving a bluish hue to all the photos taken. The end result is always good enough for candid shots, but never good enough for prints, which isn't surprising for a fixed focus camera like the 5310's."

SiliconRepublic reviews the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and writes, "Its smooth exterior matches its functionality. It has the usual trimmings which come with mobile phones these days: photos, video, organiser, games and web browsing. The camera quality is fairly typical of camera phones, ie best for clandestine use. The video recording capability too is extremely basic."

InfoSync reviews the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and writes, "Beyond the music features, the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic also features a 2-megapixel camera, as well as a Web browser. It might be telling that Nokia doesn't include a dedicate camera button, and instead the camera feature is buried under three menu layers. But pictures were actually not bad. We saw some good detail, and though photos were fairly blurry overall, in good light our pics were usable. Not printable, though the phone can connect directly to a printer, but usable for emergency shots."

MobileTechReview has a review of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and writes, "Nokia has done a wonderful job at producing and improving their 5 megapixel and 3 megapixel camera phones, and anyone who's used a Nokia N95 or a Nokia N78 will attest to that statement. The same thing cannot be said about their 2 megapixel camera phones. That's not to say they are bad, just they are not stellar like the N95 or the N78 that lead in their own class of camera phones. The 2 megapixel camera on the Nokia 5310 takes good photos with proper color balance and good brightness. The images don't have a huge amount of detail and there's some noise in both indoor and outdoor shots. There's a tendency to white-out bright objects which isn't unusual in this class of camera phone. You can take still images at 7 resolutions: 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 1024, 1280 x 960, 800 x 600, 640 x 480, 320 x 240 and 160 x 120. The camera software can rotate the display to landscape mode."

PC Mag reviews the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and writes, "The 2-megapixel camera is pretty awful, snapping washed-out, bluish pictures in daylight, and hideously blurry pictures in low light. The 176-by-144, 10-frames-per-second video-recording mode takes compressed, choppy videos with visible color artifacting. The camera is not only disappointing but also difficult to access: In default mode, it requires seven clicks before you can take a shot."