Nokia 5230 Review, Price in India , Specification

Nokia new touch devices Nokia 5230 touchscreen is having resolution of 360 X 640 pixels supporting full 16M color range.

Nokia 5230 price is affordable for Indian customers in the touch devices segment at approximately Rs. 8500.

Nokia 5230 is equipped with 3G, touchscreen Candybar, 70 MB Memory and microSD support up-to 16GB.

The touch phone supports 3D, 64-tone polyphonic, mp3 and video ring tones. Nokia 5230 comes preloaded with various other applications, which includes Voice command/ dial, photo editor, Flash Lite 3.0, Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Handwriting recognition feature, Email and IM. Nokia 5230 has1320 mAh Li Ion battery.

New Handset of Nokia also provides instant access to social networking sites and the Nokia Messaging Service that can manage up to 10 email accounts. It also has feature of GPS receiver that works with OVI Maps 3.0 to help find exact position as you explore new cities and travel quickly from one point to another.

The Nokia 5230 phone is expected to be available in Rs.8500 for the Indian customers. It also will compete with the touchscreen phones like Samsung Star or LG Cookie. Nokia 5230 will be a good choice for the customers who is ready to change his old mobile for new one.

Physical features, power and memory

* Form: Classic with touchscreen

* Dimensions: 111 x 51.7 x 14.5/15.5 mm

* Weight: 113 g (without stylus)

* Weight: 115 g (with stylus)

* Volume: 78 cc (without stylus) / 83 cc (with stylus)

* Responsive touchscreen with tactile feedback

* Accelerometer for auto-rotate

* Proximity sensor to save power and prevent inadvertent touches

Display and 3D

* Size: 3.2″

* Resolution: 640 x 360 pixels (nHD) with 16:9 picture

* Up to 16.7 million colours

* Full touchscreen display

Keys and input method

* Touchscreen

* Dedicated keys for camera, volume, power, send & end, and application launch (menu), plus the media bar touch key for accessing music, gallery, share online, video centre and web browser

* Homescreen music plug-in for pause/play, forward, back

* Voice commands

Colours and covers

* Available in-box colours:

- White/Red

- White/Dark Silver

- White/Pink

- White/Yellow

- White/Blue

- Black/Red

- Black/Dark Silver

* Changeable colour battery covers

Connectors

* Micro-USB connector, USB 2.0 high speed

* 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector

Memory

* microSD memory card slot, with hot swap max. 16 GB

* 70 MB internal dynamic memory

Power

* BL-5J 1320 mAh Li-Ion standard battery

* Talk time (maximum)

- GSM 7 h

- WCDMA 4 h 18 min

* Standby time (maximum)

- GSM up to 438 h

- WCDMA up to 458 h

* Video playback time (maximum): Mpeg-4 4.6hours, nHD 3 hours

* Music playback time (maximum): 33 h

Communication and navigation

Communication and navigation

Operating frequency

* Dual band 900/2100 WCDMA and 850/1900 WCDMA

* GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

* Automatic switching between GSM bands

* Flight mode

Data network

* CSD

* HSCSD

* GPRS/EGPRS Class B, multislot class 32, maximum speed 177/296kbps (DL/UL)

* EDGE class B, multislot class 32, maximum speed 177/296 kbps (DL/UL)

* WCDMA 2100, maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (UL/DL),

CS 64 kbps

* HSDPA, cat. 6, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps (DL)

* TCP/IP support

Local connectivity and synchronisation

* Bluetooth version 2.0

- Bluetooth profiles: A2DP, AVRCP

* MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) support

* Direct printing to compatible picture printers

* Support for PC synchronisation with Nokia Ovi Suite

Service

* Speaker-independent name dialling (SIND)

Call features

* Integrated hands-free speakerphone

* Number screening for messaging and calls

* Automatic answer with headset or car kit

* Any key answer

* Call waiting, call hold, call divert

* Call timer

* Logging of dialled, received and missed calls

* Automatic redial

* Speed dialling

* Voice dialling: speaker independent dialling and voice commands (SIND)

* Fixed dialling number support

* Vibrating alert (internal), also with tactile feedback

* Side volume keys

* Mute/unmute

* Contacts bar for 20 contacts with images and communication history (SMS, email, web feeds)

* Talking ring tones

* Conference calling with up to 6 participants

Messaging

* SMS

* Multiple SMS deletion

* MMS version 1.3, message size up to 600 kb

* Automatic resizing of images for MMS

* Nokia Xpress audio messaging

* Common inbox for SMS and MMS messages

* Number screening for messaging

* Distribution lists for messaging

* Cell broadcast

E-mail

* Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP

* Support for e-mail attachments

* OMA e-mail notification support

* Mail for Exchange 2008 preinstalled

Web browsing

* Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML, WML

* Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP, JavaScript

* TCP/IP support

* OSS browser

* Nokia Mobile Search

GPS and navigation

* Integrated A-GPS

* Ovi Maps 3.0 application

Image and sound

Image and sound

Photography

* 2 megapixel camera

* Image formats: JPEG

* CMOS sensor

* 3x digital zoom

* White balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent

* Center weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.5 step

* Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative

* Dedicated camera key

* Landscape (horizontal) orientation

* Photo editor on device

Video

* Main camera

- Video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps (TV high quality), up to 640 x 352 pixels and up to 30 fps (widescreen quality), up to 320 x 240 pixels and up to 30 fps/15 fps (email high/normal quality), up to 176 x 144 and up to 15 fps (sharing quality)

- Up to 4x digital zoom

* Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp

* Audio recording formats: WAV (normal), AMR (MMS), AAC/MP4 (high quality)

* Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent

* Scene modes: automatic, night

* Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative

* Clip length (maximum): 1 h 30 min (high or normal quality). Dependable on available memory

* RealPlayer

* Video playback file formats: MPEG4-SP playback 30fps VGA, MPEG4-AVC playback 30fps QVGA, WMV9 playback 30fps QVGA, MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps nHD

* Video streaming: 3GPP and CIF

* Landscape mode video playback

* Video ring tones

* Video editor on device

* Video Centre service supported: download and stream video content, WMV support, video feeds

Music and audio playback

* Music playback file formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC+, WMA

* Dedicated music keys

* FM radio

* 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug

* 2.5 mm Nokia AV connector

* Nokia Music

* Nokia Music Store support

* Nokia Podcasting support

* Ring tones: mp3, aac, 64-tone polyphonic (64 built-in tones)

* Integrated speaker

Voice and audio recording

* Voice commands

* Voice dialling

Personalisation: profiles, themes, ring tones

* Ring tones: 3D, 64-tone polyphonic, mp3 and video ring tones

* Video ring tone