Nokia 5320 : Teensmart Mobile

• General :
  Announced:2008, April
  Status:Available. Released 2008, July
• Size :
  Dimensions:108 x 46 x 15 mm, 67 cc
  Weight:90 g
• Display :
  Type : TFT, 16M colors
  Size:240 x 320 pixels, 2.0 inches
  - 8-way Navi key- Dedicated music and N-Gage gaming keys
• Ringtones :
  Type : Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3, AAC, 3D, True tones
  Customization : Download.
  Vibration : Yes
• Memory :
  Phonebook : Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
  Call records : Detailed, max 30 days
  Card slot : microSD (TransFlash), up to 8 GB; 512 MB or 1 GB microSD card included .
  - 140 MB of user memory- ARM 11, 369 MHz CPU
• Data :
  GPRS : Class 32
  HSCSD : Yes
  EDGE : Class 32
  3G : HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
  WLAN : No
  Bluetooth : Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
  Infrared port : No
  USB :Yes, microUSB
• Features :
  OS : Symbian OS 9.3, S60 rel. 3.2
  Messaging :SMS, MMS, Email, Push E-Mail, IM
  Browser :WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
  Games :Yes + Downloadable.
  Colors : Blue, Red
  Camera :2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video(QVGA@15fps), flash, secondary videocall camera (384 x 320 pixels)
  - Nokia Say and Play (voice control to music player), Java MIDP 2.1, 3.5 mm audio output jack, FM stereo radio with RDS, MP3/MPEG4 player, Voice memo, Voice dial, Built-in handsfree, Calendar, Push to talk, Up to 24 h music time
• Battery : Standard battery, Li-Ion 890 mAh (BL-5B)
  Stand-by:Up to 250 h
  Talk time:Up to 3 h 30 min
• Performance : 3.5 / 5

• 2″ 262K-color display of QVGA resolution
• Symbian 9.3 OS with S60 3.2 UI
• ARM 11 369 MHz CPU and 128MB of RAM
• 140 MB of user memory
• microSD slot with support for up to 8GB, 512MB or 1GB card in the retail package
• 3G with HSDPA support
• Bluetooth and USB v2.0
• 2 megapixel fixed-focus camera
• 3.5 mm standard audio jack
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Dedicated music controls
• Music-centric Active Standby plug-in
• Very good loudspeaker performance
• Compact body and light weight
• Cool handsfree set in the retail package

Main disadvantages

• Mediocre camera
• QVGA at 15fps video recording max
• Poor battery life
• Smallish display
• No Wi-Fi
• N-gage gaming support is still in the works
• Audio quality is good but not great

• With Nokia 5320 signal reception is great.
• The phone has commendable speaker quality and the sound during calls is clear and free of any interferences.
• Vibration is also strong enough to make sure you never miss an incoming call or message.

• The Symbian handsets have an excellent phonebook with virtually unlimited capabilities.
• There is storage space for practically unlimited number of contacts and fields, with all the available memory potentially usable for the purpose.
• Contacts can be freely ordered by first or last name and can naturally be searched by gradual typing of any of the names.

• The Nokia 5320 supports all common message types – SMS, MMS and email.The SMS and MMS share an editor.
• It is the well known intuitive application from previous Symbian S60 smartphones.
• It has a counter of characters left to the limit of 160.
• There is also an indicator in brackets showing the number of separate parts the message will be divided into for sending.
• All it takes to convert a common SMS into an MMS is insert some multimedia content. A nice feature allows resizing pictures automatically for sending via MMS.

• The XpressMusic branding raises the bar high for the Nokia 5320 music player. Good it is but by no means exceptional: just on par with other recent Symbian devices.
• It has a huge number of supported audio formats, including MP3, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA but little things to top the business-minded Nokia E71 for example.
• Tracks are transferred to Nokia 5320 via Bluetooth, USB or by simple download.
• Nokia 5320 XpressMusic also features an innovative feature called Say and Play.By using the phone’s built-in speaker independent voice recognition, it allows you to play any stored track by simply saying its title or artist.
• The Nokia Say and Play feature currently supports English and the pre-installed UI languages.
• Finally, Nokia 5320 also comes complete with A2DP support. This means you can enjoy your music on a stereo Bluetooth headset.

• Nokia 5320 features Real player for playing your video clips.
• The video player can be displayed in both normal and fullscreen modes.
• When in full screen, the softkey functions are hidden so that they don’t spoil the viewing experience and only pop up when a key is pressed.

• The FM radio on Nokia 5320 has a nice simple interface and can automatically scan and save the available stations in your area. Unlike most other Nokia handsets out there, RDS support is included and the Visual radio is also on-board.
• If internet connection is available, the Visual radio application can download all the local stations and save them to the handset with their names.

Camera and Gallery:

• The performance of the camera is below par.Nokia 5320 is equipped with a 2 megapixel camera with a maximum image resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels, no auto-focus, nor lens protection.
• The LED flash comes as little consolation and can hardly convince us that imaging was taken seriously in the 5320.
• The picture quality of Nokia 5320 is unimpressive. The phone is having a hard time keeping noise under control and the colors are rarely spot-on. In most cases, the photos look washed out (low contrast) and really lacking vibrancy (low colors).
• As for video recording, the 5320 disappoints with QVGA resolution at 15 fps. The quality is not that impressive. Like the still camera the camcorder of the 5320 has trimmed down settings.
• The gallery of the Nokia 5320 isn’t nearly as good as the one on the Nseries devices that sport Feature Pack 2 but still does the job.
• It has neither the fancy 3D view mode nor the convenient shortcuts that allow you to send or print the selected picture without opening the menu.

Applications :

• Data transfer options are a decent count on Nokia 5320. Every common network data transfer medium is supported and so are USB 2.0 and Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP. HSDPA support just makes it all the sweetest.
• There is also a card slot so if you have a card reader lying around you can transfer the data directly to your memory card. The huge letdown about the Nokia 5320 connectivity is the absence of Wi-Fi.

Browsing Compatability :

• Browsing the internet with Nokia 5320, like with all Nokia smartphones, is a nice experience.

Organizer :

• The calendar has three different types of view – monthly, weekly and daily, and four types of events available for setting up – Meeting, Memo, Anniversary and To-do. Every event has its own unique fields, and some of them allow an alarm to be activated at a preset time to act as a reminder.
• The mobile office is also very well geared, with preinstalled applications able to open Word and Excel and PDF files seamlessly. Editing documents is not supported, but hey, we’re not talking Eseries here. If you would like editing enabled you will have to purchase the complete application at the Nokia Download center. The final ingredient here is the included ZIP manager, which allows extracting archived files straight on your phone.
  Some of the other included PIM applications are a great unit converter, calculator and voice recorder, as well as the Notes application.
• The ActiveNotes application is also on board allowing multimedia content to be added to your notes.
• The alarm application allows a huge number of alarms to be set, each with its own name, trigger day and repeat pattern.
• The useful “Search” application is also aboard the Nokia 5320. Finally, Nokia 5320 features a dictionary with a rather rich database. English comes pre-installed but you can also download dozens of other languages for free from the Nokia website.

Games :

• Gaming lovers will have no reason to frown at the Nokia 5320 preloaded content.
• There are 4 preinstalled games on our unit, and a shortcut to N-gage downloads.
• Unfortunately, N-gage support for Nokia 5320 is still in the works with no exact release date.
• On top of that, there are plenty of third-party games out there, so Nokia 5320 users can easily download both native and java titles.

Conclusion :

1. All in all, this is beautiful creation that Nokia has done for its users . Design is one of the most important things that most people like to check for their mobiles.
2. It has 8-way navigation key along with dedicated keys for music. An amazing feature in this regard is the feature of “Say and Play” which implies that you can now play your favorite song just by mentioning the artist name.
3. It has GPRS, EDGE and 3G technology to provide the best efficiency in exploring the internet. Camera is another feature that provides a more than good result as it has 2-megapixel camera with 1600×1200 pixels which also comes with a flash light that makes it easy to use that where light may not be sufficient.
4. The 5320 is definitely low key even compared to the way more modest 5310 . The lack of Wi-Fi however is still a downer and so is the smallish display.The 5320 stays faithful to the XpressMusic-on-Symbian concept and makes it hard to decide whether smartphone strength or the music heart give it the extra edge.