| With the low budget smartphone war heating up, Nokia | | | | phone lacks external dedicated music control keys. |
| one of the biggest and major cell phone | | | | The EDGE network functionality allows speedy data |
| manufacturers around the world, too entered the | | | | transmissions, and file transfers. Bluetooth (version 2.0) |
| arena with this stylishly braided nokia 5230 Xpress | | | | is provided for wireless data transfer between |
| Music. After Samsung marked its presence with | | | | bluetooth enabled devices such as PDA's, Printers, |
| Corby series, Nokia too geared up for some full on | | | | other mobile phones, laptops etc.... USB ( version 2.0) is |
| touchscreen war with its recently launched Nokia 5230 | | | | another option for quick data transfer. One touch |
| XpressMusic. It is a quad-band GSM full touchscreen | | | | access to all major social networking sites including |
| music phone, which features a screen size of 3.2-inch | | | | Facebook, Twitter and Myspace is also provided. The |
| with 16M colors TFT display. This powerful music | | | | 2.0 Megapixel digital camera features auto focus, 4x |
| phone can play upto 33 hours of non-stop music | | | | digital zoom and integrated dual LED flash, further the |
| playback with a single charge. | | | | embedded ambient light sensor optimizes display |
| It supports full Touchscreen with Handwriting | | | | brightness. |
| recognition capabilities, the Proximity Sensor allows | | | | The most important part of a music phone, the media |
| auto system turn off along with Accelerometer | | | | player supports all major audio formats including |
| Sensor for Auto horizontal/vertical screen Rotation. | | | | MP3,AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WAV/RealAudio |
| The phone features scratch protection and aluminum | | | | and MP4. Further, the 3.5mm audio jack enables you to |
| side panels for additional durability against wear and | | | | plug-in your favourite earphones. The memory options |
| tear, it further embeds dedicated audio chip for | | | | including 70 MB internal memory, and support for |
| enhanced music performance. Music slider handset | | | | expandable memory upto 16GB, offers a lot of scope |
| allows instant mode switching between music player, | | | | for storing your favourite music, pictures, videos, |
| FM radio and phone idle mode, It sports built-in MONO | | | | documents, games and many more, without worrying |
| Speakers for music and FM playing, however the | | | | about the screen blurting "out of space". |