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Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Phone, Red (T-Mobile)

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Product Description

With a sleek aluminium finish, the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone for T-Mobile blends an array of music playback features with a crisp 2-megapixel camera with video capture. The 5310 has a dedicated audio chip that helps it produce crystal-clear sound from a wide variety of digital audio file formats stored on optional MicroSD memory cards, and it provides up to 20 hours of music playback. It also includes an FM radio. It features dedicated music playback controls along the side of the phone, next to the brightly colorful 2-inch LCD screen.

It's compatible with T-Mobile's MyFaves service for unlimited nationwide calling to your five favorite people. Other features include Bluetooth connectivity for both stereo music streaming and communication headsets, full Opera Mini web browser, access to your email (with support for viewing attachments), and up to 3 hours of talk time.



Nokia's 5310 XpressMusic phone offers dedicated playback keys and a wide range of format compatibility.
T-Mobile Service Options
The 5310 operates on GSM 850/1800/1900 networks and can handle high-speed data connectivity via T-Mobile's EDGE network (which stands for "Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution"). This high-speed, mobile data and Internet access technology is fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services (with average data speeds between 75-135Kbps), including video and music clips, full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go.

It's compatible with T-Mobile's myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, even landlines--without using any of your minutes. Learn more about myFaves from T-Mobile.

Download cool new games, HiFi Ringers (real songs by today's hottest artists), MegaTones (instrumental versions of songs), and wallpapers quickly, as well as stay connected via the Web, instant messaging, and email.

Phone Features
Measuring just 0.39 inches thin and weighing 2.5 ounces, the svelte candybar-style 5310 has a standard keypad, five-way navigator, send/end keys, and two soft keys, as well as music playback buttons (play/pause, reverse, forward) set on the left side of the LCD. The 2-inch screen has a 240 x 320-pixel resolution and support for 16.7 million colors. The phone also includes a mini-USB connection and a 3.5mm headphone jack at the bottom. It has an internal 30 MB memory (which can be expanded up to 4 GB using optional MicroSD memory cards), and the phone book can store up to 2000 contacts (each with three numbers and one text field).

The 5310 provides the ultimate music playback experience from a mobile phone. You'll be able to play virtually any file, thanks to compatibility with MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAc+, and WMA as well as secure WMA songs purchased from Internet music stores. It also offers easy synchronization with Windows Media Player 10 and 11. Listen, create playlists, and manage your music within the 5700



The 2-megapixel camera on the back also captures videos.
This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity with EDR (enhanced data rate), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server.

Other music-related features include up to 20 hours of playback time, album art display and audio visualizations, and enhanced audio controls (5-band graphical equalizer, stereo widening, loudness, and balance). You'll also be able to listen to your favorite radio station with the integrated FM tuner.

The integrated Bluetooth technology (version 2.0) allows handsfree communication with a compatible headset as well as the ability to exchange files with another Bluetooth compatible device. And, with the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. Additionally, you can connect to your PC using infrared or USB.

The 5310 offers a full range of email, text, and multimedia messaging options. It includes support for IMAP4, POP3, and SMTP email, plus support for attachments such as DOC, PDF, XLS, JPEG, 3GP, and MP3. In addition to SMS text and MMS multimedia messaging, this phone incorporates Nokia Xpress audio messaging, which allows you to personalize messages in a spontaneous and creative way. By using a specially designed menu, an audio message can be recorded and sent with only a few clicks of a button. Xpress audio messages can be sent to all MMS-enabled GSM handsets, and can also be shared with multiple recipients.

Other features include:

  • 2-megapixel digital camera captures still images up to 1600 x 1200 pixels and includes a 4x digital zoom
  • Airplane mode allows you to safely use the non-wireless functions of a phone (music, games, or organizer functions) on an airplane during flight or in other situations where you need to turn off your cellular connection.
  • T9 predictive text entry technology makes it easier for you to enter words and text on handsets
  • Ringtone compatibility: 64-chord polyphonic; MIDI, AAC, eAAC+, MP3, MP4, and WMA formats; video ringtones
  • Synchronize with MS Outlook contacts, calendar, and notes
  • Organizer: Alarm clock, calendar, to-do list, notes, calculator, stopwatch and countdown timer; calendar provides up to 3000 entries with week view functionality including reminder, memo, call, and birthday notes
  • 3rd Edition Series 40 user interface with Active Standby
  • Opera Mini web browser with XHTML and WAP compatibility
  • Bluetooth profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), HID (support for mice or joysticks), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PAN (personal area networking)

Vital Statistics
The Nokia 5310 weighs 2.48 ounces and measures 4.09 x 1.76 x 0.39 inches. Its 860 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3 hours of talk time, and up to 300 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies.

Product Details

  • Dedicated music playback controls, stereo music Bluetooth streaming, FM stereo, MicroSD expansion (up to 4 GB)
  • Compatible with T-Mobile's MyFaves service--unlimited calling to your five most called contacts
  • Email with support for viewing attachments, 2-megapixel camera with video capture
  • Up to 3 hours of talk time, up to 300 hours (12.5 days) of standby time
  • Includes: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, 1 GB MicroSD memory card, wired stereo headset, USB cable, user manual

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Customer Reviews

Five stars and worth every one!
 
Review Date: July 24, 2008
Reviewer: C. R. Swanson, Phoenix
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!
Another perfect choice from Nokia
 
Review Date: July 14, 2009
Reviewer: Ford Ka, Edinburgh, Scotland
I have been true to Nokias ever since I started using mobiles and every time I get a new one I am pleasantly surprised. 5310 is no exception to this rule.
5310 offers everything I expect from a Nokia - sleek design (slim and fairly light), nice colours (nothing too flashy), sturdy materials and easy to operate software.
The screen is just the right size to use the internet and the connection is just OK to suit my needs that is checking information such as weather, movies, rates of exchange etc. I wouldn't recommend it, however, for reading long newspaper articles, however, the letters are a little to small.
The musical part is well done (the mobile even comes with a pair of small loudspeakers which is a very nice idea in theory but nothing very practical in everyday use) and I can't help but appreciate the handy controls on the outside. This Nokia basically made my ipod a fashion accessory - why carry a mobile and an ipod if mobile offers most of ipod's functions?
There is also a camera - good enough to take pictures which will show on the screen to let you know who is calling and snapshots but their quality is only a little above acceptable so don't throw away your camera before you check it out thoroughly - and a radio, a nice addition (headphones, naturally included) although you should be prepared to recharge the battery quite often if you're addicted to listening all the time.
In short - if you're shopping for small, sleek, light mobile phone with all the basic functions plus some added musical ones, this is your perfect choice. It's hard to get anything better for the money.
Excellent cell phone, great music
 
Review Date: October 19, 2009
Reviewer: Joseph Dewey, Orem, UT USA
Mine came with a 1 GB card, so I bought a SanDisk 8GB microSDHC Card CLASS 2 (SDSDQ-8192, Bulk Package) pretty quickly so I could put all my songs on this phone.

I was very surprised with the quality of music. I never thought I'd listen to music from a cell phone, because usually cell phone speakers have a really grainy quality. But, this phone gives out very high quality music.

It's the first phone that has a programmable dictionary. Also the predictive text is pretty cool. It will eventually remember the words you use most often, and bring them up first.

It stores a ton of texts in the internal memory. Right now I have 4105 messages in my inbox and 3074 messages in my outbox and that's only taking up about half of the internal memory.

The only complaint I have is that the alarm is unreliable if you press snooze, and I always do, so I need to come up with another alarm clock solution besides my cell phone. Oh, I guess since it is with T-mobile, I should also complain about how you can't get "t-zones" off the main screen, and it always asks me, "Are you sure you want to exit t-zones" whenever I accidentally go into it. Of course I want to exit t-zones, it's pretty useless unless I'm downloading a game.

The picture quality is great, too. I never thought I'd actually use a cell phone picture for anything but cell phones, but it can take pretty good pictures.
Great size and features
 
Review Date: December 27, 2009
Reviewer: Bradford Kerley, Miami, FL
I have owned the Nokia 5310 for about 1 year. Very pleased. You can easily use this phone as an mp3 player, and that's my favorite thing about it, along with it's small size and durability. I have stopped using my iPod altogether after having this phone. The software comes in box with the phone, and the cable to connect the phone to your computer. I highly recommend buying a "micro SD card" in addition so you have lots of memoory to store mp3 files without using the phone memory. You can transfer mp3 files from your computer to the phone very easily and fast.
It's great for texting because its easy to switch between languages. Makes texting Miami Spanglish easier.

Also when you install the PC Suite software (in the box with phone) into your computer you can arrange your texts from the phone to your computer, and organize by name (instead of date/time). If you go through a breakup, instead of having to delete your ex's texts one by one in the phone, Just plug in your phone to the computer, sort by name, and DELETE. Much easier.

The camera is so - so...it's too delayed when taking a picture.


However- my first Nokia 5310 seemed to have a malfunction. It would freeze and reboot itself like a bad computer- a lot. However, the phone was still within warranty so T Mobile replaced it with an identital one. I have had the replacement for a few months and it seems to be fine.

Overall- great size and great for music lovers. If you start to get a freeze and white screen- call while it's still within warranty and get a replacement.

super cool
 
Review Date: July 12, 2008
Reviewer: Henry J. Carreno, California
i like this phone since you can add music and pics. it has one gb where you can add may things even though i havent tried to add music i guess is a nice phone. the only thing i dont like of this phone is when you connect it to your pc it takes a little bit of time to charge, but other than that is a good phone. another thing i love from this phone is to add a song and use it for a ring ring when someone call you. good stuff. the thing i really dont like is in this phone you cannot surf on the net for free as i used to do it with a metro pcs phone.
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