The 5230 is an entry-level touchscreen mobile phone. Its key aspects are its large touchscreen, A-GPS with Ovi Maps, 3G, downloadable applications from the Ovi store and exceptional battery life. In other ways it's dissatisfaction with a deprived camera, a mono speaker, no WiFi and no video calling. We think that the 5530 presents a more rounded package but if not it's a good addition to Nokia's variety.

The 5230 is not recognized as an XpressMusic phone and it lacks stereo speakers. But it does contain a music player, FM radio and a 3.5mm audio jack. It also has the extra characteristic of an A-GPS receiver, with Ovi Maps complete.


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Features of the Nokia 5230 include:

• Symbian S60 5th edition smartphone

• 2 megapixel camera with 3x digital zoom

• Nokia Ovi player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA formats)

• FM radio

• Ringtones: MP3 & video ringtones, 64-voice polyphonic ringtones, vibration alert

• Integrated handsfree speaker

• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (support for IMAP, POP, SMTP) plus attachments, Audio messaging

• Internet: HSCSD, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA (3.6 Mbps), XHTML web browser

• A-GPS with Ovi Maps 3.0

• Video recording at up to VGA resolution and up to 30 fps, 4x digital video zoom

• Display: Touchscreen, 16.7 million colours, 640 x 360 pixels (3.2 inches) with automatic display rotation and proximity sensor

• Size: 111 x 52 x 16 mm

• Weight: 113g

• Talktime: up to 7 hours

• Battery standby: 450 hours

• Music playback: up to 33 hours

• Voice commands: speaker independent dialling and voice commands

• Voice recorder

• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, micro USB 2.0, 3.5 mm audio jack, 2.5 mm Nokia AV connector

• Memory: 70 Mbytes plus microSD memory card slot (up to 16 GB supported)

• Offline mode

• 3G plus quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)