Review: Nokia 5220 XpressMusic

Nokia 5220 XpressMusic Review

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In a nutshell: An entry-level music phone that does the business for well under £100. The 5220 has an excellent music player, a stereo FM radio and a 2 megapixel camera. Connectivity is excellent, with Bluetooth, USB and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. Memory is limited, at 30MB, but is expandable to 2GB with a microSD memory card.
Best buy: On Pay as you Go from the Carphone Warehouse (Red) at £59.95.

The 5220 is the entry-level phone in Nokia's XpressMusic range of music phones. Nokia say that the 5220 has a stylishly asymmetrical design that's easy to hold. We think it looks a bit funny, but it's no big deal.

The point is that it's a cheap phone that makes calls, sends texts, takes snapshots with a basic camera, plays music and has an FM radio too. The music player is excellent, with support for playlists and most popular digital music formats, including MP3, MP4, AAC and WMA. The sound output from the speaker may be a bit tinny, but the 5220 has a key advantage, which is that you can plug in any standard headphones to its 3.5mm headphone jack, and then you'll get top audio quality, courtesy of a dedicated audio chip. You can also use a wireless Bluetooth headset if you prefer.

The 5220 doesn't have a lot of memory for storing music - just 30 Mbytes - which is enough for around 8 songs. But you can add a microSD memory card up to 2GB, which will give you enough storage for around 500 songs.

It's a very lightweight and superslim phone too, and we like it!

Features of the Nokia 5220 XpressMusic include:

• 2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom
• Video camera
• Display: Active matrix LCD, 240 x 320 pixels, 256,000 colours, 2 inches
• Music player (MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAc+, and WMA music files / OMA DRM 2.0 and Windows Media DRM)
• Stereo FM radio with Vidual Radio support
• Ringtones: Video ringtones, MP3 and MP4 tones, eAAC+ tones, AAC tones, WMA tones, 64-voice polyphonic MIDI, message alert tones, and alarm clock tones
• Integrated handsfree speaker
• Voice commands
• Voice recorder
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, push email (SMTP, POP3 and IMAP 4), Nokia Xpress audio messaging
• Animated screensavers, wallpaper, themes
• Internet: Opera Mini Browser, WAP 2.0, HSCSD, EDGE up to 118.4 kbps
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, modem, 3.5 mm AV connector
• Memory: 30 Mbytes plus microSD card (up to 2 Gbytes)
• Organiser: Alarm clock, calendar, to-do list, notes, calculator, stopwatch and countdown timer
• Flight mode
• Triband
• Size: 108 x 44 x 10.5 mm
• Weight: 78g
• Talktime: 5.25 hours
• Battery standby: 400 hours
• Music playback: up to 24 hours

Nokia 5220 XpressMusic Consumer Reviews

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Average rating from 11 reviews:

Reviewed by Ravi from India on 18th Nov 2008
Battery power is not enough to support the visuals, games, music player and the Blue tooth. Good thing is supported stereo Blue tooth head phones but battery is not lasting for long.
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Reviewed by Aisling from Northern Ireland on 17th Nov 2008
Brilliant phone! No Problems with it yet! Best phone i have ever bought!
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Reviewed by abbas from pakistan on 16th Nov 2008
nokia is the doing very well job in my country pakistan
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Reviewed by Robert from Scotland on 10th Nov 2008
Good phone but the camera is not perfect. First one I got had little dots all over the screen in camera mode..sent back and the replacement has same problem, minor issue but annoying.
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Reviewed by REHAN from PAKISTAN on 5th Nov 2008
GOOD PHONE BUT THERE IS LITTLE PROBLEM IN SPEAKERS. OVERALL NIC DESIGN. GRAB IT.
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Reviewed by Ryder from England on 22nd Oct 2008
SIKKK PHONE
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Reviewed by beliiam from china on 19th Oct 2008
This phone rocks, but i brought a nokia 6500 classic and it beats it so buy dis or buy da ova one or u missin out blood
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Reviewed by Gargoyle from Ukraine on 19th Oct 2008
This phone is very good. i like it =]
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Reviewed by mark from Uk on 18th Oct 2008
good phone nice design
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Reviewed by krishnaprashna from INDIA on 23rd Sep 2008
IT'S EXTRA ORDINORY
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Reviewed by GANGSTA from england on 22nd Sep 2008
yh yh sik fone is mad i got it and its good grab it
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