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Nokia 5700 XpressMusic Review
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rating: In a nutshell: This smartphone with XpressMusic branding offers an outstanding music experience, but has a relatively poor camera. We dislike the joystick and aren't convinced by the twist design. However, it does offer 3G video calling and fast downloads, Bluetooth wireless connectivity and up to 2 Gbytes of memory. Review:
December 2007. Updated March 2008. The Nokia 5700 XpressMusic is Nokia's first Symbian Smartphone in its rapidly expanding XpressMusic range of phones. It has an unusual design with a twisting lower keypad that lets you access different functions. Twist once and the numeric keypad is replaced by controls for the 2 megapixel camera. Twist again and you can access three dedicated music controls (play/pause, stop, rewind/fast forward) and there are volume controls on the side. Twist again for video call mode. Twist one more time to view videos. All the twisting made us a bit dizzy, but that's probably just old age. One thing that we definitely didn't like though is the joystick on the front - we would much prefer to see a 5-way navigation pad like on most Nokias. The 5700 delivers an excellent music experience. Its music player supports all the most common music formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ & WMA, with Windows DRM support too. It also includes an FM radio with Visual Radio support. Audio quality from the stereo loudspeakers is good, and when using headphones is excellent. You can also plug in your own headphones via the 3.5mm adapter if you want the best audio quality possible. The 5700 also supports wireless Bluetooth headsets. The music app gives you plenty of control over your music: you can easily create and manage playlists, and can share playlists with your friends using Bluetooth or MMS. There's a 5-band equaliser and controls for stereo widening, loudness, and balance. The player also displays album art. The built-in memory of 64 Mbytes is good, with an extra 128 Mbytes of flash memory, and the microSD card slot can take cards up to 2 Gbytes (enough for around 500 music tracks.) The 5700 is equipped with a rather run of the mill camera: 2 megapixels with 4x digital zoom and flash. We expect to see more in a Symbian device these days. 3G video calling is supported. There are also some video and still image editors included and the RealOne player is supplied as standard. Connectivity is good. The 5700 supports Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 and infrared too, for those that still like to use it. It's a quadband phone as well as 3G. It supports email with support for attachments, and the text-to-speech function can read aloud your messages with a "Take me to your leader" kind of voice. You can talk to your phone to, as it supports speaker independent name dialling. This is a Symbian phone, so you get access to a huge library of third-party apps, but as usual with Symbian phones, be prepared to invest more time than usual maintaining your phone with optimised settings and the latest firmware downloads. Ultimately we're not convinced by the twist design, although this is clearly a matter of personal taste. We also dislike the joystick. The 5700 XpressMusic does a lot, but not enough when compared to other smartphones. It's missing any kind of wow factor. We prefer the Nokia 5610 XpressMusic which we feel is a better balanced phone, although it's not Symbian. If you must have a Symbian phone, then we would recommend the Nokia N81 (which definitely does have the wow factor) or the cheaper Nokia 6120 Classic.
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