The new Nokia 5310 Xpress Music phone is another one of Nokia slim and stylish pieces. The phone is principally a music device whose other features are more or less compromised on. As long as you are looking for an Mp3 player and a Radio you are going to be pretty satisfied.For people expecting great photos this phone is going to be quite a disappointment. The Nokia 5310 has high quality materials used in its built and is available in two colors - red and blue. Although at times it may seem a little toy like. The keypad of Nokia 5310 is space effective and easy to use. Its dedicated music buttons help enhance the entire experience. Dimensions and weight The Nokia 5310 is 9.9mm slim and about 103.8x44.7 mm in dimensions. It weighs about 71 grams. And with these dimensions and weight the phone will fit easily into your pocket without tearing a hole in it. The phone appears to be quite stylish and slim, which will definitely work to its advantage. However sometimes the phone does tend to look like a toy. Display The Nokia 5310 is armed with a 2” display with a QVGA resolution that can show up to 16 M colors. It has good picture quality as well as legibility under direct sunlight. The back lighting and contrasts options are not user-configurable. You can only set the phone’s behavior in the power saving mode. You can set animated screensavers or you can choose to have digital clock, the current date and icons indicating missed events as the screen saver. In the sleeping mode the display goes out completely. The backlighting even though is uneven continues to be functional. Memory The Nokia 5310 has 30 MB internal memory and the memory can be extended up to 2GB using a micro SD card, the inclusion of this card in the package is market dependant. The phonebook can hold up to 2000 entries as well as photo call. The phone also supports hot swap. Data Transfer Not forgetting the fact this handset falls into the low price range please don’t expect any miracles to pop up in this section. The mail client works with POP3, SMTP and IMAP4 protocols and also supports multiple inbox. When you want to send a message, it can find the addresses in the phonebook, attachment size is not limited and you can choose whether you want to download just the headers or the entire messages. The phone relies on EDGE and GPRS for network support. The phone has an integrated WAP browser that is capable of managing HTML pages. However the opera mini java application is a better option when it comes to browsing the internet, since it is more intuitive and fits better than the integrated browser. The Opera Mini application is pre-installed. Considering this more of a low end phone the browsing is pretty decent. Once you connect the USB cable, you will have to choose the connection mode. The mass storage option enables you to access the phone’s memory directly from the computer. The Nokia 5310 has Bluetooth version 2.0 and supports A2DP profile, enabling stereo wireless connection. The phone does not have an infra-red port. Battery The Nokia 5310 comes with a BL-4CT battery. The battery gives up to 5 hours and 20 minutes of talk time and about 300 hours in standby. The battery life may not be something to boast about but at least it saves u the trouble of carrying your charger around everywhere. Camera Nokia 5310 is has a 2 mega pixel camera that lacks both a flash and a dedicated autofocus so if you are thinking of night shots or close-ups you might as well forget about it. The camera has a maximum resolution of 1600x1200 pixels. The camera does not have a protected lens cover in fact it does not even have a dedicated button to itself (you have to use the confirm button of the D-pad) and these conditions will only add to your grievances when you are looking at a camera which only gives you an average or maybe even below average picture quality. The camera setting include options like white balance, three quality levels ranging from basic to high, and various effects , you can shoot sequence shots both in landscape or portrait mode. Let me tell you why the camera is a below average one, when it comes to clicking a decent picture if the climate is with you might get one otherwise noise levels are high especially if you have to click pictures of objects that do not have a lot of details example the sky. The lack of autofocus again contributes to poor picture quality in case of close-ups and text is visible only if you take the picture from a distance. Coming to the speed of the camera the one in Nokia 5310 will definitely be a winner if you are looking for the slowest one. If you are saving pictures in the highest resolution then rest assured that your shot-to-shot time is going to increase considerably. If you thought I am done telling you how bad the camera is then here’s an addition to the list….. The camera has a QCIF resolution for video captures and the lengths of videos depends on the availability of free memory and are stored in 3GP format. Zooming option is available. Coming to viewing of pictures in the gallery it is a Classic S40 gallery that doubles as a file manager. There are three different viewing options for the gallery: list with details, list and grid. Once you have selected a picture you can zoom in on the picture for more details however zooming is very slow especially for larger pictures and it not that very effective either. The pictures can be edited in the built-in picture editor…though I doubt you will ever come to making use of it.When it comes to a final verdict on the camera I have one statement: a catastrophe on the geography of the Nokia 5310 Ringtones Nokia 5310 supports 64 tone polyphony as well as various other formats like MP3, MP4, WMA, AAC and video tones. You can customize my phone using downloads and the vibration option is also very functional and can be felt in your pocket. Music Player