Nokia 5200

5200 Nokia picture The Nokia 5200 looks almost the same as its big brother, the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic. Although the 5200 doesn't carry the XpressMusic branding, it's clearly designed as another music player phone, but is a mid-range phone targeted at the more budget-conscious consumer. These funky little slider handsets come in a selection of colour schemes and feature dedicated music player and a built in FM radio with volume keys down the side of the phone's body. Getting music on to the phone is a fairly straightforward process thanks to the mini USB port in the top part of the phone. Even more usefully, though, if you take a look under the battery cover you'll also notice a small microSD card slot. Nokia 5200 Themes Free Nokia Themes download Nokia 5200 Software Free Nokia Software download Nokia 5200 Games Free Nokia Games download As well as making transferring tracks a simple matter of using a card reader, it can really boost the phone's onboard storage capacity. A large memory is an absolute essential for a dedicated music handset that wants to be taken seriously, and the 5200 comes with only 5MB of onboard capacity - hardly enough to store more than a single MP3 track. The handset is capable of playing a very wide range of file formats with different compression rates. The audio quality of the Music player application is very good. It's billed as CD quality and certainly sounds it through the supplied headphones/handsfree set. You can tinker around with music playback too using the equaliser settings included that cover styles such as Pop, Rock, Jazz and Classical plus two user definable sets - whatever floats your musical boat. The one big miss from this handset is the lack of forward and rewind keys on the front of the phone. So if you want to skip tracks to get to a particular song you need to go back into the Music Player menu to pull up the track listing and scroll up or down to your choice. Once you've had your fill of the 5200's musical delights a quick tour round the rest of the features reveals a stills and video-capable camera with a maximum VGA resolution (640x480). There's no such skimping elsewhere though, as the support for the most popular web-based email providers so you can check your mail on the phone, video download support, a couple of Java games, WAP browsing and the usual array of organiser functions such as a voice recorder function, calendar, to-do lists, alarm clock and calculator. In terms of talk time and standby, it claims three hours and 11 days respectively, although obviously the more you use all of the phone's features, all of these figures will decrease. The 5200 is worth considering as an alternative to the 5300 XpressMusic if money is tight, and is a good mid-range phone. Its main weaknesses are the poor quality camera and the lack of a memory card in the sales package. Still, if you're looking for a user-friendly phone in a compact design with good music capabilities, the 5200 may be your phone. Nokia 5200: VGA camera with 4x digital zoom Video camera Display: TFT, 262,144 colours, 128x160 pixels Music player Stereo FM radio MP3 ringtones Messaging: SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging, email Screensavers and wallpapers Alarm clock, Reminders, Stopwatch, Countdown timer, Calculator, Calendar, Notes XHTML web browser WAP, GPRS Class 10, HSCSD, EDGE Memory: 5 Mbytes plus MicroSD memory card slot Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, infrared Triband Size: 92 x 48 x 21mm Weight: 104g Talktime: 3.2hours Battery standby: 263hours

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