Nokia 5610 XpressMusic Review

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The Nokia 5610 is an improvement to the 5300 XpressMusic phone. It is available in blue or red and is slide design. The 5610 is slimmer than the 5300 and is a much more powerful piece of equipment.

Nokia appear to have fixed the difficulty they were having with the screens breaking. They have done by adding aluminium side panels and scratch resistant, ok, it does show up fingerprints but is a tough little phone. It is a pleasant size phone even though it’s not super-thin. The screen is a large 2.2 inches, has 16.7 million colours and high resolutions of 240x320 pixels. The 5610 is easy to control, as the screen sits above the slider key that is used to change the control mode between the music player, radio and the phone. Beneath the slider key is a navigation pad which is a great size and is just as easy to use. Once the 5610 is slid open a great practical keypad is revealed.

Now to the music features of the phone, after all this an XpressMusic phone. The 5610 plays all the main music formats and includes a built in FM radio, it’s sound is of high quality which can be heard from the built in speakers or if you so wish, from the stereo headset that is provided with the phone. Support for a Bluetooth® stereo headset is available. The phone can take a MicroSD™ memory card with up to 4 Gbytes.

The camera on the 5610 has 3.2 mega-pixels, auto-focus, macro mode, digital zoom and a dual LED flash. There is a second as well for making your video calls. The 5610 is also a 3G phone which is worth mentioning. Ok, it’s not as good as the N95 but it does surpass the walkman range.

Everything that is expected from a 3G phone the Nokia 5610 does. It’s capability of what it can do is fantastic. Recording and sending audio messages, choosing any of your music and having it set as your ring-tone, emailing, surfing the web at 3G speed, playing games and a connection via Bluetooth® 2.0 and USB 2.0 is all possible. The battery life is good and the dedicated audio chip for sound is the latest from Nokia.

Nokia 5610 XpressMusic specification

3.2 mega-pixel camera with digital zoom, LED flash & marco mode for close up shots
Seperate camera for video calls
Display 320 x 240 pixels 2.2 inches with 16.7 million colours
Music player, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAc+, MP4, OMA DRM 2.0, WMA music files & Windows Media DRM with support for playlist & album art
FM radio (RDS) & Visual Radio
Voice controlls & voice recorder
Loudspeaker
Ringtones MP3 & MP4 tones Video ringtones, WMA tones, AAC & eAAC+ tones & 64-voice polyphonic MIDI
Messaging SMS, MMS, email (POP3, IMAP4, POP3 and SMTP) support for email attachments & Nokia Xpress audio messaging
Built in games & downloadable Java games
Personal organiser
Full colour screen, animated screensavers, colour wallpapers, themes, logos & icons
Internet with EDGE technology, WAP 2.0, 3G data connection, HSCSD, GPRS & Opera mini web browser
Bluetooth connectivity 2.0 & USB 2.0
20 Mbytes of memory plus MicroSD™ memory slot up to 4GB
Quadband GSM 1900/1800/900/850 & 3G WCDMA 2100/850
Talktime 6 hours
Battery standby up to 320 hours
Size 17 x 49 x 99 mm
Weight 111 grams

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Nokia 5610 XpressMusic Reviewed by Jay from essex, UK on Friday, June 12, 2009

Rating: 1 out of 5.

Don't buy it 1 star rating

I Loved the phone BUT it keeped crashing due to poor software on all the new nokias out atm,every one i no has had the same problems with this phone

Nokia 5610 XpressMusic Reviewed by Sparky from Melbourne, Australia on Friday, May 22, 2009

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Okay, but seen better

While this phone is great for music, and it generally runs smooth &fast - it's kinda flimsy. It's not so much the whole phone that's flimsy - just the slider. The slider will last a matter of months and then break. And surprise-surprise, it's not covered under the warranty.

My advice - if you want a nice, slim, Nokia music phone; go for the 5310. It's capable of the same, but it's smaller &cheaper.

Nokia 5610 XpressMusic Reviewed by GOW from Tuzla, Bosnia And Herzegowina on Friday, September 26, 2008

Rating: 5 out of 5.

I WANT ONE!! 5 star rating

all...i can say..that the phone is amazingly good...the brother will get blackberry...so i'm an errant for the nokia 5610...i held it in my hands..and it felt...sooooo..awsoomeee...i cant wait to recieve it from my brother...what to say???only its worth buying it!!...its funny...way the people talk about the phone..they just complain...bad luck-better luck next time..xD