Nokia 5233 – The Affordable Touchscreen Mobile Phone

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Nokia 5233 is a 2 mega-pixel cell phone in the low cost segment of the company. It comes sans 3G facilities thus. It is a stylish touchscreen hanset and is selling rapidly across the globe because of uts pricing. It comes with a stylus and is 115 gms in weight, with a dimension of 111 x 51.7 x 14.5/15.5 mm.

The phone is priced at around INR 6000 in the market. Its key features would include an internal memory of around 70 MB expandable upto 2 GB. It supports Bluetooth version 2.0 and allows printout of photos straight from the phone if you have a compatible printer. The battery back-up is pretty good and allows long hours of talk, making it ideal for the college going crowd. It supports MP3, MP4, AAC, Eaac+ and WMA audio formats and there is also support for FM radio. There are dedicated music keys for this purpose on this phone. Voice memo, organizer and voice command are amongst the other features available in this phone.
Mobile users who have used this handset are pretty satisfied with the way it functions as a lowcost touchscreen phone. The response of the resistive touchscreen is really good. Nokia 5233 ...
... uses the Symbian S60 5th Edition operating system making it a full fledged smart phone. This phone will come with very few built in applications , priced as it is, however, you can download more applications and install them from the built in OVI store. The call quality and reception strength of this phone is quite good and the loudspeaker strength is an average one.
All in all, this is a smart looking phone that does well to position itself as a base touch screen model. But perhaps makes a little too many compromises on the application part in the process. It is ideally suited for the young crowd who want to flaunt a touch screen without requiring too much of smart phone applications. It scores well when it comes to its messaging keys and features, a must again, for the young generation who cannot seem to get enough messaging.
For 1000 rupees more you can get yourself the Nokia 5220 if it’s a touch screen plus smart phone that you are aiming at. But if you are looking to pick it up for your teenage son or daughter who can flaunt the latest technology in the mobile market, aka, touchscreens then this would be good piece to go in for.