Nokia 5700 Review

By Author: Jerry Smith
Total Articles: 224
Comment this article

When you are looking for a smartphone & music phone, you should consider Nokia 5700. The 5700 is one heavyweight musician. So let's see what is under the hood. It has an excellent display with great viewing experience even under direct sunlight. This Symbian handset adopts a youthful sporty design that has a fast and responsive user interface with great earphones and a functioning swivel part. However, this Nokia phone does have some drawbacks such as no built in headphone jack, a weak bass, no pencil key, bizarre menu as well as an awkward joystick.

Nokia 5700 measures 108x50x17mm and weighs 117 grams which feels stylish & quality and is great to hold. You have several sound options when using this phone. You have the downloadable MP3 and poly ringtones as well as AAC ringtones. The 5700 also has stereo speakers. The 5700 also comes with a 2.2-inch, QVGA TFT screen at 16M colours which will provide you vivid and colourful viewing experience. You can also download screensavers and wallpapers to customize your own 5700.

Available in in colours of black and red, Nokia 5700 ...
... is a phone that does have a lot going for it. For example, it has access to both the 2G and 3G network which means you will never has trouble picking up a signal. This smart phone works on Symbian OS v9.2 which is said to be more stable and reliable than the previous versions. It also has Java preprogrammed as well as having an FM radio and downloadable games.

The 5700 comes with a 2MP camera with LED flash which may capture images at 1600x1200 pixels. This is a camera good for taking pictures and also allows for video calling as well as QVGA video. Nokia 5700 does have a lot going for it and it is a perfect match for the music lovers that you know.

If you want messaging, this phone has it with instant messaging, email, MMS and SMS... You also have the capacity of push to talk, an organizer, voice memo command and two top notch players. Communication is just a breeze.

The music player can play M4A, MP3, MP4, AAC, WAV and RA for starters. Your video player includes 3GP, WVM, RV and MP4 video codex|The music player can support a wide range of audio formats as AC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA and more}}}. For memory capacity, you have a card slot of microSD up to 4 GB, 33MB storage, 128 ROM and 64 MB RAM. You also have room for a 30 day detailed call listing with unlimited phone entries and fields. You also have Bluetooth as well as an infrared port along with USB support.

With all of these features, why would you want a phone that has anything more, while there are indeed some features that are missing from Nokia 5700, the upside is the fact that you can operate on both 2G and 3G networks with amazing speed. Remember that you have both Real Player and Flash player for excellent music quality and playback. You also have the ability to download pictures and video. One thing that this smart phone doesn't have is a search feature.

When you look overall at this particular phone, you find Nokia 5700 is indeed for the young and the young at heart. This is a funky, fun phone that really does have a lot going for it. No matter if you are young or young at heart; you will have a good time with the music players and other accessories that are involved on this phone. You can also surf the web and email, so this is a true multimedia phone that is also one of the next generation smart phones that operates on both the 2G and 3G networks.
Jerry Smith, the editor of http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.