Nokia 5230

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3.2 inch screen, 2 MP camera, Symbian OS v9.4 OS
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Yet another mobile phone model from Nokia, the Nokia 5230 which is lighter and cheaper is reported to emit noise when held tightly. The corners of this mobile phone have raised edges and thus protect the device from scratches and bumps. The key features of this mobile phone are discussed below to get a closer look of it.

Camera

Nokia 5230 mobile phone is built with 2megapixel camera while Nokia N8 Mobile Phone is built with 12MP camera with Xenon flash at the back of the device. This feature makes this Nokia N8 model a high end camera device.

Size

The dimension of this mobile phone is 111mm x 51.7mm x 14.5/15.5mm and weighs 113 grams without the stylus and 115g with the stylus. It also comes with an accelerometer to help auto rotation. This mobile phone comes with proximity sensors that helps in saving the power and also prevent inadvertent touches.

Screen

Nokia 5230 Mobile Phone comes with touch screen. The size of the screen is 3.2”. The resolution of the screen is 640 x 360 pixels. The display comes to about 16.7 million colours and with full touch screen display.

Keys

Some of the dedicated keys on this mobile phone are for volume, camera, application launch, send and end. There is also media bar touch key for gallery, music, video centre, share online and web browser.

Power

This mobile phone comes with BL - 5J 1320 mAh Li-Ion standard battery that has a maximum talk time of (GSM) 10 hrs 30 min and (WCDMA) 4 hrs 18 min. Music playback time is upto a maximum of 30 hours. The maximum time for video playback is 3 hours for nHD and 4.6 hours for Mpeg. Battery in Nokia C3 Slate Mobile Phone gives talk time of upto 4.7Hrs which is comparatively very less in Nokia models.

SIM

The slot for the SIM card is located on the side of the mobile phone. Inserting the SIM card is easy but removing it requires the user to remove the battery and then poke the card with a long equipment to push the SIM card out. A stylus can be used instead. This is depicted just next to the SIM port.

Connectors

This Nokia mobile phone comes with connectors such as 3.5mm Nokia AV connector, USB 2.0 high speed and Micro-USB connector.

Memory

Nokia 5230 Mobile Phone comes with microSD memory card slot that has a maximum swap of 16GB. The internal dynamic memory capacity in this mobile phone is 70MB.

Environmental features

This is an energy efficient mobile phone that comes with various energy efficient features such as unplug charger reminder, power save mode and high efficiency charger AC-8. The materials that are used to build this mobile phone are free of PVC and are recyclable upto 80%. Packaging for this mobile phone is made up of upto 60% recycled material and the packaging is 100% recyclable.

Call features

Some of the highlight call features in this mobile phone are any key answer, call timer, call hold, call waiting, call divert, automatic redial, speed dialling, mute/ unmute, talking ring tones and more.

Video

The digital zoom of the main camera is upto 4x. The video recording file formats are .3gp and .mp4. Automatic and night are two different scene modes in this mobile phone.

General Manufacturer Nokia
Model No. 5230
ColourBlack, White
Dimension 111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm
Weight 115g
Operating System Symbian OS v9.4
Internal Memory 70MB
Memory card Slot MicroSD - upto 16GB
Display Type Full Touch
Display Size 3.2 inch
Music And Imaging Camera 2 MP
Front camera-
LED Flash
Video Camera VGA@30fps
Audio Player MP3, AAC, AAC , eAAC , WMA, WAV, RA, M4A (Apple lossless), MP4, AMR
Video Player MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, 3GPP, RealVideo 7, RealVideo 8, Flash Video
FM Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
Internet Connectivity 2GGSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3GHSDPA 900 / 2100
4G-
Wi-Fi-
Data Transfer USB-
Bluetoothv2.0 with A2DP
Applications GPSA-GPS support
EmailSMS, MMS, Email, IM
BrowserWAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
Social network -
OthersGames, Organizer, Photo editor, Flash Lite 3.0, Voice memo/dial, Predictive text input
Ports Headphone Jack3.5mm jack
Battery Talk Timeupto 4 hrs 30min on 3G
Standby Timeupto 432 hrs on 3G
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