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Nokia 5130: I and Nokia meet again! 05/30/2009

I used to be an avid Nokia fan till about 3 years back. I knew all the Nokia phones and model numbers by heart, and it was my favourite hobby to identify the phones whenever I saw them. Around that time I was using Nokia 6620, and I was absolutely in love with its design. But eventually, I got a feeling that Nokia had stopped innovating. They had started to come up with run of the mill phones with exact same software. I parted my way with Nokia, and eventually shifted to Sony Ericsson W810, Motorola Q, Treo, Blackberry and Samsung Instinct.

Now, that I needed a phone again, I decided to give Nokia another shot. I went to a store and it didn’t take very long for me to pick Nokia 5130 out of the crowd. It’s one of the phones in the XpressMusic series.

Nokia XpressMusic 5130

Here's what I really like about this phone:

1. It looks very elegant. It's hip and classy at the same time...if that's actually possible.

2. The music player is mind blowingly awesome. It is dead simple to use, and the in-built speakers are surprisingly good and LOUD. I don't think the walkman series phones like W810 stand any chance, atleast as far as speaker sound quality is concerned. The interface is a whole different story, and I am noti going there.

3. The screen resolution isn't the best ofcourse, but it's satisfactory.

4. I was impressed by the inbuilt Opera mini browser. Haven't used this phone for browsing much, but I have nothing but praise to shower upon the Opera browser!

5. Then some small things like ambient light sensor, bluetooth stereo are always nice to have.

p.s. I am not comparing this phone to the Treos, Blackberries et all. All I am saying is , it's good to be back in Nokia's world! and this phone most definitely gives a good bang for the buck!

For an exhaustive review, please check GSMArena.

Comments

Vikram

Sun, 31 May 2009 09:48:34

Nice short user review and good thoughts about the phone

Mehul

Sun, 31 May 2009 11:28:05

@Vikram: Thank you.

Dhiman

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:36:15

A very useful review actually have been seeing a lot advertisements of Nokia 5130 but didn't how better it would be... and xpress music series is really awesome couple of my music lover friends switched over to Nokia for Xpress music phone performance...and yes I have been a Nokia loyalist all they way :D

Mehul

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:10:13

@Dhiman: thank you. I was talking to the people at the phone store, and they were saying that this particular model is selling like hot cakes, probably because of the lower price tag. It's pretty awesome..though I miss the convenience of the full QWERTY keyboard.

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