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Expert Reviews from other websites (1 review)Nokia 5300 XpressMusic Review at Mobile Phones UK (1 December 2006)  Nokia 5300 Consumer Reviews (516 reviews)Write a review of the Nokia 5300! Please share your experiences to help other people choose the product that's best for them. This is a review site, not a forum, so please don't just ask questions. Please do not use swear words or offensive language, and please, no advertising! Reviewed by RawrxHello_Kitty on 01/12/2008awsome phone!! this phone is my baby. i would trade it for no phone... not even the iPhone. It holds music which is my life, the camera is awsome, the screen is bright a livid and it came in my favorite color... purple :) i would defenitly recommend this phone to everyone!! I <3 my Nokia 5300 Rating: Reviewed by bilge on 27/11/2008 I've had this phone for over a year and it has proven to be one of the best phones i've ever had. To this day, i've had no problems whatsoever. Battery life is good. Does verything you need of a cheap music camera phone. It is important to note though, that i am a very careful phone user and haven't dropped it or anything. Rating: Reviewed by Ciderboy on 19/11/2008 Its old now but its good its like an mp4 player they only thing thats bad about it is its battery life it just goes really quick but if u have a memory card for it and put good songs and vids on it its brillant. And u can use it with out a sim card u just won't be able to call anybody and stuff obviously lol but seriosly it would be 1 hell of a phone if it had a really long battery life Rating: Reviewed by shani on 16/11/2008 exellent Rating: Reviewed by james skay on 16/11/2008 yahooo nokia lol lol best phone ever Rating: Reviewed by Manty on 15/11/2008 I loved my phone at the beguining but after a month, the speaker broke, the phone turns off by it self, i have to recharge it twice a day, and I am very dissapointed, I have always beena nokia fan but now I am considering a sony, dont buy it, not worth the money. Rating: Reviewed by elena on 09/11/2008 i have had this phone for almost a year now and i am very pleased with it. i love the feel of a slide phone and it has all then features i would want in a phone. to the people who are saying it breaks easily i strongly disagree, i have found this phone holds up very well and i am not exactly the most careful person when in comes to my phone,i have dropped it alot of times and it is still fine. i have this phone in purple, i like it because it feels a bit more personalized and no one else has a purple phone. the only thing i negative i would have to say about this phone is that it is rather thick, however it has very good grip. unfourtunatly i recently dropped it in a lake and although it still works some of the buttons are frozen. if my next phone is as good as this one i will be very pleased. Rating: Reviewed by Tammy on 09/11/2008 this phone is the best:) :D (L) i luv ittt!!!! ! L0v3 !t Rating: Reviewed by diogo on 08/11/2008 this phone is great I have it for like 6 months and the screen is so good it has a big mp3 plaer it´s the best phone ever better than the IPHONE Rating: Reviewed by quintay on 05/11/2008 i have this phone and its tight. the only problem i have is that i cracked my screen twice which cost me $150.00 to fix both times, the loud speaker blew twice which cost $20.00 to fix and now i think my antenna is broke cus i get no reception at all, and the only store that can fix it closed down and the closes one is 75 miles away. but other than that its a good phone. but the best thing is that your able to download music videos and even full movies. Rating: Reviewed by Daniel on 04/11/2008 I have i nokia 5300 its a good phone but the headphones don't last very long i am on my second pair and they are already apart from that i have had no problems (Until i tried 2 change my cover and the shop sold me a dodgy 1) and the camera is fine its like a 2MP camera and its beter than my bros W810i Rating: Reviewed by hilman on 01/11/2008 ive had this fon 4 a year and a half now..and ive got no complaints whatsoever..evrythngs cool..image quality is good..even better than the 6280(2mp cam)..sound quality was quite decent especially in hollowed places..it doesnt feel cheap at all..oh,and my 5300 dropped over 50 times and da screen didnt break,neither did anything(except 4 the scratch)but its nothing serious 2 me..overall..i love this fon and im not about to change it unless im really tired of using it all over..thanks to nokia,i have my dream fon alive for years Rating: Reviewed by Liz on 29/10/2008 The phone was brilliant ... while it lasted but now the memoery card is broken its very slow and to turn it off i have to take out the battery it also takes ages to turn on... so yeah you have to be VERY careful with it the stuff on the phone is great i also found it had poor signal. So if you do get it make sure you're careful with it cause its great when its not broken! Rating: Reviewed by sammy on 29/10/2008 i don't like it. :( broke on me. fragile, looks cheap. sound quality is great though. good music player. camera was not focused. Rating: Reviewed by Charlene on 26/10/2008 Its a terrible phone!! do NOT by it! it got a virus in the memory catd in mine and the whole phone stopped!!!! it was terrible :( Rating: Reviewed by Zalgroth on 24/10/2008 Its good, but damnit, why can't it use REGULAR headphones? Bah. I got my adaptor stolen by some dude and the headphones broke a while back, and now the ExpressMusic is Musicless. Rating: Reviewed by phil on 22/10/2008 DO NOT BUY - design fault with screens means they crack & fail after a few months. Vendors will not replace them they say you broke it by mishandling. Not true see google its a design fault which is why its been withdrawn & was sold cheaply to get rid of it. Poor soumd & low light camera. If it breaks ask for money back in UK under Sale of Goods act 2002. Zero star. Rating: Reviewed by Claire on 21/10/2008 Hey i love this phone i haven't got it yet but i love the slide design and i just love th cute design Rating: Reviewed by Angela on 19/10/2008 I just got my phone and it fell on the floor and now it is not working. Rating: Reviewed by beans philippines on 14/10/2008 i have had my nokia 5300 for about 6 months and i could say that i am a satisfied user. although the headset that came in with the package is not that excellent (the sound quality is greatly reduced by background noises i.e. when riding on a bus or walking on a busy street), i've switched to the regular-sized 3.5mm headphones. the camera does not have flash or led so i also have trouble taking pictures at night. but the screen resolution is great. photos taken with ample light, and videos converted to 3gp or mp4 are excellent. very nice colors. also, games are readily available on the web without fear of downloading a virus because it is java based. twice i slept with this phone under me (once with the slide open) but it did not break. i also dropped it, face down, but it did not also break. there are scratches on the screen but i guess it boild down to how a user takes care of his phone. all-in-all, i say that nokia 5300 is an excellent buy! for a phone within its price range, i'd recommend it over other walkman phones. Rating: Reviewed by terri on 13/10/2008 camera is nice but downloading video clips and pics is difficult any hints Rating: Reviewed by A Nokia 5300 User... on 12/10/2008 How should I start? I thought this phone was really good... until I had it for a year. The buttons are not working when the slide is up and down so I couldn't read a text message!! The sound is rubbish, it goes louder then softer! Useless rubbish!! Rating: Reviewed by humayewn on 11/10/2008 i love this phone and the sony ericsson w350i !! epsom all day everyday! Rating: Reviewed by dAwSoN on 07/10/2008 i love this phone. it is excellent for music and if u can get hold of one it is wel worth ur money Rating: Reviewed by Rachel on 30/09/2008 To be quite frank a really rubbish phone. The camera isn't great and suddenly 4 keys on the key pad have broken on mine. DONT BUY THIS PHONE Rating: Reviewed by corey england on 29/09/2008 This is a wicked fone i <3 it its got high volume and its quite trendy.The music player is good and the phone altogether is very reliable. The only bad thing is that the cameras not great and when you apply a theme it some times doesn't work but if u try it 5 mins later its fine lol. i got mine cheap an their great value for money! 'L' NFFC 4 LIFE 'L' Rating: Reviewed by sophie on 26/09/2008 gd phone to start but dont expect it to last you over a year because it just dropeed on the floor and the screen is dead and headphones rubbish wouldnt recommend this phone:( Rating: Reviewed by karthik on 24/09/2008 outstanding model in demand..................... Rating: Reviewed by gs... (uk) on 23/09/2008 have to wonder how many reviewers on this site get the phone out of the box and write a review within a week saying how outstandingly good it is. the camera is reasonable; it's got a nice loud speaker; the annoying issue with the keylock can be fixed by customising it once you figure out how (try reading the manual)HOWEVER (1) the coils in the headphones burnt out after about 2 months of use :-( and (2) having had this phone for about 6 months the music player software developed some kind of glitch. i updated the software thinking this would remedy it, now when i try to use music player it just crashes completely. the nokia website makes no mention of this issue. there are many questions on their forum asking how to remedy it but no constructive replies. as i had the phone unlocked it is no longer under warantee.... in any case, 2 months after the music player issue developed the screen is malfunctioning (colours all bleached out/no red)... so i think now i'll be selling it for spares or repair. bear in mind i was previously the proud owner of a nokia 3310 which lasted me for years. i'm not one of these people who buys a new phone every year and even if i was, well, this ain't even lasted a full year. disappointed. Rating: Reviewed by hi on 20/09/2008 RUBBISH!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Hanshi on 17/09/2008 Had my 5300 for about a year now and i must say it isn't half bad. My previous phone was a LG KG800 which is nothing but a pretty piece of plastic w/ number dials on it. The 5300 is definitely not the prettiest phone, but its actually designed very nicely. The slide mechanism is extremely smooth, the keypad is very easy to use, and the side buttons are very convenient for quick music play. On the other hand, the batteries lasted only a day and a half, the phone will not auto-lock after you slide it back(VERY VERY ANNOYING), and it only has a 2.5mm jack which to me defeats the purpose of it being an XpressMusic phone. Never the less, i do like this phone better than my old LG. Rating: Reviewed by Charlene on 16/09/2008 Had this phone for nine months. The loud speaker stopped working, the camera is not so good and the keys keep sticking. For it's price range an ok phone but really be careful with it if you plan to get one. Rating: Reviewed by Prabs on 11/09/2008 Good phone. Nice to use, especially for the music. Had this phone for the last four months. Now all of a sudden, the phone has stopped ringing. The speaker goes off in the middle of songs. Don't know if the speakers are not good. So, watchout for those speakers and be ready get an insurance for this phone...Otherthan that, everything seems to be fine... Rating: Reviewed by Ivan on 06/09/2008 This phone is absolutely rubbish.All Nokia 5300 phones should be taken of the shelves in shops and crushed. This is the second one my daughter has had in 12 months and both screens went.T Mobile sent the second one away but will not repair it as they say that it has been dropped.It was not dropped the screen started to freeze and then just went blank as my daughter was listening to her music.It seem's to be a trend of T Mobiles to use the dropped excuse as I have read in other forums.There is not a mark on this phone at all, so how can they insinuate that it has been dropped? T Mobile's customer service is absolutely disgusting.Never mind I will just get back in touch with Consumer Direct for the second time and I suggest everyone else should who have had poor dealings with T Mobile. All you people who think this is a great phone beware, it will easily break in the end and don't expect any customer service from Nokia and especially T Mobile! Nokia should be making phones of more durability and not blame consumers for their mistakes!!!! Rating: Reviewed by AMIT CHANDRAKANT NAIK on 05/09/2008 i have it since 7 months it is good but it is really handle with care cause i got screenglass damage by falling it once only.so u better handle carefully audio quality is very fine it is just like BANG BANG IN EAR wow what a quality in ears....superb i also had one sony ericson but my nokia 5300 is much ahead than that thanks god that i bought 5300 u should also i mean i am not the nokia salseman but it is good no waste of money at all bluetooth is fine i am surfing from bluetooth modem right now ..go buy it Rating: Reviewed by Vaibhav ,India on 04/09/2008 Good . but sound dims with use. also no sis support. but i love it Rating: Reviewed by Emma on 01/09/2008 Looks great..Sounds great..Camera is great.. Only fault is the LCD screen as other people have said..some people have disagreed with things that people are saying and intending they're just careless people I am a very careful person when it comes to alot of things..including phones..and my LCD screen cracked for no reason what so ever I've read over reviews saying they didn't sit on it or even drop it..and that's the same for me With the amount of people saying about their LCD screen cracking..I genuinly think it is a fault in this brand/make of phone alone Otherwise great.. I own the black version..I do not like white phones..they come across tacky looking to me..but the black is all well..otherwise i wouldn't have chosen it :] Rating: Reviewed by Lisa on 28/08/2008 I had for my birthday which is now a year and 6 months and I find it rubbish now, the buttons aren't working and it keeps freezing and its being very dodgy.. maybe because its from Argos or i had it for too long Rating: Reviewed by Chantell on 17/08/2008 I just go my nokia 5300 last sunday and am absoloutly in love with it. it works perfextly the sound quality is outstanding and it takes great picture's and i love the colour of it i have the lillac one it's a great phone and i do recomend it!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Courtney on 16/08/2008 My nokia 5300 XpressMusic is much easier to use than my previous phone which is a samsung E900. The size of the phone in my opinion is quite chunky. The camera details are poor. Theres is no point in having 8x zoom as it distorts the image at 4x zoom.On a more positive note i would say the layout of the menu etc, is very spread out. easy to use. Howeverr if i was to trial the phone before buying it, i wouldnt choose to buy it. simply because ... 1> Low spec 2> no actual phone memory (relys on memory card) 3> Too chunky 4> nothing 'Pizazz' About it. Its just an average phone. i wouldnt reccomend it. unless you just want a phone for basic use. Rating: Reviewed by layla on 15/08/2008 trust me this foe is best!!!! i'v had it 4 a year i'm gonna get s e w810i but i wont give up that fone i throw it it neva breaks and i wanna break it loool! Rating: Reviewed by Christina on 15/08/2008 I would not recommend this phone. It's a really great phone, if you happen to get one that doesn't break, but as far as I can figure, it's a faulty phone. A few months after getting it, some of the buttons on the front of the phone decided to literally randomly stop working. Hadn't dropped it or gotten it wet, they just died. It had a warranty, so I got it replaced, and now the replacement phone has done the EXACT same thing, only a few months in, and I am getting ANOTHER replacement phone for it. If it dies again after the warranty is up, I'm just going to cut my losses and upgrade to a different phone, it's not worth it for a phone that becomes useless every 3 or 4 months. Other than that though, I really enjoy the music, the camera works well enough, though it takes really poor pictures in anything but true sunlight, and it has a nice layout and design. Good phone, when it's working correctly, and you remember to charge it every night because the battery life really does suck. Rating: Reviewed by jack on 14/08/2008 this phone has every feature you need on a phone and the camera seems like 2.0 megapixels the sound quality is brilliant and is actually better than the 5310 Rating: Reviewed by Mobeen on 14/08/2008 I recently purchased the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic phone, I think its a great phone, a great phone for music. I am still worried about the very small space on my memory car, it is only 234mb. Which is very small for quite a few songs, I was just wondering if it is possible to expand the memory, if it is could someone tell me how. Overall great phone. Rating: Reviewed by Aamir shah on 14/08/2008 I love my 5300. Its a nice mid range phone that gives u everything. It just lacks battery backup. U can litsen to music upto 18 hrs. Internt speed goes upto 20 KB/S (gprs). Nice phone Rating: Reviewed by raf on 11/08/2008 i used 2 have this phone it is great but then i accidently dropped it light and guess what happened............................YUP it broke Rating: Reviewed by RONAK JAAN on 07/08/2008 REALLY FROM THE HEART IT COMES THAT ITS A VERV WONDERFUL CELL PHONE LAUNCHED BY NOKIA.ITS SO CHEAPER THAT EVEN A MIDDLE CLASS MAN CAN AFFORD TO BUY IT.I LOVE NOKIA 5300. Rating: Reviewed by E. Cruz on 07/08/2008 This phone has A REALLY suckie screen i barely dropped mine and the screen went black Rating: Reviewed by nick o on 05/08/2008 they r amazin the best phone i hav had yet Rating: Reviewed by Ali on 31/07/2008 I bought this phone about 3 weeks ago and starting to lose faith in it. I have encounter both bad outweighing the good. It is easy to use, comfortable tone pad and the music level is excellent, crackly if too loud, but difficulty encountered in downloading from a notebook. The camera is temperamental (one min it takes good pictures, another grainy), difficulty retrieving files saved on my old SIM but the thing that worries me the most is its frailty as the first day using the phone closed, the top slide moves to the left side upon pressing the right buttons. after taking it back, I was advised that is normal. I am thinking of getting my refund as im not comfortable with it given the other complaints heard. Think i'll trade for a samsung j700 (samsung all the way). Rating: Reviewed by hgjkg on 22/07/2008 so far so good, i love the slider type. the only thing im refraining from now is seeing how reviewers says it breaks easily. Better buy some insurance! this isnt a cheap phone at retail price! anyways all of the features seem to be pretty cool so far. this is the first phone ive ever had that has a music player like an mp3! thats gonna save me from having to hold and mp3 player AND phone, when i go work out at the gym. This phone is all around awesome. Still somethings to work on it, like internet and getting hi-fi ringers asap! cant wait! Rating: Reviewed by STEPHEN on 22/07/2008 Excellent Phone, Music A+. Rating: Reviewed by philly carlyle on 20/07/2008 its a great phone and reliable Rating: Reviewed by ali on 15/07/2008 my screen cracked after only a years usage, it was in a leather pouch+ my jean pocket, buy at your own risk as nokia wud say............ Rating: Reviewed by Sinead on 15/07/2008 This phone has given me nothing but trouble since I bought it a few months ago. It went back for repairs twice within the first 2 months. It was ok for a while, but now it keeps turning off everytime I flip the phone up or down. The battery life is awful - lasts about a day. Def don't buy this phone! Rating: Reviewed by jetskimatty on 14/07/2008 worst phone i've ever had from nokia!! Rating: Reviewed by Mike on 12/07/2008 This phone is just brilliant. The screen is the best quality screen (240X320) you can get for it's current price (£49.99). The 5300 has a great camera, the pics you take look great on the screen, the MP3 Player is flwless, and the phone looks great. This is my favourite phone put of all the phones I have owned, i can definately reccomend it. Rating: Reviewed by Sumena on 08/07/2008 this is a really nice phone, easy to use. I just wished the battery lasted longer. hope u enjoy the phone if you buy it. Rating: Reviewed by Jesper on 04/07/2008 It's a nice phone, but it's as fat as a 2 weeks old milk. The display is okay large, but it's wournable, my one is damaged on the lcd screen so i can only see the upper part of the screen. It's a great starter phone, easy to use and all that, but the Shell is hard to open. buy it if you need a sellphone right here and right now Rating: Reviewed by Dwarak on 02/07/2008 Very good set Rating: Reviewed by Vishal Singh on 30/06/2008 This is the best mobile which i use. its cheap too. i like its fini Rating: Reviewed by SAYED KARI on 28/06/2008 The phone has a god style but its features are useless. Rating: Reviewed by Chuck on 26/06/2008 I got this phone like 5 months ago and I absoloutly loved it! I had the loudest phone out of all my friends and it had loads of good features, but recently my bag was on the floor and someone stood on it, and when I got my phone out the screen was all cracked and wouldn't turn on properly :( I'm so gutted. I want my old phone back! Rating: Reviewed by Rob on 23/06/2008 I tested this phone sometime ago now and as far as I could remember, this partucler phone never went wrong, a gr8 basic music phone who those who hate SE Rating: Reviewed by Steven Green on 22/06/2008 I have had this phone for 6 months now and it has been brilliant. Although not quite as loud as the walkman phones, it is still louder than any of my friend. The only problem I have had with it is that it doesnt react well to water. My old 6230i was really good at working after being dropped in a river but the 5300 reacts to the smallest drop and u have to take it apart and put it in a warm place. Rating: Reviewed by ray on 20/06/2008 Well I bought this phone a month ago and i must say its a gr8 buy at this particular price range.It comes with great features and nice dedicated keys. The sound is good but could have been better.The camera is quite clear at substantial light and comes up with a perfect image.The zoom quality is disappointing.The screen is large which is an asset of the phone.Surely its a perfect buy for those who are looking for a music phone which comes in a low price range.So go xpress music way Rating: Reviewed by Amiya Ujjwal on 19/06/2008 i have recently bought the phone and liked it.The camera works brilliant in the daylight and gives poor quality image in artificial lighting. The music player is simply brilliant and functional.One thing which i didn't like is it's screen light time is not adjustable and even when u change song or radio station using music keys the light glows and takes a minute to switch off thus consumes battery uselessly. All other things are quite fine about the phone. Rating: Reviewed by Ben Thomas on 16/06/2008 Best phone ever, great value for your money. I got mine from play.com for £45 (well cheap). With bluetooth, mp3, 1.3 megapixel camera, infared, micro sd slot, great slide design and more, every thing you want in a phone. Rating: Reviewed by J@BELL on 16/06/2008 I LOVE MY NOKIA 5300 BUT I NEED TO GET IT UNLOCK Rating: Reviewed by George on 14/06/2008 DON'T BUY THIS PHONE. The screen breaks really easily and they don't let you return it. Other than the screen breakage it's a well specced phone and i liked it a lot until the screen went. However, never buy this phone. It is not fit for purpose and i wasted 50 quid on it. Rating: Reviewed by L{dot}ANGEL on 14/06/2008 this is not i good phone I HATE IT .SPECIALY THE CAMERA Rating: Reviewed by Megan on 13/06/2008 This phone Belonged to one of my best friends Kelly, and I kept asking if I could listen to her music on there because its got good memory for music, but she sat on it and cracked the screen, then she was holding onto it and dropped it from two storeys and the whole screen cracked, but I recommend this phone, its amazing but you might need to clean out the camera now and again, its annoying because ive got a Sony Ericson and its only got Infer Red, but this phone has Bluetooth and Infer red so she could send pictures and songs to me, I Defiantly recommend this phone as its the best phone ever. This phone is outstanding! Rating: Reviewed by Dawn on 11/06/2008 i love this phone, its great for litening to music but the camera is a bit cramp but its better than my last phone a samsung D900i as it broke after 6 months as the screen cracked right across it and it would have cost me £70+ like i can afford that might as well get a new phone. Rating: Reviewed by Bobby on 10/06/2008 ok, well i am not going to say that this is the best phone ever, but i will say this. what are all you people doing to this phone? all i see is 90% of everyone saying their screen broke. some say it breaks over and over! i don't get it. i've had this phone since march of '07 and nothing has ever broke on it. true, it does have some technical flaws, but people saying the screen broke in their pocket? b.s.! unless they had ballbearings in their pockets and decided to go jogging maybe then i'll consider that. it is an ok phone, but not rubbish like a lot of you are saying. Rating: Reviewed by zihaib shah on 09/06/2008 not good third class mobile is 53oo xpress music i dont like that look & HIS SOUND QUALITY I THINK THAT NOKIA DOSE NOT UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT IS SOUND Rating: Reviewed by craig on 08/06/2008 hi everyone well i,v had this phone for bout few months now,went on holiday camping with family and had phone in bag and bro sat on bag so screen on phone cracked,went to shop and they charged me 45£ to repair it fair enough well phone is 80£ to but so i just bort it again did not wana wait,the phones great,cams much better then all my other nokias,vids lush,mp3 is lush have about 400 songs on the memory card,cool,downloaded sum cool games for phone,everythin on and in phone is just pefect so all you people out there who says that this phones rubbish then you dont treat ya phone with any respect do ya?well if you wanted to buy a good phone and wana spent nearly 100£ on it then this babys for you,great phone,i,v had loads of mobiles but this one is fantastic it is just so smooth,cool Rating: Reviewed by mavis on 03/06/2008 i think its a great phone, but how do you open the back to put the sim in. i have struggled Rating: Reviewed by piz on 03/06/2008 speaker sometime work,sometime not!sux!! Rating: Reviewed by angospango on 03/06/2008 i got the phone a couple of months ago. i thought that it was really excellent and i still do. the camera is excellent compared to a 2 MEGAPIXEL SAMSUNG E900(5300 has 1.3mp)this phone is robust aswell. really good price for what you getBUY BUY BUY!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Rachael on 30/05/2008 I have had this phone since February, i got it because my friends had it and i really liked it. i wish i'd never bought it, it drives me mad - cameras rubbish, says memory card (1G) is full and it shouldnt be, and the battery is rubbish. i hate this phone and also Nokia,and i have decided to go back to samsung, which is the make of the phone that i had before!! Rating: Reviewed by Laurie-Bee on 29/05/2008 i luved this fone !!!!!!!!!!!!! it was brill it was dead loud and worked reallii well had ahh great camera !!! but then it broke one day unfortunettly !! but i think it had more 2 do with the fact i dropped it all the time !!! Rating: Reviewed by josh on 27/05/2008 best phone ever Rating: Reviewed by jim on 26/05/2008 amazing phone top quality love it. Had it 2 years never had a problem Rating: Reviewed by chn on 25/05/2008 dont buy nokia 5300 its not a bad phone but it is imposiple to get music onit!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Mr Scott on 23/05/2008 bought this phone about a year ago, and recently it has broke. i know at least 3 other people who have had this phone and theirs broke within weeks. but mine only lasted so long because i could only use it occasionaly, thanks to the shoddy chargers that come with it, which i had to keep replacing. GOOD POINTS - the mp3 player is pretty cool and the headphone socket and adaptor allow you to connect different headphones to it, as well as connect it to a stereo system - the camera quality is pretty good considering it doesnt have a flash. - you can view downloaded images very well and very clearly - the buttons are very easy to use and the software that comes with it is very good BAD POINTS - the screen seemed to get scratched very easily without actually doing anything to it - the video camera is not very good at all. especially for filming live music, where the sound is so poor that it doesnt even resemble music - considering the price i originally paid for it (£130) this phone is too average for the price range. i can think of a lot better phones for less money - this phone is very weak. after having it in my pocket one day somehow the silver plastic at the top of the screen cracked and came off, with no force at all - if youre using this phone outdoors, better hope it doesnt rain coz it gets water damaged in an instant, even the slightest drop of rain can mess it up - the charger that comes with this phone is appalling. really thin and weak. the little plug surprisingly never snapped, but after a while the charger just decides to stop working. i had to buy at least 5 replacement chargers for this phone, which at £10 a time is not good at all - battery life is very very short - if youre lucky enough to make this phone last more than a few months, it gradually gets slower and slower, especially when switching it on - and finally after just under a year of use, the screen messed up. not cracked or anything, it gradually gave up. first the image started to fade, then it started to flicker, then the screen just went blank, and only came back when i pushed the screen down with my fingers. then it just completely died, tried everything i could to bring it back, with no success. got pissed off with it, threw it on the floor and it shattered incredibly easily. overall....... dont buy this phone. its overpriced, its weak, it isnt anything special, and its obvious that Nokia have started making overpriced phones like this so they mess up and people have to keep buying new ones at least every year. Rating: Reviewed by dude on 23/05/2008 it is worth getting one it looks amazing Rating: Reviewed by Shelby on 23/05/2008 I dont hav this phone bt i work at phone store and the reason it breakz fast iz becuz itz a slider the ribbon on the inside rubz on wut itz sliding on and it breakz so the scren goez out the sound goez out and the buttons stop workn it shouldnt cost mor then 50 bucks to get it fixd if itz mor ur getn ripd off i would recomend dnt slide it if u dnt need to use the numberz Rating: Reviewed by sharon holland on 21/05/2008 i am really impressed with this phone the music is exellent quality and the camera takes really good quality fotos i would recomend it to anyone Rating: Reviewed by The KiNg on 20/05/2008 THis phone is atrocious,cant wait 'till 5610 comes out Rating: Reviewed by Andy on 18/05/2008 I have this phone 8 months now.No complaints about breaking easy.It is a good phone but i have trouble with the volume on it and i have trouble with the memory.Like when i put songs onto it from my PC its always a bit difficult but it is a good phone other than that. Rating: Reviewed by jibril on 18/05/2008 i had this phone about a year and isnt that good its okay really but the camera is rubbish trust me Rating: Reviewed by rahul on 14/05/2008 i think this is the worst mobile i have seen seen in my whole life Rating: Reviewed by Shizzam on 13/05/2008 I really like this phone I have had it for a few months now and still I don't get bored of it. Usually i get bored of phones in the 1st month but this is amazing the only down side is the camera which isn't a high resolution as most other phones, but the music at the touch of a button is a big plus to the phone cheap•affordable•amazing Rating: Reviewed by jack wilson on 11/05/2008 i noticed that the slide was a bit loose and flimsy but altogether it is a brilliant phone and will be expecting a better version of this phone soon onwards.I think the review at the top is a eczaduation it does not hold 1,500 songs with a 2gb memory card, u have to hav a 4gb memory card, the camera is rubbish and i used to have a sony ericcson w810i it had a way better camera and a flash. i think this phone is absolute rubbish when you compare it to the nokia's N95 which is the best of the nokia brands.BYE :@ p.s this fone is not worth £50.00 so evry1 take notice of wat i hav sed!!! Rating: Reviewed by chris on 07/05/2008 i have had my phone for about 9 months-ish. i love the phone but i hate it so much. i text so much the vibrate broke down like after a month or two. and just recently the buttons on the front (send, end, okay, up down left right, and the top two buttons) wore out. so i can't do anything. and ever since i got it every time i drop it it says "sim card registration failed" because the way this was built it is like loose. Rating: Reviewed by olli on 07/05/2008 i love this phone i didnt get it for the music i liked the features i think the canmera i good for it Rating: Reviewed by Subhash Yadav on 03/05/2008 The buil-in spearker became faulty after only one month. Rating: Reviewed by rosemary on 03/05/2008 in my opinion i think this phone is a good choice for someone whose hobby is to listen to music . i have been using this phone for 1 year and still has nothing wrong. bluetooth is very fast. thankyou for letting me have the oportunity to tell you my review. rosemary Rating: Reviewed by Omee on 02/05/2008 i love tihs set its the best well ther shuld be another one wich is not slide.................. Rating: Reviewed by Renee on 01/05/2008 I bought a Nokia 5300 Xpress Music In January. It worked perfectly for the first 2 months then I have had it back to the shop and ultimately back to the manufacturer 3 times! First time it wasnt charging... sent it away and it died moments after I worked out of the shop(LITERALLY) then it was sent away again and I recieved a Supposive New handset..... last 18 hours put it on the charger and wouldnt charge so it is back again being repaired again..... I may have just had a run of bad luck, but I personally would be reluctant to purchase this phone again! Rating: Reviewed by Josh on 01/05/2008 well i found this page cuz im looking for a way to buy screens in bulk because the screen never lasts more than a week in this phone without breaking, it breaks almost every time i put it in my pocket bad design Rating: Reviewed by Sarah M on 01/05/2008 Don't know a single person who had this phone and it didn't break in some way. I have been phoneless for a week now, the guy behind the desk was useless though. I adore the phone, but wouldn't reccommend it to anyone... *Cries* Rating: Reviewed by callum elcombe on 30/04/2008 do not buy bought as temp. replacement for a w850i and it is a piece of junk!!! Rating: Reviewed by mayada from egypt on 29/04/2008 it is an excellent mobile but i hope to be with mp4 and mp3 Rating: Reviewed by Tyler on 29/04/2008 The worst phone. The LCD cracked, not the outer cover the inside. It was in my pocket. Nokia said that was my fault will not honor warranty. The phone was never dropped ,no scratches, etc. Rating: Reviewed by :] on 28/04/2008 I currently have this phone and to be honest I cant stand it :(. i had to get a new SD card bcause it constantly said that the memory was full, and bcause of tht i couldnt send or recieve texts. im hoping to buy a samsung u600 to replace this fone, and i hate nokias!!! Rating: Reviewed by Paul on 27/04/2008 HI let me start off by saying,im a sony fan.im also a fan of the sony walkman range to,except for one problem with walkman phones!they are just not loud enough for my likeing?which is why i now have bought the nokia 5300 music phone.it is very loud!but in order to get the best out of it you need to buy a decent pair of head phones for it!the standard ones that come with it are rubbish!the phone is a lot louder than sonys ones!music quaility is better to,though the radio part lets it down!it seems the power is just in the main music part of the phone! Your mp3 player part.the radio is not loud enough for me where as on sonys it is.but hey i like listening to my own music more anyways.so no big deal.the camera is simple.nothin to rave about but at least its not bad?though i cant work out why they never added a flash to it?wheres the logic in that? Rating: Reviewed by Girish on 25/04/2008 I just Love 300 Rating: Reviewed by ian on 25/04/2008 best all round phone for ages camera could be much better at night but it copes ok can record 3hrs on video Rating: Reviewed by paul davies on 23/04/2008 well i bourght this phone in november work ok till xmas than screen cracked for no reason and i had bearly used it so 4 months with use i get a screen from ebay today and fitted it it when on ok and worked ok apart from the play button on side so i took off the cover messed around with it put the case back on ,the screen fashed and whent black and now wont work so i put the brokern screen back in and that wont work now so all in all it cost me £120 with a new screen and 1gig card for a phone that is complete rubbish and bad design ....NOKIA SORT IT OUT ... NOT IMPRESSED WITH THIS AND SOUNDS LIKE THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE AS WELL ... DONT BUY NOKIA....! Rating: Reviewed by henry on 23/04/2008 there not worth der money ive has 1 since christmas and it is broke ive drobed it once den der next thing i no it dnt work a load of junk i strongly recomend u dnt get 1 of these phones Rating: Reviewed by mouse on 22/04/2008 ok. I paid £39.99 for this phone. Replaced the most excellent sony ericsson k800i, as it was, ahem, purloined by my girlfriend. So lets see, yes the camera is pretty basic, but not bad for a 1.3 megapixel camera. The mp3 player is of a good standard. Yes, replace the headphones. Will make a difference. The screen has not yet been broken, despite being dropped several times. Easy to use menu even for a non Nokia buff. Good points - ok camera, good mp3 player, fairly robust phone, compatible with bluetooth headsets, headphones, laptops etc. Fairly good battery life. With normal calls/music etc about 2.5 days. Software package very good. Also works well as laptop modem. Tried it.....good download speeds. This is a cheap and cheerful.Dont deny when was £100 plus, not the best, but as a fairly basic phone (by 2008 standards) for the money you will struggle to do better. If you want an outstanding phone go pay £200+. If you want a good phone that looks cool, and performs more than adequately, the 5300 is up there. Rating: Reviewed by helper on 21/04/2008 Junk. The music player was sorta of working at first. 3 days later the music player takes 5 minutes to start or load a song list. Oh they shipped an extra infrared piece glued inside the back of the case in the wrong place causing the case to bulge. SENDING THIS BRICK BACK Rating: Reviewed by xxx on 19/04/2008 I love the phone, don't get me wrong. But it has it's faults. I've had it for a week now. To begin with, the music quality is good, the camera is not half bad, but if you're fidgety about the small stuff, it's not the best phone. My screen keeps flickering when I press the buttons.It's driving me insane. It's not intense flickering, but it happens. It also feel fragile and shaky, unstable even. Reading other reviews, I'm terrified of breaking it. And I am a very protective person, but it's just too fragile for my taste. Rating: Reviewed by callum on 19/04/2008 i got the nokia 5300 in november and it is now april, and i have found it to be a complete dissapointment, after a few days the slider gets really loose, so you have to leave it unti it hardens up, dust gets behind the screen from each of the corners so you get a bad quality screen, it cant open 3gp videos that other people have sent you, the bluetooth wouldnt recieve files, and then the screen starts to snap off, the battery lasts for a maximum of 5 days when you are not using it and 1 day if you listen to music, the camera isnt very good but im not bothered about that, all i can say is nokia are trying to make money now becuase really old phones from the 90's still work, it just shows that modern phones werent made to last. Rating: Reviewed by Sally on 18/04/2008 Mine broke in three days. It's still broken t this minute. It got thrown at a wall by year 9's. I'm in year 7. But is was a VERY good phone! Rating: Reviewed by paul on 18/04/2008 not had my Nokia 5300 very long, but i am impressed with it so far. Rating: Reviewed by Louise on 18/04/2008 This phone is RUBBISH !!!!!!!!!!!!! Droped it after 2 weeks and the screen cracked I did"ent even drop it from much of a hight. Rating: Reviewed by kim §ità on 18/04/2008 I want walkman music and not really this nokia 5300 not bad then really really BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by josh on 17/04/2008 this phones gud bt the ringtones which came with the phone are on the mp3 player n its qwite complicatd 2 get them off otherwise its brill Rating: Reviewed by Black Jelly on 16/04/2008 DO NOT BUY!!!! this phone is not worth buying. the music quality is bad trhough the back speaker, mine broke 2 times.(i have to hit it against something to get it to work, yes that also meens i have to keep the phone on vibrate becuase i cant count on the speaker to work.) like other people have said, the buttons stop working but you just have to pop them out and push them back in. i have had 2 of these phones(i am waiting on my waiting on my third) the lcd screens are AWFUL and i meen it. the first time, i put it in my pocket, i take it out 5 minutes later and a piece of the plastic is completely missing from the screen. the second time, i put my phone on my desk at school to show a friend and the screen starts flashing then from the bottem of the screen, blackness started coming up, it lookedlike someone was burning the inside of my phone and now the screen does not work at all.i do not recomend thsi phone for anybody. the only reason i was able to give this phon e 1 star was becuas all you have to do is pay 5 dollers for shipping and then nokia will send you a new phone if it is not fixible. if it is fixible they will charge you a HUGE amount of money on fixing it and you are better off telling them to just throw it away and you will by a new one!!!!! DO NOT BUY, NOKIA HAS LET ME DOWN!!!! Rating: Reviewed by YONATAN on 14/04/2008 NOKIA HAS LOST THEIR HEADS WITH THIS ONE!!!! Rating: Reviewed by tom on 11/04/2008 great functions on the inside, and a usual easy to use nokia menu system. perfect sized phone for your hand, but feels cheapy. the screen cover is a magnet for scratches and the actual lcd cracked without any contact at all. put the phone in my pocket, was sitting down for 50 minutes watching tv, take it out and the LCD is cracked! phone up nokia, and its £55 to fix, same with t-mobile and the carphone warehouse. so basically, great phone let down by cheap hardware. Rating: Reviewed by rachael on 09/04/2008 i got this phone on my birthday 2 months ago and i am getting a new one already =O. me and my friend were recording a video once and it just froze so i had to take the battery out to get it working again. the mp3 is ok, but the battery life is BAD :(. i charged it up for four hours once, and the nxt day [and i switch it off at night] the battery was low. i had 2 delete most of the stuff on my phone because i couldnt send txts or receive any because the memory was full. overall its an ok phone but im certianly not keen on nokias. Rating: Reviewed by Rajesh on 09/04/2008 very poor backup.it is only mp3 player Rating: Reviewed by evie on 07/04/2008 I have had this phone 2 days and when i was looking through it the buttons stopped working ! the customer care phoneline is awful! Rating: Reviewed by natalie on 05/04/2008 in my opinion this is a great phone. I am a VERY clumsy person and i've dropped my phone countless times. The screen has never broken but i have chipped the corner of the cover (and in all fairness i did stand on it!) lol. The music quality through headphones is awesome. Great value for money. Rating: Reviewed by Mecia on 04/04/2008 I got this phone last christmas, and I love it. My only complaint is that there is no flash on the camera, and it goes fuzzy when you zoom in. Other than that, it's perfect. Most phones don't play my type of music very well as it is very guitar/drum heavy, but the 5300 plays it better than my laptop! Yeah, there's a few scratches on my screen.. that's because i've been carless with it and dropped it a few times. Rating: Reviewed by Ahmed Shams on 03/04/2008 If u listen to music with the headphones that's provided,the quality doesn't comes that good.I am using N70 Music Edition headphones with the adaptor in my 5300 and the music quality is simply SUPERB...and it's been a year i am using this phone,i dropped it quite a lot of times but nothing happened !!!!! Rating: Reviewed by michelle m on 02/04/2008 this is the best phone going.... i cant belive that its a mp3 as well as phone... i would highly recomend it.............................. Rating: Reviewed by joseph on 30/03/2008 i love the phone but does any one know how you get the memory card in Rating: Reviewed by M.Igrm on 27/03/2008 Meh. Its okay, i find getting the cover off a bit silly, and getting the sim card out hurts my nails xP Over all, i'd say about 3/5 due to the fact that i have dust under my screen, and the cover/sim thingy above. Rating: Reviewed by Andreas G on 26/03/2008 its the best phone ever i love the outstanding picture Rating: Reviewed by laim on 25/03/2008 i love my phone!and its true what they say, you do need to take care of it.i dropped mine within a week of getting it and cracked the screen in the corner but i can live with that, and i usually drop my phone atleast once a day and thats the only damage it has recieved other than a few scrathces. the only probllem is the music program they give you with it, it is rather slow and sometimes crashes. Rating: Reviewed by rajendra on 25/03/2008 Aaa...this phone is quite good. It's music player is damn good Rating: Reviewed by Abbey x on 25/03/2008 Hiyyah my name is abbey...and i have this phone at the moment and i have to tell you i HATE it! If your looking for a phone just for messaging and calling people then yes its fine. But.. If you want it to have music and pictures and games and so on...This is not the phone for you! The camera is not so good and the memory is rubbish..you can have say.15 pictures and 2 songs and then your memory is gone! The battery life is satisfactory but still i would not buy this phone if i was you..i made a big mistake buying it dont do the same as me. x x x Rating: Reviewed by Tim on 23/03/2008 Wow. This phone is great, the camera is really good considering its a 1.3 mp Music quality is great, mp3 player easy to organise and i got a 512 memory card =] Ive had the phone for 6 months and i dont even have a scratch on it so all the people who say 'The screen just cracks' i doubt very much that it gets damaged on its own accord! Take care of your phone! Love the mp3 player keys, its awesome Rating: Reviewed by Isha on 21/03/2008 the keypad refused to light up and the music player doesnt work this is after one year owning the phone.However it is a good mobile phone/mp3 player. Rating: Reviewed by faizal vohra on 19/03/2008 this is the worst phone ever i saw........about its camera....1.3 megapixcel.....rubbish..video recording is not proper large no of cuts are seen on the screen.....dont buy nokia product Rating: Reviewed by Saify on 18/03/2008 Hi, I just recommend that if someone ever got chance to buy this phone then don't lose it.Because it has everything that u can expect from Music Player.if u use a Good Quality(Nokia Bluetooth headset BH-501) its Sound Quality, Awesome...! . Besides that it has all features that a mobile should have. Fairly saying I've no complain with this phone. Rating: Reviewed by kate on 18/03/2008 i got this fone a few months ago..it is good..especially if you like playing music on ur phone...only things wrong are its very chunky and quite big...and i also have problems with the network signal sometimes and have to keep switching it on and off...im going to get the samsung d900 wich is more slimmer and looks better. Rating: Reviewed by ROB on 18/03/2008 1 WORD....WICKED....ITS WELL COOL MAN Rating: Reviewed by Lola on 16/03/2008 this phone looks very nice and compact in the picture but when seeing it in the flesh itis plastic and feels very tacky. I would only advise buying this phone if yoiu dont mind plastic, badly made phones. Rating: Reviewed by Jay on 15/03/2008 I just got my Nokia 5300 XpressMusic yesterday. Its is really cool, i love slidey phones! Rating: Reviewed by amit on 15/03/2008 the worst phone i ever had.camera is no good. i originally had sony z550i .it is much better than it.i recomend never go for nokia 5300..... Rating: Reviewed by Randy. Phillip on 14/03/2008 On the 12.11.200 |
