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The new 5230, from Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia, is an inexpensive younger brother to the more powerful Nokia N97, sharing many features with this model such as a touch screen, media playback, a digital camera, and GPS navigation. Up until now, most of the touchscreen smartphones on the market have been rather expensive, with models such as the Nexus One, The Xperia X10, and the iPhone costing upwards of 200GBP. The 5230 is listed at a bargain basement price of 118GBP, which brings the smartphone within the reach of the average consumer for the first time. Files such as MP3s and video clips can be stored on removable Micro SD cards, and the 5230 comes with a four gigabyte card pre installed, which is more than adequate for most peoples needs. The camera only has a resolution of two megapixels, but despite this, the image quality is rather good. You need to use a virtual onscreen keyboard if you want to type anything into the 5230, as there is no hardware equivalent. There are, however, several other buttons on the case, such as red and green call buttons, a lock, a camera button, and a menu button that brings up a list of all the apps that are on your phone. The phone runs on the Symbian operating system, which despite its popularity has a much smaller range of apps available for it than the competing Android and iPhone operating systems. However, there are a few advantages, such as being able to see how much memory an app is going to take up, and the version number, when you download it. For an entry level phone, the call quality is surprisingly good, with crystal clear audio and very few drop outs and extraneous noises. Also, the touchscreen is very responsive, particularly when entering text and numbers, and outperforms many more expensive phones in this regard. The phone supports all the major social networking services, such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter, and the integration with other phone features such is surprisingly good. The lack of Wi Fi connectivity means that internet access is always going to be a bit slow, but apart from this, the phone works quite well for browsing and emailing. There are some glitches when using some of the more popular apps. For example, the Gmail app assumes that a hardware keyboard is installed, and will not work properly as a result. However, you can get around this fairly easily by accessing Gmail via the browser.
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This review of the Nokia 5230 smartphone was written by Porter Ivrin. The Nokia 5230 is available with a contract from Vodafone in the UK.
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