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The solutions offering is complemented by A-GPS navigation and the latest version of Ovi Maps with aerial images, 3D landmarks for over 200 cities and terrain map views for pedestrian and drive navigation.

 

"Competitively priced at 149 EUR, we believe the Nokia 5230 is an unbeatable offer for many new customers who aspire a device that stars in music, mingles with social networks from Facebook to MySpace, navigates you to where it happens, when it happens,  and comes in an array of dazzling colors, " said Jo Harlow, Vice President, Nokia.

 

Visiting the Ovi Store from the Nokia 5230 is a breeze. Ovi Store is conveniently accessible from the home screen of the phone and customers can immediately begin downloading and personalizing their phones with popular apps and games to make their phone more fun. New apps, games, videos, and more are added regularly and Ovi Store can be enjoyed on more than 75 Nokia devices and has active users from more than 180 countries.

 

The Nokia 5230 features an easy to use music player with 33 hours of playback time. In select markets the Nokia 5230 will include Comes With Music service offering truly unbeatable value with all you can eat music. The recommended price of the Nokia 5230 with the Comes With Music service will be 259 EUR before subsidies and taxes. For a mighty music experience, any headphones with a 3.5mm AV connector can be used. In addition, the Nokia 5230 features a Media Bar with quick access to your favorite media and applications, such as music, photos, YouTube or Ovi Share.

 

The innovative Contacts bar features thumbnail images for up to 20 close friends and provides easy access to them and their communications history including emails, phone calls, photos or other social media update.

Physical features, power and memory & Size 

Form: Classic with touchscreen

Dimensions: 111 x 51.7 x 14.5/15.5 mm

Weight: 113 g (without stylus)

Weight: 115 g (with stylus)

Volume: 78 cc (without stylus) / 83 cc (with stylus)

Responsive touchscreen with tactile feedback

Accelerometer for auto-rotate

Proximity sensor to save power and prevent inadvertent touches

 

Display and 3D 

Size: 3.2"

Resolution: 640 x 360 pixels (nHD) with 16:9 picture

Up to 16.7 million colours

Full touchscreen display

 

Keys and input method

Touchscreen

Dedicated keys for camera, volume, power, send & end, and application launch (menu), plus the media bar touch key for accessing music, gallery, share online, video centre and web browser

Homescreen music plug-in for pause/play, forward, back

Voice commands

Colours and covers

Available in-box colours:

- White/Red 

- White/Dark Silver 

- White/Pink 

- White/Yellow 

- White/Blue 

- Black/Red 

- Black/Dark Silver

Changeable colour battery covers

 

Connectors

Micro-USB connector, USB 2.0 high speed

3.5 mm Nokia AV connector

 

Memory 

microSD memory card slot, with hot swap max. 16 GB

70 MB internal dynamic memory

 

Power 

BL-5J 1320 mAh Li-Ion standard battery

Talk time (maximum)

- GSM 7 h

- WCDMA 4 h 18 min

Standby time (maximum)

- GSM up to 438 h

- WCDMA up to 458 h

Video playback time (maximum): Mpeg-4 4.6hours, nHD 3 hours

Music playback time (maximum): 33 h

 

Communication and navigation

Operating frequency

Dual band 900/2100 WCDMA and 850/1900 WCDMA

GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

Automatic switching between GSM bands

Flight mode

 

Data network 

CSD

HSCSD

GPRS/EGPRS Class B, multislot class 32, maximum speed 177/296kbps (DL/UL)

EDGE class B, multislot class 32, maximum speed 177/296 kbps (DL/UL)

WCDMA 2100, maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (UL/DL), 

CS 64 kbps

HSDPA, cat. 6, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps (DL)

TCP/IP support

Bluetooth version 2.0

- Bluetooth profiles: A2DP, AVRCP

MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) support

Direct printing to compatible picture printers

Support for PC synchronisation with Nokia Ovi Suite

Service

Speaker-independent name dialling (SIND)

 

Integrated hands-free speakerphone

Number screening for messaging and calls

Automatic answer with headset or car kit

Any key answer

Call waiting, call hold, call divert

Call timer

Logging of dialled, received and missed calls

Automatic redial

Speed dialling

Voice dialling: speaker independent dialling and voice commands (SIND)

Fixed dialling number support

Vibrating alert (internal), also with tactile feedback

Side volume keys

Mute/unmute

Contacts bar for 20 contacts with images and communication history (SMS, email, web feeds)

Talking ring tones

Conference calling with up to 6 participants

Messaging

SMS

Multiple SMS deletion

MMS version 1.3, message size up to 600 kb

Automatic resizing of images for MMS

Nokia Xpress audio messaging

Common inbox for SMS and MMS messages

Number screening for messaging

Distribution lists for messaging

Cell broadcast

 

E-mail 

Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP

Support for e-mail attachments

OMA e-mail notification support

Mail for Exchange 2008 preinstalled

 

Web browsing 

Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML, WML

Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP, JavaScript

TCP/IP support

OSS browser

Nokia Mobile Search

 

GPS and navigation 

Integrated A-GPS

Ovi Maps 3.0 application

 

Image and sound

Photography 

Image formats: JPEG

CMOS sensor

3x digital zoom

White balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent

Center weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.5 step

Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative

Dedicated camera key

Landscape (horizontal) orientation

Photo editor on device

Video 

Main camera

- Video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps (TV high quality), up to 640 x 352 pixels and up to 30 fps (widescreen quality), up to 320 x 240 pixels and up to 30 fps/15 fps (email high/normal quality), up to 176 x 144 and up to 15 fps (sharing quality)

- Up to 4x digital zoom

Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp

Audio recording formats: WAV (normal), AMR (MMS), AAC/MP4 (high quality)

Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent

Scene modes: automatic, night

Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative

Clip length (maximum): 1 h 30 min (high or normal quality). Dependable on available memory

RealPlayer

Video playback file formats: MPEG4-SP playback 30fps VGA, MPEG4-AVC playback 30fps QVGA, WMV9 playback 30fps QVGA, MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps nHD

Video streaming: 3GPP and CIF

Landscape mode video playback

Video ring tones

Video editor on device

Video Centre service supported: download and stream video content, WMV support, video feeds

Music and audio playback

Music playback file formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC+, WMA

Dedicated music keys

FM radio

3.5 mm stereo headphone plug

2.5 mm Nokia AV connector

Nokia Music

Nokia Music Store support

Nokia Podcasting support

Ring tones: mp3, aac, 64-tone polyphonic (64 built-in tones)

Integrated speaker

 

Voice and audio recording

Voice commands

Voice dialling

 

Personalisation: profiles, themes, ring tones 

Ring tones: 3D, 64-tone polyphonic, mp3 and video ring tones

Video ring tone.

Priced at around, $215, Nokia 5230 doesn’t have the Comes With Music service. This service can be availed with the premium price of about $370.