Design and style of Nokia 5320 xPressMusic is catch. Nokia 5320 XpressMusic is a musical mobile phone of Nokia. All the latest and newborn technologies are available in Nokia 5320 XpressMusic. All the latest and new functions of the music are available in Nokia 5320 XpressMusic. Users will never feel boring in the company of the Nokia 5320 XpressMusic.

The exterior of the phone shows it's a music device with its playback controls, and these work very well as noted in the hardware section above. They feel much more natural to use than the Nokia N81's d-pad-centric playback controls or the Nokia N95's two-handed playback controls.

On the music front, the Nokia 5320 includes dedicated XpressMusic keys which are down the left-hand side of the bright, crisp screen. Here you get fastforward, skipback, play and pause, with volume controls on the other side.

The actual audio quality of Nokia 5320 xPressMusic is very good, perhaps thanks to its dedicated audio chip. Music on the Nokia 5320 xPressMusic sounds more detailed than on the Nokia N95 for example, and it somehow has a lot of "oomph". There's no background hiss during moments of silence. On the old chestnut of gapless playback, there is still a brief pause between tracks, though it's perhaps a bit shorter than on previous S60 devices.

The external speaker is mono as there's only one, but it's fairly good quality and very loud. If you use the speaker on its loudest setting it will drain the battery quite quickly though.

On the Nokia 5320 XpressMusic there is HSDPA connectivity for downloading tracks on the go as well as uploading images or surfing the web, Bluetooth 2.0 so you can connect wireless speakers and a 2 megapixel camera around the back for snapping your mates at a gig.

Transfer of music via the USB cable is very fast thanks to USB 2.0 High Speed compatibility. As with other S60 devices there's no automatic refreshing of the music library, so you have to remember to manually refresh the music player after adding more tracks, which is a bit annoying. The 5320 has a memory card slot compatible with microSDHC cards up to 8 gigabytes officially, though unofficially you may be able to use cards with much higher capacities. As a rough estimate, 8 gigabytes is enough for about 2000 to 3000 tracks.

The Nokia 5320 XpressMusic has a 3.5mm headphone socket on the bottom of the device so you can use any headphones you want. The phone supports A2DP and AVRCP Bluetooth profiles, so you can also use it with most wireless Bluetooth stereo headphones. The music player app contains an eight band graphic equaliser featuring a number of presets, and you can add your own custom presets too.

The Nokia 5320 XpressMusic mobile phone offers extendable memory up to 8GB, HS-USB for fast music transfer and HSDPA for fast access to data. Superior audio quality with dedicated audio chip, fast and easy music downloads with HSDPA and USB 2.0, up to 8 GB external memory.

Via the internet browser, users can get access to the usual Nokia offerings: Ovi and Nokia Search 4.1 while the dedicated N-Gage gaming keys and landscape view are said to "deliver a true gaming experience" meaning that as promised Nokia has expanded the N-Gage platform's availability beyond its Nseries range.

The Nokia 5320 XpressMusic is a Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 phone, like the N78 and 6220 Classic. As has been mentioned in those devices' reviews, Feature Pack 2 is an evolution of S60 rather than a revolution, so don't expect any huge changes.

While many tech sites concentrate on high-end 600 euro devices such as the N96 and iPhone, it's cheaper models like this that will quietly creep into far more people's pockets. Nokia 5320 XpressMusic is a phone that ordinary people would feel comfortable buying. It's got flaws (some of which could be corrected through a firmware update) but this is exactly the kind of device that Nokia needs if it wants to get larger numbers of people using its online services and buying its smartphones.


Design
• Type : Candybar
• A streamlined design with glossy surfaces and refined details.
• 3G/HSPDA connectivity for fast data transfer
• Dedicated keys for music and N-Gage gaming. Gaming optimised 8-way Navi?key.
• A 2.0?TFT display with the landscape N-Gage gaming experience.
• SMS, MMS, and Xpress Audio messaging, and email ?share your life easily from camera and gallery to online services, such as Ovi, Flickr and VOX.
• Music player with Nokia Say and Play application.
• Superior audio quality with dedicated audio chip, fast and easy music downloads with HSDPA and USB 2.0, up to 8 GB external memory (microSD card).

User interface
• Series 60 user interface with Active Standby
• 8-way NaviTM with select, two soft keys, send, end, clear and menu key
• Music keys (rewind, forward, play/pause), My Own key for Say and Play, and N-Gage games

Voice and audio
• Mono speaker with integrated handsfree
• Circuit Switched video call, Video sharing
• High quality text to speech functionality (SMS reader)
• Nokia Say and Play (voice control to music player)
• Enhanced voice dialling

Applications
• N-Gage is available via download (Games folder) or online at www.ngage.com
• JavaTM Mobile Information Device Profile 2.1
• Macromedia Flash Lite 3.0
• Windows Live available via download
• Flickr
• Yahoo Go!
• Yahoo Messenger