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Mobile Phone: Nokia 5610 XpressMusic User Review

• RRP: $519
• Style: Bar
• Dimensions: 98.5 x 48.5 x 17mm
• Weight:111g
• Colours: Black/Red, Black/Blue
• Camera: 3.2MP
• 3G Internet - Yes
• Memory Card Capacity: 4GB
• MP3 Player: Yes - Designed for Playing Music
• Bluetooth: Yes
• Email: Yes
• FM Radio: Yes
• Office System- Symbian S40 3.0
  
• Memory Card: Micro SD (TransFlash)
• GPS: —–

Users of the Nokia 5610 XpressMusic said:

This phone is good on paper, but buggy to the point of being unusable in the real world. The music player crashes too often, and without warning, while just playing songs. What’s worse, if you happen to get an SMS while in the music player mode, the display blanks out, and the whole OS crashes. Nothing short of removing the rear cover and extracting and reseating the battery will restore the phone. It happens EVERY time. Utterly hopeless. I should’ve bought one of the Sony-Ericsson walkman phones instead of this piece of junk :/

Hey guys - My 5610 restarts once or twice in a day when i listen to songs with my headset. I listen to songs at least for 2-3hrs a day. Extremely annoying.

So i got this phone today, I have to say im impressed. but also something i dont like. the +/- button could be thicker by maybe 1mm and AIM dont work so far for me, gotta get support. also the navigation key, the “ok” is sometimes a hassle because I press the side buttons accidently instead of the middle. Other than that - Its’ good so far.

PROS
- I’ve the black and red version. It’s stylish and even my mate who was with me when buying it said he liked the colour
- The I like the number keypad, feels good and easy to use.
- Lots of personalisation options, just the small things like themes, radio skins, wallpapers, message tones all customisable. These things make the difference for me.
- Battery life so far seems good but i can’t really comment on that. I charged the phone overnight and have been using it for about the past 4 hours and it’s still all green battery.
- Camera seems excellent though i’ve only taken a few shots.
- Screen is also good. Video quality is stunning, best i’ve seen on any mobile. This was using the sample clips that came with the memory card.

CONS
- Easily picks up thumbprints, both on the screen and the d-pad.
- Although the slide has a nice movement, when pressing buttons at the bottom of the top part of the slider e.g. the down button or make or end call buttons, the slider pushes in too. This is something which REALLY annoys me but i doubt anyone else may even notice it. Just hope i get used to it.
- The back cover is a nightmare to get off. i tried it for 5 mins then even tried using a fork before my friend finally got it off. Same thing for putting back down the memory card holder. This may have just been me though, my friend dealt with both straight away.
- Slightly heavier than normal phones though i still won’t exactly call it heavy, just ‘heavier than normal’.

I bought 5610 a week back and it works pretty good. Just that you have to struggle with the back battery flap, first time you feel as if you have broken it. The music functions are impressive. The black & blue looks very classy than the black & red…. also its finger print sensitive, so have to keep it cleaned.

Just bought the phone a week back. The phone is OK but the accessories are worthless, the headphones are no good the finish of accessories is very poor. The hands free (AD-56) conked off the very next day (no sound from one side). On top of it the Nokia care centre (or careless centre) says that the stocks are not available and will take some 15 days. Be careful of Nokia service esp. in India. Nokia phone line is a wall of inefficiency.

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