Volume: 85 cc
Weight: 106.5 g
Length: 92.4 mm
Width: 48.2 mm
Thickness (max): 20.7 mm

Display: 262,144 colors true color TFT QVGA 320 x 240 pixels 2″ display

Price range: $240.00 to $345.00

The 5300 XpressMusic sports a 2.0-inch TFT screen, 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder, music player and FM radio; all function without sliding the phone open. For usability, the its screen features buttons on either side; on the left to control the Music Player and on the right turn on the Camera and adjust the zoom and function as the Volume Control.

The side navigation keys also provide easy access to the Music Library, supporting MP3, MIDI, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, and WMA file formats. Music listeners can download songs directly from the Web and/or transfer the songs to the phone with the free Nokia Audio Manager application.

The 2.5mm headset jack is found on the left side, together with three dedicated music keys. The Infrared port, camera, and volume buttons are found on the right. The power button, power jack, and USB port are found on the top, whereas the camera and speaker grille holes are found on the back. Notice that the music keys slightly protrude, making it easier to skip tracks in your pocket, though they can be a bit hard to press. All in all, the Nokia 5300 has a well thought-out design. It would have been better if there was some protection to cover up the USB and power ports, though.

The audio quality won’t rival that of your iPod; but, whether the sound plays through the included 2.5mm headphones or the external speaker, it’s better than what we’ve heard from most music phones. Songs occasionally sounded tinny when played over the speaker, but overall the audio was very good.

As a phone, the 5300 works well. Its rubbery exterior makes it comfortable to hold, and it slides open nicely with one hand. The unit is light enough to hold comfortably next to your ear during long conversations. Call quality and volume were quite good, but the talk-time battery life was only fair: It lasted 5 hours, 6 minutes in our lab tests.

The Nokia 5300 is quite capable when it comes to handling calls and contact lists. Voice quality was good, though callers complained of background noise as we made our way through the packed, noisy streets of Manhattan. Signal strength was always strong in New York using a T-Mobile SIM card. The speakerphone is among the loudest we’ve used, but while the phone sports speaker-independent voice dialing, we found performance on voice commands to be very poor; the phone didn’t recognize a single name we spoke. Bluetooth and push-to-talk capabilities are present, and conference calling was not difficult. The contact list accommodated plenty of fields, though you must add them one at a time if you want more than a single name and number per contact. Through the Nokia PC studio, the phone syncs your desktop-based Outlook contacts.

Key features:
Dedicated keys for convenient music play
Plug in your own headsets with the universal headset adapter
Never run out of space with expandable memory up to 2 GB
Show off great pictures with the 1.3 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom
Fun and friendly design that’s easy on the grip
Get everyone moving to the beat with high quality loudspeaker

Other Features:
Internal antenna
Animated color screensavers
Changeable color themes, user defined themes
Nokia Sensor
Flash lite player version 2.0
Plug and play mobile services
Nokia Audio Manager and Windows Media Player

Messaging:
Multimedia messaging: MMS for creating, receiving, editing, and sending videos and pictures with AMR voice clips (with up to 300 KB)
Email: Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and APOP protocols. Support for attachments (view jpeg, 3gp, MP3, .ppt, and excel files)
Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
Audio messaging: Record your own voice message and send to compatible devices
Instant Messaging and Presence-enhanced contacts

Volume: 85 cc
Weight: 104,2 g
Length: 92.4 mm
Width: 48.2 mm
Thickness (max): 20.7 mm

Display: 262,144 colors Active CST QVGA 128 x 160 pixels display

Price range: $249.00 to $332.00

While specifications for the Nokia 5200 aren’t that high-end, it does provide for a compact device for people on the go. On the music front, Nokia has included support for MP3, WMA, M4A, AAC, AAC+, and eAAC+ format files, and thrown in a microSD memory card slot for storing up to 2GB of audio. While the 5200 only provides a 2.5mm headphone port, Nokia has kindly included a 3.5mm adapter and a set of headphones in the box. Limited imaging is available through a VGA resolution camera that can also record video at QCIF resolution. Connectivity wise, the tri-band (GSM 900/1800/1900MHz) Nokia 5200 supports USB, Infrared, and Bluetooth, as well as EDGE high-speed data.

Nokia 5200 seems to have borrowed LG’s Chocolate design, like many other phones that were launched after LG’s big market success terminal. Oh yes, it’s a ”flip, flip, flipper” ladies and gentlemen. Unfortunately, it’s totally made of plastic. If you don’t mind this, you will surely love Nokia’s 5200 model. Further more, the handset has been designed like a music phone, thus it has music controls on both sides. On the left side, there’s the music button, used for opening or closing the MP3 player or the FM radio, and also the 2.5mm stereo jack for headset. On the right side of the phone we can find other two buttons that control the volume of the music, and one button which controls the camera. All buttons are greatly embedded in the frame of the device making them hardly noticeable. Like all Nokia’s handsets, the power button states its business from the top of the device. Just near the power button, there’s the charger port and the USB port. On the bottom of the phone there’s … nothing. Lastly, on the back of the handset we can find the camera for taking photos. I have to mention this because it’s important: I had big troubles opening the back lid, be very careful ’cause it’s very fragile. Oops, forgot to mention the microSD card slot, but I’m entitled to do that and you’ll see why. When I took the phone, I knew its specifications and was looking for the microSD slot all over its frame. Didn’t find it, so I opened the back lid thinking that it has a motoRAZR-like layout. Took out the battery only to find that there is no card slot there whatsoever. So, the only thing left was the manual. I opened it and … Evrika, we have the microSD slot card up on the left side (just near the headset port), but you have to open the back lid otherwise you can’t reach it. Wicked :)! If you are more of a math guy, here are its numbers: 92.4 x 48.2 x 20.7 mm and 104 grams weight (including battery).

Nokia 5200 has GPRS Class 10 and EDGE capabilities, a FM radio and a music player supporting MP3, SpMidi, AAC, AAC+ and enhanced AAC+ formats. It has MP3, video and 64-voice polyphonic ring-tones. It supports all basic features, such as, SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging, email, Alarm clock, Reminders, Stopwatch, Countdown timer, Calculator, Calendar, Notes, etc. The phone uses a XHTML web browser.

Key features:
Fast and easy access to the stereo FM radio and music player with a dedicated key
Distinct, user-friendly slide design
Snap up cool moments with the VGA camera with 4x digital zoom
Share music conveniently and wirelessly with Bluetooth and infrared technology
128 x 160 pixels 262,144 colors true color CSTN display

Other Features:
Internal antenna
Animated color screensavers
Changeable color themes, user defined themes
Native e-mail client with attachments
Plug and play mobile services

Messaging:
Multimedia messaging: MMS for creating, receiving, editing, and sending videos and pictures with AMR voice clips (with up to 300 KB)
Email: Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and APOP protocols. Support for attachments (view jpeg, 3gp, MP3, .ppt, .doc, excel, and .pdf files)
Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
Audio messaging: Record your own voice message and send to compatible devices
Instant Messaging and Presence-enhanced contacts

Volume: 96 cc
Weight: 128 g
Length(max): 99 mm
Width(max): 53 mm
Thickness(max): 21 mm

Display: Large 2.8″ QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) TFT display with ambient light detector and up to 16.7 million colors.

Price: $900.00 to $1500.00

At the back of the N95 8GB, the fiddly camera cover is gone. The advantage of not having a cover is that you no longer have to worry about the camera accidentally being activated in your pocket, which regularly happened on the original N95.
A minor but noteworthy feature is the N95 8GB’s black casing. It’s amazing how a change of colour can bring out a phone’s sexy side and we think Nokia may have sold even more original N95s if it had come in black.

When we look at N95 8GB from its left-hand side, we see that it’s an exact replica of the original, save for the absence of a memory card slot. The phone’s right, upper and lower part have not undergone any change and the arrangement of the keys and the connectors is identical with that of N95.The positioning of the camera has not changed, either: it is in the upper part of the phone’s back. The difference, however, is that the flash is under the lens and not on the right-hand side, like in N95. Another feature that is easy to notice is the lack of lens cover, which is probably due to the fact that Nokia have replaced the former 940 m?h battery with a new and thicker 1200 m?h one.

The ‘dual slider’ concept remains. The number pad slides out of one end, and out of the other, a bank of four buttons for controlling music playback. I wasn’t bowled over by the concept last time round and it doesn’t grab me much this time either, but as before, you can use these buttons to control music playback when you are in applications other than the music player, which could be handy.
As a quad-band 3G handset with front facing camera for video calling, the N95 8GB is nothing special. Nor does the 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss optics-toting main camera have the ‘wow’ factor it once did as there are plenty of 5-megapixel cameras on phones these days.

The Nokia N95 8GB has a larger screen, and in reality the 0.2″ do make a difference. The display truly looks larger than you might guess. The QVGA resolution stays the same and is adequate for providing great picture quality, especially when combined with the 16.7 million color support. Other benefits of Nokia N95 8GB over its predecessor is the doubled RAM, which makes the phone faster, even with more applications running in background. The card slot however has been ditched and this might seem perfectly coherent with the 8GB of storage space provided. On the other hand, a card slot can be very useful as a file transfer medium. Though not so frequently used, it’s worth having data transfer options. Another advantage of Nokia N95 8GB is the notably better battery life. Short battery life was probably the most criticized feature of the original N95, some heavy users reporting to have been forced to recharge a few times a day. Now, with the 1200 mAh and the demand-paging feature enabled, the Nokia N95 8GB is a real step up. The fact that only the most essential parts of the programs are loaded in the RAM memory with the rest remaining on the mass or phone memory until it is needed reduces the memory-needs of the phone and therefore increase the battery life. However, it is not all milk and honey for the Nokia N95-2. The spoon of tar is the removed camera lens cover. The newly released phone relies only on a slight recess for camera lens protection from dirt and smudgy fingers.

Imaging:
Up to 5 megapixel (2592 x 1944 pixels) camera, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens, MPEG-4 VGA video capture of up to 30 fps
Direct connection to compatible TV via Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box) or wireless LAN/UPnP
Front camera, CIF (352 x 288) sensor
Video call and video sharing support (WCDMA network services)
Integrated flash
Digital stereo microphone
Flash modes: on, off, automatic, red-eye reduction
Online album/blog: photo/video uploading from gallery
Nokia Lifeblog 2.0 support
Video and still image editors

Mobile Video:
Video resolutions: up to VGA (640×480 pixels) at 30 fps
Audio recording: AAC mono
Digital video stabilization
Video capture: up to 215 min (VGA, 30fps)
Video file format .mp4 (default), .3gp (for MMS)
White balance: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
Scene: automatic, night
Color tones: normal, sepia, black & white, negative, vivid
Zoom: digital up to 10x (VGA up to 4x)

Mobile Photography:
Image resolution: up to 5 megapixel: (2592 x 1944 pixels)
Still image file format: JPEG/EXIF
Auto focus
Auto exposure - center weighted
Exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.5 step
White balance: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
Scene: automatic, user, close-up, portrait, landscape, sports, night, night portrait
Color tone: normal, sepia, black & white, negative, vivid
Zoom: digital up to 20x (5 megapixel up to 6x)
Viewfinder grid

Messaging:
Text messaging: supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
Multimedia messaging: combine image, video, text, and audio clip and send as MMS to a compatible phone or PC; use MMS to tell your story with a multi-slide presentation
Automatic resizing of your megapixel images to fit MMS (max 300 KB size depending on the network)
Predictive text input: support for all major languages in Europe and Asia-Pacific

Data Transfer:
WCDMA 2100 (HSDPA) with simultaneous voice and packet data (PS max speed UL/DL= 384/3.6MB, CS max speed 64kbps)
Dual Transfer Mode (DTM) support for simultaneous voice and packet data connection in GSM/EDGE networks. Simple class A, multi slot class 11, max speed DL/UL: 177.6/118.4 kbits/s
EGPRS class B, multi slot class 32, max speed DL/UL= 296 / 177.6 kbits/s
GPRS class B, multi slot class 32, max speed DL/UL= 107 / 64.2 kbits/s

Volume: 90 cc
Weight: 120 g
Length: 99 mm
Width: 53 mm
Thickness (max): 21 mm

Display: Up to 16 mil colors, Large 2.6″ Active TFT QVGA 240 x 320 pixels display with ambient light detector

Price: $750.00 to $1350.00

Nokia has really pushed the boat out with its marketing of the swish new N95. You’d be hard pressed not to have seen an advert or two boasting the wide array of features and capabilities of the phone as a ‘total mobile solution’.

After a quick look at the specs it’s not hard to see why: the most notable of inclusions is the presence of a built-in GPS receiver, the first phone of its kind to have one. There’s also a 5-megapixel digital camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and powerful multimedia support that compares nicely to modern multimedia players.

The N95 is a 3G phone, so above the screen sits the customary videocall camera. Alongside that is a light sensor and the earpiece. Below the screen is a typical slider-phone control cluster: five-way navigation key surrounded by not one but two Menu keys, soft-menu buttons, call make and break buttons.

The N95 is silver-look plastic, set in a wraparound burgundy rubber-texture piece. The red sides are home to the two stereo speakers, camera controls, volume rocker switch, MicroSD slot - under, for once, a cover that’s easy to open - infrared port and AV output. On the back is the autofocus camera and Carl Zeiss lens under a manually opened cover. You’ll find the new, skinny style power socket and a mini USB port on the phone’s base.

The Nokia N95 is a 3G Smartphone which comes is a clever two way slider opening mechanism. The phone can be opened either way which provides the user with a keypad when the screen is moved in the up position, a set of multimedia controls when the screen is moved in the down position & when in the closed position the user can use the navigation & shortcut keys. The user can use their Nokia N95 in landscape mode which is when the screen is moved to the down position which is ideal for all multimedia purposes & accessing the Internet. The screen is 2.6 Inches in size & provides a 240 x 320 pixel screen resolution on a 16 million colour TFT display. The mobile handset weighs only 120 gram which is unbelievable considering all the built in technology & capabilities. The Nokia N95 measures 99 x 53 x 21 mm which provides the user with a useable handset which has a solid feel to it.

Key Features:
5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics
Bulit-in GPS mapping
DVD-like quality footage
View emails with attachment

Multimedia:
Visual Radio: Listen to music and interact with your favorite radio stations
Find out what song is playing, who sings it, and other artist information
Enter contests and answer surveys, vote for your favorite songs
Download the songs you buy direct to your phone
Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz / 76-90 MHz)**
Integrated music player for MP3/AAC/M4A/eAAC+/AAC+ formats with playlist and equalizer
RealPlayer Media Player
Download and play multimedia files (video and music)
Stream media files from compatible media portals
Full-screen video playback on the device to view downloaded, streamed or recorded video clips in larger size
Played formats (decoding): .3gp and .mp4 file formats, MPEG-4 video, H.263 video and AMR audio, RealMedia (Real Video and Real Audio), MP3, and AAC

Imaging:
Integrated 5.0 megapixel (2592 x 1944 pixels) camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar™ lens, MPEG-4 VGA video capture of up to 30fps
Flash modes: on, off, automatic
Video and still image editors
Video call and video sharing support (WCDMA network services)
Image Formats Support: JPEG, EXIF
Front camera, CIF (352 X 288) sensor
Direct connection to compatible TV via Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box) or wireless LAN/UPnP
Integrated flash LED
Movie director for automated video production
Video and still image editors
Nokia Lifeblog 2.0 support
Rotating gallery
Online album/blog: photo/video uploading from gallery
Image editing
Digital stereo microphone
Mobile Video
Video resolutions: up to VGA (640 x 480) at 30 fps
Audio recording: AAC mono
Digital video stabilization
Up to 10x digital zoom, VGA up to 4x
Video clip length: limited by available memory
Video file format: .mp4 (default), .3gp (for MMS)
White balance: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
Scene: automatic, night
Color tones: normal, sepia, black & white, negative, vivid
Zoom: Digital up to 10x (VGA up to 4x)
Mobile Photography
Image resolution: up to 5 megapixel (2592 X 1944 pixels)
Still image file format: JPEG/EXIF
Auto focus
Auto exposure (center weighted)
Exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.5 step
White balance: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
Scene: automatic, user, close-up, portrait, landscape, sports, night, night portrait
Color tone: normal, sepia, black & white, negative, vivid
Zoom: Digital up to 20x (5 megapixel up to 6x)
Camera Specifications
Sensor: CMOS , 5 megapixel (2592 x 1944 pixels)
Carl Zeiss optics: Tessar™ lens
Focal length: 5.6 mm
Focus range: 10 cm ~ infinity
Macro focus distance: 10 - 50 cm
Shutter speed: Mechanical shutter (1/1000 ~ 1/3 s)

Browsing:
Nokia Web Browser with Mini map
OMA Digital DRM 2.0 & WMDRM support for music

Messaging:
Multimedia messaging: MMS for creating, receiving, editing, and sending videos and pictures with AMR voice clips, supports multi-slide presentation
Automatic resizing of your megapixel images to fit MMS (max 300 KB size depending on the network)
Email: Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and APOP protocols. Support for images, videos, music and documents
Compatible with Nokia Wireless Keyboard (sold separately)
Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
Predictive Text Input: Support for all major languages in Europe and Asia Pacific including Indian dialect variants

Weight: 165 g
Length: 113.1 mm
Width: 55.2 mm
Thickness (max): 22 mm

Display: Up to 262,144 colors, 176 x 208 pixels display

Price: $499.00 to $982.9

The Nokia N91 is a mobile phone that was released to the public in April of 2006. It is part of the Nokia Nseries range of mobile phone. It features a 2-megapixel camera and a 4GB (8GB in the “new” 2006 version) hard disk to store approximately 3,000 songs encoded in either AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, mp3PRO, WAV, MIDI, or Microsoft’s WMA format. It also features 3G and wi-fi technology. The phone features a 176 x 208, 262,144 colours TFT LCD display and dedicated music functionality buttons (XpressMusic) that slide down to reveal traditional mobile phone keys. Battery life when solely playing music has been estimated at 12 hours.

The phone features a new version of the Symbian Series 60 Operating System. It was the first phone with this version (Symbian version 9.1, Series 60 version 3.0). The new version is needed for the support of a mechanical hard disk. In the past, the version of the Symbian operating system has been a good indicator of cpu speed.

There are two things you’ll notice about the Nokia N91: it’s flashy and it’s big. À la the Nokia 8800, the all-silver N91 is certainly eye-catching, but at 4.4 by 2.2 by 0.9 inches and 5.8 ounces, the slider phone is on the larger and heftier side, making for a tight fit in a pants pocket. Even by the standards of music players, the Nokia N91 is still big and heavy. By comparison, the 4GB Cowon iAudio 6 measures 2.7 by 1.2 by 0.7 inches and 2.1 ounces. That said, the solidly constructed N91 is comfortable to hold in the hand.

The left side of the phone features a connector for the USB cable, enclosed in the retail package, and a swing volume control button. The loud speaker grill is just below the volume button. It is a pity that Nokia designers have not mounted another loud speaker on the opposite side of the body. It would have come in handy. Nokia N91 loud speaker is among the best on the market. Yet, its loudness is not sufficient for listening to music on a busy street. As it seems, Nokia 3250 remains the phone with the most powerful loud speaker in the entire Nokia family.

The Nokia N91 features a 2.2-inch-diagonal screen that shows off 262,000 colors, but it’s lower in resolution than the Nokia N80 (176×208 vs. 325×416 pixels), so text and images aren’t as sharp. Below the display are two customizable soft keys, the Talk and End buttons, and a five-way navigation toggle. In its closed state, the front cover also holds the music player controls: music access, play/pause, stop, next, and previous. Interestingly, there appears to be a select button in the middle of this control pad, but you can’t press it, and it doesn’t seem to serve a purpose.

Key Features:
Store up to 8 GB of music
FM and Visual Radio capabilities
2 megapixel camera with 20x digital zoom
Download, stream, and shoot your own video
Connect to your compatible PC via USB 2.0 or Bluetooth wireless technology
A2DP

Multimedia:
MVisual Radio*: Listen to music and interact with your favorite radio stations
Find out what song is playing, who sings it, and other artist information
Enter contests and answer surveys, vote for your favorite songs
Download the songs you buy direct to your phone
Digital Music supported for the following media type: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, Real, WAV, WMA, M4A, AMR-WB, True Tones, AMR-NB
Playback for the following video formats: 3GPP H.263, MPEG4, RealVideo
Hi-Fi Quality Sound
Use the Nokia Music Headset HS-28 with remote control or use your own high quality headphone and connect directly to the 3.5mm audio jack on the Nokia N91 8GB
Connect the Nokia N91 8GB to external speakers via the CA-72U** stereo audio cable
Top-Shelf audio quality – low-noise audio; power output to spare; premium in-box headset; ability to plug high-end third-party headphones directly into the device (remote control not required)
Make your own recording using voice record application
Music Player
Intelligently designed music player - optimized for music listening
Dedicated playback keys and volume control
Enhanced on the go playlist management - edit playlists, add new music
Meta data for tracks can be viewed and modified directly on your N91 8GB
Enhanced music features: 8-band equalizer, loudness, music DRC (Dynamic Range Compression)
See what is playing when the Nokia N91 8GB is in the idle state
Answer calls while listening to music and music pauses and then resumes again when the call is ended
Music user profile or sim-less operation allows for uninterrupted listening
Transfer any multimedia content from PC to your Nokia N91 8GB***

Browsing:
xHTML browser
Improved Web compatibility with support for HTML 4.01, including support for elements such as image maps, background images, and frames
Support for a subset of JavaScript 1.5, which includes the most commonly used functions found on the Internet
File upload over HTTP using standard HTML forms
Small screen rendering option including a faster page-up/page-down scrolling style
Full-screen mode, download progress bar, and adaptive history list
3GPP video streaming
OMA DRM 2.0 including forward lock for content protection, combined delivery and separate delivery
For protection/digital rights management for music files: Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) DRM 2.0 and Windows Media (WM) DRM using WMP 10 for portable devices

Messaging:
MMS for creating, receiving, editing, and sending videos and pictures with AMR voice clips
Automatic resizing of your megapixel images to fit MMS (max 300 KB size depending on the network)
Email: Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and APOP protocols. Support for attachments (view jpeg, 3gp, MP3, .ppt, .doc, excel, and .pdf files)
Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
Instant Messaging
Predictive Text Input: Support for all major languages in Europe and Asia Pacific including Indian dialect variants