Volume: 84 cc
Weight: 115 g with battery
Length: 108.2 mm
Width: 50.5 mm
Thickness (max): 17.3 mm
Display: 16 million colors QVGA 240 x 320 pixels 2.2″ display
Size: 33.48 mm x 44.64 mm
Price range: $369 - $560
The Nokia 5700 XpressMusic 3G smartphone comes with a highly useable twist action keypad, camera mode & music mode which makes the handset a pleasure to use. The casing comes in a choice of colours which include red, grey or black coloured main section & the remainder of the handset comes in a smooth white finish. The 5700 is stylish, fashionable & a fun handset to use. The phone is a member of the Nokia XpressMusic range which includes other fashionable music phones including the Nokia 3250 XpressMusic & the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic. The 5700 XpressMusic weighs 128 gram which is a good weight for a 3G capable smartphone. The phone has a solid & chunky feel when in the users hand which measures 17.3mm thick, 50.5mm wide & 108.2mm high. The Nokia 5700 XpressMusic comes with a removable battery, a headset, travel charger, USB cable, Nokia PC Suite CD Rom & a user guide included in the start up kit.
The quality of music playback itself is very good. This is an S60 handset and the software is tried and tested. There’s an equaliser, stereo widening, playlist management and support for the composer tag.
The phone has stereo speakers and, while this listener always has difficulty hearing stereo effects from twin speakers located close together on mobile phone hardware, there is no doubt that they deliver plenty of volume with minimal distortion.
Storage capacity on the phone itself is not great at just 128MB, but the handset comes with a 1GB MicroSD card that goes into a slot on the right-hand side of the casing. And you get a cable and software for PC connectivity which functions both for getting music onto the phone and handling the other S60 applications, including diary and contact synchronisation.
In all this we’ve not mentioned the key feature of this phone. The section holding the number pad can be twisted through a full 180 degrees. When you send the number pad to the back of phone it is replaced by a control panel that contains extra-large forward and back buttons and a central pause/play button. When you bring this to the front the music player automatically starts running and you are ready to listen.
The 5700 has support for 2.5mm headphones that plug straight into the audio socket, 3.5mm headphones through an adapter, and stereo Bluetooth headphones. The sales package includes a 3.5mm adapter, which also has its own set of external music controls, and some 3.5mm headphones to plug into the adapter.
Sound quality is very good on the 5700, although it is largely determined by how good your headphones are. If you’re an audiophile, I’d strongly recommend using your own favourite headphones. The included 3.5mm ones have good sound quality but seem to limit the volume, and using third party alternatives made the music much louder. You can use third party headphones through the 3.5mm adapter, or wirelessly through a BH-500 Bluetooth adapter.
The 5700’s music player is silent between tracks (older S60 phones used to have a distinct crunching noise when tracks changed), and you can change tracks during playback without the music player panicking. It’s worth emphasising that there IS a gap between tracks, even if it’s silent, so if gapless playback is important to you (for example if a long classical piece is divided into several tracks) then you have to combine the piece’s separate tracks into one big track on your PC, then transfer it to the phone. It’s also worth mentioning that there’s a one second delay between pressing a music control and the action actually taking place.
Key features:
Experience crystal clear Hi-Fi sound with dedicated audio chip
Share your grooves through the built-in stereo loudspeakers with 5-band equalizer, stereo widening, loudness and balance
Snap photos and videos on a 2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and flash
Shoot up to 5 images wide in panorama mode and view your amazing photos on a large 2.2″ QVGA screen
Enjoy seamless web browsing and faster download speeds via 3G technology
Access your music in an instant with a smart twist and a touch of dedicated keys
Plug in compatible Bluetooth stereo wireless headset to listen and control your music
Store up to 1,500 of the songs you love on a 4 GB microSD card* to keep the music flowing
Other Features:
Internal antenna
Changeable color themes, user defined themes
Offline mode: All transmission-related activities turned off
Internal vibration
Flash lite player version 2.0
Automatic keypad lock
Tutorial application
Messaging:
Multimedia messaging: MMS for creating, receiving, editing, and sending videos and pictures with AMR voice clips (with up to 300 KB)
Email: IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, Support for IMAP IDLE, OMA e-mail notification, MIME. Support for attachments: (.jpg, .3gp, .mp3).
Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
Audio messaging: Record your own voice message and send to compatible devices
SMS reader and High-Quality-Text-to-speech, SIND
Instant Messaging and Presence-enhanced contacts
