Which Nokia model is the best? 5200, 5300, 6131, 7610.?

i think 5300 is the best it had 1.3-megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom and Up to 5MB free internal user memory and Store up to 1,500 songs with 2GB memory card (sold separately) and Bluetooth connectivity and Infrared

Without a doubt go in for a nokia 5300, heres why.... In many respects launch of Nokia 5300 is a momentous event, as this is the first mid-end device living up to the title of a music-optimized solution and on top of that- the S40’s first XpressMusic offspring. The choice of form-factor for the 5300 has been pre-defined by Sony Ericsson’s efforts – there were times Walkman-branded phones packed all their features only into candy-bar shaped shell, a little bit later clamshells started getting “W” letters as well, and only now the market sees the release of a slider - Sony Ericsson W850i. Over at Sony Ericsson, they attribute sliding casing to top-notch solution and keeping that in mind, they implemented it into Walkman range flagship (in fact there are two of them – the W850i and the W950i). Launch of an identically-formed handset by Nokia is a well-planned riposte, especially considering lower price of Nokia’s solutions; generally speaking, these are phones of two different price-brackets, but similar type. Thus a certain part of the audience might go for Nokia’s slider in view of price advantage and proper positioning. Aim at youth has made the casing retain white framings, which makes the phone well-recognized. The 5300 comes only in two trims – red and dark-grey. In both cases it is only the middle part that differs, since it houses a “tape” of a certain color, while the bottom and the top rims remain white. Utility of white color raises doubts at first, but eventually it proves to be dirty-resistant, which cannot be said about the painted framing. While for the grey finishing this issue is not too crucial, the red color scheme is a finger prints magnet. Unlike the matt white plastic, the casing is made of, the central part is slightly rubberize – already after three days of use the pads mounted on the back panel got dark. The dedicated player keys are not exposed to soiling, though on closer examination their color differs a little from what was in the beginning. On intensive use, the casing gets soiled in no time – dirt becomes well-visible. However there is good news as well – the 5300 will look fine should you wipe it with a wet piece of cloth. The handset’s design is quite appealing, although it instantly reveals youth-aimed concept in it; the 5300’s outlook is somewhat similar to the style applied to Alcatel’s solutions, in other words it appears to be out of place in Nokia’s very own range. The phone will definitely not fit consumers other than young people – the manufacturer itself emphasizes that with everything he has got. Apparently, more austere curves and shapes, unlike those of Cosmo, will be positioned higher than this phone, after all it’s only the first product of this kind. Location of Nokia’s label on the casing grabs attention as well, as now it is placed vertically on the right. The explanation lies in the fact that many modes here require landscape orientation (camera mode, for example) – player shortcut buttons on the left edge strengthen this point of view. Regrettable, the manufacturers didn’t enable any applications other than the camera to switch the display into landscape mode. The dedicated player keys are quite bulky and thus well-visible, so that one could manage them even being blind. The right side houses volume shortcut keys and also the camera button, which are positioned more towards the bottom rim, although this doesn’t affect overall ease of use. Owing to all keys being rubberized and sticking out of the surface, it’s not always convenient enough to press them, as you always need to place your finger with due precision. On the other hand, in day-to-day activities, that doesn’t make all the difference – you just keep pushing the buttons without thinking too much about such things. The handsets measures 92x48x21 mm in size, which quite typical for sliders of this type. The 5300’s weight makes 106 grams, therefore having it hanging around your neck doesn’t cause any inconvenience. The model boasts a QVGA screen (240x320 pixels, 31x42 mm), capable of displaying up to 262 K colors (TFT). All in all the 5300’s display does quite well and provides fair color depth and vivid picture. In the sense of picture quality, it somewhat reminds of that found on Nokia 6233, but yields to Nokia 6131’s screen. For the class Nokia 5300 comes from, the display performs on acceptable level. Even though it fades in the sun, information doesn’t slip away. Depending on picked font size and active application, the display can house up to 9 text lines (there may be more) and up to 3 service lines. Two soft-keys are mounted beneath the screen; the four-way navigation key incorporates OK key – this button exposes considerable gaps, which might get filled up with dust in time, but I doubt it will cause much of a problem. Next to the right key one will find the microphone’s hole – as a matter of fact, it is placed there to allows answering a call without sliding the 5300 open. An amusing thing about the handset’s looks is the silver hairline found on the hang up key (on the right) – briefly speaking, its color matches the one applied to the navi-pad, so that at first I had a strong desire to brush off a “sticky speck”, which is in fact the hairline. In time I have gotten used to that, but why the manufacturer would need to ruin the symmetry and not mount the same hairline on the left, is obscure. The slider is armed with auto-spring mechanism, which means it is really easy to slide open. Beneath the screen you will find a tiny thumb rest, however due to minor height your thumb will keep hitting the display’s lower rim. Nevertheless such touches leave almost not traces. The keypad is moderate size-wise, with all the plastic buttons singled out. The buttons offer average easy of use, in other words, you won’t find neither groundbreaking advantages, nor frustrating flaws here. The keypad is lit in blue, which makes it well-visible in various environments. The left side houses 2.5 mm audio jack, compatible with 3.5 mm adapter shipped with the handset. On the right you will find Infrared window. The manufacturer has deliberately dropped out Pop-Port in favor of standard miniUSB socket, found on the top rim. Right here you will find slot for charger (the tiny one), power button and holes for a carrying strap. The back panel is packed with various details, including 1.3 Mpix CMOS-powered camera module, self-portrait mirror and loudspeaker’s grill. The battery cover sits in the slot pretty tight owing to the latch. Removing the cover requires certain strain and reveals the battery module. The 5300 makes use of a 860 mAh Li-Ion battery (the BL-5B). As the manufacturer claims, it can power the handset for 3 hours in talk mode, up to 223 hours in standby mode and around 12 hours in music playback mode. In conditions of Moscow networks the devices lasted 3 days on the lowest possible use of its functions (20 minutes of calls, a few hours of music playback, a couple of SMS messages). Though when we got heavier on its connectivity and music capabilities, the lifetime went down to 2 days (1.5 hours of calls, up to 4 hours of music playback). Music player with maximum sound volume, default headset and random playback (tracks were stored on memory card) enabled, the 5300 provided 9 hours of lifetime, whereas Walkman-branded devices put on up to 25 hours of music playback in similar conditions. The manufacturer doesn’t offer batteries with extended capacity for this model. It takes Nokia 5300 about 3 hours to charge from empty to full. The SIM-card's slot appears to be quite usual – the holder should be opened before you can extract it. Menu We are not going to speak about default handset’s features, such as phonebook, organizer etc. here, since they are pretty much the same for all S40 3rd edition-based devices and on top of that, have already been covered in great detail on Mobile-Review. What we would like to dwell on now is Nokia 5300’s distinctions from the previous models and what impact these changes have on the device’s ease of use. The 5300 comes in two modifications – the RM-146 and the RM-147 – the latter one got the index of the 5300b (which handles 850 Mhz instead of 900 Mhz – that’s the only difference, while other bands, 1800 and 1900 have been left untouched). As you might have already guessed the model with “b” letter in its index is meant for the American markets. here is the list of what Feature Pack 1 brings into S40 3rd edition according to Mobile-Review. * Completely revamped music player, new interface, support for music library, tracks sorting. * Support for Flash Lite 2 instead of version 1.1 found on the previous handsets. * Possibility to set flash-clips as wallpapers or screensavers. * OMA DRM 2.0 instead of version 1.0 found on the previous handsets. * A2DP-profile for Bluetooth, allowing for use of wireless headsets * Possibility to set any file via the handset’s menu as Call back-tune (requires operator’s support). * Introduction of Security and Trust Services API (JSR-177) for Java. * Background mode for all music-related applications (player, radio). * miniUSB socket. Should you have any information on what features are brought about by Feature Pack 1 as against the previous edition – please, share it with us, we will greatly appreciate that. Many of the abovementioned alterations are to be attributed to the hardware ones and might be encountered on older models to one or another extent. For example Nokia 6280 acquired A2DP support with firmware version 5.92. But speaking about Feature Pack1 we look at the entire set of changes rather than stand-alone functions. USB. The handset comes included with DKE-2 cable, which can be easily replaced with any miniUSB-cable. On connection to PC you are at liberty to take advantage of any of these three modes: * Nokia Mode – formerly known as PC Suite, allows synchronization with Nokia’s application of the same name. This very mode also enables you to use the handset as a modem. * Printing and Media – the handset switches to MTP protocol, which allows uploading from PC new albums with the help of Windows Media Player and default Windows XP’s tools. * Data Storage. Standard USB Mass Storage mode, device is identified by PC without asking you to install extra drivers. During USB-connection the 5300 does not recharge itself, and should you leave it connected for a while, be ready to see an empty battery in 6-7 hours. Data transfer speed makes about 950 Kb/s (USB 2.0), which is quite good for a handset, but at the same time somewhat insufficient for a music-optimized device. Bluetooth. The handset retains EDR-enabled Bluetooth 2.0 with the following profiles supported: * Headset; * Dial Up Networking; * Object Push; * File Transfer; * Hands-Free v1.5; * A2DP; * SIM Access. Bluetooth found in the 5300 puts on acceptable performance and will hardly give you a hard time. Music player. The main thing Nokia 5300 is made for is music playback, thus we obviously are to review music player’s capabilities in greater details. The manufacturer based the actual solution on the developments of Nokia N91 and set out to be on a part with Walkman’s first generation, since these devices had already become a bar for the industry. Taking account of significant experience of other companies, had collected in course of several years and also own solutions, the company made an attempt to get S40-powered device and XpressMusic going along in a basic device. In other words, it is not something out of this world, but rather a reasonably feature-packed model already. Similarly to the radio, the music player found on the 5300 can be minimized, at that no application that can affect that – you can run any Java-app, for example JIMM, at the same time as well. Last used application is only one click away with the side key – if it was the music player, playback starts right from the place where it stopped; in case of radio, the handset turns on the station you were listening to. But pay attention to the fact that this button cannot be customized. Should you press the key while navigation through menus, playback will start in background mode. When you are at the phone’s standby screen, the player displays track’s title and artist on the screen. The player’s looks is quite smooth, even though custom skins are disabled for the time being. The display offers information on current track, album and artist. The navigation pad is bound up with standard functions (track switch, rewind, and stop). Progressive rewind feature is missing on the 5300 – you can fast-forward tracks at standard 5 sec. pitch, which is completely out of use with big files (audio-books or something like that). Playback may be random or sequential, Repeat mode works for both all tracks and individual files. Outside the player’s application you will find Stereo Widening feature, which is, frankly speaking, pretty crude, while equalizers do have an impact on sounding quality. There are five presets (Normal, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Classical) for the five-band equalizer found on the 5300, and two user-customizable ones. The music library contains the following filter tabs: * All tracks – all files stored on the handset * Artists – all tracks of certain artists * Albums – arranges all tracks by albums. * Genres – filters files by genres, like classic, rock etc. * Composers – filters tracks by composers. * Track lists – Another set of filters, including Favorites (where any track during playback or choosing may be added to), Most Played Tracks, Recent Tracks, Recent additions and My Track lists. On the whole, it’s a really credible filter that might prove useful for some. Playlists may be composed both on PC and on handset; however the 5300’s set of tools for playlists creation is far from perfection – you just choose a track from the general list and save it as Track List. No extra files can be added to this list, no matter how hard you try – we failed to find such feature. Furthermore, such lists aren’t marked in the media player, which is a serious flaw. Winding the story up, we would recommend the developers to keep on getting this function better. Music downloads is a stand-alone menu item, featuring only a like to Nokia’s site – after launch of the service Nokia Recommendation will lead there. The bundled stereo-headset HS-47 houses pick up key and two bud-shaped earphones edged with rubber strings, the sales package also includes two ear bud soft cover sets (black and red). The headset makes use of 2.5 mm jack, which means it connects to the 5300 directly. As far as I remember only Nokia N91’s default headset could output fairly admirable sound quality, whereas other devices, even positioned as music-optimized solutions, were shipped with headsets that left much to be desired. Regrettably, the same goes for Nokia 5300, although it sounds ridiculous to save coin on a music handset’s earphones, since here everything comes down to sounding. With the default headset plugged in, the 5300 stays far and far behind Walkman series – music is simply non-penetrating, basses are too quiet, in a nutshell the quality of headset is lower than average. However everything turns upside down, when Walkman’s headphones get connected to Nokia 5300 – sound turns out to be pretty clear, while overall volume is slightly higher with Nokia 5300. What features are going to be incorporated into XpressMusic player in the future? Let us call it “second edition” scheduled for the release in the middle of 2007: * Progressive rewind (FW update, Q2). * Track search by name. * Transferring of ID3-tags to external headset (improved compatibility with Jabra, SE). * Enhanced compatibility with Nokia Music Manager (preservation of tags after conversion). * Support for various shells and skins. * More scales on volume control bar. At the same time, differences between Nokia’s products and Walkman range are of some interest as well. Here is a short list of distinctions: * While sound quality is comparable, Walkman’s default earphones perform better. * No way to use a remote control, like that available for Walkman device, for example the HPM-82. * While volume of memory cards is comparable, price for Sony M2 is higher by 20-30 percent, though sales packages feature bigger memory cards. * Implementation of A2DP-profile is superior on Sony Ericsson-branded phones. * Availability of progressive rewind. * More customizable equalizers. * Better playlists management. * Disc2Phone for PC allows converting tracks into MP3-format at various bitrate, move flexible settings * Support forAlbum Arts (Walkman 2.0). * Music recognition feature (TrackID for Walkman 2.0). Camera. The handset houses a 1.3 Mpix camera, which is quite incapable in light of the nowadays criteria, but still enough for a model coming from the mid segment. Despite the proposals, already armed with 2 Mpix camera modules, the 5300 is not a camera-centric phone and therefore carries one of the cheapest solutions, providing fairly poor quality. In the sense of camera the brand-new 5300 acts exactly in the same way as Nokia 6131, but owing to updated software, shots look slightly better, though no groundbreaking changes have been introduced. The camera application works in landscape mode, which makes it more convenient to handle, even though finger always tries to cover the lens – but it’s a thing you get used to in no time. The following resolutions are supported: * 1280x1024; * 1280x960; * 800x600; * 640x480; * 320x240; * 160x120. The last two minimal resolutions were added in order to allow taking snaps for wallpapers for internal and external display respectively. There are 3 JPEG compression types supported: default, normal, high. Since the quality leaves much to be desired in any case, better set compression to high – it won’t make the photos any worse. Shutter sound may be turned off, the camera is equipped with a digital 8x zoom, though I wouldn’t recommend using it. You can choose the place to store all photos in – this may be either the phone’s memory or a memory card. The effects may be laid onto taken photos – does applying them beforehand make sense, it’s up to you to decide. The following effects are available: False colours, Greyscale, Sepia, Negative, Solarise.

nokia 7270.. is the most dashing .. i swer

go for either 5300 or 6131 as 7610 tends to hang and gets too slow that it becomes a pain to work on it.5300 is an updated version of 5200 it has got everything

7610,,is gud one,,large display screen,,1.3megapixels,,voice clearity is fine.and the most it has gud looks.

i dont like nokia phones get another brand

i hink thr 6548 is the best u can find it on ebey for 123.oo dollars and trust me its worth every penny

Well I think 7610 is the best Nokia .

please compare phones at nokia.co.in and read their reviews by searching in google. i.e. search for reviews for nokia 7610