Today I want to trust me close for the first time to a technology report, tells me so, if something essential is missing! It’s about my multimedia mobile phone “Nokia XpressMusic 5700.
Purchase basic
I must admit that it was not for this phone was love at first sight. I wanted to extend my contract mobile phone and a mobile phone with me to choose it as many multimedia features. I quickly realized that all looked at that time (that was about 3 months) available cell phones very masculine. All mobile phones were black and look somehow very angular. Since I had now decided on a cell phone and since it came out that it was sold out in all of my mobile phone shops already. What to do? My gaze fell on the “Nokia XpressMusic”, which I had fallen even in the short list. At the time this phone with my contract, however, cost is still 69 euros. So I quickly had to be a decision.
First Contact – appearance, weight and a small round view
The appearance
It weighs 115 grams and is only 17.3 mm thick; fact, the “Nokia XpressMusic” very clunky comes along. Positive I was immediately drawn to the large, clear display (high-quality QVGA display with 5.6 “display, and 16.7 million colors) and the design with rounded corners. The mobile phone is white top and bottom with a silver keypad and in the middle section has colored plastic (with me this khaki-colored, red, there was no longer).
Functionality on the sides
On the right side there is a rubber flap, behind which the USB and the power connector and the space for the included 1GB SD card. I found this rubber flap at first getting used to. In addition, the infrared transmitter. Of course, the phone also has Bluetooth too! Bottom right is a speaker on speaker and listening to music.
On the left side is the speaker up (the asymmetry is explained by the fact that one turns in the music mode, the lower part of the phone and you are both speakers on one side). In the middle there are two rubber-like + and – keys to the loud and soft music and the conversation and below the camera with flash (which is also brought by the rotary mode only in the right position).
At the upper edge you find a Ausknopf, pushing it once, so you get into a menu to choose the one with one of the possible profiles (Normal, Silent, Meeting, Outdoor, Pager, offline), or lock the keypad to turn off the cell phone . You can turn off the cell phone “by the knob durable.
Bottom of the page is the mic for speaking and a connection for a product supplied by Nokia Music Headset, which is a remote control, like for many CD/MP3 player. Here you can change via an operating element of the song and the volume. Also, headphones can be connected only to this remote and the radio is only made possible! Music headset and headphones are included.
On the front page
Now I still have not described the front. The giant screen takes a good half of the area is above a speaker to hear when phoning without a speakerphone. Under the display are two 2 buttons, the top are two menu buttons that do exactly what it says on the display, the bottom two are the green button to answer a call, and the red to hang up or to exit a menu, or application such as the Web browser. In the middle is a joystick to scroll through menus with which you or the camera or video mode, zoom. For certain games, he is to be used of course. Pressing the center of the joystick, then one confirms a selection, in camera mode, this is the trigger that lets you shoot photos or start recording a video.
Links to the khaki-colored rubber is a protruding button with a circle-like symbol. So you call the menu. Right in the same place is a C-button with which you can delete entries, she is not responsible for the menu (to go so a step up), but write deletes entries in the SMS (that is, as the Backspace key on the keyboard) and I think that it is possible to delete individual songs.
The real key pad is on the bottom, the rotating part of the phone. The buttons are big and silver and to reach for Me. They are slightly increased, and thus easily distinguished.
The back
Rarely, it is important to describe the back of a phone. The “Nokia XpressMusic”, because actually rotate so the lower part of the phone, as shown in the photo of Idhawati.com already, can. On the back of the keyboard panel is the control menu for the MP3 player, consisting of the three buttons in front, back and play / pause. Lying in the center Play / Pause button can be used as a trigger for the camera, back and forth to zoom in and out.
Will you use the MP3 player, it must turn the bottom part of the phone 180 degrees to the front. Oops! The part can only rotate in one direction entirely, so please do not use violence, otherwise it is perhaps ultimately cracking!
Also located on the back of a large flap for the battery. She goes over the entire color highlighted, khaki-colored surface, but not as rubberized as the rest Oops! Although it will be an “outdoor” phone, it is this valve that keeps coming in a fall at first. I made it once missed a train because I liked the phone from the pocket and I had to pick up the fallen battery out first again. Very annoying!
The rotation of the mobile phone
For a game kid like me, this swivel is just right. The mobile phone can do something that no other phone can. Whether it makes so much sense, just be made once there ;-)
Function 1: Base 90 ° to the left – take something
Will I take a picture, I think the cell phone and turn away across the lower part of the phone 90 degrees from me. Immediately, the display in camera mode. Top left of the screen I see that I’m wearing the Kameramous (can I options also change), lower left, I see that I have on the auto flash (also adjustable), right above and below the keys for my two options buttons ( Gallery shows all photos / videos; options: Trigger, Videomous, panorama mode, flash, night mode, sequence mode, self timer, Open Gallery, brightness / contrast settings, help).
I will now take a picture, I can either set the joystick to zoom and finally shoot by pressing the joystick I use the photo or the buttons to the MP3 player, which by the rotation are now accessible from above.
ACTUAL both are a bit “fiddly” and must be practiced. If we use the MP3 buttons on the rotating part, it occurred to me that I wobble too much, use the joystick, you have to fiddle a bit, as it turned next to the base and to achieve now is a little heavier. I still prefer the latter.
Will I make a video, I must first select the video mode in Options. Just like when you shoot, you start the video must be pressed firmly with both a pressure on the joystick and on the play button on the MP3 player (”’Warning”’ The joystick, otherwise might not start recording, so always see if the red circle on the display shows that it really takes!). Oops! The recording is not finished in the same way, but over the top options button, which now is called “Stop”. Use the joystick or the play button only pauses the recording! Incidentally, you can record videos up to a length of one hour.
Function 2: Base 90 ° to the right – take yourself
If you hold the phone perpendicular to the base and rotates 90 degrees towards you yourself, so you can shoot film or be. There are the same functions as mentioned above. Again, the handling of the joystick is something tricky, the keys of the MP3 player can also be used here again, are by now but down the rotation and can be easier for me to operate as if they have to use from above. It’s great that you have rotated through the lower part is a sort of pillar, so that you stand up at an angle and the cell phone itself can film so without having to hold the device itself must be in hand. It has been in a strange perspective, but it helped me when I myself included, to practice for a presentation within a test ;-)
Function 3: Under section 180 ° to the right – Music Menu / MP3 Player
If you turn the lower part 180 degrees to the right (”’Warning”’ It’s only in one direction! Nothing by force!), The keys of the MP3 player are now up, also are both from the left speaker page. If you hold on the play, so one can first do a sound check both boxes ;-) If you turn to, so you get a rich stereo sound that is good for a cell phone and loud enough, but obviously lacks some bass! You can play all the songs, create reproduction lists, sorted by artist, album, genres or composers to access the songs. If you press “Phone”, so to get back into the normal phone menu, but it is also clear now that the MP3 player is running. One can of course be called during the hearing and answer the call! The player then paused.
By the way, you can not close the player with the red button, the only changes in the phone mode. You have to go in the player menu, click the Stop button, which is achieved by pulling the joystick down. It’s complicated and it took me really long time until I figured out how to end it!
Furthermore, if one followed the music headset, listening to the radio, a nice feature that for me was a decisive factor for the purchase. Without this device the radio reception is not possible (it is included, so do not worry ;-)).
Overall, I must say that the MP3 player includes all the basic functions, but I still prefer my iPod! The controls are there better and it has many more features (such as On-The-Go list, selection of favorites, etc.).
To make phone calls and battery power
Yes indeed, you can also make calls with the device, which can be forgotten because of the gadgets before. The voice quality is high, the battery performance is good. should consume the large display and all other functions such as movies or watch videos of course much mileage that you always follow. Product information has been made to the following:
Sprechzeit/Video- music playback:
Up to 3.5 hours (GSM)
UMTS: Up to 2.5 hours
Up to 1.7 hours (video telephony)
Up to 4 hours (video)
Up to 10 hours (music playback)
Stand-by time:
GSM: Up to 12 days
UMTS: Up to 270 hrs
Capacity: 900 mAh (battery Designation: BP-5M).
Furthermore, I must say that the phone during a call sometimes genuinely warm, so I fall back on a long talk sometimes even on the speakerphone. This works very well by the way, the caller and it is even easy to understand (of course it sounds a little hollow). If you listen to it during the call, battery low alarm, one should not wait too long before you connect the phone to power, because from then on it are usually only a few minutes, until the battery gives up the ghost. Beeps, the battery in standby, it can take hours to run out of cell phone (very annoying at night when you have forgotten to connect the phone, but also too lazy to get up again ;-)).
Texting and other communication functions
SMS can be either through the Quick Launch toolbar Leave the Start menu, or to find them via the menu button (which is indeed on the rubber rim). I had to navigate the system, first, fine, I find that the T9 is able to learn and often used words to the front up in the selection. Also very nice, I find that one extra long SMS can write. Of course, you will always see how much you have already typed, otherwise you are constantly writing more messages at once. The mobile phone has other radio communication ions, which I used not so, the manufacturer writes:
* MMS for creating, receiving, editing, and sending videos and pictures with AMR voice clips (up to 300 kB)
* E-mail: support for IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, IMAP Idle, notification of incoming e-mail with the standards of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), MIME, and attachments (such as JPEG, 3GP, MP3)
* Text messaging: concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution lists
* Audio messaging (AMS): Record your own voice message and the send to compatible devices
* High-quality reading function for SMS messages, if not a glance at the display is possible
* Instant Messaging (IM) and Presence-enhanced contacts directory (network)
Internet: WAP and UMTS
As was the “nokia xpress music” delivered as MTV phone, I had to try, here are the Internet function. For there was the possibility for 3 months free access to the O2 Music Portal to get where you could download any of the MTV charts. To very briefly to say something about this: This was a great rip-off! We still had to pay a daily connection fee, once you have logged into the music portal, even though the MTV-Music-Pack as a free (and after the trial period, then monthly with 5 €) applied. So I paid 12 euros a connection fee! Also changed the songs on the charts not weekly, so you do not always have 10 new songs was … Well, I wanted to say something about the Internet. The phone is equipped with UMTS, which is indeed relatively fixed, if it exists for. In rural areas you have access to the slower network. With UMTS, you can also download songs, within a few minutes so there is a song (not to compare with my connection at home of course!). Video streams were also possible, but they were still of low quality and are at greater movement wiggled thick (watch MTV videos in the car was hardly possible!). However, I must say, for people who need it, it is intended provide the most important functions. I write the individual networks and functions not out here, I do not even before the half, who needs the information, let him look at http://www.nokia.de/A4419051!
My conclusion
Now I would like to summarize the most important thing and come to an end. The reasons that speak for the “Nokia XpressMusic 5700:
* The design is modern, despite all the Bold, it looks sporty by the white trimmed with a color
* The buttons are easy to use, the most important buttons are at easily accessible places
* Due to the rotatable base has reached one camera and MP3 player immediately
* Due to the included 1 GB SD card has plenty of space for music, photos and videos
* The camera takes good but not excellent photos
* Photos and videos can be in landscape view on the giant screen with higher resolution and good colors
* The MP3 player has all the basic functionality. You can create lists and listen to the music on both the very good speakers and the supplied headphones
* The cell phone offers an integrated FM radio. This, however, must be connected to the music headset
* Excellent voice quality, long battery life
Negative aspects of the Nokia XpressMusic 5700 :
* The phone is designed quite clunky
* Not all of the key features open up immediately, especially in the camera and video mode is a bit fiddly necessary, it is not immediately obvious how to issuing the MP3 player
* The photo quality is for a phrase by a photo service to be regarded as medium. Some photos are blurry or have spots. The colors are bright and there are but a few good photographs.
* Radio can be heard only with the music headset. For it, and to connect headphones would have to take it forever.
* The fall of the mobile phone can fall out the back door, and possibly the battery
Then come to a final conclusion: I can recommend the Nokia XpressMusic 5700 mainly multimedia fans. It is on the whole easy to use, but has a two shortcomings. By trial and error can be overcome but some functionality, such as The MP3 player or camera. Overall, I’m excited about, especially the display and the voice and music quality and I am so happy, but to have bought this phone! The rotatable base may not like each fallen, it may try again in business. I come now to cope well and have achieved all the functions quickly! Overall, I vacillate between 4 and 5 stars, but tend more to 5 star! A buy recommendation!
Pro : 1 GB of memory, huge, sharp display, rotating base, MP3 / Radio
Cons : Operation of the camera and MP3 – Player first unusual
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