Mobile Phone Review

If the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic looks a little familiar, then there’s a good reason. Broadly speaking the 5700 is an update of the 3250 that hit the market early last year, sharing a similar swivelling keypad and the Symbian S60 operating system.

It’s a fairly substantial step up from the 3250 in terms of technical specifications - the Nokia 5700 Xpress Music is a 3G phone with quad-band GSM, it has an improved QVGA (240x320 pixel) display in 16 million colours, stereo Bluetooth plus a dedicated audio chip to help with music playback. Nokia have added all these features while trimming 15 grams off the weight.

As with the 3250, the Nokia 5700 has a two megapixel camera and microSD expandable memory, up to 2GB on the 5700. Internal memory is pretty limited at about 35MB or so, and we’re not clear about what memory card is included in the pack.

The Nokia 6700 XpressMusic supports a variety of multimedia types including MP3, MPEG4, AAC and WMA files although we’d expect to find an FM radio in this type of device and the 5700 doesn’t seem to have one.

The styling has changed from the rather dull looking 3250 too and it’s rather more in line with the popular Nokia 5300 and 5200 models.

There’s nothing in the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic that we haven’t seen before, but it still seems to be an appealing package for consumers. Nokia say that the 5700 should be available from Q2 2007 at a price of around €350 before tax and subsidy.