Nice phone for a nice price (Nokia 5200)

Member Name: Leon_W

Product:	Nokia 5200
Date:	20/09/08 (61 review reads)
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Advantages: stylish looking slide phone at a competative price

Disadvantages: a little too large for some maybe?

The Nokia 5200 is a stylish, slide phone. Available at a very competative price.
When used in conjunction with a memory card for extra storage capabilities the Nokia 5200 can store enough mp3 files to keep you busy, and can be used as a competant portable player.

The play function used to hear your songs is a button placed to the left hand side of the screen, pressing this will instantly play your mp3 playlist through insanely loud inbuilt speakers, that seem to be the best at handling bass frequencies I have heard.
To shuffle through your songs simply press the left or right buttons, placed either side of the play/pause button.

On the right of the screen you will see the button's for the Nokia 5200s camera. The camera can be activated by holding in the button with a picture of a camera on it. Once the phone is set to camera mode you can use the plus and minus buttons to zoom in and out with the 1.3 mega pixel camera, which is quite sharp for such a small amount of pixels.
The plus and minus buttons also act as a volume control when not in camera mode, so remember to turn them up!

Video's can also be captured by this phone, although both video's and photo's are best taken in a well lit enviroment as this Nokia doesn't have a flash, which can be annoying when using these functions at night or in a low lit place.

Bluetooth is another reliable function on this phone, Ive never had a problem yet, it's easily set up and really easy to use.
Infrared has also been introduced to this model, I rarely use this as the bluetooth is alot faster way to share files.

The phones built in radio can be used by putting the Nokia headphone's into the jack socket in the top left handside of the phone. Doing this opens up the possibility of using this as an easy to tune portable radio which stores many stations. A very cool feature indeed.

Acsessing all of the phones tools is really easy to get used to, by pressing the circular inner button below the screen, you will be able to get to all your phone's sub menu's

.Messaging
.Contacts
.Call Log Info
.Phone Settings
.Internet
.Gallery (Pics,Vid's and Mp3's, also your memory card storage can be acsessed in here)
.Media (Bluetooth, Voice Recorder, Camera and Video etc)
.Organiser (Calender, Phone alarm, Calculator and Stopwatch)

These catergories are all listed by cool icon's, and is so easy to manage, the file layout is almost like that of computer. Which gives it a familiar feel.

The phones battery is also great too. Once warn in, it can last many days without recharging. When it needs it you'll be notified by a slightly annoying beep every so often to remind you your running low on juice!

So to conclude, this phone gets a huge thumbs up from me. I normally manage to go through a phone a year, up until i bought the N5200 that is. Its a nice durable phone that can also take a bit of a hammering. Ive had mine almost 2 years now and it still functions great. Id say this was easily one of the best in it's price range.

Summary: Great value, Ill be sad when mine eventually dies on me

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