Nokia 5320 review

Firstly, this phone's already aging slowly as it was released in 2008. As this is just my review of the phone it's going to be brief but detailed.

Design: The Nokia 5320 XM sports quite a youthful design that appeals to the eye. Although the keys are a little cramped but once you're used to it you can use it while you're blind-folded. However, the "End Call" button is placed too near to the directed buttons (which caused me to minimize a game once while playing) Overall, the phone design is good but the piano finish isn't my fancy because it's a fingerprint magnet.

Performance:
The Nokia 5320 XM runs most applications quite smoothly. It's using Symbian 60 3rd edition. But unfortunately, the phone tends to crash sometimes when it runs too many applications in the background. The music player is quite responsive most of the time but it crashes as well especially when your headphones are plugged in. Once you remove your headphones, the phone becomes responsive again.

Camera:
Not much can be said of the Nokia 5320 XM's 2.0 Megapixel camera. Picture quality is average. Nokia should have put in a 3.2 Megapixel camera which is quite common in most phones these days.

Music:
As this is an XpressMusic phone, it comes with a 3.5mm audio jack that enables you to use headphones of your choice. Sound quality on the loudspeaker is magnificently crisp and clear, and when you are listening on your headphones the sound is clear as well. However, before i updated my phone with the Nokia Software Updater, the music player made a funny "ticking" sound once any music file was played through the loudspeaker. After updating to v4.13 the sound hasn't appeared anymore.

Web browsing:
Web browsing is quite a pleasure on the Nokia 5320 XM. My only grievance is that opening a new window is not customisable. A new browser window can only be opened once you press a link or a pop-up appears. While viewing webpages, you can zoom in and out of the webpage which is quite handy if you're loading a huge page.

Nokia Say and Play:
This phone's supposed highlight, the Nokia Say and Play feature to find songs through either album title, artist or song name can be quite frustrating at times, especially if you can't really pronounce the artist/album title properly. For instance, i said 周杰伦 and Sean Kingston and Usher came out in the list. However i'm not trying to say that this feature will be 100% wrong because when i said 周杰伦 it was the 1st result. It's just that i don't use this feature often although i'm pretty sure there are people who use it.

Conclusion:
The Nokia 5320 XM is a phone worth buying for great sound quality, value for money and a cool design. It's also the cheapest S60 3rd edition XM phone on the market currently.