| The Nokia 5230 is a comprehensive and feature rich | | | | offering excellent depth of colour and vibrancy of |
| mobile phone that combines style with technology, | | | | image. The phone includes both proximity and |
| with elements such as its colourful touch screen. The | | | | accelerometer sensors which are available to |
| handset is aesthetically pleasing and is compact, | | | | automate certain tasks including battery saving |
| encompassing a wide range of useful functions within | | | | functionality and image aspect orientation. |
| its 111 mm x 51 mm body. The handset weighs 115 g | | | | Class 32 versions of GPRS and EDGE provide |
| in weight and is both comfortable to use as well as | | | | connectivity, and combine perfectly with both |
| to hold. | | | | bluetooth and microUSB connections. Internet access |
| The handset makes use of the popular ARM 11 434 | | | | is offered by this handset by virtue of the inclusion |
| MHz processor and the Symbian operating system, | | | | of a HSDPA connection which provides the ability to |
| which within this particular handset is version 9.4. The | | | | browse the web at speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps. |
| handset comes with 70 MB of internal memory, with | | | | Entertainment in a variety of forms is provided by |
| the ability to utilise the built in microSD card slot to | | | | virtue of the inclusion of a stereo FM radio with RDS |
| significantly increase memory storage capacity up to | | | | and an MP4/MP3 media player. The integrated media |
| a more creditable 16 GB. Satellite navigation is | | | | player provides the means to play the majority of |
| provided by virtue of the included GPS feature which | | | | audio and video files, whilst the inclusion of the FM |
| comes with A-GPS support and utilises the popular | | | | radio offers an alternative. The handset comes with |
| Nokia maps 2.0 touch. | | | | a snapshot style 2.0 megapixel camera that also |
| The phone has an impressively colourful 3.2 inch TFT | | | | provides the ability to capture video footage at VGA |
| touch screen which displays 16 million colours and | | | | quality and at 30 frames per second. |
| their variants within a 360 x 640 pixel screen size, | | | | |