Introduction, packaging
Another Nokia and another XpressMusic. The Finnish guys had a great idea of creating this series as a rival to Sony Ericsson’s Walkman line. As a matter of fact it is successful, as the Japanese-Swedish company has a very steep growth graph – the problem is that it’s going down. The first of the series were the red-white and blue-white wonders (5300 and 5200), then they have spiced up the design a bit with 5700 and finally they produced the highly successful 5310. And this is in fact my biggest problem: the subject of this review resembles a lot 5310, the only significant differences can be seen on the design. And we won’t be wrong with the product number: they have really just swapped two digits. Of course we can’t put it this simple, but at first glance we won’t see much differences on the list of features. To tell the truth I don’t even remember if the phone has been displayed at Nokia’s stand at Mobile World Congress, as everyone has been into the new Eseries models.
Of course there is a reason for this phone as well: 5130 is cheaper. We won’t see major differences between the prices of the two models in the first weeks after launch, but the starting price of about 100 euros isn’t very much at all. The price defines the targeted users quite a lot: it’s made for those who would not like to pay about 65 euros more for a new 5310. These users usually include those youngsters (and their respective parents who sponsor them) who would like to own the features of an XpressMusic phone, but the slim size and the metallic materials are no top priority features.
Although the Hungarian Nokia website categorized the phone as “coming soon”, our partner has again been very fast. The box we received from XXL GSM is trendy and small, includes the handset, a charger and a stereo headset, while in the phone we can find a 1 GB microSD card and on the bottom of the package we can even see a 15 cm long data cable.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
