Box contents, the interesting exterior
It’s been only three days since we published a review of the great Series 60 Nokia musical phone (5320 XpressMusic) and thanks to XXL GSM we have already managed to acquire 5220 XpressMusic, which, as opposed to its brother, doesn’t support N-Gage games. The reason for this is very simple: this is a low-end Series 40 phone. According to this, the handset came in a smaller box, which had a charger, a data cable, an HS-48 stereo headset (with a 3.5 mm jack plug) and a 512 MB microSD card inside.
An asymmetric cell phone. It’s strange, that’s sure, probably that’s why the market is not full of such handsets. The Finnish guys have already tried such a thing in the 7xxx series and now they have done it again, as this is one of the most cost-effective ways of launching a “unique” phone. So 5220 is deformed. A lot. On the left it’s “taller” than on the right, it looks rather strange but I can imagine this being the key to its success. Or the fact that it’s small and light, as it weighs only 78 grams, and it’s 108 x 43.5 x 10.5 mm large – I don’t know if the first number refers to the longest part or not. It’s absolutely okay from the point of view of materials used, nice plastics and precise joints are characteristic, so it’s practically better assembled than 5320, in spite of the that being a higher-quality phone.
On top of the front we can see the inevitable Nokia and XpressMusic labels, below them we can see the excellent quality QVGA display, which has a diagonal of 2”. On its left there are the three dedicated music keys, which blink according to the music’s rhythm: it’s really crappy, but it can be fortunately turned off. The keypad is below and this is the perfect opposite of the case: it’s clean, sleek, simple and easy to use. In the bottom left corner there is the neckstrap’s hook, which is practically a hole on the phone. A phone with a distorted shape and holes on it – yeah, I can really foresee it’s success.
The back is rather pleasant, it has a reticulated surface and it’s very pleasant to the touch. The 2 megapixel camera with fixed focus is in the top right corner and interestingly there is no label to advertise its qualities. Below it there’s a LED, which also blinks according to the music, it’s really needed there. On the bottom there are two other labels, the one with the manufacturer’s name is huge, the XpressMusic is smaller, but the two speakers are placed around these, thus reassuring us that the label is no trick.
The monotony of the black front and black is spiced up by the colored part running along the sides. There are three types, I had the blue one for testing. The most prominent part of the top is the 3.5 mm jack output, which is a great example for the fact that the slimness of a handset can be no reason for the lack of such a connector – as there was room for it over here too. On the right of this we can see the gap used for taking of the back cover and on the left there is the covered microUSB port. The charger’s connector is on the left, along with the three musical keys I’ve already mentioned. These are quite large so we’ll probably have no problem pressing them.
The bottom part is completely empty, while on the right there is the microSD slot and the volume control keys.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
