T-Mobile gets Nokia's XpressMusic 5310

by Chris Ziegler, posted May 21st 2008 at 12:01AM

T-Mobile's no stranger to Nokia's XpressMusic series of funky little music phones, and the tradition continues today with the introduction of the 5310. This colorful candybar has some pretty solid street cred as a viable music player, too, with a microSD slot, svelte 9.9mm body and -- most importantly -- a real 3.5mm jack for the headphones of your choosing. You've also got a 2 megapixel camera and a QVGA display to play with, both of which'll surely come in handy for entertainment while you're waiting for data to pull down over the EDGE radio (sorry, T-Mobile, we couldn't help ourselves). It'll run $49.99 on contract starting May 28 in black with your choice of purple, orange, or red accents.

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE

Tags: 5310, breaking news, BreakingNews, candybar, nokia, xpressmusic

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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paw @ May 21st 2008 2:15AM

Thats a really nice product, lots of features like FM radio, inbuilt speakers and 3.5mm audio plug, time to throw away that iPod :-)

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ronald.raygun @ May 21st 2008 3:50AM

too bad t-mobile wont carry any series 60 phones

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alibali @ May 21st 2008 8:34AM

I've had this model in the UK and here are some comments:

- All round this I'd say the phone is very good at doing the basics of any phone but as a music phone it some issues still.

- Sound quality is excellent when the earphones are replaced with standard issue ipod earphones, but the supplied earphones are poor. The great thing is that phone provides a standard headphone jack, allowing you to use virtually any headphones, something that many phones don't. Radio is very good.

- Album Art is a real problem if thats your thing. I have tagged mp3s that work perfectly in iTunes, WMP , iPods etc. However the chances of the artwork showing up on the 5310 are a bit hit and miss. Check Nokia forums for a further description of this issues.

- Dedicated music keys are really useful for getting quick access to music, however the ease of navigation in the "sort by artist" screen is lacking. Basically if you want to drill down to an artist beginning with "M", you've got to manually click down through ALL artists from "A" to "L". You cannot even press the corresponding letter on your keypad to quickly skip to "M". This is majorly frustrating when you have a reasonably sized music library. I can hardly believe this oversight from Nokia!

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alibali @ May 21st 2008 8:39AM

I've had this model in the UK and here are some comments:

- All round I'd say this phone is very good at doing the basics of any phone but as a music phone it has some issues still.

- Sound quality is excellent when the earphones are replaced with standard issue ipod ones. The great thing is that this phone provides a standard headphone jack, allowing you to use virtually any headphones, something that many phones don't. Radio is very good.

- Album Art is a real problem if thats your thing. I have tagged mp3s that work perfectly in iTunes, WMP , iPods etc. However the chances of the artwork showing up on the 5310 are a bit hit and miss. Check Nokia forums for a further description of this issues.

- Dedicated music keys are really useful for quickly accessing music, however the ease of navigation in the "sort by artist" screen is really lacking. Basically if you want to drill down to an artist beginning with "M", you've got to manually click down through ALL artists from "A" to "L". You cannot even press the corresponding letter on your keypad to quickly skip to "M". This is majorly frustrating when you have a reasonably sized music library. I can hardly believe this oversight from Nokia!

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Mark @ May 22nd 2008 2:12AM

This is a really nice phone from what I've seen, and Nokia needs to be commended for introducing the 3.5mm jack to lower-end phones.

BTW, anyone know if this Nokia is US Triband or quadband? http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Cell-Phone-Detail.aspx?tp=tb1&cell-phone=Nokia-5310-Red doesn't have the Frequency Bands yet.

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Marty @ May 28th 2008 11:16AM

Ah yes... T-mobile slowly becoming the champion of budget phones. I love my choices... I can choose from 5 3G-less Blackberries, 3 outdated 3G-less HTCs, 2 3G-enabled non-pda phones, a rainbow of Sidekicks, or choose from a cornicopia of budget Nokias, Samsungs and Motorolas.

yay t-mo. Looking out for the teen set. Good on them.