The new Nokia 5230 SIM-free mobile phone: a great all-round phone
Finally a mobile phone without SIM! For all the geeks who have been looking for mobile phones, which are capable of working with any company’s SIM card, instead of being restricted to a single company’s particular network, here is some very good news. The new Nokia 5230 is an amazing Sim free mobile which has just been launched in the market. Cheap, smart, good quality, and best of all, a mobile phone, that is versatile enough to accept any SIM card, well isn’t that what the general public has been looking for all these years?
One of the most attractive points of buying a Nokia is that the design of the smartphone will be slim and elegant, lean and mean. This touch screen mobile phone has a camera with video recording functions. It’s also going to have an FM radio, an audio jack, and can play audio recordings for 33 hours (wow). So for $213, you have a direct connection to YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and OVI maps. And to make sure that the look is not boring, you can choose the blue, pink, black, yellow and red Nokia 5230 models. Hmmm, red please, to match my Porsche!
Now let’s see some more points that the SIM-less mobile phone (cheap, but good quality, don’t forget) will give you when you pick it up. The screen is 3.2 inches. You will get a GPS, which means you can use the OVI store and Maps, whenever you want. Apart from that, it has first-class data connectivity through HSDPA. Bluetooth means you have a cell-to-cell connection to send all those snaps you’ve clicked with the 2-megapixel-capable camera.
It also has support for cards (microSD), which means that up to 16 GB of information can be stored here, easily. And if you like listening to music, this $259 Nokia 5230 mobile phone will buy you music (brought to and from your friendly neighborhood Nokia music store) and social networking facilities.
Now a little, about the battery. Any battery, which is capable of allowing you to listen to music for 33 hours, is definitely something to consider. The 5230 model has a 1320 mAh capacity battery. The audio port can use traditional headphones, thanks to the opening of the 3.5mm port. But if you’re interested in using stereo headphones and wireless headphones, you’ll want to use the Bluetooth facilities.
You can keep in touch with family friends and enemies by typing messages on the Qwerty keyboard. Being a touchscreen, all you have to do is press the on-screen keyboard and send an email, SMS, or just tell everyone on your social network that it’s up and running. AGPS integration is definitely useful when you are looking for location-based services and when you want to navigate through Ovi maps.
Conclusion -Come on, a SIM-free phone for $213 and a Nokia model to boot? Definitely not a bad buy.
