Nokia XpressMusic 5610

Nokia XpressMusic 5610

Okay, so, yesterday I’ve been in STR with my girl, because we actually wanted to go out somewhere, but since it was pretty early when we arrived, we just walked a bit along the Königstraße and did some windowshopping. When we arrived at the E-Plus/BASE shop, I stopped and entered it. My E-Plus contract was going to end in october, so I wanted to take a look at the mobile phones I could get, if I’d extend it. After some talk with the aide in there I decided to spontaneously extend the contract and take that sexy Nokia I already informed myself about some days ago with me. Besides, I did not only extend the contect, but also resized the number of monthly for-free-units. So now, I actually pay three bucks more per month, but I’ve got a brand new and shiny Nokia XpressMusic 5610 (finest, romanian handcraft, heh) and I have more units for which I don’t need to pay extra.

However, the Nokia itself is pretty cool. It has a sexy dark-gray with metallic-red look and very nice lighting effects. The mobile phone is pretty handy and its software is very intuitive to use. I already configured it, added all my contacts and set-up my e-mail account – and all that without once even looking at the handbook. The camera can create pictures with a resolution of 1600×1200 and more and also contains two LED-lights that are being used as flashlights.

The media-player looks very nice and thanks to the horizontal scroller it’s simply possible to change from the media-player view back to the main-screen or to the radio-player view. Also, the soundquality – from the loudspeaker and from the headphones – is very nice. Unfortunatelly, even modern mobile phones still use the headphones as antenna, what makes it impossible to listen to radio without having them connected. An integrated antenna would be nice. Besides music, the Xpress also does video. It plays mp4 in very nice quality, sized as a small window or even fullscreen without any control-elements on the screen left. Too bad it doesn’t automatically switch to fullscreen when the mobile is being rotated.

What I don’t pretty much like, is the quality. Everything looks nice and smooth, unfortunatelly the plastic doesn’t feel pretty stable. I don’t want to know what happens when I accidentally drop it on the floor. Also, the horizontal-scroller and the sliding have already too much play for my taste. I hope it doesn’t get worse. Though, I wouldn’t say it’s bad quality, I just guess that is what modern geegaws look like. No more solid cases, no more works-a-whole-life. There’s just no more need for all these things, when you can get every two years a new mobile nearly for free. It’s just like with all the new cars.