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Review summary: Slim, sexy but a little unsophisticated.

Verdict: It is a real annoyance when a mobile is such an obvious mix of great design and poor features. If Nokia takes the thin look and striking outer casing of this handset and puts S60, 3G, a decent camera and Wi-Fi inside, it could come up with a consumer ...

Review summary: Nokia 5310 made thousands of fans with its very announcement. Packing a 16M color QVGA display, dedicated music keys, stereo Bluetooth and FM radio in a sleek thin body, this neat handset is sure to appeal to quite a lot of slim phone admirers. Plus, ...

Pros: 9.9 mm slim and lightweight ; 3.5 mm standard jack ; Lots of preloaded applications ; 2" 16M color display with QVGA resolution ; Ambient light sensor ; Decent keypad ; Bluetooth with A2DP ; S40 5th edition user interface ; Stereo FM radio with RDS ; ...

Cons: Mediocre camera with no flash or auto focus, really slow ; Tri-band only ; No 3G ; Memory card slot under the battery cover ; Inadequate QCIF video recording ; Uneven backlighting

Verdict: It seems that Nokia is more determined than ever to get its fair share of the slim phone market. Releasing 5310 right after the 6500 classic comes to prove that producing phones less than 10 mm thick is no problem for the Finns. Moreover, Nokia 5310 ...

Review summary: Nokia seems determined to mark out some serious mobile music territory for itself, what with its recent N81 and N95 smartphone releases, and a series of high-profile music service announcements (including Nokia Music Store and its Comes With Music)

Pros: Slimline design, Striking looks, 2GB MicroSD memory card, Fine quality music player, 3.5mm headphone socket

Cons: No 3G, Very average 2 megapixel camera, Love-it-or-loathe-it colour scheme, Keypad a bit plasticky

Verdict: It isn't the best all-rounder, but its primary purpose is as a music player, and at this it excels

Review summary: The rapid development of the XpressMusic line-up required the maker to come up with a variety of solutions, including those running the S40 platform. Their edges over S60-powered solutions are slender size and better battery life, while sound quality ...

Verdict: The company has presented the Nokia 5310 in a way that it seems to be opening the XpressMusic range, even though we all know the Nokia 5700 is also around. In other words, first goes a very conventional candy-bar type form-factor, then the Nokia 5610â ...

Review summary: The slim Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, as its name suggests, is a music phone first. The music player is easy to use while the screen looks bright and text looks sharp. The handset supports Bluetooth so you can stream tunes to a wireless headset or speaker ...

Pros: Full-sized headphone socket ; decent music player ; good screen

Cons: Feels plasticky ; no 3G support

Verdict: The 5310 is a decent music handset, but it doesn't offer anything that hasn't been done better elsewhere. We also found the lack of 3G support and plasticky build quality a turn off