Nokia 5700 XpressMusic Phone

According to Nokia, The 5700 XpressMusic is a music-first mobile device, with a dedicated audio chip for enhanced music performance.

Nokia says the 5700 XpressMusic supports up to 1,500 tracks on a 2GB microSD card, which is about up to 86 hours of music.

The phone also features built-in stereo loudspeakers, and an optimized music player with support for album art, playlists, and a 5-band equalizer and audio visualizations. The XpressMusic is based on S60 software, allowing users personalize their phones with a wide variety of add-on applications, enhancements, content, and services.

The 5700 XpressMusic features a unique twist design to switch between 4 modes; music player, 2 mega pixels camera, video call, and smart phone.

Nokia 5700 is a monoblock phone which weighs 115 g. It has a casing made of glossy white plastic, and a black or red matt plastic middle section. There's a rubber flap on the right hand side which covers a microSD hotswap card slot, USB port and charging jack.

The music player is compatible with a wide range of audio standards (AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, Mobile XMF, SP-MIDI, AMR (NB-AMR), MIDI Tones (poly 64), RealAudio 7,8,10, True tones (WB-AMR), WAV) and while purchasing music, users can select from a range of Internet music stores that deploy Windows Media Player Digital Rights Management (WMDRM). Besides, users can enjoy songs with Bluetooth stereo headphones or their own headphones via the 3.5-mm headset jack adaptor.

Nokia 5700 XpressMusic has a hotswap microSD memory card slot, which can use microSD cards with a capacity up to 2 gigabytes. Depending on what quality you like, this is enough space for roughly 500 to 1000 tracks using the AAC format or one of its variants. Tracks can be transferred through a standard USB cable, or via bluetooth, infrared or the internet.

Nokia 5700 has a bright and crisp QVGA (240x320) 16 million colour screen, with a sensor that turns the lighting on or off depending on how bright the surroundings are. You can set the sensor to various sensitivities, or switch it off, and you can also adjust the screen's auto switchoff time from 5 to 90 seconds.

Battery life is what you'd expect from a smartphone, and will vary wildly from one user to another depending on what they do and how much they do it. I used the 5700 as my main phone and found I had to recharge it every couple of days.

Overall the 5700 feels surprisingly solid, despite having a major moving part. The twisting keypad is very sturdily implemented, and doesn't feel loose at all. The phone isn't quite as chunky in real life as it might appear from the photos, it's much thinner than the 5300 for example. The curvy edges give it a nicer appearance than the 3250, and the multimedia controls are far superior.