subject: So What’s New with Nokia 5235 Comes With Music [print this page] Nothing much reallyNothing much really. Hot on the heels of the Nokia 5230 hitting the markets, here comes another Comes With Music handset from the Finland based mobile phone world leader Nokia, slated to reach European shores within the first quarter of the new year at an affordable 145 before tax and subsidy. Its the new Nokia 5235 Comes With Music that, except for its shiny bluish chrome edge where the 5230 uses a rubbery framing, and unlimited 18-month access to the Nokia Music Store, is a mirror copy of the 5230 inside and out. You get the same high quality full-featured music mobile phone that has made Nokias Comes With Music handsets remarkable at their price points. Standard Features The 5235 runs on the Symbian S60 5th edition platform on an ARM 11 processing clocked at 434 MHz. Its your basic quad band GSM/WCDMA wit EDGE on the 2G and UMTS on 3G with HSCSD/HSDPA data connectivity. Theres no WiFi but it has local connectivity support with wireless Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR as well as Micro USB 2.0 wired high speed data transfers. Messaging is supported with Mail for Exchange and Ovi Mail while internet browsing gets Flash Lite 3.0 support. Theres A-GPS and social networking with Facebook, MySpace, Ovi and YouTube is a breeze. Its battery gets you up to 7 hours of talk time and 18 days in standby both in GSM. Music Phone Features Music playback on its BL-5J lithium-in battery fully charged is a generous 33 hours. The new 5235 supports all the popular audio, video and graphic file formats with sound enhancing features like Bass Boost, Loudness, Equalizer and Stereo Widening. It also has stereo FM with RDS receiver. Its rather modest 320 MB of user memory wont get you far with high quality 320kbps mp3 files but thats not a problem with its hot swappable microSD support for up to 16 GB external storage. Thats more than enough to occupy its 33 hours of continuous music playback capability. You get headphone listening options with its wireless Bluetooth A2DP support or you can use regular wired headphones plugged to its 3.5mm jack. Imaging and Video features Both the 5230 and the new 5235 carries a modest 2 megapixel fixed focus camera with 3x digital zoom typical for a non-descript handset. The no WiFi accounts for Nokias ability to bring its price to the affordability levels. Thats often the case as consumers have to choose their priorities. Do they want an imaging phone or a music phone? You cant have the best of both for its price. And its plain where the Nokia 5235 Comes With Music shines best. Completing its multimedia features is a gorgeous 3.2 inch LCD TFT resistive touchscreen display that has a 16:9 aspect ratio with half VGA 360 x 640 resolution and 16 million color support. The VGA video recording comes at a cinema-grade 30fps. Watching movies on that screen size takes the misery out of doing the same thing on small screens while on the road. You get sensors galore with a gravity accelerometer for double tap and auto rotate viewing, ambient light for brightness auto-adjust and a proximity sensor for disabling touchscreen sensitivity in a call. You get up to 4.6 hours of video playback time and up to 3 hours in video call on a fully charged battery.
