Review of the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic Slider Phone

Nokia 5300 XpressMusic phone caught my eye immediately. It had to have been the coolest phone I'd seen in a while. I picked it up and held it, hoping I might be able to afford it without an upgrade. I asked the assistant how much it cost, and they looked it up, two hundred dollars without an upgrade. I thought to myself 'that's a pretty hefty price to pay for a phone. Well what features does it have?'. I asked the store assistant and they told me all about the phone and it's great features:

• IM (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and ICQ)
• Music Player
• 1.3 Megapixel Camera
• Bluetooth Connections
• Great for Texting

All these hot features rolled into one phone, it seemed too good to be true. And it was. I went ahead an purchased the phone on the spot thinking it'd be a great investment. This was the first time I had spent this amount of money on a small gadget like a cellular phone. I took it home and put it together, being somewhat of a technological geek it was quick to put together and get in working order. The next day I arrived at work, expecting to show off my phone I had never seen anyone have before. It just so happened that the first co-worker I told, had a sister with the exact same phone. Well, her sixth one to be exact. She explained to me how the phone was poor quality, and her sister had to exchange her phone on six different occasions from reasons varying from the speaker going out, to freezing issues. I tried in my mind to pass it off as a fluke and assumed it would never happen to me.

The phone worked well for about a month, and then things started going down hill. I hadn't dropped the phone, thrown it or harmed it in anyway (which was a rare happening) and thought maybe it was just a one day problem. I hadn't used the loudspeaker much so I realized it wasn't the user who had broken the phone. My phone was freezing often and the speaker wasn't working correctly. When I tried to play music it would say it was playing but no music was coming out. I would have to turn the phone off and on several times to get it to work. Finally I decided to take it in to get a replacement. The assistant was very nice about the process and told me they had many problems with the phone, I sat there wishing the first assistant had informed me of this information. Although it cost ten dollars to have a replacement phone shipped I was happy to have a new phone arriving at my door the next week.

The phone arrived at my doorstep a week later, and I started using it right away. To find, sooner than the last time the same problems occurred. I finally got fed up and switched services because they would not refund my money. After having a personal experience with this phone, I would advise any and all phone buyers to stray from this phone, unless you are looking for trouble. Reasons not to buy this phone and frequent problems are:
• Speaker going out
• Consistent freezing
• Bulky Shape
• Calling Problems