Nokia 5233

Nokia continues to try to narrow the space for competitors in all segments. For touch-screen sector, the Finnish vendor is re-released mobile phone platform Symbian S60 5th edition. Through the 5233 series is positioned as the successor of 5230, Nokia offers a cheaper price.

The existence of the Nokia 5233 does not necessarily replace the position of his predecessor because this phone comes with some trimming features. This is related to the price of 5233 which is more skewed than 5230. Well, let's dissect this phone to reveal their performance.

Design and Interface
If you view the form Nokia 5233, you'll remember back to the 5230 series that have been circulating in the market first. Not only that, both phones are almost similar in physical appearance and size matters. Understandable, because 5233 is positioned as an alternative 5230.
Design candybar phone is a typical, big and thick like Nokia 5230 or 5800 with a body made of hard plastic component of good quality. Nokia 5233 feels comfortable in the hand but the weight is heavier than other phones on the market.

The touch screen appears to meet most of the front body area of the Nokia 5233. On the underside of the display, embedded three physical buttons are the call, menu and reject. So the navigation function is very dependent on the embedded touch screen technology on this phone.
One thing worth noting in the design sector, the hole for the Nokia 5233 SIM card is placed on the outside, ie on the left side of the body adjacent to the microSD slot. No need to bother to disassemble the battery to insert the SIM card.

The rest, 5233 provides a port data cable, 3.5 mm audio port, the charger port and on/off button on the side of the body. So in addition to the right body pinned volume buttons, lock button and the camera shutter.
Through support for Symbian S60 5th edition OS, the Nokia 5233 has an interface is not much different from 5230 or 5800. This phone is supported touch screen TFT 16 million colors (360x640 pixels) resistive technology with 3.2-inch diagonal.

You need a stylus to input data optimally because resistive touch screen technology. Can use jotter or stytush shaped dongle positioned as hanger phone.
5233 screen is good enough to translate touch the pointy jotter. However, so use your fingers or blunt-ended medium, decreased sensitivity to touch. Still can not compare with capacitive touch screen technology where data input via finger feels more sensitive and accurate.

Settings menu and display the icon on this phone is the same as 5230. Display active idle until the menu and sub menu is present with typical SymbianS60 5th edition. Multitasking feature is also available so you can access and run multiple applications at once in 5233.
Not only that, the interface 5233 is strengthened with the accelerometer. This feature can automatically change screen orientation from portrait to landscape if you change the phone's position. In typing a message in 5233, this accelerometer provides an option to the normal position alphanumeric keypad or qwerty keypad in landscape position.


Multimedia
Multimedia is often the target of most of the facilities. To accommodate it, Nokia has packed a variety of multimedia features in 5233. When tested, it turns out the multimedia features in this phone is not much different from those embedded in Nokia 5230.

In the photography, the Nokia 5233 adopted a capable 2-megapixel digital camera. The camera is practically equal to that of Nokia 5320, but both these phones are equally not supported with autofocus and flash feature. Maximum image size that can be produced to reach 1600 x 1200 pixels.

As the mobile phone with big screen, viewfinder image catches the Nokia 5233 is wide enough. Unfortunately, the completeness of the camera settings are relatively limited, there are only a few options such as image sharpness, white balance, exposure, contrast and color. More advanced options are not available.
When used to take pictures, the camera in outdoor conditions, including both starting from the brightness and sharpness of images. However, in indoor conditions where light levels are minimal, reduced image sharpness and a lot of noise. By comparison, his photography skills equivalent to the Nokia 5230.

The camera phone can be used as a video recorder. There are several options available ranging from standard MMS to TV quality. Best video recording quality on this phone to reach a resolution of 640x480 pixels. Nokia 5233 provides a choice of recording video in two formats ie, 3gp and mp4.

Music remained an important part in this phone like the Nokia 5230. Interface typical Symbian S60 5th edition makes managing music became more comfortable. At least the Nokia 5233 is supported id3 tag info, the ability to display album art, equalizer and some information about the songs contained in the phone.
Loudspeaker phone located in the upper left side capable of producing sound with good quality. However, the strains of the treble is too dominant, so the bass sound that comes out is not optimal. The resulting maximum volume is not too tight. Fortunately, you can enjoy songs via 3.5 mm headset port, the quality will be better.
Other multimedia that can be enjoyed is a video player and FM radio. To listen to the radio news release, you must use a headset that is immersed in the sales package. Because the headset to function as an antenna to capture radio waves.

Connectivity
Nokia wrap 5230 with roaming capability via the Internet promises 3G network and HSDPA 3.6 mbps. Unfortunately, these weapons are not embedded in the Nokia 5233 because this phone is simply packed classmates GPRS and EDGE networks. Internet access can be done via the default browser already supports HTML and XHTML.
Nokia 5233 Internet data connection can not be as tight as brothers, but the acceleration via the browser Nokia 5233 is good enough and fast even though the compression is still not
satisfactory. For just a walk in virtual world or accessing social networking sites is still quite adequate.

Application and Installation
One thing that is unfortunate from the presence of this phone is the removal of the Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver. In fact, Nokia has included this technology in 5230. This is one consequence of the price cuts given in 5233.

Fortunately, a number of interesting features has been embedded in this phone. If we are in a sense opened the folder the Internet for example, collected a variety of application shortcut to social networking sites like YouTube, Friendster. MySpace and HIS.
Interesting applications in the Internet folder is up special Nokia, Ovi Contacts and Search. For users of Facebook, you can enjoy a personalized interface that differ by just accessing m.facebook.com. There are special features for rnengunggah photos captured by camera phones or stored in the gallery.

Nokia 5233 has been injected with 70 MB of internal memory. In addition, the capacity can be expanded with MicroSD memory up to 16GB. Unfortunately, unlike the 5230 sales package, this phone does not include a memory in the sales package.

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