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Where To Use The Nuron- This quadband GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz (worldwide), 3G 1700/2100 MHz AWS Band IV, WCDMA 850MHz Band V is a North American phone. Lacking Band II, the other NA WCDMA band, it is offered by T-Mobile. User Interface- The user interface(UI)is Symbian60 v5 for touch. If you've used other S60 devices you'll be right at home. Coming from another UI will take a short time to get used to how it works and to learn where things are. Web Browser- The web browser is good at rendering the non-Flash content of most web pages. I use mine for on-line banking, for example, and have no problems. You'll have to connect via 3G, EDGE or GPRS; WiFi is not included. Contacts- This has a full featured contacts application. Multiple numbers per contact is supported as is SIND, speaker independent voice dialing. You can assign images and ringtones to contacts. Synching your contacts with the on-line storage with T-Mobile is simple. The first time I put in my SIM the device went to T-Mobile and downloaded my on-line address book. That was a "Wow!" moment. Making/Taking Phone Calls- This is where the UI is just plain strange. If the phone is locked you have to swipe in one direction to unlock it and in another direction to answer the call. I missed the first couple of calls I received while I figured out this bit of extra motions. This provided an "Oh?" moment. Once I had the call answered voice quality was excellent for my conversation partner and for me. Making a call is very straight-forward. Hold down the green button, say the name of the contact you wish to call and the phone provides a list of matches , do nothing and the phone will start dialing the first contact after a short delay. It recognizes, without prior training, a very difficult name such as Arcibeque. Another "Wow!" moment. Numeric entry pad is also available. Messaging- MMS is very intuitive to use. SMS provides you with a virutal numeric keypad or full screen QWERTY. Word prediction can be turned on and off. This application is meshed very tightly with your contacts making it easy to send to whomever you want. Camera- The no flash 2.0 megapixel camera does okay. Sharing your photos via Ovi or MMS is part of the camera application. Video is good on this device. Storage- I've used up to an 8 gigabyte microSDHC in my Nuron with no problems. It is possible it will take up to 16 gigabytes but I've not tested that. Display- The 3.2 inch resistive touch screen display is bright, crisp and colorful. The finger UI makes a stylus un-necessary for use with any of the on-phone applications and features but when browsing a stylus would be handy. There is no on-board storage for a stylus but you can connect the tethered plectrum to the phone. Another "Oh?" moment. Applications- There is a link to the Ovi store on the device. Plenty of free and low cost applications are available for everything from speedometer to word processing. Decent media player in included. Maps- Ovi Maps with turn by turn navigation is at no additional cost. GPS is quick, accurate, navigation provides spoken street names. Has a very fast route recalculation function. Download from Ovi store. Forget the $9.99 a month TeleNav subscription application preloaded on the Nuron, you won't need it with Ovi Maps. Another "Wow!" feature. If you want a touchscreen smart phone,Read full review
Very Basic. Excellent Battery Life and Excellent service with out T-Mobile. he Nokia 5230 Nuron has free maps and voice-guide navigation via Ovi Maps, 3G, and excellent call quality, all at an affordable price. It's also the first Nokia smartphone with a U.S. carrier to offer access to the Ovi Store. The bad: The Nuron lacks Wi-Fi and a document viewer. Its user interface is clunky and confusing, and we wish it had a capacitive touch screen. No flash for the camera. The bottom line: The Nokia 5230 Nuron for T-Mobile isn't the most advanced or fastest smartphone on the market, but budget-conscious customers will find an incredible deal here.
This was the fanciest phone that would support my $10 web2go data plan. Ive used it for about a week now. Coming from Windows Mobile 6, Im extremely pleased. The Symbian OS isnt quite as fancy as Android or the iOS but it was comparable enough for me to say that its a decent smartphone. I quickly found a way to install un-signed apps but I will say that its a huge pain. My biggest complaints are the lagginess of the phone, inability to customize the homescreen and the number of steps it takes to send a SMS or change a setting. I installed an app called FreeiSms to make messaging threaded (this was not a factory feature!!) the phone feels extremely durable and easy to hold in my hands. Call quality is very clear!! I dont know what people are saying about it being too quiet.. maybe if youre hearing impaired. Crystal clear to me. symbian web browser is crap, install Opera Mini. touchscreen is resistive (not capacitive like an iPhone). This makes speed-typing more difficult. - *update - installed a free app called Swype to make speed typing a bit easier. also makes it easy to type with 1 hand. still slightly annoying but a big improvement.Read full review
I wanted a phone to upgrade from my Nokia ExpressMusic. I loved my old phone for its size and excellent MP3 capacity. The 5230 looked like a very workable entry level Smartphone. It is. Features of the new phone are easy to navigate...not a difficult learning curve. It has more memory capacity and, of course, tons more functions. I like that I can turn it on its side and use a qwerty keyboard. It seems to have better reception than my old phone too. I think this is a great phone.
The QWERTY keypad was really easy to use for typing. I really didn't like the stylus writing feature. It was hard to get it to recognize differences in letters. The speaker wasn't as loud as I would like, but it wasn't that bad. It was easy to change settings for sending mail and such. It works better than some smart phones I have used.
In addition to being a phone this device has a good camera/video function, a mediocre GPS, nice radio and tune storage/playback. I bought this Nokia 5230 to replace a tmobile Samsung flip phone. All I had to do was to move the SIM card from the Samsung to the Nokia. I use the Tmobile pay-as-you go plan at 10 cents/minute. I don't use the Nokia's internet access.
First, the good: Runs almost as many apps as Android, thousands of which are free, and available from the built in Nokia Ovi Store. These include many great music apps, such as Shazam and Mobbler (LastFM player). This phone can handle all sorts of streaming thrown at it: AAC, MP3, MP4, etc. It can play all channels of SomaFM. It also has a world class free for life GPS navigation system built in with voice guidance w/street names. Next, the bad: I would rate this phone at good or higher if it had WiFi, and did not have the buggy T-Mobile firmware on it. This firmware slows the phone way down, and it is constantly stuttering and freezing. If you buy this phone, I would having it flashed with non TMO firmware, or debranding it to overcome this issue. The built in web browser is sub par. No automatic full screen mode, no tabbed browsing and no WiFi on a Smartphone are unforgivable in this day and age. However, it does include support for the latest version of Adobe Flash Lite, and it does have full, real Javascript support, which comes in handy for navigating data intensive sites, when the browser doesn't bog down, which is frequently. Which is one reason why Nokia has the full version of Opera Mobile 10.1 for free in the Ovi Store. It's a great phone, if you can overlook, or replace it's foibles! Thanks for reading my Review of the T-Mobile Nokia Nuron!!Read full review
I am not a real cell phone user, but decided to upgrade my old Nokia phone with a newer one. What got my attention with the 5230 was: 1. Price...new for $100 (free shipping) from Costco online. 2. Free maps from Nokia that reside on device...so network time needed. 3. Pay as you go (with Tmobile or AT&T (if unlocked). 4. Nokia voice quality. I have to say, this is a nice unit. No...it is not an iPhone or an Android, but two things I really like that work great are the phone (voice) and the internal GPS. Not only is reception as good as a dedicated Garmin GPS (with High Sensitivity technology), but with a simple (free) application (GPSEd)...you can create tracks and record Waypoints. If you are into mapping, you will know why this is nice. In fact, I can turn the phone on, turn the GPS receiver on (via GPSEd), start a track and put the phone in my coat pocket (in any orientation). It never looses track and records as well as GPS can. The phone OS is a little funky, but who cares (I don't). I get a great phone, drivable GPS maps (via OVI maps), and the ability to record tracks and waypoints (via GPSEd).Read full review
For those with a basic cell and web plan that doesn't want to pay $90 dollars a month a data package this is a good deal when you want touch screen and to move up from a basic cell phone. All you need to do is take your sim card from your T-mobile cell and pop it in. hopefully you paid $5 for web coverage. Now you have a great touch screen phone (not perfect) with apps and great web surf ability with out spending $90-100 a month for a smart phone. I like this phone. Text'ing takes getting used to as you have a small screen but it is a nice step up from a motorola slivr.
I like the way they look, feel and handle. Also, the way they can do things that we could not do to older phones. These phones are fun, I do like where it has a "sleep mode" where you can have the screen on secure and not have to worry about accidently hitting a wrong key etc.! And when someone calls you, you can answer without having to "unlock" your key pad. The features are numerous. I keep finding new and itneresting things these phones can do. They are nice to handle, no flipping to open the phone, has GPS capabilities, has a big list of options to choose from and the list goes on. On the down side they can be pretty complicating to confusing. Make sure you have a phone that has not been used much. The one I bought had a battery that would only hold a charge for about 3-4 days depanding on how much I used it. I was able to get a new battery for it. It seems to do very well! ( I bought my phone used. Hope this helps someone to decide whether to get one. You would NOT be disappointed if you did get one! Michael RichardsonRead full review
