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They made a promise and kept it. What can we say – nice phone this Nokia 5250, but not an N8. Yeah we know, we need to be respectful and professional. But it’s easy to be a jerk to a 100-euro smartphone.

The Symbian-powered Nokia 5250 is bottom of the smartphone barrel. The low price suggests the feature set is going to be pretty spartan. Which doesn’t mean it’ll fight in the shade. It’s rather going to get into brawls with some pretty basic dumbphones.

The question here is who’s ready to sacrifice most of the features that make a smartphone, to save a few bucks. Alright some of Nokia’s touchscreen smartphones have been going around for peanuts but the 5250 is the lowest bidder by far. Some of the value-adding options don’t cost that much any more. But the Nokia 5250 encourages exactly the opposite kind of thinking. No budget is too tight and no feature is too important.

Key features

• Quad-band GSM, EDGE support
• 2.8″ 16M-color 360 x 640 pixel resistive touchscreen
• S60 5th Edition (a.k.a. Symbian^1)
• ARM 11 434 MHz processor; 128MB of RAM
• 2 MP fixed-focus camera
• VGA (640 x 480 pixel) video recording @ 30fps
• Stereo Bluetooth v2.0
• microSD slot, microUSB port
• Accelerometer and proximity sensor
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• FM radio with RDS
• Stylus tucked inside the phone’s body
• Excellent loudspeaker performance
• Good audio quality
• Web browser has Flash video support

Main disadvantages

• No 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS receiver
• Poor screen quality
• Doesn’t charge off USB
• No preloaded Office document viewer
• No support for DivX/XviD videos out-of-the-box
• Gets sluggish as the memory card starts filling up
• No USB cable or memory card in the retail package

Being affordable is a big plus for a product and a short but focused spec sheet can be an advantage as well. After all, some people get confused by too many features while others just don’t need them. And they might be glad to have the 5250 around. So, the Nokia 5250 is the right phone for the right person. As indeed every other phone out there is designed to be.

There is no Wi-Fi, even 3G is missing from the specs sheet. And you won’t find an inbuilt GPS receiver either. But the bare minimum is covered. You still get quad-band GSM support and stereo Bluetooth and a decent 2.8 touchscreen.

Nokia 5250 unboxed

The Nokia 5250 is a no-frills smartphone with a limited set of accessories. There is the mandatory charger, a one-piece 3.5mm headset and the usual leaflets and guides.

Stylus fans will be glad to see that there’s one enclosed with the phone. In fact it tucks inside the phone’s body just as you would expect. We fins stylus input old school, but we know many people prefer it – especially with the 5230 smaller screen and not-so-thumbable Symbian UI.

Design and construction

There are many similarities between the 5250 and the elderly Nokia 5530 XpressMusic but they will surface once we take a look at software. As far as the design is concerned, there isn’t much that the two phones have in common (save for the size and weight).

A familiar homescreen

The main menu structure leaves no doubt you’re on Symbian turf. Icons are set in a 3 x 4 grid or a list that you can freely reorder. Screen orientation can be set to change automatically thanks to the accelerometer.

The status icons on the Nokia 5250 are located on top of the homescreen, along with the calendar and the clock. A single press on the clock starts the clock application (which is only a click away from setting up an alarm) while tapping on the date opens a drop-down menu where you can either launch the calendar application or change the currently active profile.

A Symbian phonebook

The Nokia 5250 phonebook has virtually unlimited capacity and its functionality is certainly among the best out there. The Nokia 5250 contacts list has kinetic scrolling enabled and it’s among the better examples to find on a Nokia touch phone.

Contacts can be freely ordered by first or last name and you can also set wheth

Telephony: no smart-dial

Voice quality is good on both ends of calls, the earpiece sound is crisp and there were no reception problems whatsoever.

The only real downside is the still missing smart dialing functionality. Some may argue it’s not as essential on a touchscreen but most of the competition has it duly covered. Not to mention WinMo devices have a very elaborate smart dial system that even searches in your Calls log for numbers that are not in your contacts list.

Messaging has everything

The Nokia 5250 supports all common message types – SMS, MMS and email. They all share a common intuitive editor which by this point should be quite familiar to everyone.

The email client is really nice, there to meet almost any emailing needs. The easy setup we found in the latest Nokia handsets is also available with the 5250. If you are using any public email service (it has to be among the over 1000 supported providers), all you have to do is enter your username and password to start enjoying email on the go. The phone downloads all the needed settings to get you going straight away.

Multiple email accounts and various security protocols are supported, so you can bet almost any mail service will run trouble-free on your Nokia 5250.

Sluggish image gallery

The gallery of Nokia 5250 is nicely touch optimized and there are sweep gestures enabled for flipping through photos displayed fullscreen.

You can sort images by date, title or size and you can also copy, move and delete them. Sending them via Bluetooth, email, MMS or sharing them online is also available straight from here.

Music player stays the same

The Nokia 5250 music player is pretty functional but its design could use a little freshening up – it hasn’t changed since we first saw it in the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. With user friendliness such a key aspect of full touch phones, it would be nice from Nokia to add some fun to the mix.

Your music library is automatically sorted by artist, album, genre and or composer and searching tracks by gradual typing is available. You can also create your own playlists in no time.

Basic video player

To begin with, a 2.8-inch screen is hardly the best thing to watch videos on. The lack of DivX and XviD codec support on the Nokia 5250 doesn’t help either.

Of course, you can use the Ovi PC Suite built-in application that automatically converts all kinds of video files to the format and resolution your phone supports. The automatic converter though seems to compress the videos too much, even at the highest quality setting, and they look over-pixelated but so far it’s the easiest way of getting compatible video content to your handset.

FM radio with RDS

The FM radio on Nokia 5250 has a neat and simple interface and can automatically scan and save the available stations in your area. It also has RDS support and automatic scanning for an alternative frequency. This means that if you’re on the go, the 5250 should take care of staying tuned to your selected radio station.

Pretty good audio quality

The audio output of the Nokia 5250 is quite good, the handset passing our traditional test with flying colors. It won’t amaze you with loudness, but, considering the clean output both with and without headphones,we are willing to let that go.

It doesn’t matter if you are using headphones or if you have pluged the 5250 in an active amplifier – the frequency response is great with deviations only detectable in lab conditions. The same holds true for the noise level and the dynamic range as well as the total harmonic distortion. Intermodulation distortion and stereo crosstalk increase when headphones come into play, but they still remain perfectly tolerable.

Poor 2 megapixel camera

Nokia 5250 has a 2 MP camera for a maximum image resolution of 1600×1200 pixels. There’s no auto focus or LED flash. Hardly the photography enthusiast’s dream, is it? Well, its performance isn’t anything to write home about either.

The camera UI can be quite confusing with all settings squeezed in a shared menu, which is no match for what some other manufacturers offer on their full-touch handsets.

VGA videos

Video recording is definitely the better part of the Nokia 5250 imaging skills. The phone can shoot VGA at 30fps. Quite good, considering the 2 MP still shots. The relatively high compression results in lots of artifacts, but you still might consider the videos as ok, especially for an entry-level smartphone.

Poor connectivity

The Nokia 5250 is quite cheap in terms of connectivity. Wi-Fi and GPS are missing and – if you don’t have a data plan – you’ll be better off buying a Nokia 5530 XpressMusic instead.

If you go for the 5250 however, you will be disappointed to find network data speed is limited to GPRS and EDGE. We guess all those features are sacrificed for a nice price tag, but we’re yet to see how things shape for the Nokia 5250.

The only good news about the Nokia 5250 is the 3.5mm audio jack and the bundled quality headphones.

Local connectivity comes down to USB v2.0 and Bluetooth. There’s also a memory card slot, which can usually give you the fastest data transfer rates. Unfortunately, USB charging via the USB port is not possible – not that there is a USB cable in the retail package anyway.

Capable web browser hobbled by EDGE

The S60 web browser is decently usable, especially now that is also offers kinetic scrolling. There is still quite a lot of work to do before it is able to rival the best in class. The Android and iPhone browsers are miles ahead in terms of user-friendliness.

The Nokia 5250 browser has very good page rendering and boasts some nice features such as different font sizes (5 options), auto filling of web forms and a password manager.

Organizer

The S60 5th edition organizer is pretty well stocked although its applications are already in need of refreshment – especially on a touchscreen. Some of the apps are starting to look boring and dated, having had the same interface for over 3 years now.

The developers are still hesitant to put the touch input of Nokia 5250 to some good use and maybe add some cool new features. They have only gone as far as to touch-optimize the S60 3rd edition apps.

The calendar has four different view modes – monthly, weekly, daily and a to-do list, which allows you to check all your To-Do entries regardless of their date. There are four types of events available for setting up: Meeting, Memo, Anniversary and To-do. Each event has unique fields of its own, and some of them allow an alarm to be activated at a preset time to act as a reminder.

Ovi Store

Browsing the Ovi Store, you can choose between several sections – Applications, Games, Audio and Video content, Personalization, Recommended and of course, My Stuff, which keeps track of the apps you’ve already installed.

The structure of the Ovi Store client is simple. It’s a list with the name and logo of each app (or podcast, or whatever), the category it’s in (Entertainment, Utilities, etc), price and a star rating out of three.

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