A large 3.2-inch touchscreen display, encircled with a modern white trim, dominates the Nokia 5230 XpressMusic phone and conceals the true intentions of this music-oriented handset. Moving music files around is a simple process with a MicroUSB connection slot and built-in wireless Bluetooth complemented with a speedy HSDPA Web connection for enriching your music collection via music download stores.
Putting the music features to one side, the Nokia 5230 offers all the expected features of a modern and up to date handset. The camera doubles as a video recorder capturing footage at 30 frames per second with clips stored on the 70MB internal memory. Heavy users can upgrade the phone memory easily by inserting a MicroSD card of any value up to 16GB. The 5230 also offers handwriting recognition, GPS with A-GPS support and a powerful battery that handles the demands of long music playback sessions well.
If you want to throw that old MP3 player away then the Nokia 5230 XpressMusic phone is a fine replacement.