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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, don't need wifi, Band II WCDMA (1900 MHz) or major camera this is a good choice.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.
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.
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 LOVE THIS PHONE!! I can COMPLETELY understand why this phone is in such high demand!! I love the talking name announcer when you get phone calls from your contacts (when you set the ringtone to name)!! I also love the fact that its a touch screen and that makes things a little easier, at least for me!! It's got really good clarity and it can have pretty much any software you want to add to the phone!!Now I'm not a fan of screen going into landscape mode at first it was really bother-some but that takes some getting use too!! I like that fact that its so small and can easily be carried around with no inconvenience what so ever!! I love also that it's in color!! That's really coo!!! I was really impressed with the Nokia 5230 Nuron and would HIGHLY recommend!!
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