Reviews of Nokia 5230

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7.9 out of 10

Summary of 1,282 reviews

Positive
This is a good all rounder.
Battery life 7.4
Design 8.0
Ease of use 7.7
Features 8.0
Value for money 8.3
Overall rating 7.9
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1,282 reviews

Good Points
phone looks good
Bad Points
touch screen is not easy to use, too many buttons to press to send texts/find name etc
All scores from this user:
Battery life 1
Design 4
Ease of use 3
Features 6
Value for money 5
Overall rating 3
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Confirmed purchase: 18 Jan 2012

David bristol
don't usually complain

GB 1
Good Points
none I really fell out with this phone in the first week shame because I always had Nokia's up to my n95
Bad Points
Installed a few apps/games and memory was full with no easy option to install to sd had to do full reset on phone 3 times in first week due to software crashing ie games not working and freezing I used this phone for less than a week and went back to my old 2 year old Toshiba TG01 now stuck with a 2 year contract on a phone I don't use and after waiting sometime for my free Archos 7ht tablet which is now back in its box because that was so slow and unusable.
I would have cancelled this if I had known that I could.
overall not a good experience for my first contract phone
All scores from this user:
Battery life 5
Design 1
Ease of use 5
Features 1
Value for money 1
Overall rating 1
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Confirmed purchase: 16 Sep 2011

KALAIMANI HEBBURN
Basic text and chat user

GB 1
Good Points
None.
Bad Points
I am getting message memory full and If I switch off and on then it is not working. Internet is very slow and not comfortable with this phone,
All scores from this user:
Battery life 5
Design 8
Ease of use 2
Features 2
Value for money 1
Overall rating 1
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Confirmed purchase: 24 Aug 2011
Good Points
very good
Bad Points
Reviewer left no comment
All scores from this user:
Battery life 9
Design 9
Ease of use 8
Features 8
Value for money 7
Overall rating 8
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Confirmed purchase: 17 Nov 2011
Good Points
very solid feel and good build standard
voice activated dialling
good budget smartphone
Bad Points
early version of nokia os which has only got limited support
some nokia apps do not fully work on the phone eg reader
All scores from this user:
Battery life 6
Design 8
Ease of use 7
Features 5
Value for money 8
Overall rating 7
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Confirmed purchase: 03 Oct 2011

Charles

GB 1
Good Points
None, awful. Don't get it.
Bad Points
Too many to discuss
All scores from this user:
Battery life 1
Design 1
Ease of use 1
Features 1
Value for money 1
Overall rating 1
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0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Confirmed purchase: 20 Sep 2011
Good Points
touch screen, lockable screen
Bad Points
no screen pen supplied, every time you make a call you have to go into the menu and come out of the log, when you send a message you can send an empty screen.
All scores from this user:
Battery life 10
Design 10
Ease of use 7
Features 9
Value for money 10
Overall rating 8
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Confirmed purchase: 25 Jul 2011

David Rugby
Business or web user

GB 10
Good Points
Big screen - better than anything else in its price range - makes web access a treat compared with other phones. Email account readily accessible and lots of apps from Nokia.
Bad Points
Not Android but Nokia have learned from that error. Meantime, plenty of apps on Symbian base anyway.
Camera rather modest, but you can't have everything at this price. Touch screen really needs use of enclosed "stylus". Without it, it is sometimes slow to respond, e.g. answering calls when a finger has to be used in practice.
All scores from this user:
Battery life 9
Design 10
Ease of use 10
Features 10
Value for money 10
Overall rating 10
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Confirmed purchase: 27 Jun 2011
Good Points
easy to find your way around the features texting is easy
Bad Points
Reviewer left no comment
All scores from this user:
Battery life 7
Design 7
Ease of use 7
Features 7
Value for money 8
Overall rating 7
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Confirmed purchase: 03 Jun 2011
Good Points
its very good and camara is also fentastic and the screen is mindblowing
Bad Points
the bad thing is this product needs wi-fi system so its better for there purchase market
All scores from this user:
Battery life 10
Design 10
Ease of use 10
Features 10
Value for money 10
Overall rating 10
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Confirmed purchase: 21 May 2011

paul mansfield, nottingham
Basic text and chat user

GB 10
Good Points
this is a brilliant phone lots of things you can use and simple eg games, music and internet.
Bad Points
Reviewer left no comment
All scores from this user:
Battery life 10
Design 9
Ease of use 9
Features 10
Value for money 10
Overall rating 10
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Confirmed purchase: 21 May 2011

clifford BIRCHINGTON
Basic text and chat user

GB 6
Good Points
It does almost everything with ease
Bad Points
I have been waiting nearly a month for nokia to sort out my unlimited music
All scores from this user:
Battery life 6
Design 6
Ease of use 6
Features 6
Value for money 6
Overall rating 6
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Confirmed purchase: 20 May 2011
Good Points
after having lost my original Nokia 5230 I had no hesitation in choosing the same modle again. I find it easy to use and understand excellent value for money.


Bad Points
Reviewer left no comment
All scores from this user:
Battery life 8
Design 8
Ease of use 9
Features 8
Value for money 9
Overall rating 9
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Confirmed purchase: 16 May 2011
Good Points
the device very fine to use . bettery, music and most of feature are very very fine
Bad Points
the only bad point of the device is it does not have wi-fi. overall very fine featured device.
All scores from this user:
Battery life 9
Design 10
Ease of use 9
Features 8
Value for money 10
Overall rating 9
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Confirmed purchase: 16 May 2011
Good Points
Great music player
Bad Points
battery life is extremely short.
All scores from this user:
Battery life 1
Design 7
Ease of use 8
Features 9
Value for money 8
Overall rating 7
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0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Confirmed purchase: 16 May 2011

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Battery life 7.4
Design 8.0
Ease of use 7.7
Features 8.0
Value for money 8.3
Overall rating 7.9

The average score of 7.9 is based on 1,282 scores.

  • 1,282 scores are from confirmed purchasers.

Basic text and chat user

Battery life 7.6
Design 8.1
Ease of use 7.8
Features 8.1
Value for money 8.4
Overall rating 8.1

Music and entertainment lover

Battery life 7.4
Design 8.2
Ease of use 8.0
Features 8.0
Value for money 8.7
Overall rating 8.1

Business or web user

Battery life 7.5
Design 8.0
Ease of use 7.6
Features 8.1
Value for money 8.5
Overall rating 8.0

Style and looks come first

Battery life 8.2
Design 8.6
Ease of use 8.3
Features 8.5
Value for money 8.8
Overall rating 8.5

Other

Battery life 6.8
Design 7.4
Ease of use 7.2
Features 7.3
Value for money 7.6
Overall rating 7.3

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