While it’s not powered by KaiOS, it does come with a pre-loaded Facebook app that accesses the social network through an Opera browser on the GSM 900/1800 bands. In terms of usability, the phone navigates like any phone from around 15 years ago, with every functionality loaded onto one menu. Running on 8MB RAM, and with just 16MB internal storage, there’s not much to shout about here, although the expandable microSD card is worth the investment if you want to load up your device with music. It’s old-fashioned, sure, but it’s sleek enough to tell that it’s from this decade. These are on the left and right hand sides of the device respectively. It’s sturdy, compact and yet feather-light, a world away from the glass and metal-clad giants of the phablet era.Ĭoming in either black (the colour of my review device) or white (which I preferred the look of), the 5310 retains the red markings of the volume controls and the FM scrollers on the original XpressMusic. It’s easy to forget just how simple and carefree it felt to carry around a feature phone back in the day, and these feelings certainly carry over to the 5310. This is a straightforward candy bar phone with an audio experience twist, made for blasting out tunes at high quality… and not much else, it turns out.
NOKIA CANDYBAR PHONE UPDATE
HMD has offered us refreshes of the iconic 8110, 3310, and 2720 devices, and now it’s launched an update of the XpressMusic brand.
While HMD continues to keep pace in the smartphone arena, with an increasingly competitive mid-range offering and an incoming 5G phone backed by the James Bond franchise, the Nokia licensee has never forgotten the brand’s feature phone heyday. HMD’s XpressMusic update boasts formidable sound in a basic feature package – 3/5
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