The Nokia 5630 XpressMusic is a slim, powerful, music oriented Symbian powered Smartphone that supports a 600 MHz processor. It’s only 2 mm thicker than the much popular 5310 and fits in your hand perfectly. Its display measures 2.2 inches and delivers QVGA resolution. We would have like it better if it was a bit larger but still we’re completely satisfied with its quality and that it remains usable even in direct sunlight.
Navigational and keypad buttons are among the best we have ever encountered. They have enough relief and feel really easy to press. The music player controls on the left hand side while the camera shooter and volume rocker are in the opposite. They all lack enough trouble and it feels slightly unpleasant to use.
The good news is the 5630 XpressMusic is equipped with standard connectors only. The 3.5 mm earphone jack with micro USB and the latter is used for plugging in the charger and connecting the phone through a computer. On the back side of the device is very pleasing where it get the pattern that helps prevents the phone from accidentally slipping out of your hand.
As we mentioned in the beginning, the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic is a Symbian powered Smartphone. It comes with the new home screen that is called contacts bar and it looks quite similar to the one on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. As its name suggests, it visualizes up to 20 contacts, each one of them appearing with its assigned picture. Selecting an entry shows call history and end messages you have exchanged. The same function is used to follow RSS feeds.
Aside from contacts, you can place an info box to notify your familiarly received emails of your chat request, Wi-Fi scanner and upcoming calendar entries scheduled for the day. Unfortunately, all this cannot be visualized at the same time. You have an option to play some row of icons at the bottom to gain quick access to music player, radio, internet browser, internet searches, and gauge web photo and phone gallery.
The Nokia 5630 XpressMusic delivers very good internet connectivity. Thanks to its high speed 3G and to Wi-Fi capabilities. Pages are loaded fast without issues and the Symbian browser features viewed in YouTube video plus support. But unfortunately, other flash elements cannot be opened. The phone also supports several of the most popular social network services Facebook, MySpace, and Hi5.
The 5630 supports the 3.2-megapixel camera with double LED flash and its interface offers a multitude of options such as time shooting, color effect, white balance, exposure, etcetera. Unfortunately, snapshots have unrealistic colors and lacking up details. Videos can be captured at VGA resolution and their overall quality as possible provided there has been enough light.
The gallery host all videos and snapshots. If you have a snapshot on the entire screen and want to browse to the next one a reduced preview window pops up and when you select the other one the phone will smoothly show it in full screen again. The music player is okay and it comes with equalizer and sound settings. Loud speaker power disappoints and the box pair of earphones delivers sound that is rather sharp and irritating. Good news is sound quality gets much better the second you plug in better head gear.
The integrated real player allows you to watch MPEG4 videos but playback tends to start up unpleasantly if their resolution would exceed 320 pixels and the small size display is probably the best piece of hardware towards videos with proper quality anyway. The Nokia 5630 XpressMusic comes with a very robust battery that allows 24 hours of continuous audio playback.
Unfortunately, in-call quality is far from being the best with the voices of people sounding muffled, monotonous and at times really hard to get onto. Despite all the above mentioned issues we’re really pleased with this particular model. It’s still snappy, delivers a very good internet surfing options and its new home screen is comfy indeed. If you’re on the lookout for a midrange Smartphone, the Nokia 5630 makes for a great option. Still, you might want to take a look at the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the Sony Ericsson W705. Further reviews of them both can be found on PhoneArena.com.
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