• Nokia X5 Review

    Nokia X5 Review

    Prasad Naik, Feb 15, 2011 1541 hrs IST

    User-friendly and comfortable to type on

    Compact design, comfortable keypad, excellent audio quality

    Bit chubby, earpiece needs to be placed correctly to be heard, average camera, no GPS, no video call camera

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Design & Build

The Nokia has a rather unique design. It is a slider but uses a landscape display. This gives it a distinctive square shape when closed. Slide open the phone and you will find a full QWERTY keypad, which, again, is uncommon in portrait sliders. Our review sample came in an eye-popping shade of pink, although, there is a far more subdued charcoal grey version available as well.

nokia x5 front



Below the display you will find a 5-way navigation pad surrounded by a rather confusing layout of buttons. Confusing because it groups together three keys on either side of the navigation pad in a very indistinct manner. Luckily the keys are spaced well apart, so you don't end up pressing one key while aiming for another. Still, we don't quite like the way the soft keys don't line up properly below their functions above on the display. The center button on the navigation pad also acts as a notification light.

On top of the display, you will find the earpiece with the ambient light sensor. The X5 doesn't have a video call camera, which is uncommon for a Nokia phone with 3G. We had some trouble with the earpiece on the X5. It has to be lined up perfectly with your ear to be heard clearly, or else the volume levels drops substantially. When you first place the phone on your ear, you will need to move it around so that the speaker fires directly in your ear through its tiny outlet. Again, it's very uncommon for Nokia to mess up such a basic functionality of the phone.

nokia x5 top



On top of the phone are the 3.5mm headphone jack and the micro USB port. The phone does not have a standard charging port and charges exclusively through USB. On the right side of the phone are the volume control buttons and on the bottom is a single loudspeaker.


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Discussion Board
(7) Comments
Pranay Amin
,Vadodara, on Sep 15, 2011 12:54 PM
It's not a bad phone but you need to make sure that it does not fall or get damaged in any way.It is a very very delicate phone.But the camera is lovable!!
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Anonymous
,Singapore, on Jul 21, 2011 02:23 PM
went to the care center one week after buying it;since then half a year passed and I need to go there again. Same problem, turn off suddenly and cannot turn on ever again....so you wanna try the phone?
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jigyas
,bangalore, on Feb 17, 2011 05:37 PM
plz review d nokia c6......
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aditya
,bhopal madhya pradesh india, on Apr 08, 2011 10:28 AM
instead of takin c6 i think go for c6_01 as th for is havin problm wid the software the company has taken back many models it hangs alot and the main prob is the phn keeps music playing on even wen weswitch of the player if price matters then go for X6 that is also a good phn
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Abhijeet
,Mumbai, on Feb 18, 2011 12:42 PM
The design is really nice. Reminds of old small panasonic phones.
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Sameer
,Mumbai, on Feb 17, 2011 06:20 PM
Just when everyone thought how can an Apple fan boy push in an iPhone in a Nokia X5 review, there is a pic of iPhone to compare the X5 to!!!!
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nokia-lover
,Kolkata, on Feb 15, 2011 11:55 PM
hey is the x2-01 available in india?.....plz review it or one of those samsung chat phones ;)
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