HMD has a taste for bringing back some of
the classic Nokia phones and the latest one to get this honor is the Nokia 5310
XpressMusic. Its 2020 reincarnation is a Series 30+ featurephone that has the
exact same paintjobs - black/red and white/red and comes with side-mounted keys
for operating the music player.
You get a VGA camera at the back and a
2.4” QVGA screen at the front with an alphanumeric keypad below it. So while
the diagonal is 0.3” bigger than the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic of old, the
resolution is exactly the same.
The new Nokia 5310 has 16MB of internal
storage, but you also get a microSD card slot so you can expand it by up to
32GB. A good thing too, since its key selling points (in addition to a healthy
shot of nostalgia) are the MP3 player and the front facing stereo speakers. You
also get a 3.5mm audio jack and Bluetooth 3.9 so you can hook up your
headphones of choice. An FM radio receiver is also on board.
A 1,200 mAh battery powers the 2020 Nokia
5310 and seeing its modest internals it should last a good while on a single
charge. Officially quoted numbers are 7.5h of talk time and between 22 days (in
single SIM mode) and 30 days (dual SIM) of standby.
An important consideration is that the
Nokia 5310 is a dual band 2G phone, so it won’t work in countries where 2G
networks have been switched off already or in those relying on the 850 and 1900
bands. The Nokia 5310 is coming in March and will cost € 39.
