The Nokia 5300 XpressMusic is a 2006 model mobile phone. CNET reviews the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic and has this to say about display, “The picture-perfect QVGA display measures 2 inches (320×240 pixels) and supports 262,144 colors. Equal to the gorgeous screen on the Nokia 6126, it offers an eye-popping array of colors, and displayed everything from graphics to texts to games beautifully. The simple but attractive menus are also a treat to view, and we love that Nokia provides a description of unfamiliar applications if you hold the cursor over the corresponding icon. You can change the font size and the backlight time, and even though you can’t alter the brightness, the display is plenty bright as it is.”

InfoSync reviews the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic and writes, “The Nokia 5300 is quite capable when it comes to handling calls and contact lists. Voice quality was good, though callers complained of background noise as we made our way through the packed, noisy streets of Manhattan. Signal strength was always strong in New York using a T-Mobile SIM card. The speakerphone is among the loudest we’ve used, but while the phone sports speaker-independent voice dialing, we found performance on voice commands to be very poor; the phone didn’t recognize a single name we spoke. Bluetooth and push-to-talk capabilities are present, and conference calling was not difficult. The contact list accommodated plenty of fields, though you must add them one at a time if you want more than a single name and number per contact. Through the Nokia PC studio, the phone syncs your desktop-based Outlook contacts. ”

Mobile Phones UK reviews the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic and writes, “he Nokia 5300 XpressMusic is one of the very first phones in Nokia’s new XpressMusic range, which is clearly intended to rival Sony Ericsson’s Walkman range of phones. It will appeal to Nokia fans who might have been tempted to defect to Sony Ericsson. The 5300 XpressMusic is in some ways quite different to the SE Walkman range, but as a music phone it holds its own, and is recommended. We look forward to more XpressMusic phones in the future.”

MobileBurn reviews the Nokia 5300 and writes about camera, “The camera on the 5300 is just a 1.3 megapixel CMOS unit, which is slightly below average nowadays. Photos can be taken up to 1024×768 pixels and videos at 176×144 pixels. Shutter lag is about half a second, and it usually takes about two seconds for a picture to be saved at highest resolution and quality. The pictures turn out to be just okay, not great. White balance is a problem - the presets never seem to be accurate, especially indoors. Pictures at night are noisy, and compounded by the shutter lag, they generally turn out blurry.”

The Sydney Morning Herald reviews the Nokia 5300 and writes about memory, “A scant 5MB of memory is built-in, made up for somewhat with the bundled 256MB microSD card (of which 233MB is accessible). Still, at roughly 4MB per song, that’s a maximum of 58 tracks that can be loaded onto the card at a time.”