Nokia 5310 2.4 Inch 8 MB UK SIM-Free 2G Feature Phone (Dual Sim) - White/Red

DO NOT BUY. The phone stopped working in 5 days.

Totally cool

Get rid of your smartphones, order this as your new phone for a "digital detox" and start reading books again. Great phone and it has terrible internet connection which is a plus. A phone should be for calls, texts and listening to music. Comes with Bluetooth which is an added bonus.

I purchased this for my wife as her old Nokia X2 had died after many years of use. After many hours searching online, this phone "popped up" from Amazon, so i purchased it for her. I had already purchased the cheapo 106 and 215 models and they were really bad and they ended up in the drawer never to be used. This is completely different, it works just like the x2, hooray! It looks superb and works a treat, thank you Amazon and Nokia.

As many people know, Nokia is now Nokia in name only, the feature phone branch being bought out by Microsoft a few years ago and then being sold to Finnish company HMD. That said, a lot of the newer Nokia feature phones operate akin to the phones of old, with similar-looking menus to those well-known handsets of the 2000s. The 5310 is one of the better phones from the newer line of Nokia feature phones. It's good in many ways but stops short of being great. Still, its advantages are enough for it to be objectively considered one of the best Nokias for a while.At the risks of making this review several very long paragraphs, I'm going to break this down into simple pros/cons for brevity, or else this review could get very long. The phone is marketed as one which is particularly good for music listening: what this means specifically is listening via micro SD card to mp3s, not streaming. The main ways in which this phone is more tailored to the regular music listener is by the addition of the red volume and skip track buttons on the sides. Also the music player has a graphical EQ with presets [you can't add your own though]. This phone will most be of interest to those who do not like smartphones: for the average smartphone user it will seem underpowered and frustratingly limited.+Pros++ good looking phone, good build quality. Doesn't feel too tacky, it's quite sturdy.+ Graphic EQ for music, and the mp3 player actually has a search function, which many Nokia phones don't. This used to be particularly aggravating if you'd downloaded a 90 minute podcast, but now you can search through it. That said, the EQ isn't great and it may be better just to have it off. The biggest irony of this phone is that even though it's marketed as a music phone, the music quality isn't as good as on previous Nokia phones, but it is still good enough.+ volume and skip/pause buttons on the side+ the phone is very comfortable to hold and use. Not too heavy, a good weight at 88g. This is a big plus since many Nokia feature phones are too small and a little awkward to use for long phone calls.+ Good, sharp screen of 320x240. You can add your own wallpapers via the SD card+ buttons are very comfortable to use and text with. Also they're plastic rather than rubber, which greatly reduces the risk of the numbers rubbing off over time.+ battery life is long, as you'd expect, but not quite as long as with other feature phones. I would estimate it's about five days at full charge with some calls, texting and music listening daily, as another user here said. But still, this amount of time is way better than with a smartphone.+ text messaging is done in 'chat' format. This is fine because nearly all phones do this nowadays and the way in which people talk in texts has changed as a result.+ theming - this one can go either way. The menu/text colour theme for this phone is set to orange/black/white and can't be changed. This is fine for me since orange/black/white is one of my favourite colour schemes but if you don't like it, well, you can't change it.+ torch - it does have a torch - a vital feature for me.+ it has a small, functional camera. Useful for some things if you have to take a picture, but low quality.+ notepad feature - this could be extremely useful for lists, notes, thoughts. However, it is limited to 100 characters, which is extremely short, a shopping list of around 12 items. This is such a shame since it could have been very useful indeed. No idea why they chose to limit it like this. Still, it's nice to have it.+ one of the biggest pros of this phone over older Nokia feature phones is that the microphone works with headphones plugged in. Previously Nokia had sought to disable the mic when headphones were plugged in, making it very inconvenient to unplug them when taking a call but now, if you're listening to music, you can just lift the phone close to you, nothing has to be unplugged.- Cons -- this is a dual SIM phone, which I didn't realise. Though this is, in essence, an advantage, if you only have one SIM in, the home screen will say No Sim Card in grey letters for the other SIM slot. This is kind of annoying but can be got rid of by inserting an old [even defunct] SIM in the other slot. This will get rid of the words but not the greyed out reception icon, still, maybe it's worth getting a second SIM on another network as a backup anyway?- internet exists on this phone but it's very slow. I wouldn't use it for much apart from checking the weather. There is a 'mobile store' with nothing of use in it. Certainly not on EE.- games are mostly demos and pointlessly bad. But who gets this phone for games? There is a newer full version of Snake which is quite nice, the music sounds like something off the Sega Master System.- VOLUME CONTROL - the bane of my life listening to music on Nokia phones. Really what's needed is a digital dial or smaller increments between the volume numbers. This phone has volume settings from 1 to 10 [unnumbered] but sometimes the gap between one 'number' and the next can be too much. It would be good to have smaller increments. But again, the volume control situation is better than it is on other phones e.g. Nokia 108 and 130.- the file system for selecting music can be confusing. It doesn't separate the folder names from the song names, everything is just thrown in together in a list with nothing to distinguish one from another. However, if you have your mp3s sorted into folders on your SD card, you can scroll between folders by using the right keypad key. Nokia should have at least added icons to separate folders from files.- it's all very well having the two red buttons on the side, but if the home screen is locked when playing music, it still displays skip and volume buttons on it. Surely these are not needed with the side buttons. This is an odd decision, or one that smacks of lethargic programming, since this means that are several buttons you could mistakenly press with the phone in your pocket.All in all, this is a great phone for calls, texting and music. It's solid, well-built, looks good and is very comfortable to use. It has a few minus points, but these are not big enough minuses to make using the phone a chore. Its advantages outweigh its issues, and it's a great phone for what is it, especially at £30.

It's a £30 quid phone..I'm using this in conjuction with sky mobiles £6 month sim for unlimited test calls and 1GB dataMega mega light phoneVery long battery lifeI'm enjoying the novelty of a FM radio whilst walkingNostalgicI've bought a 32GB memory card to listen to mp3s - less than £10 (you can us iTunes to make mp3s then transfer the mp3s onto the memory card then put the memory card in your phone)Surprising loud speaker - you could easily use this for music in the gardenCamera is low quality but useful enough

I’m not into smart phones with their ability to do everything except make a phone call when you need to because of the rubbish battery.Keep it simple. Always had Nokia’s and I absolutely love this one. I have 2 sims, one personal and one for work and this 2 sim phone is perfect. You can add a memory card too which you can store piccies, movies and tunes on.It’s got a bright torch, loud ring, easy display, excellent signal and volume. The ability to disable a sim or keep both on and personalise setting for each SIM card. I love it.Only charged it once when I had it and it’s lasted for ages.Did come with a two pin plug and non english instructions which was a bit daft but it’s a simple phone and the instruction booklet is online anyway.It’s a nice size, a lot lighter than my metal Nokia 6330 and comfy in the hand.Would recommend the phone.