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If looking for a versatile music phone, then it is the one you can count upon. It is a great music player, FM radio, 3.2 mega pixel camera, 3G, with an expandable memory up to 4 G bytes, and great ease-of-use, all these features packed in one. You need take care of only the build quality.


You have alternative choices to buy with half-price line rental for 15 months from mobiles.co.uk (Red); or £179.95 on Pay as you Go in red from the Carphone Warehouse (Red).


It is an upgraded version of 5300 XpressMusic phone, slim in design, choice between red and blue with glossy finish and a lot more qualities. Nokia 3610 is sturdy with stronger and scratch free screen protected by aluminium side panels although a few customers have challenged it. Though not super slim yet it fits comfortably well in the palm. Its superb display with 16.7 million colours on 2.2 inches screen and wonderful resolution power of 240x320 pixels is a feast in colours for the eyes. Its music slider key is innovative to regulate and control music player, radio or phone with one button makes it different from other music phones. The navigation pad below the slider key is convenient and easy to use. All these make it a virtual experience in sight and sound over and above Sony Ericsson's Walkman range for ease-of-use.


It doesn’t leg behind in music playing features too when compared with Sony Ericsson's Walkman range. Quality sound from the built-in loudspeaker, or even better from the stereo headset included in the sales package, an equaliser and support playlists and album art; and it can take a microSD memory card up to 4 Gbytes keep it abreast of its rivals. More than 20 Mbytes of internal memory would have made it a still better product.


Nokia 5610 is loaded with a very good 3.2 mega pixels auto focus camera with smooth digital zoom, macro mode and a dual LED flash. You can make video calls too with the second camera. Nokia N95 is superior to it in this respect but it surpasses the walkman range.


It is good as 3G music phone as well. It provides facilities like ringtones of your choice, sending audio messages, emailing with attachments, surfing the web at 3G speeds using the Opera Mini web browser and playing games. You can connect via Bluetooth 2.0 or USB 2.0.


We are all praise for it except its built. It meets all the requirement of a quality product. There is always a scope for improvement besides build quality, therefore, 4 stars.


Features of the Nokia 5610 XpressMusic include:

3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, 8 smooth digital zoom, macro (for close-up shots) and dual LED flash
Secondary camera for video calling
Display: 16.7 million colours, 240 x 320 pixels (2.2 inches)
Music player (MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAc+, WMA music files, OMA DRM 2.0 and Windows Media DRM) with equaliser and support for playlists and album art
FM RDS radio with Visual Radio
Built-in loudspeaker
Voice recorder
Voice controls
Ringtones: Video ringtones, MP3 and MP4 tones, eAAC+ tones, AAC tones, WMA tones, 64-voice polyphonic MIDI, message alert tones, and alarm clock tones
Messaging: SMS, MMS, Nokia Xpress audio messaging, email (SMTP, POP3 and IMAP 4) with support for attachments
Games: City Bloxx, Music Guess, Rally 3D, Snake II plus downloadable Java games
Graphics: full screen colour wallpapers, animated colour screensavers, icons, themes and logos
Personal organiser functions
Internet: WAP 2.0, GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE, 3G data connection, Opera Mini web browser
Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0
Memory: 20 Mbytes plus microSD memory slot up (expandable to 4 Gbytes)
Flight mode
Quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) plus 3G (WCDMA 850/2100)
Size: 99 x 49 x 17 mm
Weight: 111g
Talktime: 6 hours
Battery standby: up to 320 hours