Display and Camera

Nokia 5700 Xpress Music features a much better display than Nokia 3250 does, and together with the high speed CPU, it offers a great gaming experience. The TFT display supports 16 Million colors and resolutions up to 240 x 320 pixels. As you can see from the screenshots, the phone is only a little bit superior to Nokia N76 (which features the same CPU) and LG KU580.

Because of the high probability of scratches, I recommend using an "invisible shield" to protect your screen. As always, graphic display hits high scores when tested only if the handset features a good processor and Nokia 5700 demonstrates it.

The screen is visible in the sunlight and can be used with no trouble. There's also a light sensor right near the in-call speaker which adjusts the backlighting level in accordance with the environment.

The swivel mechanism enables the users to shoot pictures or clips with ease, by turning the keypad 90 degrees to the right. Evidently, you can take pictures even if you don't swivel the handset. Video calls are limited because the phone lacks a secondary camera. The phone has zoom capabilities that you can access through the 5-way joystick or the music player controls Forward and Back. While not the best in its class, the 2 Megapixel camera embedded can take nice pictures, but only if the light conditions are extremely good. Otherwise, the images are full of noise, no matter the resolutions used.

The flash and the night mode are useless, so don't try to take pictures when it's dark outside. The maximum resolution for pictures is 1600 x 1200 pixels, while movies can be recorded in 320 x 240 pixels (.mp4 format).

There are also three White balance settings that you can use (Sunny, Incandescent and Fluorescent) and 3 Color tones (Sepia, Black&White and Negative). The picture quality is above average only if you take pictures when the light is very good; otherwise, they look very bad.