Menu and Software

Nokia 5700 Xpress Music runs the latest Symbian 9.2 version OS and includes Feature Pack 1. The 3.1 interface proves to be very stable on the 5700 model and is the most user-friendly. The Feature Pack 1 provides 3D graphics hardware support, over-the-air (OTA) firmware support, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR support, Flash Lite 2.0, as well as a better organization of the file cache. The Alarm clock function has been modified, thus you are being able to use multiple repeating alarms, while the time limit for voice recording has been improved from 1 minute to 1 hour. After numerous tests and benchmarks run during 1 week, Nokia 5700 performed admirably. While there are some people that are "complaining" that their phones are restarting themselves, it only happened to me once when I tried to access many functions in a short period of time. Even if it happens 4 times per month, this is not much for a Symbian phone. Let's not forget that this handset has an operating system, which sometimes may freeze (never happened to me) or simply restart itself.

Besides the usual FP1 theme, Nokia 5700 features some unique musical themes, that not only change the wallpaper and background, but also the ringtones used. If you are more into the theme thing, Audio Theme can change even the sound alerts for calendar, alarm or various notifications. Surprisingly enough, you won't be able to play 3D Snake on Nokia 5700 (thank God), but you'll still be able to play one of the 2 embedded games: Marble and City Bloxx. In the Videos section, you'll find a bunch of clips that were included onto the handset free of charge.  

There's a new OSS Browser 2.0 integrated which is only compatible with Symbian 3rd Edition handsets. It seems that Nokia gave up on the Opera browser and started to develop its own software that will probably be called Nokia Browser. The new upgraded browser does wonders for all users that are heavy Internet surfers. Besides the fact that you can now open multiple new windows, you can also navigate among up to 5 pages. You can save pages for later offline navigation and you can zoom any web page. Overall, the new Nokia Browser is more stable and much faster. Even big web pages are handled quickly and with very few errors.