Music is something the 5233 actually handles pretty okay.
We say “okay” because Nokia’s been marketing the Nokia 5233 (a variant of the 5230 without GPS or 3G capabilities), as a Music Oriented Budget Touch device here in India.
So with all that, here’s a little about Music on the Nokia 5233.
Hardware wise, the Nokia 5233 has a 3.5 mm Standard Audio Jack, which means you can plug in and use, almost any pair of headphones into it.
There’s also a pretty decent (as in, you can hear music out of it) pair of headphones included in the retail package can doubles as a headset too.
Otherwise, the loudspeaker on the 5233 is pretty poor. Not too loud, because there’s only one Mono Speaker.
Software wise, the Music experience on the 5233 is pretty much exactly like other Symbian S60v5 Touch devices before it (like the Nokia 5530 and 5800). Just here’s a brief introduction to it.
Tap the “Music” Icon on the main menu and you’ll see following icons in the folder.
So as you can see in the screenshot above, there’s a Music player, FM Radio app, access to the Nokia Music Store, a Podcasting Client and a Voice Recorder app.
The Voice recorder app is very useful to record short dicta-notes or important conversations.
Pretty standard, no chance there.
The Radio application allows you to listen to any FM Radio stations.
Of course to use it, you need to plug in your headphones, as the 5233 uses the headphones as an Antenna.
The Music player is exactly the same as in S60v5 devices in the past. Start it up and you’ll see your songs listed in categories.
You also have a couple options like refreshing your library (for when you add new songs and they arnt detected), go to the Nokia Music Store, etc.
You can also view your Music Library details.
The 5233 comes with only about 50 Mb of Internal memory, and no memory card is included in the retail package. You can purchase one later though, as the 5233 supports cards upto 16Gb.
There are also three playlists by default.
But you can create your own playlists if you’d want to.
You can head on to “All Songs” to see your entire library of Music listed.
From this view, you can also send the song by Bluetooth or MMS, Delete it, Mark Multiple songs, etc.
You’ll notice it shows Album art for a song if present. You can also change the Album art manually, which is pretty cool.
At that point, all you have to do is tap on the name of a song to start it playing.
There you’ll see the basic music buttons such as Play/Pause, Rewind, Fast forward, etc. The Album art takes prominence, and under it is a progress bar to let you know how much time is left, or gone by. You can tap at any point on the progress bar to go further, or back, in the song.
There’s also a couple options available here such as Repeat, Shuffle, Adding to playlist, or Making the song a ringtone for a contact or profile.
There’s also 5 equalizer settings totally, and arnt edit-able.
But you can create and add your own present.
To add to this, you also have a couple settings such as Balance, Loudness and Stereo Widening.
In my opinion, they dont really seem to do much though. But hey, it’s there.
While you play any song, a neat little widget also appears in the Homescreen.
Basic controls like rewind, play/pause and forward.
Here’s a short video to give you a better idea of Music on the Nokia 5233.
So that’s basically it. The 5233 like we said at the start of this post, is a pretty okay Music device. Not much more though. It’ll just about get the job done. And at the low price level the 5233 is currently selling at, we cant really complain.
Have any questions about Music on the Nokia 5233 ? Something we missed ? Do let us know in the comments section below y’all !
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Can anybody tell me how can i activate my headset in nokia 5233 as its showing speak now.
very nice....
I think Nokia 5233 is a Better Phone..., even if it's sound quality is not sooooo good...:(
I think music quality on Nokia 5233 is very poor, not good as their neirbough 5800. How can I improve the quality ? I need quality I dont need extra utilities.. My device can edit all preset, also can create new preset. They dont help much to improve music quality, just for fun. If you are a music fan, you should use None preset. Sorry for my bad English, I from Asia.
sound quality is a shitdont go for this cellif u compare this cell with sony ercission phones sound quality then i give this phone 0/10headphone sound quality is shit shit shit
to kishne kaha tha phone kharidne ke liye, andhe the kya; sony ericsion hi le lete sit sit sit kar raha hai, 6500 me kya pure nokia company ko kharid loge
yes sound quality is shit!!! very shit! very poor! I hate nokia! I love Samsung with most of device has very good sound quality! I also love Sony but it's very expensive!
If u live sony ercission then go for it na....., shit shit q kar raha hai nokia 5233 ko......... 6300 mai kya Nokia company lega.
the widget of music keys is not appearing while music is played in background ...How to enable it?
there's only on-screen (touch) keys to interact with the phone or it also have a keypad??
ther is no keypad?wify menu?
Yep surely can't expect too much from a budget device. I am not offended at all by Nokia by releasing this phone at $170 which is retailing here at less than Rs.8k.Though I still feel any Music Series phone should include wi-fi as it will definitely come handy not only in downloading music but also streaming it. Nevertheless at current price, I can't ask this device to perform anything more.
Maybe the sound quality can be improve using other headphones or earphone like Sony, I think it depends on the quality of the headphone itself, if the sound quality is poor, don't play it with the loudspeaker, just use a high quality headphone.
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