The Nokia 5630 XpressMusic

This is the cell-phone I decided to buy post-3110c. The Music player and the camera (still & video) are amoung it's features that I admire the best. Although the volume levels cannot beat that of the ipod or the sony walk man, I find the music quality almost as good as the walkman and definitely better than the ipod ( I'm sure a mob of ipod fans with pitch-forks and torches would love to pounce at this chance to run me down for having said what I just did.) But I honestly see a difference. Especially with regards to the BASS effect.

About 3 months after I started using this one, the cell phone died on me. Unlike the 2 similar instances that lead to this one, I wasn't able to switch it back on. So I had to take it to the NOKIA service center. They told me that it was a software issue. The warranty I got from buying this cell in Kuwait (since India still hasn't gotten over this model's predecessor, the 5310.) wasn't applicable here and so I had to pay for the repair. BTW, thanks MATRIX (Nokia Care-Ashok Nagar-Chennai) for returning my cell with your service man's oily finger-prints. Not to mention a nice thumb-print on the back-side of my screen that I can never clean off. Thanks a LOT!

Well anyways, I'm just glad that I finally got this thing working again :) I missed you baby!

As always, I find that the negatives are what people care to pay more attention to when it comes to pricey phones, so here's my list of issues with this one;

• unstable software - I dont see any chance of this cell lasting longer than a year.
  
• image gallery - right from the 1st time i opened the image gallery, I was pissed. The cell cant even handle the program. It's terribly slow because of its unnecessary effects.
• camera light- there's a bright blue spec of light that turns on and will be sure to eliminate any chance a person could get of takin a candid video.
  
• The dedicated music buttons - are there really people out there who make use of these? Even their positioning doesn't make them any more tempting to use. I'd much rather use the buttons on my hands free.
• The "NokiaSoftwareUpdaterSetup_en" that I downloaded from the site just now for my device gave me the following error when I tried to run it on my Win7 OS

Thanks a lot NOKIA !