Nokia 5100 Review

The Nokia 5100 is defiantly designed for those with an active lifestyle. It's a rather odd looking, rubber skinned tri-band phone with unique applications.

This phone is water, dust and shock resistant. It is completely customisable with multiple coloured shells, polyphonic ring tones, wallpaper templates and colour schemes The 4096 colour display is extremely bright and colourful even in sunshine. Wireless Java makes an appearance in the form of three games but the most interesting aspect of the 5100 has to be the extras that Nokia has built into it.

It has a flashlight positioned on the top of the phone, which is easily activated and provides plenty of light. It has an accurate temperature application and a calorie burn application which tells you how many calories you have burned given your height, weight and other information. Its nifty noise meter works very well and measures the decibel level of the environment and automatically changes the volume for you depending on how much background noise is present.

The reception, signal and voice quality of the Nokia 5100 are all very good as is the battery life which is surprising when you consider how many applications can run simultaneously.

The power button on the Nokia 5100 is ridiculously hard to push and the keypad is somewhat sluggish and a single rubber key can operate up to three different keys making it slightly confusing and prone to errors.

The Nokia 5100 is definitely one of the oddest phones around yet beyond the hard exterior is a delightful intelligent phone. For all of the features included it would have been nice for Nokia to include Bluetooth capabilities.