The Nokia 5230 is one intelligent mobile phone device that packs in most of the features and applications of a smartphone like the Nokia N97 or the iPhones. With some minor shortcomings.

In this respect, the Nokia 5230 can be described as the smaller sibling of the N97 smartphone.

The Nokia 5230 offers a touchscreen display, GPS media playback, a 2 MP camera with advanced options such as setting ISO level, and 4 GB of storage capacity with a microSC card included. And all this for £ 118. Now, this is a very big advantage over the competing smartphones that costs more than £ 200.

Coming to those features that the Nokia 5230 does not offer, well for one the mobile phones device is not wi-fi enabled. This implies that you cannot download huge files and continue to use the device inside when your carrier service goes AWOL. The mobile phone device is sans a full hardware keyboard, and understandably functions a bit slow on occasions. Notwithstanding the fact that the mobile phone supports many languages, the turn-by-turn voice nav for GPS routing can prove to be a bit confusing.

The Nokia 5230 package provides you with a charger, user manual, and a pair of earbuds with a 3.5 mm connector. Besides a 4 GB card comes inserted into a side compartment with every Nokia 5230 mobile phone.

Thus, the Nokia 5230 may be arguably less 'smart' but an Intelligent mobile phone device all the same. As it does offer most of the features associated with smartphones with a few misses. Then there is the price consideration to maker where the Nokia 5230 scores very well indeed.