About the size and shape of a small bar of soap, this two-toned slider is girded with either a black or purple band and has a two-inch 
screen in the middle. And instead of those annoyingly fancy touch-sensitive music controls, the 5300 is endowed with large, old-fashioned tactile buttons: play/pause, rewind, and fast-forward on the left spine, and "+" and "-" for volume on the right.
Nokia’s music application works like an MP3 player, in that pressing the side Play control starts the music regardless of which application the phone is running. And the 5300 offers true random play. Most music phones create a "random" playlist that never varies, but the 5300 either picks right up from where you left off or starts from a new spot on your list. There is also a variety of track-categorization view choices (track, artist, most recently added, etc.), along with the actual random-play listing.
:: LAPTOP Magazine • Nokia 5300 Xpress Music ::