Time for the apes things again. I have the nokia 5300 now for about 3 months and I have to say, it’s again one of the best mobilephones I’ve had so far.

Most of the time I had a Nokia, I think they do best in design, user interface and hardware lifetime. Very positives properties of the Nokia 5300 are: You can use the phone even when it’s closed (of course only if you don’t need the numbers or letters), you can choose several layouts of the menu, a kind of dashboard to put quicklinks, calendar, radio etc. Plus this is has the first camera I would actually use.

Disadvantages: it has a new power charger plug … the times when I could use all my nokia power chargers at home are over. Plus it seemes to be an unloved child of Nokia. When you are looking for some equipment, you hardly ever find the 5300 on the list (but I was told it should work fine anyway).

Another problem was I couldn’t syncronize it with iSync 3 on Mac OS X Leopard. It just wasn’t supported. There were several hacks out there but they didn’t seem to work for me (or I was just to lazy). Anyway, I found a working plugin here (the credits go to erka).