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Nokia 5300

cell phone model by Nokia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ1636365
Source-derived summary

Nokia 5300 XpressMusic is a slider mobile phone by Nokia, part of the XpressMusic range. It was announced on 26 September 2006 alongside Nokia 5200 and released at the end of that year. It runs on Nokia Series 40 3rd Edition FP2.

Overview

The phone has a sleek slider design and features a 240×320 pixels (QVGA) TFT display and a 1.3-megapixel (CMOS) camera which can be used in landscape. It has dedicated music buttons on each side which makes it easy to access tracks in music player mode or tune in different stations in radio mode, with a 2.5 mm. headset jack. It has also a powerful loudspeaker at the back for high quality sound output. It also features a removable microSD card with a maximum capacity of 2 GB and powered by an ARM9 CPU running at 237 MHz. Nokia 5300 XpressMusic was launched on T-Mobile's USA network on 1 March 2007.

Nokia 5300 can browse and surf the internet via GPRS. The phone can access different web or mobile sites like Friendster, Yahoo!

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“Nokia 5300” enters the record as cell phone model by Nokia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nokia, cell and phone can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nokia, cell and phone.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1636365. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from Nokia 5300” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.