1. Battery life seems relatively poor. Even with the brightness turned down to 25%, and the backlight timer at 10 seconds, with a lot of MP3 playing and quite a lot of GPS tom-foolery, the phone’s battery runs dry in about 2 to 2.5 days. Not as great as I’d have liked it to be, and definitely lower than my old 3109c.
  2. Speaking of GPS, Nokia, in a bid to compete with Google’s offerings, has now made Ovi Maps a completely free service. This is applicable only for a few select devices i.e. X6, N97 mini, E72, E55, E52, 6730 Classic, 6710 Navigator, 5800 XpressMusic, 5800 Navigator, and of course, the 5230. Click here, to go to the download page.
    • Download the application for your phone. Before you can install it, you must have started and closed Maps at least once on your mobile, else the new version will refuse to install.
    • Once it’s on your phone, you should download the Nokia Map Loader from here. Once done, download the maps for your country, and you’re done. Sadly though, you can’t download maps for individual cities, you have to download maps for the entire country in one go. For instance, maps for major cities of India weigh in at 103 MB. Voice navigation is optional, and will be another 4-5 MB, depending on the language you choose. Also, the index for the continent will be automatically downloaded, so that you cans search for places offline
  3. My old number is back. Apparently the first time I called, the fact that my SIM documentation hadn’t been processed yet, coupled with the fact that my number had been barred, was too much for the poor girl at the call centre. I called again today, and a guy smoothly asked for some details about my address and last recharge and I was done.