The screen size of the LCD transmissive display of the Nokia X5-01 handset is 2.36” and its physical dimensions are 74.3 x 66.44 x 16.85 mm. This squarish QWERTY slider weighs 129 grams and boasts of 3 Labeled Soft Keys, Media Keys,Navi™ Key and Volume Keys. The device has made messaging easy with its full QWERTY keyboard that shows up when slider is moved up and intelligent text input feature. The joy of watching photos taken with its 5 MP full focus camera, enjoying videos, music, and graphics is one of its kind on its large square screen with resolution of 320X240 pixels.
Other principal connectivity features incorporated in Nokia X5-01includes uPnP, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, and USB 2.0 High-Speed. For social networking on sites viz. Facebook, Twitter, Hi5 and MySpace, Nokia X5 is fully capable. It enjoys 200MB of internal memory expandable to up to 32 GB. The unique spin and shake feature of Nokia X5 allows you to change music tracks and view unread text messages in a spin of wrist.IM, MMS+SMIL and SMS alongwith Email Solutions viz. Mail for Exchange, Nokia Messaging 2, OMA E-mail Notification v1.0 and Ovi Mail are supported on Nokia X5-01 that supports IMAP4, POP3, SMTP email protocols. Excel, PDF, Powerpoint, Word are the supported document formats on Nokia X5-01.The handset supports EGPRS, WCDMA (depends on region) and HSDPA/HSUPA networks. It is a 3.5G handset that sports WLAN. Additionally, there is accelerometer sensor, Flash Lite v3.0, Doc viewer and Stereo FM radio features in Nokia X5.
Its powerful BL-5F 3.7V 950mAh battery offers more talktime on GSM i.e. 9 hours and just 4 hours on WCDMA network. The standby time of up to19 days and music playback time of up to 30 hours is available for use of the Nokia X5 users.