The freshly announced Nokia 5250 is a new entry level Nokia smartphone featuring the kind of looks and style that makes the Nokia X6 and X3 the trendy handsets they are. But how does it match up to its Nokia 5230 counterpart. Read on for our side-by-side comparison of some of their key features.

Screen size

Both touchscreen phones - the Nokia 5230 comes out on top over the newer 5250 here, with a 3.2-inch screen. The Nokia 5250 gives some away with its 2.8-inch screen. Both are widescreen, making them great for viewing videos when on the move.

Memory

The 5230 might have a more spacious internal memory (70MB) than the 5250 (51MB), but with the capacity for both to be upgraded to 16GB via microSD card with enough space to store, movies, more photos and thousands of songs -there's nothing in it.

Camera

Both the 5230 and 5250 sport a 2-megapixel camera handy for taking quick, spontaneous snaps able to be uploaded to social networking sites such as Facebook.

Battery

The 5250 and 5230 both offer a more than reasonable seven hours of talktime. But for music heads, the 5230 is able to play music continuously for 33 hours on a single charge, compared to 24 hours of the 5250.

Music

Speaking of music, both handsets come with easy one-touch access to your music collection and sport an FM radio for listening to the latest music.

Navigation

Being an entry level handset the 5250 does not have GPS navigation letting you instantly access your location. If that's an important feature to you the 5230 already has it.

Operating system

The 5250 and 5230 run on Symbian^1 (S60 5th edition) letting you multitask and run multiple apps at once with minimum fuss.

The Nokia 5250 is set to launch int he four quarter of this year and has an expected price of 115 Euros, before taxes.