Nokia 5230 - Two Flavors

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If you've seen the photos of the Nokia Nuron you'll notice how much it resembles the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. It resembles even more closely the Nokia 5230 without AWS. The photos submitted to the FCC of the two 5230 devices appear to be the same photos submitted twice.



A quick check of the FCC site shows there are two 5230 designated models approved.

LJPRM-593 is the FCC Certification assigned to the AWS enabled 5230 aka Nuron.
LJPRM-594 is the FCC Certification assigned to the 850/1900 WCDMA enabled device.
LJPRM-594 is currently available on the nokiausa.com website. The Nuron, LJPRM-593, was not as of yesterday.

If you purchase a 5230 from an entity other than T-Mobile be sure to ascertain the FCC Certification of the device you are getting to be sure it is the correct device for your network. According to engadget the launch date at T-Mobile for the Nuron is 24 March 2010 at a price of $70.00 with contract extention. No full price information was available at engadget's review.

The draft user guide submitted to the FCC makes no mention of the name Nuron that I could find.

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Nokia and T-Mobile release updated firmware for the Nokia Nuron (RM-593)

Available for OTA install on the Nuron is firmware v. 12.2.082, dated April 10, 2010.

The customization, 12.2.082.343.02, for T-Mobile is dated May 17, 2010.

The download and install process takes about five minutes from start to finish. This appears to be the first firmware update since the device's release in March of this year.

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Debranding the Nokia Nuron is possible. This is discussed (http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1645511-my-5230-is-100-de-branded?p=13785449#post13785449) on another forum. When examined by the debranding application it reports the model as Nokia 5230-1c, which is how the model is listed on the device label but not on the retail box label.


If you are thinking of debranding your Nuron do not update to V 12.2.082 as this is newer than the newest unbranded firmware. I know this to be true because I was unable to debrand mine as a result of this issue.


The T-Mobile Day/Night themes will be gone, Visual Messaging will be gone as well as the account information application. Otherwise the debranded firmware is supposed to be a bit faster and gets rid of the "Stick Together" opening and closing vids.