At first glance, it looks like it was worth the wait. This is a very stylish handset. All touchscreen phones tend to look pretty much the same to be honest. What distinguishes the 5800 is its sleekness: is very close that iPhone 3G, in fact, with a width of 52mm, is perhaps the narrowest about touchscreen phone. This means that you can operate it easily with one hand. He has a great screen enchanting, with a very high resolution (640 x 360 pixels), which helps to make easier the user interface to use. The device has a wide range of input options: touch finger, stylus plectrum and a virtual alphanumeric keypad and full QWERTY mini keyboards and handwriting recognition. The screen will automatically rotate when you turn on the phone to landscape mode. Normally XpressMusic phones have dedicated buttons for music, and 5800 has a dedicated bar to access the virtual media fast music controls, and functions as a gallery and web browser. There is also the physical keys of power, send and end, menu, screen lock, and volume. The big question is: “Is the tangere in 5800 as good as the iPhone?” Sadly not. But this is not bad. It is only that you need to use the stylus, and sometimes all is not enough experience so much fun. But climb the review, because the 5800 has a lot going for it, and the iPhone could be a number of departments.
5800 has a camera for a start. In 3 / 2 Megapixels is not the best camera phone by a long way, but he uses Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and a dual LED flash and leave the iPhone in the leg. It also has a good video camera, which can record at up to 640 x 480 pixels and 30 frames per second in, with stereo sound. A front-mounted video camera allows you to make video calls in a 3G network.
The musician in 5800 is very bright. We found the touch controls to be very easy here, and all the features you would hope for are here, including an 8-band graphic equalizer and a headphone jack 3.5mm. The phone is supplied with an 8GB memory stick, which can store up to 2000 MP3 tracks (in 4000 or AAC format), if the music collection grows even bigger, you can upgrade it a massive 16GB. The optional feature Comes With Music gives you unlimited music downloads for the whole year! Also has a built-in FM radio. No complaints about music then.
The large touchscreen 5800 is ideal for web browsing. With very fast download speeds thanks to 3G HSDPA implementation of quality and a web browser, there is nothing to hold you back. 5800 The iPhone could be here too, with support for Flash, which means that you can watch video from YouTube and other sites on your phone. The phone is also WiFi compatible, so you can get super fast data transfer speeds in the vicinity of a WLAN network or a WiFi Hotspot.
GPS is also included, along with Nokia Maps. As well as 3G and WiFi, connectivity options include Bluetooth and USB, plus a TV-Out connection (cable supplied).
The 5800 XpressMusic is a Series 60 phone, and potentially there will be many third party Apps available for downloading too. You get a couple of games and the Series 60 standard organizer applications by telephone, including a file browser and organizer of the good.
Finally, we want to mention that battery life is very good. Phones like this tend to take a much used, and large screens are hungry for power, but the capacity of the battery appears to be up to the job.
Sales of the package is generous, including all the cables you’ll need, a stereo headphone, a 8GB memory stick, a case, a position and a stylus. The phone is available in black, red and blue too.
We were not sure what to expect from Nokia’s first touchscreen phone. Obviously too much time spent in the design studio, and it looks like Nokia wisely resisted the temptation to rush something out. 5800 no doubt has occasional bug (all smart phones do), but these are few and would probably be ironed out very quickly with firmware updates. 5800 XpressMusic and manages to combine the benefits of touch, without many weaknesses, and another was averted only thanks to Nokia’s iPhone clone attention to detail.
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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a smartphone and portable entertainment device by Nokia, that has recently received a software update, version 52.0.007. It was introduced on January 2, 2008 and released on April 27, 2008. Code-named “Tube”, it is the first touchscreen-equipped S60 device by Nokia, the version being s60v5. It’s part of the XpressMusic series of phones, which emphasizes music and multimedia playback. The touchscreen features tactile feedback (though it does not use Nokia’s Haptikos technology.)
The 5800 has a compatibility mode for Java applications that are not touchscreen-aware. It works by using part of the screen for displaying the essential buttons required by the program.