We've waited a heck of a continued time for Nokia to bolt up with Apple, LG and Samsung and barrage a touchscreen phone. And actuality it is at last! It's a 3G smartphone, and belongs to Nokia's XpressMusic range.
At aboriginal glance, it looks like it was account the wait. It's a actual beautiful handset. All touchscreen phones tend to attending appealing abundant the aforementioned to be honest. What distinguishes the 5800 is its sleekness: it's abundant narrower than the iPhone 3G, in actuality with a amplitude of 52mm, it's apparently the narrowest touchscreen buzz around. This agency that you can calmly accomplish it with one hand. It has a admirable big awning too, with a actual aerial resolution (640 x 360 pixels), which helps to accomplish the user interface easier to use. The accessory has a advanced ambit of ascribe options: feel touch, stylus and plectrum with a basic alphanumeric keypad, abounding and mini QWERTY keyboards and autography recognition. The affectation will circle automatically aback you about-face the buzz to mural mode. Normally the XpressMusic phones accept committed buttons for music, and the 5800 has a committed basic media bar for quick admission to music controls, as able-bodied as functions like the arcade and web browser. There are additionally concrete keys for power, accelerate and end, menu, awning lock and volume. The big catechism is: "Is the touchscreen on the 5800 as acceptable as the iPhone?" Sadly, no. But it isn't at all bad. It's aloof that you charge to use the stylus sometimes and the accomplished acquaintance isn't absolutely so abundant fun. But stick with the review, because the 5800 has a lot activity for it, and beats the iPhone in a cardinal of departments.
The 5800 has a able camera for a start. At 3.2 megapixels it isn't the best camera buzz by a continued way, but it uses Carl Zeiss optics, has autofocus and a bifold LED beam and leaves the iPhone standing. It additionally has a appropriate video camera, which can almanac at up to 640 x 480 pixels and at 30 frames per second, with stereo sound. A front-mounted video camera enables you to accomplish video calls on a 3G network.
The music amateur in the 5800 is accomplished too. We begin the touchscreen controls to be actual accessible here, and all the appearance that you'd achievement for are here, including an 8-band clear equaliser and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The buzz is supplied with an 8GB anamnesis card, which can abundance up to 2,000 MP3 advance (or 4,000 in AAC format), and if your music accumulating grows alike bigger, you can advancement this to a massive 16GB. The alternative Comes With Music affection gives you absolute music downloads for a accomplished year! There's additionally a congenital FM radio. No complaints for music then.
The 5800's big touchscreen is ideal for web browsing. With actual fast download speeds acknowledgment to the 3G HSDPA accomplishing and a affection web browser, there's annihilation to authority you back. The 5800 beats the iPhone actuality too, with abutment for Beam acceptation that you can watch videos from YouTube and added sites on your phone. The buzz is additionally WiFi compatible, so you can get cool fast abstracts alteration speeds in the around of a WLAN arrangement or a WiFi Hotspot.
GPS is included too, calm with Nokia Maps. As able-bodied as 3G and WiFi, the connectivity options accommodate Bluetooth and USB, additional a TV-Out affiliation (cable supplied.)
The 5800 XpressMusic is a Series 60 phone, and potentially there are activity to be a lot of third-party apps accessible for downloading too. You get a brace of amateur and the accepted Series 60 organiser applications with the phone, including certificate browsers and a acceptable organiser.
Finally, we appetite to acknowledgment that the array activity is actual good. Phones like this do tend to get acclimated rather a lot, and big screens are athirst for power, but the array accommodation seems to be up to the job.
The sales amalgamation is generous, including all the cables you'll need, a stereo headphone, an 8GB anamnesis card, a case, a angle and a stylus. The buzz is accessible in black, red and dejected too.
We weren't abiding what to apprehend from Nokia's aboriginal touchscreen phone. It's acutely spent a lot of time in the architecture studio, and it looks like Nokia wisely resisted the allurement to blitz article out. The 5800 no agnosticism has the casual bug (all acute phones do), but these are few and will apparently be ironed out appealing bound with firmware updates. The 5800 XpressMusic manages to amalgamate the allowances of touchscreen, after abounding downsides, and avoids actuality aloof addition iPhone carbon acknowledgment to Nokia's absorption to detail. It may not be perfect, but we're afflicted by aloof how acceptable it is, and it would be base to accolade annihilation beneath than 5 stars.
Just a footnote: some bodies accept got the consequence that the 5800 automatically includes Nokia's "Comes With Music" service, which gives you chargeless music downloads for a year. This is not the case. Unless the artefact is declared as "Nokia 5800 Comes With Music" again it's aloof a accepted Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. Achievement this clears up the confusion!
- Series 60 5th Edition Symbian version 9.4 3G Smartphone
- 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, 4x digital zoom and double LED flash
- Video recording (up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps), 4x digital video zoom, front camera for 3G video calling
- Display: Touchscreen, 16.7 million colours, 640 x 360 pixels (3.2 inches) with automatic display rotation
- NSeries music player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA formats) with 8-band graphical equaliser
- FM radio with Visual Radio
- Stereo loudspeakers
- Ringtones: MP3 & video ringtones, 64-voice polyphonic ringtones, vibration alert
- Voice commands: speaker independent dialling and voice commands
- Voice recorder (digital stereo microphone)
- Integrated handsfree speaker
- Games: 3D Bounce and Global Race
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (support for IMAP, POP, SMTP) plus attachments, Audio messaging
- Advanced Series 60 personal organiser functions, Flash Lite 3.0
- Integrated GPS with Nokia Maps
- Internet: HSCSD, GPRS, EDGE, 3G HSDPA (3.6 Mbps), XHTML web browser
- Connectivity: WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, 3.5 mm audio jack, TV-Out
- Memory: 81 Mbytes plus 8GB microSD memory card (up to 16 GB supported)
- Flight mode
- Quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz) plus 3G (WCDMA 900/2100 MHz)
- Size: 111 x 52 x 15.5 mm
- Weight: 109g
- Talktime: 5 hours (3G) - 8.8 hours (2G)
- Battery standby: 400 hours
- Music playback: up to 35 hours
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