Specifications: 3.2in 16:9 screen, 640x360 resolution • Accelerometer to ascertain circling • Assisted GPS; Bluetooth; Wifi 11b/g • HSDPA 3.6Mbits/sec • GSM & 3G cloister bandage • Micro USB • Micro SD agenda aperture • AV achievement • 3.2-megapixel camera • Video recording up to 630x480 30fps • 109g • 51.7x15.5x111mm wxdxh
Tech specs
3 megapixels, 3.5mm jack, 3G, FM radio, GPRS, GPS, GSM, HSDPA, microSD, MP3 player, Touchscreen, Wi-Fi
The good
Wi-Fi, 8GB of storage, 3.5mm headphone jack, HSDPA
The bad
Fiddly controls, alone 3.2-megapixel camera
28 November 2008 - Nokia is acquisitive to booty on the touchscreen giants of the adaptable buzz branch with the barrage of the 5800 XpressMusic. But can the aggregation who commands about 40% of the bazaar beat the touchscreen apple as well? We get bad-tempered feely with the new XpressMusic buzz to acquisition out.
While the handset isn't aircraft in the UK until 2009, Pocket-lint has been blithely arena with the new buzz for the aftermost brace of weeks with a handset that Nokia is calling a final unit, rather than a ancestor absorbed to a wire at the launch.
The 5800 XpressMusic is a attenuated but fat accessory antic a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, a alternative of buttons dotted about the architecture and 3.2-megapixel camera on the back. Roughly the admeasurement of the HTC Diamond, the buzz is appreciably abate than both the iPhone, the BlackBerry Storm or alike the Samsung Omnia. Compared to the T-Mobile G1 this accessory should apparently be alleged nano.
Beneath the awning is a card button as able-bodied as block and punch buttons while the abandon action the accepted aggregate controls, committed camera buttons and a toggle authority switch. There is alike amplitude tucked in the rather abundant set case for a stylus. Above the awning on the advanced there is a chic blow button that offers a bead bottomward card no amount what appliance you are in to accord you quick acceptance to music, images, sharing, video, and browsing.
From a abstruse blueprint point of view, the 5800 phones offers the accepted arrangement of goodies: HSDPA, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, GPS, a 3.5mm headphone jack, advanced adverse camera for video calling, however, disappointingly aloof a 3.2-megapixel camera. We apperceive this still beats or matches the competition, but why Nokia hasn't aloof befuddled in a 5-megapixel camera as begin in added Nokia accessories of backward is not clear. Beyond that, the arrangement runs S60 but the new 5th edition, acutely for the blow interaction.
With haptics accouterment feedback, it’s a actual bad-tempered feely acquaintance with the accent on the feely. The interface is actual N95/N96 although you can see blow has been a chief agency in some of the anticipation processes. Rather than opt for a card interface from the get go, the home folio gives you four icons, which you accredit to your friends. From there you can again buzz or bulletin them at the columnist of a button, rather than accepting to chase your contacts book every time and it's a accurately advised idea.
Inputting commands is all via the touchscreen and aback it comes to entering argument you get a cardinal of options. Like the HTC Diamond there is a abounding QWERTY keyboard option, which armament the handset into mural mode, a mini QWERTY keyboard advantage that agency you've got to either accept the fingers of a Star Wars amount or use the stylus, or an alphanumeric keypad whereby you're aback to T9 texting. Failing the keyboard, the 5800 offers a autography approach area you can use the included stylus or, in a nod to the cool, a plectrum (included in the box) and this in our acceptance has, provided you appetite to use the stylus, been the easiest way to ascribe argument into the handset.
Failing the stylus, and let’s face it if you appetite to be "stylus boy" you would accept autonomous for a Microsoft Windows Adaptable device, the mural QWERTY is activity to be your best option, about clashing the iPhone or the Storm, Nokia doesn't arise to auto-correct your mistyped words, although you can archetype and paste, giving it an bend over the iPhone for argument fans.
Elsewhere you get the accepted web browser from Nokia. According to Nokia you can watch Flash videos as begin on Pocket-lint, about in our acceptance we weren't able to acceptance them. The Adobe Flash Amateur artlessly says "Sorry your belvedere is not supported", about we were able to watch YouTube videos full-screen via YouTube.com
Surfing on the web is fast, acutely depending on how you are accomplishing it - Wi-Fi or HSDPA, and for those with Wi-Fi hotspots you can, as with best Nokia handsets, set up wireless acceptance from aural the buzz actual easily. Receiving this assemblage from Nokia we activated it with Vodafone, about no abettor has yet been appropriate for the 5800 at the time of writing.
Other appearance of agenda are the allotment options, whereby Nokia has acclimated the ShareThis figure (green one at the top of this page), which is actual able - it's a baby detail, but we admired it.
Coming with 8GB of anamnesis central there is affluence of allowance for music, video or images. Music and video playback are helped by a appropriate music amateur with the accession of a 3.5mm headphone jack so you aren't affected into a proprietary alms like Sony Ericsson.
Fears of apathetic loading images that we accomplished in our Aboriginal Look accept vanished and while we occasionally got a loading screen, this was apparent for beneath than a additional rather than the brace of abnormal at the barrage event. It isn't an issue.
Verdict
When we aboriginal saw the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic we anticipation it was added affiliated to the Samsung Tocco than the iPhone. Now we've had added time to comedy with the buzz it would be bigger to advance this is added Windows Adaptable that an interface you can use with your fingers.
Due to the baby awning admeasurement - it's 3.2-inch but still actual attenuate - icons, keys, and buttons are all actual fiddly, an acceptance by Nokia in including the stylus.
The agitation is, if you've assuredly fabricated the accommodation to go touchscreen the aftermost affair you appetite to do is use a stylus and if you don't mind, you'll accept already gone touchscreen with Microsoft a continued time ago.
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