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.
The E65 was appear in February 2007 at the 3GSM appointment in Barcelona calm with the E90 and the E61i.
It is Nokia’s aboriginal ESeries-device with a slider. Two weeks ago I accustomed a trial-device from WOM Apple in the attenuate blush “Soft Black” and today I appetite to allotment my thoughts and adventures about this accessory with you in this review.
Sales Package:
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The Nokia E65 comes in a dejected box which looks like every added E-Series box. On the advanced you can see a account of the Nokia E65 and on the behind there are some trademarks and the best important appearance for a business-user accounting bottomward in six altered languages. On the larboard ancillary of the box there’s accounting “Nokia E65″ in big white letters. On the appropriate ancillary there’s accounting “Nokia Eseries” in white on a red background.
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If you accessible the box the aboriginal affair you will see is the buzz itself, the array and the mono-headphones. Of advance the buzz isn’t presented as admirable as an Nseries phone, but because it is an Eseries buzz it doesn’t charge to - the amalgamation needs alone to be applied for the user.
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The abutting affair you will see if you booty out the aboriginal attic is the DVD with all the applications, like the Nokia PC Suite, you charge to start. The DVD is in a nice little box. Beneath the DVD there is the “get started”-manual and the accustomed manual. The chiral has about 110 pages.
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On the basal of the box there are the charger, the USB-cable and a carrying-bag. The carrying-bag is fabricated out of a soft, attenuate bolt in black.
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Overview of the amalgamation contents:
* Nokia E65
* Array BL-5F with 950mAh
* Charger AC-4
* Mono-Headset HS-5 (black)
* Connectivity Cable CA-53
* Carrying Pouch CP-18
* DVD
* “Get started”-manual
* Manual
Built Quality:
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The Nokia E65 seems to be Nokia’s best congenital slider-device yet. My aboriginal consequence back I slided it the aboriginal time was great. The slider slides some affectionate of “soft”. If you advance up the slider about the bisected way it will accelerate up automatically the blow of the way, this will additionally appear if you accelerate it bottomward again. Back it arrives on the top there’s a “clack”-noise, which sounds appealing good. This complete is additionally there if you accelerate it bottomward again. The slider isn’t fluctuant and its altruism to the appropriate and larboard ancillary is in an adequate dimension.
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The battery-cover is actual abiding and if you to appetite to move it you won’t accept a adventitious - this is the best congenital battery-cover I accept anytime seen. The battery-cover is coated with some affectionate of covering actual which feels actual nice in your hands. The chromed advanced of the accessory seems to be actual scratch-resistant.
The gaps amid the phones’ apparatus are baby and no one of them looks bad.
All in all the buzz is congenital actual solid and it feels like it is one allotment - you won’t feel any gaps, transitions or corners, every allotment of the buzz is rounded.
Keys:
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On the accomplished buzz you can acquisition 32 keys. On the advanced of the slider, anon beneath the display, there are 15 of them:
* Larboard bendable key
* Appropriate bendable key
* “Call to”-key
* Contacts key
* Own key
* Aphasiac key
* Green accelerate key
* Red end key
* Card key
* Bright “C” key
* Navigation key middle
* Navigation key up
* Navigation key down
* Navigation key left
* Navigation key right
On the appropriate ancillary of the accessory there are 4 added keys:
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* Articulation recorder/voice acceptance key
* Edit key
* Aggregate up
* Aggregate down
On the appropriate ancillary of the top there is the archetypal ability button, it has 6 functions:
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1. Turning on the device
2. Switching of the device
3. Choosing a contour (e.g. Meeting)
4. Lock keypad
5. Lock phone
6. Remove anamnesis card
Under the slider there is the numeric keypad with the accepted 12 keys 0-9, * and #.
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Let’s alpha with the keys appropriate beneath the display. The keys beneath the affectation accept a close pressure-point, which is actual great. The keys are adequate to use alike with fat fingers, the aboriginal keys are the menu- and the clear-key. These two keys are anon beneath the navigation-key. They’re small, but I anticipate if you accept fat fingers you can use them additionally actual good, because they’re placed convenient. The navigation-key itself is accessible to use because of its pressure-point. The larboard and appropriate soft-keys are a little bit college than the added keys so you won’t accept problems with them.
The keys on the appropriate ancillary of the accessory aren’t that good. If you columnist them you accept to columnist them bottomward actual abundant and because they’re so baby bodies with big fingers will accept problems with them. Added over ability button on top of the accessory has the aforementioned botheration like the keys on the appropriate side.
The numeric keypad is actual good. The amplitude beneath the slider is absolutely used, that agency that the keys are big and adequate to use with every affectionate of fingers. The numeric keypad has some affectionate of soft-touch coating, which feels actual nice if you’re accounting in something. Accounting in continued argument with the keypad is no problem.
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The lighting of the accomplished keypad is in white. The white lighting seems to be a little bit low, I beggarly it isn’t as ablaze as the lighting of the N95 8GB. But this can additionally be a adequate thing: Your eyes won’t get fatigued with the ablaze lightning and the bodies about you, abnormally in a aphotic area, can’t apprehension your adaptable buzz so good. Unfortunately the keys on the appropriate ancillary of the accessory aren’t afire so you charge to apperceive every distinct one of the four keys to use them additionally in aphotic places.
Size:
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The official weight of the E65 is 115g. Sounds much, but if you accept anytime acclimated the accessory you can see that it doesn’t feel actual heavy. The weight sounds not as adequate as it is, but if you apprehend the size, which is 105 x 49 x 15.5 mm, I’m abiding you will accept that the accessory is actual handy. The E65 is the aboriginal accessory with Symbian S60 I accept anytime used. I anticipate Nokia has done the admeasurement actual able-bodied - it will fit every suit. The weight is additionally abundant - aloof buck in apperception the top affection chromed advanced of the E65 - this advanced has its weight. And accept me, if you use the E65 you will not apprehension the weight of 115g.
Multimedia:
The E65 isn’t a multimedia-device, but you can additionally comedy music and videos with it, aloof like in every added S60 device.
For abounding videos and abundant music you charge to accept abundant storage. The E65 appearance a congenital anamnesis of 50MB which is abundant with microSD memory-cards. This agency you can advancement your accumulator up to 2GB. I anticipate this is abundant for business-users. Unfortunately there’s no memory-card included in the sales package, which actual disappoints me.
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A camera for snapshots - today about every adaptable buzz appearance one. The E65 additionally has a camera: It is a 2 megapixel camera (1600 x 1200 pixels). The camera is conceived for snapshots, that agency it doesn’t accept Carl Zeiss eyes or alike a autofocus. A affair that isn’t adequate - alike for a snapshot-conceived camera - is the missing flash. There is no affectionate of beam and so you can’t booty pictures in the dark. The alone affair you can do if you appetite to booty a account in bad light-conditions is to actuate the night mode. The camera has no approach for close-up shots, appropriately you can’t accomplish photos of any abstracts or article - actual black for a business-user, buck in mind: The E65 is fabricated for business users.
The images you can abduction with this 2 megapixel snapshot-camera are accept for the phones’ display, but if you appetite to accomplish added with the camera you should buy a stand-alone agenda camera or anticipate about affairs the E90 which makes abundant pictures.
You can additionally almanac videos with the buzz at a accomplished resolution of 352 x 288 pixels and 15 frames per second. The videos are accept for YouTube and to watch them on the phones’ display.
Here you can acquisition some sample images and a video I’ve captured with the E65.
More over with the E65 you can comedy music. Playing music is article that about every adaptable phones nowadays can do. The E65 appearance alone a mono-headset and a congenital mono-speaker. The angle alone has one earphone and a microphone, so that you accept one ear chargeless and the added for phoning. The affection of this angle is okay, but annihilation appropriate compared to the N95 or addition multimedia-phone. The mono-speaker is placed on the appropriate ancillary of the accessory and if you comedy music over it, the music sounds adequate in affable aggregate but if you appetite to accept to loud music over it it isn’t actual good. To advance the music quality, you accept an equaliser with 6 modes - Default, Bass booster, Classical, Jazz, Pop and Rock.
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Business:
Nokia E(nterprise)-Series, that’s the name of the E65’s “family”. Enterprise agency “power” to a business-user. But is the E65 a absolute business device? You can’t analyze it with the E90 of course, but I accept to say: It absolutely is a business device!
The accessory appearance bristles appropriate keys for the business-users amid us. The keys are for actual quick admission to altered appearance that are actual important for such a business-user. With those “quick-access-keys” you can admission your contacts, aphasiac a call, alarm to somebody fast, admission the articulation recorder and assuredly admission a appliance authentic by yourself via the own key.
Over the capital card you can admission the appointment binder which contains all the things for business - calculator, teams, quickoffice, notes, converter, bulletin reader, awning export, printer, clock, adobe PDF and assuredly the zip manager.
As you maybe noticed there are several things that you don’t apperceive from “normal” S60-devices, e.g. bulletin reader. It seems that this applications are abnormally for Eseries devices. They’re absorbing for business-users.
The appliance “teams” is to actualize teams of users to assignment calm in a conference. You can e.g. buzz all the associates or abode letters to them. There are abounding added options - too abounding to acknowledgment them here. The appliance is actual good. Addition appropriate appliance for the business-users is the bulletin reader. As the name says it is a appliance that reads your letters - I’ve activated it with some of my letters and it works fine. The aftermost appliance for business-users I appetite to acknowledgment actuality is the awning export. With this appliance you can consign your phones’ awning to a projector - abundant for conferences or meetings. Unfortunately I haven’t activated this appliance because I don’t own an projector.
Display:
The E65 has a affectation with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 16.7 actor colors. The affectation has a awning admeasurement of 2,2 inches (5,6 cm). It is actual aciculate and bright in about every situation. You can apprehend it additionally in actual ablaze places, e.g. on a brilliant day outside. The chantry is baby and fabricated nice, so that you can’t admit pixels while reading. The symbols in the card are additionally attractive good.
Connectivity:
With the E65 Nokia offers you abounding agency to accumulate in blow with the apple about you. The baby accessory appearance wireless lan, 3G, GPRS, EDGE, IRDA and of advance bluetooth. It can additionally acquisition you area the abode is with A-GPS and alien bluetooth GPS.
The wi-fi is as fast as the one of the Nokia N95, but isn’t so fast as the N95 8GB’s. In my analysis the affiliation via wi-fi formed able-bodied after abruptions. Sometimes the E65 needs a few searches to acquisition the router you appetite to affix to.
Of advance you can cream the web or abode e-mails with the E65. The web-browser is able-bodied abiding and ambience up your e-mail abode is easy.
The apostle of the buzz is bright while calls and if you about-face the loudspeaker on it is additionally okay. One affair that disappoints me is that the apostle of the buzz isn’t as loud as the ones congenital in the Nseries phones.
The E65 does not accept a additional camera, that agency you can’t accomplish video-calls.
The bluetooth affiliation is fast. In my analysis I beatific a song with 4.8 MB in 1 minute and 36 abnormal to my N95 via bluetooth.
The other, slower adjustment to accelerate files to addition adaptable buzz is the congenital infrared. In the E65 it is placed on the basal of the device, and if you don’t apperceive that the affair there in the basal is the bittersweet you can’t admit it - it fits actual adequate with the accomplished architecture of the phone.
