Nokia's premier touchscreen phone is outstandingly excellent . It isn't as brilliantly looking or as fashionable as the iPhone, but with loads of good features, it's in a lot of ways superior to the iPhone. The main features include the very high resolution touchscreen with 16 million colours, the 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 3G video calling, a fantastic web browser with support for Flash, the MP3 & FM radio, GPS with Nokia Maps, WI-FI, Bluetooth and an 8 gig memory card. Available in black, red or blue three fantastic colours
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At long last Nokia have managed to provide an offering that is on par with those from its main rivals. Finally here it is, a Touchscreen Nokia with fantastic functions
The music player in the 5800 is great . We found the touchscreen controls to be really easy here, and all the features that you'd hope for are here, including an 8-band graphic equaliser and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The device is supplied with an 8 gig memory card, which can store up to 2,000 MP3 tracks (or 4,000 inp AAC format), and if your music collection grows even bigger, you can upgrade this to a massive 16GB. The optional Comes With Music feature gives you unlimited music downloads for a whole year! There's also a built-in FM radio. No complaints for music then.
At first glance, it looks like it was worth the wait. It's a very sleek phone. All touchscreens tend to look pretty much alike to be frank. What separates the 5800 is its sleekness: it's much thinner than the iPhone, in fact with a width of 52mm, it's probably the thinnest touchscreen phone around. This means that you can easily work it with one hand. It has a lovely big screen too, with a very high resolution (640 x 360 pixels), which helps to make the user interface easier to use. The device has a wide range of input options: finger touch, stylus and plectrum with a virtual alphanumeric keypad, full and mini QWERTY keyboards and handwriting recognition. The display will rotate automatically when you turn the phone to landscape mode. Normally the XpressMusic phones have dedicated buttons for music, and the 5800 has a dedicated virtual media bar for quick access to music controls, as well as functions like the gallery and web browser. There are also physical keys for power, send and end, menu, screen lock and volume. The big question is: "Is the touchscreen on the 5800 as great as the iPhone?" Sadly, no. But it isn't at all bad. It's just that you need to use the stylus sometimes and the whole experience isn't quite so much fun. But stick with the review, because the 5800 has a lot going for it, and beats the iPhone in a number of departments.
The 5800 has a good camera for a start. At 3.2 megapixels it isn't the best camera phone by a long way, but it uses Carl Zeiss optics, has autofocus and a double LED flash and leaves the iPhone standing. It also has a decent video camera, which can record at up to 640 x 480 pixels and at 30 frames per second, with stereo sound. A front-mounted video camera enables you to make video calls on a 3G network.
The 5800's big touchscreen is ideal for web browsing. With very fast download speeds thanks to the 3G HSDPA implementation and a quality web browser, there's nothing to hold you back. The 5800 beats the iPhone here too, with support for Flash meaning that you can watch videos 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 included too, together with Nokia Maps. As well as 3G and WiFi, the connectivity options include Bluetooth and USB, plus a TV-Out connection (cable supplied.)
The 5800 XpressMusic is a Series 60 phone, and potentially there are going to be a lot of third-party apps available for downloading too. You get a couple of games and the standard Series 60 organiser applications with the phone, including document browsers and a great organiser.
The sales package is generous, including all the cables you'll need, a stereo headphone, an 8GB memory card, a case, a stand and a stylus. The phone is available in black, red and blue too.
In all honesty, we expected this phone to be a little poor, but Nokia haven't rushed in with an inferior offering and have produced a solid contender for the Touchscreen crown.
Just a footnote: some people have got the impression that the 5800 automatically includes Nokia's "Comes With Music" www.mobilepricecompare.com service, which gives you free music downloads for a year. This is not the case. Unless the product is described as "Nokia 5800 Comes With Music" then it's just a standard Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. Hope this clears up the confusion!
If you are interested in this phone please visit www.mobilepricecompare.com
Best buy: This phone is available at www.mobilepricecompare.com
With contracts from £15 a month why not look now!
At long last Nokia have managed to provide an offering that is on par with those from its main rivals. Finally here it is, a Touchscreen Nokia with fantastic functions
The music player in the 5800 is great . We found the touchscreen controls to be really easy here, and all the features that you'd hope for are here, including an 8-band graphic equaliser and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The device is supplied with an 8 gig memory card, which can store up to 2,000 MP3 tracks (or 4,000 inp AAC format), and if your music collection grows even bigger, you can upgrade this to a massive 16GB. The optional Comes With Music feature gives you unlimited music downloads for a whole year! There's also a built-in FM radio. No complaints for music then.
At first glance, it looks like it was worth the wait. It's a very sleek phone. All touchscreens tend to look pretty much alike to be frank. What separates the 5800 is its sleekness: it's much thinner than the iPhone, in fact with a width of 52mm, it's probably the thinnest touchscreen phone around. This means that you can easily work it with one hand. It has a lovely big screen too, with a very high resolution (640 x 360 pixels), which helps to make the user interface easier to use. The device has a wide range of input options: finger touch, stylus and plectrum with a virtual alphanumeric keypad, full and mini QWERTY keyboards and handwriting recognition. The display will rotate automatically when you turn the phone to landscape mode. Normally the XpressMusic phones have dedicated buttons for music, and the 5800 has a dedicated virtual media bar for quick access to music controls, as well as functions like the gallery and web browser. There are also physical keys for power, send and end, menu, screen lock and volume. The big question is: "Is the touchscreen on the 5800 as great as the iPhone?" Sadly, no. But it isn't at all bad. It's just that you need to use the stylus sometimes and the whole experience isn't quite so much fun. But stick with the review, because the 5800 has a lot going for it, and beats the iPhone in a number of departments.
The 5800 has a good camera for a start. At 3.2 megapixels it isn't the best camera phone by a long way, but it uses Carl Zeiss optics, has autofocus and a double LED flash and leaves the iPhone standing. It also has a decent video camera, which can record at up to 640 x 480 pixels and at 30 frames per second, with stereo sound. A front-mounted video camera enables you to make video calls on a 3G network.
The 5800's big touchscreen is ideal for web browsing. With very fast download speeds thanks to the 3G HSDPA implementation and a quality web browser, there's nothing to hold you back. The 5800 beats the iPhone here too, with support for Flash meaning that you can watch videos 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 included too, together with Nokia Maps. As well as 3G and WiFi, the connectivity options include Bluetooth and USB, plus a TV-Out connection (cable supplied.)
The 5800 XpressMusic is a Series 60 phone, and potentially there are going to be a lot of third-party apps available for downloading too. You get a couple of games and the standard Series 60 organiser applications with the phone, including document browsers and a great organiser.
The sales package is generous, including all the cables you'll need, a stereo headphone, an 8GB memory card, a case, a stand and a stylus. The phone is available in black, red and blue too.
In all honesty, we expected this phone to be a little poor, but Nokia haven't rushed in with an inferior offering and have produced a solid contender for the Touchscreen crown.
Just a footnote: some people have got the impression that the 5800 automatically includes Nokia's "Comes With Music" www.mobilepricecompare.com service, which gives you free music downloads for a year. This is not the case. Unless the product is described as "Nokia 5800 Comes With Music" then it's just a standard Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. Hope this clears up the confusion!
If you are interested in this phone please visit www.mobilepricecompare.com
