Nokia 5800 Review
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This is the first Nokia’s touchscreen phone. The headline features include the high resolution touchscreen with 16 million colours, the 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 3G video calling, a music player & FM radio, GPS positioning with Nokia Maps, Wi-Fi, an excellent web browser with support for Flash, features, bluetooth and an 8GB memory card. It is available in black, blue or red. It belongs to Nokia’s XpressMusic range.
It’s a very stylish handset. It is sleekness! The Nokia 5800 is much narrower than the iPhone 3G (with it 52 mm ot width it is one of the narrowest touchscreen phones around).
The Nokia 5800 has a wide range of input options: finger touch, full and mini QWERTY keyboards and handwriting recognition, stylus and plectrum with a virtual alphanumeric keypad.
Nokia 5800 has a dedicated virtual media bar for quick access to music controls, as well as functions like the gallery and web browser and the display will rotate automatically when you turn the phone to landscape mode.
A 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 is a proper camera for a start.
The music player in the 5800 is excellent. The touchscreen controls are very 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 8GB memory card can store up to 2,000 MP3 tracks (or 4,000 in AAC format), and you can upgrade this to a massive 16GB.
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. The Nokia 5800 beats the iPhone here with support for Flash meaning that you can watch videos from YouTube and other sites on your phone.
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.)
It is important to say that the battery life in the Nokia 5800 is very good.