Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Review

By admin On January 9, 2009 Under New Gadget Reviews

The device in the pictures is Nokia 5800 XpressMedia phone.

Nokia 5800 Tube specs include:

Quad-Band GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz), EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA connectivity
3.2″ 640×360 px (16:9 ratio) 16M color touchscreen display
3.2 Megapixel camera with autofocus
Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth 2.0
140 MB of internal memory
3.5 mm headphone jack
TV-Out
Dimensions: 111×52x14.5mm
Weight: 104g

Nokia 5800 XpressMedia phone sports tactile feedback, but, unfortunately, comes without multi-touch support. So you’ll have to put up with a standard touchscreen functionality.

Device Description:

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a S60 5th Edition device with a resistive touch screen and tactile feedback. The device has a large 3,2“, bright nHD (640 x 360 pixels and 16:9 aspect ratio) color display. The device has variety of input methods: stylus, plectrum and finger touch support for text input and UI control (alphanumeric keypad, full and mini qwerty keyboard, handwriting recognition). Use the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to connect to mobile broadband using WLAN or HSDPA (3.5G). Find directions and locations with the integrated A-GPS and included maps. Additional features include a 3.2 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, and USB 2.0 High-Speed. Supported WCDMA frequencies depend on the region where the device is available.

To tell the truth, I have a bit mixed feelings about this device. On the one hand, the specs list, apart of the camera, is pretty respectable. It’s also good that Nokia finally decided to move beyond the it’s Xpress Music phones, and optimize new handset for a wider media, including high quality video.

On the other hand, nothing in the feature list, or design really excites me. The only novelty here is a big touchscreen, with what appears to be traditional touch controls. But we’ve seen plenty of that coming out from LG, Samsung, HTC, Asus and plenty of others. And it still remains to be seen how well the touch UI works on a Nokia 5800 XpressMedia phone.

I hope that Nokia has some more and bigger surprises up it’s sleeve, and when they do get about announcing their new flagship device, it will stun everybody like it did with Nokia N95 in the fall of 2006.

Measurements: 111 × 52 × 14.5 mm, and weighs only 104 grams.
16 million color TFT LCD
640 × 360 pixel resolution
16:9 display mode
Fifth edition of Symbian S60.
finger touch operation will provide vibration feedback function.
3.2 megapixel Carl Zeiss optical lens with autofocus
Dual LED flash
Built-in GPS
140 MB RAM
GSM / GPRS / EDGE / WCDMA / HSDPA / WLAN wireless networking and Bluetooth technology.
3.5 mm Headset interface
TV-out interface
BL-5J 1150mah Battery