Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Review

It is a bit unusual, that Nokia has decided that their first cell phone with operating system S60 5. generation will be a cell phone from XpressMusic series, which is not an elite series featuring the most expensive cell phones. Though it is true that Nokia 5800-XpressMusic is one of the most prestige multimedia cell phones. It is not so versatile as some other cell phones, as it is specialized for music, which can be seen in various ways. I believe the specialization was not such a bad idea, especially because the phone is mainly designed for younger people, who are willing to test some new features.

Nokia 5800-XpressMusic is one of the first cell phones, which support "Comes with music" feature, a realization of Nokia's vision of offering the best music experience to their customers. Feature "Comes with music" is offering one year of unlimited access to the complete "Nokia Music Store".

Nowadays when people talk about music cell phones, they usually talk about a "perfect" music cell phone, which delivers an astonishing music experience - more memory, lauder music, more powerful speakers, easier synchronization. But that is not all, a "perfect" music phone must also be quite good as a normal cell phone, featuring direct access to important features, relatively good camera and user friendly interface. Nokia 5800-XpressMusic, which nearly impersonates all of the mentioned characteristics offers users an amazing music experience.

As this amazing phone has a touch screen, it features a brand new way of using a Nokia cell phone. Nokia 5800-XpressMusic features a special Media Bar - a very useful menu, which offers direct access to music and entertainment, including favorite songs, movies and photos. Media Bar also enables direct access to internet and web sharing content. This phone supports Flash animations, thus enabling its users to browse through the whole internet. With program Flash Lite one can also watch videos in special formats (H.264 and FLV), which are common on YouTube, MySpace, CNN. Besides all that this phone also comes with complete music equipment, including graphic regulator, support of all major digital music formats and 8GB of memory, where one can store up to 6.000 songs. The integrated "surround stereo" speakers produce the highest quality sound (even when it is really laud) currently available among cell phones.

To really offer the best music experience, Nokia 5800-XpressMusic ensures easy access, browsing and purchasing music from Nokia Music Store. Nokia Music PC is the new edition of the PC synchronization software, which allows drag-and-drop way of handling with music files and the ability to edit any music collection. All these features ensures that using this phone is a breeze.

The innovative Contacts Bar enables users to select their favorite contacts. And with a single touch one can browse through history of sms, mms, emails, photos and blog updates.

A large (3,2 inc) touch screen display, which features one of the highest resolutions (640x320 pixel, nHD resolution) available for cell phones, can be used for watching photos, videos and web content in stunning and crystal clear colors (up to 16 million colors). The display's aspect ration 16:9 is ideal for watching both movies and VGA videos.

Nokia 5800-XpressMusic has a 3.2 MP camera with Carl Zeiss lenses, captured photos and videos can be shared with just a single touch on internet communities like Share on Ovi, Flickr or Facebook. Multimedia files can be also shared via bluetooth, MMS or internet. The camera is quite good for a 3,2MP camera, as it has 3x digital zoom, autofocus and dual LED flash.

User interface appears very similar to other Nokia user interfaces. The main difference is that due to higher resolution it seems smoother and more attractive. Browsing through menus is much faster (due to the new way of data input (touch screen)) than it would be with typical navigation button. Though the phone reacts slightly slower compared to some S60 Nokia cell phones, as it sometimes hesitates before completing certain tasks. When the phone is tilted the display automatically rotates in about one second, meanwhile there is no animation, just a blank background. The phone's touch screen reacts perfectly accurate and it offers feedback via slight vibrations.
This amazing phone supports 60 different languages, which represent more than 90 per cent of the whole human population. As people around the globe are different and vary in the way they use cell phones, 5800-XpressMusic features many different ways of using it - virtual keypad, virtual QWERTY, stylus and plectrum (both with handwriting recognition).

The phone is well equipped and as it uses brand new S60 operating system it definitely is a great balance between functionality, top notch equipment and price, as it is about 300€ cheaper than N96 (in my country). But if this was an attempt to beat iPhone, than I must admit that it will be a tough battle.

All in all it really is a great phone, especially for all those who like to have fun with their phone and who do not need it for some real practical purpose like capturing really good photos or navigation. It surely is a fancy phone and if you intend to buy a new one and you are looking for something relatively cheap and fancy with brand new features than this is a good choice. Yet still keep in mind that 3,2MP is not a very good camera for nowadays standards. I personally would not buy a new phone with a 3,2MP camera.

actually i am planning if would get this or iphone.. since the OS 3 is coming soon, then i'll be able to experience a specialized music listening via bluetooth... i've heard a lot of good feedbacks about this phone... it's relatively cheap but still packs with fun features... you cant expect the "touch" reaction to be a swift as iphone but it's neither disappointing as well. about the 3.2 MP camera, i think it doesn't bother at all. i mean, i have a Nokia 6680 but i think it takes a good image...

i almost considered this the iphone killer, but because of the resistive touchscreen that they've used and not the capacitive one... it reacts a bit slower... but nonetheless i can say this is truly a highend mobile phone for the masses. and im pretty sure, it'll receive less complains and bad reviews than what iphone had...

Thanks benthewriter for that wonderful review.

Nokia 5800 is really a nice gadget to hang out with.

So what do you think that this OS is not good to use. If yes than please tell us which other mobile we should go for on the same budget.

nokia is a little weak, but works ok i guess...

Thanks for the nice review.

nice review.. but when it comes to music cellphones, i find other phone manufacturers better than Nokia.

i need 5 posts asap, also i be drunk.
i need power rangers ringont

Thanks for this review, it's really helpful

great phone

good reviews thanks i have a 5800-XpressMusic :-)

Hi,
Great review.The phone set is awesome
Everything is perfect about this.
The music edition is truly an acid to this handset.The great feature is its not so expensive.
Well I am planning to change my mobile with Nokia 5800-XpressMusic .
Well thanks for the reviews.

great review

Nokia XpressMusic 5800 – Web opinions


Feedback Strands* (feedbackstrands) has analyzed opinions voiced on the web on Nokia XpressMusic 5800 during the period October 7, 2008 to June 2, 2009 by studying them on some web sites. This note is a brief summary of our observations – they are based on a sub set of opinions voiced and may not reflect a completely representative view of consumer opinions.
Consumers appear to have given “thumbs up” to Nokia XpressMusic 5800 the model received “Net Feedback” (% positive opinions - % negative opinions) score of 64. It received 77% positive opinions and 14% negative opinions. The remaining 9 % were ambiguous opinions.

The most spoken attributes appear to be software, body, music & video, camera, display, browsing, battery and price. Of these attributes with most positives were price, battery, music & video, software, display, browsing and body.
Nokia XpressMusic 5800 is seen as most popular model among youngsters and any class of people can use it. The body of the mobile gives a solid appearance wherein the size of the mobile is so that fits in perfectly in your hands. The users who are involved in lots of messaging have appreciated the soft keypad and easy controls as they help in faster typing of text. The software has many business application programs like Photo Browser, Handy Shell, Paint pad, Phone Torch, Opera Mini, Accu Weather, Quick Office, Google maps, PC suite and Fring. The applications are very fast in processing. Browsing becomes fast and easy due to the wi-fi and 3G connectivity. Very fine resolution on the display with saturated colors. Those who watched movies on the phone conclude that the display quality was impressive. The audio quality – the stereo speakers were loud and rich, able to simulate the acoustic depth of the movie, which contributes to 86 % of positive opinions given by people for music & video .Most of the consumers find the product to be best priced.
There are also some attributes with negative opinions, like camera, body, etc. Some customers have experienced that the camera captures grainy photos. A few customers feel that since the design is made of plastic material, it looks cheap. There appear to be some pain points with software particularly the power sucks up when using applications and there is no firmware upgrades.

On balance, Nokia XpressMusic 5800 seems an appealing proposition.
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nice phone