While other manufacturers (hello, Samsung), rushed headlong into a fashion phone with a touch screen, other producers were more cautious. For example, look at Nokia. Although the cellular giant pumps out a dozen phones, it was not until the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, the company explore the phones with touch screen camera happy (Nokia 810 does not count). Positioned as a competitor iPhone Apple, 5800 is packed with a range of multimedia functions. And all this in a sharp, thin package with an expansive touch screen.
We were lucky enough to test a prototype in 5800 back in October, and found it very promising.Well, now we have the opportunity to play with the final product. Although our opinions on the phone has not changed too much, we believe that a number of disadvantages compared to the competition. UI and input methods are not the best, and could use some refinement, to take advantage of touch screen. In addition, while Nokia Music Store launches in the U.S., the 5800 does not provide full functionality and benefits of the phone XpressMusic, giving the iPhone the edge with a seamless integration of ITunes. Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is not a bad phone, but when you factor in the $ 399 unlocked price is a bit harder to shortcomings vehicle pass.
Design
Nokia 5800 shares structural characteristics with the iPhone and Samsung touch-screen phone as Omnia. The form of the candy bar offers clean lines with rounded corners and black-and-maroon color scheme (there is also a thin red stripe). At 4.37 inches by 2.04 inches wide and 0.61 inches, is a relatively small touch screen phone is, although it is slightly thicker than average. Nevertheless, at 3.84 ounces it will not weigh you down. 5800 also offers a sturdy, comfortable feel in the hand.
The touch screen measures 3.2 inches, making it almost as big as the iPhone. It supports 16 million colors (640×360 pixels) and has the aspect ration of 16:9. With this resolution, the colors are bright and vivid, and graphics and photos are accurate. You can change the brightness, font size and backlight time. During the conversation, the display 5800 will go dark when you lift the phone to your ear. The brightness will automatically adjust to different lighting environments.
Features
For each contact in the phonebook holds 5800 10 different phone numbers, three video-phone numbers, three email addresses, the three addresses, a birthday or anniversary, the department and position, the assistant name and phone number, spouse and child names and notes. You can save an additional 250 contacts on the SIM card. You can add users to groups, but only groups can be paired with melodies and pictures, this is very strange for such a high-end phone but the phone offers a variety of colors and you can use your own tunes as well.
Others need to include vibrate mode, text and multimedia messages (with the ability to delete multiple texts at the same time), calendar, calculator, alarm clock, world time, notepad, currency and unit converter, voice recorder, speakerphone, and a notepad. You’ll also find full Bluetooth with a stereo profile, file and application manager, speaker-independent voice commands, PC syncing music and photos, instant messaging, USB Mass Storage, and File Manager. Best of all, however, integrated Wi-Fi. This is necessary for a phone with a full-featured HTML browser so we are very happy to see him here. You’ll also find full support for GPS, with access to Nokia Maps.
For all its advertising, the music player is comparable to 5800 with the Nokia N-series models.The interface is simple and offers album art, but it’s not very catchy. Preferences much, however. You can adjust the balance, using the bass booster, stereo widening to activate, and select one of the five EQ settings. Other options include playlists, airplane mode and shuffle and repeat mode. Moreover, the 5800 offers the FM-radio and support for podcasts. As the music on 5800 is a simple process. We included it in our PC with a USB cable and sync our music with Windows Media Player. You can also choose data transfer mode USB and simply drag and drop files using Windows Explorer. In both cases, our computer recognized our phone instantly.Nokia should include the software with the final version of the production, although we have not received a copy of our promotion model. Depending on your region, you’ll also be able to buy tracks from the Nokia Music Pain. It is not available in the United States, however, that we could not give him the test.
