At last, Nokia finally released their much awaited touchscreen phone, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. We’ve heard of Nokia’s Tube phone before, their potential iPhone killer, and now, it’s already official and will be released worldwide during the fourth quarter of 2008. So, I got to see the prototype version of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic during its launch so a word of warning to Nokia fans, this review has a few bashing against the phone so if you really don’t want to read that then kindly move along.

Design

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is again a full touchscreen phone with a 3.2 inch screen. It has three buttons at the bottom, the menu button and two soft keys flanking the menu button. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a little bit on the thick side compared with the iPhone or the Omnia. The 5800 also has more curved edge compared with the other touch screen phones but that just gives it a bit mroe edge over the others in terms of design.

Features

Okay, so let’s get to work on this baby. Since it’s a touchscreen phone, most of you are probably wondering: does it beat the iPhone’s interface? Well, based on the prototype, sadly no. The screen was a bit unresponsive and you have to press the screen most of the time, twice, in order to get a command done. But with the other parts that do work, the screen seems responsive enough. Is it multitouch capable? Nope but you get to do all that cool swiping and flicking thingy like on the iPhone. I don’t think Nokia did a pretty good job making the Symbian S60 more touchscreen friendly. With the symbian menu screen, you scroll using the scroll bar on the side. It would have been nice if they added another swiping interface to get to the next page.
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic comes with a stylus for handwriting recognition and some say that you can use it as a guitar pick because there’s a guitar game on the device but I wasn’t able to see that. EDIT: Sorry bout that, it seems that the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has a plectrum which looks like a guitar pick that can also be used as an input option and it’s not the stylus that can be used as a guitar pick. I wasn’t able to get a look at the plectrum but you can use it for the upcoming Gameloft Guitar Rock Tour that will soon be released for the device.

The Nokia 5800 also has a 3.15 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. I wasn’t able to test the camera out since this was a prototype so the camera function doesn’t work as good as those in the commercial version but those looking for a cameraphone won’t have to worry as Nokia makes the best cameraphones amongst its competitors.

iPhone users who would want to convert to the Nokia Tube will probably like the fact that the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers haptic feedback. The QWERTY keyboard have big buttons and are easy to press but when you turn it sideways, the built in accelerometer will give you a landscape view and the QWERTY keyboard will take up most of the screen.

Of course, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is loaded with other goodies such as 3G/HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth with A2DP, GPS, TV-Out, Stereo FM Radio, and a 3.5mm audio jack. Unfortunately, Nokia didn’t feel the need to add a lot of internal memory on this device as some say it only has a measly 81MB of internal memory and you have to rely on the microSD slot to store your files.

Conclusion

Since this is Nokia’s first attempt at a touchscren device, I won’t bash it as much. Nokia needs to get back to the old drawing board and add more functionality to the Symbian S60 interface, and if they can make their touchscreen interface more seamless (maybe if they up the processor on the device, they say it only has a 369MHz ARM Processor and a 128MB of RAM) then it would be worthy of being called a true iPhone killer. But if they didn’t fix the unresponsiveness issues then they better expect a lot of returns during the first few weeks that the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be released.

The above review is from: Cellphone reviews

http://www.cellphone-reviews.co.uk/2008/10/nokia-5800-xpressmusic-review.html

I have been looking forward to this Nokia 5800 for a long time, but still could not find it on the market in my location. I have heard and read a lot about the Iphone , so how about the reall Nokia 5800?

The following video is from youtube, and we can see something about this mysterious cell phone.