Nokia 5800?A Nokia version of Iphone?
Dec 4th, 2008 by mylotter
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 Continue Reading »
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