Nokia 5800:Awesome UI, Flawed Compatibility

This high-end gadget looks simple in hand, but don’t get cheated, what you can see isn’t what you get. Several newly-released features and enhancements are embedded in Nokia 5800. What are they? Can this phone dethrone the popularity of Apple’s iPhone?

 

BANDS

HSDPA 3.6 MBPs, EDGE, GPRS 10

OPERATING SYSTEM

Nokia 5800 -the newest Xpress Music of Nokia- brings the most updated version of Symbian: Symbian S60 5th edition. It might be a plus and a minus simultaneously. The plus is the prestige of having the most advanced technology planted in your phone. The minus, however, is you’ll have more troubles and difficulties to find suitable and compatible applications for this type of Nokia. So at least for months, it’s kind of hard to find any software or mobile apps developers that issue products compatible perfectly and operable on Nokia 5800.

PROCESSOR

ARM 11.369 Mhz

SCREEN

Touch screen, TFT 16.7 M colors, 640×360 pixels, 3.2″

CAMERA

Primary:3.2 MP+autofocus

Secondary: QCIF, for videocall

Definitely not the best camera phone thus far, but it’s tagged as a music phone, not a camera phone. So the presence of not-very-impressive camera is quite excusable.

DESIGN

Weighing only 109 grams and having 11.1×5.17×1.55 cms dimension, Nokia 5800 isn’t quite a bulky phone in your shirt pocket. It’s not really light, though. But it’s moderate. Its candibar shape and absence of alphanumeric keypads reaffirm the impression of simplicity, as what we find in any other smart phone with touch screen. There’re 3 buttons we can find in the lower part of Nokia 5800 which enable users to make or end calls, and access the menu offerred inside.

INTERFACE

The elderly could be glad to use this phone as they don’t have to scrutinize the small fonts which torture their weakened eyes. Nokia 5800’s fonts are big enough for users to touch using thumb. For those whose thumbs are not small enough to press the menu conveniently, Nokia has figure out another way, a stylus.But as I said beforehand, with a new Nokia 5800, come uniqueness and surprises. Some hidden shortcuts can be found if you are careful enough to observe, and this is such something to enjoy.

PROMINENT FEATURES

It’s one of Nokia’s Xpress Music series phones, so it’s ridiculous for Nokia 5800 not to be armed with the latest, most sophisticated music player software version. The music player of Nokia 5800 is simply irresistible, flawless…Something no one can’t complain about.

GPS is still a luxurious, killer feature everyone expects to have on their phones. What makes users relieved is that Nokia is said to have improved the performance of the map and navigation system. But the downside is…you can freely and fully use the navigation feature for only a week.

The internet connection includes HSDPA 3.6 mbps and WIFI. Besides that, this phone accomodates conventional connections via EDGE and GPRS. So you practically have nothing to worry about.

In this web 2.0 era, blogging is a necessity for some folks, and Nokia 5800 provides the ease to access, view, or post something to the blog you have anytime and anywhere. You can even upload images directly from the phone. What a trouble-free way of blogging!

BATTERY

It takes about two days for Nokia 5800 to use up all the energy saved in the 1320 mAh battery the manufacturer has provided.