Last week, I've had a chance to test the new Xpress Music line series Nokia 5800. The first impression I got was that Nokia 5800 wanting to compete againts iPhone in music phone market. It got the same look. A large-bright display and only 3 button in the front (iPhone only has one button if i'm not mistaken), and camera button in the bottom-right side of the body. But I'll definitely vote for iPhone immediately for the winner since iPhone's metal-material makes the apple's products looks beautiful while Nokia 5800 using only plastic-kind-material. They should use the same material as E71 or E66.
The phone came up with the new Symbian 5th Edition (again, Nokia skip the '4th' number) and I don't see much difference between the 5th and the 3rd except this one is using touch screen input. It has a light stylus which reminds me to Nokia 7700's. This music phone also equipped with 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss lens. I also notice that Nokia 5800 supports HSDPA and has an embedded wi-fi adapter. Almost very complete phone for me except one thing. It doesn't have keypad which really frustrates sometimes to input some texts.
There is also a new featured that was first implemented by iPhone. The feature known as accelerometer will automatically rotate the screen to the landscape mode. I don't really know whether this feature is helping or not because sometimes it just rotate by itself even I don't want to.
Because I use the phone only for a few minutes, I can't say too much more. I don't like this phone too much. Yes it's true that it is an another breakthrough by Nokia by inventing a complete phone but the plastic design and no keypad (even worse this big phone don't have a qwerty board) is enough reason for me to stay with my Treo. Compare to iPhone, i'll still choose iPhone because it's more good looking than Nokia 5800. But if you need a good 3.2 AF Camera and HSDPA connectivity and also a robust music player, forget about the iPhone and this one may be a good alternative.
The phone came up with the new Symbian 5th Edition (again, Nokia skip the '4th' number) and I don't see much difference between the 5th and the 3rd except this one is using touch screen input. It has a light stylus which reminds me to Nokia 7700's. This music phone also equipped with 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss lens. I also notice that Nokia 5800 supports HSDPA and has an embedded wi-fi adapter. Almost very complete phone for me except one thing. It doesn't have keypad which really frustrates sometimes to input some texts.
There is also a new featured that was first implemented by iPhone. The feature known as accelerometer will automatically rotate the screen to the landscape mode. I don't really know whether this feature is helping or not because sometimes it just rotate by itself even I don't want to.
Because I use the phone only for a few minutes, I can't say too much more. I don't like this phone too much. Yes it's true that it is an another breakthrough by Nokia by inventing a complete phone but the plastic design and no keypad (even worse this big phone don't have a qwerty board) is enough reason for me to stay with my Treo. Compare to iPhone, i'll still choose iPhone because it's more good looking than Nokia 5800. But if you need a good 3.2 AF Camera and HSDPA connectivity and also a robust music player, forget about the iPhone and this one may be a good alternative.
