A New Technological Advancement: Nokia 5800 Xpress Music
Nokia launched its own warrior into the touchscreen phone market today, in the hope it would slay all fruity-based rivals. But unfortunately it falls a little short.
The phone itself is nicely built, feeling sturdy in the hand and the entire screen is easily reached. However, it’s a little bit thick, and might cause the standard mobile bulge in the pocket if that’s your method of carrying it around.
The screen is, as Nokia says, class-leading however, and is very crisp and bright from the outset.
And it should be noted that the price of this handset, around £220 without subsidy, really is a great price point, meaning it will probably debut for a very low price with most carriers, and even free with many price plans.
Where the heart is
The home screen offers you the chance to pick four contacts to have as you main focus, i.e. you’ll be able to see what they’re doing social network-wise via an updated RSS feed, and all conversations, tagged photos etc will be shown in a list below each person.
There’s also a touch sensitive physical button in the top right hand corner that allows you access to the media bar, which allows the user the chance to pick the internet, photos or other media whenever they fancy it.
However, when using this for multiple applications, the main problem with handset becomes apparent: the S60 OS. It might have worked for handsets in the past, but is in dire need of an upgrade, especially in the face of the recently released Android among others.
Too many applications slows the handset down to a halt, and there’s often a perceptible lag or delay in music playback when switching between applications, which might be acceptable to Nokia stalwarts, but will irk newbies to the Finnish way of life.
Media friendly
However, this device does do one of the things it was born to do well, and that’s play music and media. Perhaps lacking the intuition of other rival handsets in music playback, the tunes are crisp and clear through the 3,5mm headphone jack, and are belting through the super-loud stereo speakers (though we beg you to NEVER use this feature in public).
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