Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Phone Review
I have decided to take a break from startup related blogging and review a few gadgets that I bought in the recent past (and some services I used in last few months). Enjoy the posts.
The first one is a review of the Nokia 5800 xpress music phone that I got in August. I had an imate (windows mobile) phone before and though it had some good features, it had a very tough interface and wasn’t very usable. Also, I was not very happy with the build quality and spent a lot of time gluing the parts together every time it fell down. Apart from decent build quality, this time I wanted to buy a phone which had the following features
- Wi-fi, Email and a decent web browser (atleast usable enough to login to some web consoles and perform admin tasks for Muziboo in case of an emergency)
- A usable music player with decent headphones (I generally look for good bass)
I wanted to upgrade to an iphone but found it to be damn expensive (in India and US). I then ran into some reviews of 5800 and decided to buy it as it offered great features for its price. Since there are a lot of detailed spec reviews of 5800 on the net, I will just post what I personally liked and disliked after using the phone for a couple of months
The Good
- Wi-fi is very easy to setup and works great. You can easily select if you want to connect to Wi-Fi/ GPRS everytime an applications wants to access internet. The web browser is also pretty usable and supports Javascript (and more importantly flash)
- Comes with a 8 GB memory card (upto 16 GB supported) so you can load hundreds of songs on it. It has a pretty decent music player and the video playback is great too. The bundled headphones are good quality and it supports a standard 3.5mm phone jack so you can use better desktop headphones too. The headphones come with controls for next/previous/stop/play/pause and volume so its very easy to change tracks while you are on a treadmill. It also comes with lots of preloaded music (both Hindi and English).
- There are some pretty useful apps available for symbian (such as putty)
- There is a 3.0 megapixel camera that takes decent pics. Not as great as a cybershot phone camera but good enough to capture memories. You can see a pic I took here
- It has a pretty big screen (bigger than iphone screen)
- Comes with maps and GPS (3 months free trial)
- Its currently priced at 13.5k so its pretty cheap (I got it for around 16.5k). strongly recommend checking out offersforshoppers.com for 5800’s coupons
The Bad
- Does not charge through a USB cable. You need to carry the stupid Nokia charger. I find this pretty irritating
- The touchpad is not as good as that of an iPhone (However its still pretty usable)
- There are not as many apps available for 5800. iPhone clearly is a winner here
Overall I find the phone good value for money. Let me know if you have any questions.
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I was not sure about durability of a touch screen device, hence didn’t buy it. I bought Sony W705 instead.
Very nice review frenz..
TFS :)
the iphone might be the winner but for ppl who can’t afford the iphone..the 5800 is still a great phone. i got a good deal on mine from gsmallover.com and i don’t regret it. i saved lots by not buying an iphone and also by getting my phone from gsmallover cuz i didn’t have to sign a new phone contract but i also didn’t have to pay full price for my phone.
The phone of my dreams, I mean people like me who are music lovers would admire it a lot Nokia 5800 has a good audio quality and cool music player which
is arguably the highlight of this device.
It is a trusty reliable phone. I have it for a while now and it is still in really good condition.
It is phone of my dreams. I still haven’t got it but I will soon Achive “u”. I know “U” are a great phone because my “sis” have it.