Nokia 5800 Music Review

Although the phone’s interface needs minor buffing, the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music still offers a seductive exterior appearance and loads of enjoyable features. Hundreds of multi-billion companies rushed in towards touch-screen phones, but some companies became cautious with the idea. Nokia for example may have taken some time before finally developing their line of touch-screen phones, but the delay was worth it.
Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, according to the company, was created to rival Apple’s Smart iPhone. 5800 is a decent phone that offers wide range of multimedia features that comes with a very sharp and slim package and dominating display screen.
Nokia 5800 shares a design similar to its iPhone rival and Samsung’s touch-screen phone, Omnia. The phone’s candy bar outline provides neat lining with rounded corners and burgundy and black color scheme. At 0.61 depths by 4.37 inches tall by 2.04 inches wide the phone becomes appears relatively petite as a touch-screen phone, although it is a bit thicker than most touch-screen phones today. But still, weighing in at 3.84 ounces the phone guarantees it won’t be weighing anyone down inside their pockets. In addition, 5800 also offers a sturdy, convenient, and comfortable feel in hand.
The phone’s touch-screen display measures 3.2 inches, which nearly makes the phone as big as Apple’s iPhone. It can support 16 million colors, that’s 640×360 pixels in exact, and is built with an aspect 16:9 ration. With this type of resolution, the phone’s colors become more vibrant and bright, and its photos and graphics also become bright. It also offers a convenient feature of adjusting the font size, brightness, and backlight timing depending on its user’s preference. Whenever the phone receives or makes a call, the 5800’s display will go dark when the phone is placed near the ear to conserve energy battery, and its brightness will also automatically adjust to different lighting environment.
Nokia 5800 Xpress Music also offers a standard menu system design, with its icons in grid format. For the most part, its submenus are equally intuitive, although it’s noticeable that Nokia didn’t optimize some of its interface in some of its application. Still, owing thanks to its accelerometer, users can easily, conveniently and freely shift between portrait and landscape menu views by simply rotating the 5800 down. Accelerometer also works in majority of the phone’s built-in application.
The phone’s display is also considerably responsive. Users can conveniently use their fingers to circum-navigate the phone or make use of its stylus. The phone’s dialer is built with large virtual buttons with large numbers for easy typing. Typing a message can be done in various ways. Its full QWERTY keyboard takes advantage of the phone’s display. It is spacious enough to use, just don’t forget that the display for typing messages is considerably small. The phone offers a separate board for numbers and symbols, and users can change the writing languages and language alphabets conveniently at the touch of the button. The phone also provides dedicated shift keys, back and returns buttons, and a large space bar.
Situated above the phone’s display screen, a small icon next to Xpress Music sign can be found. This may not be visible at first but actually by touching this small icon, it will open the dedicated multimedia menu onscreen where users can freely launch video, view photo, listen music, and more.
Located below the display are three controls: Menu Control, Talk Button, and End Button. This three key buttons are thin, but tactile. The phone is also built with an amazing volume rocker, a camera shutter, and handset-locking switch situated on the right spine of the phone.
Overall, Nokia’s 5800 Xpress Music phone is a good phone to buy and have. Although the phone’s responsiveness in some of its application do need some fix, it’s not really that annoying.