We checked the leading tech blogs, experts’ reviews, phone users forums/ communities, etc. and brought together for you what the world has to say about Nokia 5800 now after its release. Check out what are the experts’ comments as well as general users experience with Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

Techradar.com rates Nokia 5800 as 4.5/5.0 on looks, ease of use, features, call quality and value but they felt the lack of multi-touch on device and the quality of earpiece as well as photo shoot was not impressive for them.

Mobilegazette.com concludes Nokia 5800 as- “The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a pretty good phone, it’s easy to use, comes with a capable web browser and excellent multimedia support and is frankly a lot of fun. The loudspeaker could be better, the camera isn’t as good as we would have hoped and you will be forever cleaning fingerprints off it.”

Experts at Thelink.co.uk found the phone quite interesting and well worth to wait for so long and they rated the phone 4 out of 5. They also wrote down a long comprehensive list of specs/features covering each and every basic to major feature the phone has.

Testfreaks has an interesting collection of Nokia 5800 reviews, collected from 111 sources in 20 countries. The average rating for Nokia 5800 comes to 9.2/10.0 which is awesome, while Iphone has a score of 8.7 there. Nokia 5800 emerged as the 4th most popular handset of Nokia and 5th most popular overall, across all brands.

Whatmobile says about Nokia 5800, “We’ve been waiting patiently for Nokia’s first touchscreen Series 60 smartphone, but it seems Nokia has had difficulty changing things to operate by fingertip operation instead of real buttons; it can be a little fiddly to input text. The larger screen resolution isn’t fully utilised by every application either, although the media player and web browser are obvious beneficiaries. The 5800 is very well featured, from a good camera to excellent video recording, plus content sharing options. It’s a cheap alternative to the iPhone, especially with the optional Comes With Music service for unlimited music downloads.” Rating 4/5.

T3 reviews it as, “A sterling effort from our Finnish friends and we cant wait for the N-series behemoth to be announced.” Rating 4 stars out of 5.

We feel the 5800 tube will continue to get more great feedbacks from the users and experts. However we expect from Nokia to pay more attention to the users criticisms/advices and avoid things like what we just saw in the recent US launch of the phone which we marked as ‘the poor launch of a great phone’.

Nokia should continue improving the device with updates like the recent enhancements they did on Nokia 5800 after users feedback. In last firmware udpates they made the touch experience more sensitive, improved the smoothness, activated the front camera as well for taking photos, application updates, geo-tagging, video/flash improvements, etc. Keep it up Nokia!!

How is your overall experience with Nokia 5800? Share your views with us in the comments below..

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The Stuff magazine rated it as- “Its a music phone with some cool touch screen capabilities.” They explored some features of the 5800 Tube in their video review. Check out the videos to see full video reviews in action-

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1) Size
The iphone is bigger in size and uneasy for one hand grip. Nokia 5800 is designed to fit well into your hands. Being smaller in width, its easy to operate single handedly.

Iphone size: 115.5 X 62.1 X 12.3 mm
Nokia 5800 size: 111 X 51.7 X 15.5 mm

2) Weight
Iphone is much bulkier than Nokia 5800. Nokia 5800 is 25g lighter than Iphone in weight.

Iphone: 133g
Nokia 5800: 109g

3) Screen Resolution
The Iphone has 3.5” screen while Nokia 5800 has 3.2” but the resolution of 5800 is far more superior to Iphone.

Resolution:
Iphone: 480 by 320
Nokia 5800: 640 by 360

4) Storage
Iphone comes with two options- 8GB & 16GB internal memory. Nokia has a more flexible option to offer 8GB with micro SD card which is expandable upto 16GB. Nokia owners can expand memory size according to needs which the Iphone guys can’t do.

5) Input Methods
Iphone: Finger only.
Nokia 5800: Finger, stylus, plectrum, handwriting recognition.

6) Features
Apple Iphone has lots of missing features like cut and paste function, saving email attachments, no support for third party headphones, ringtones, pricey iphone applications, many software bugs and other technical glitches. Nokia 5800 Tube has no such issues plus many more amazing features included.

7) Colors
Iphone: Black for 8 & 16 GB, White for 16 GB only.
Nokia 5800: Red, Blue and Black.

8 ) Battery
Nokia 5800 provides upto 35 hrs of music playing time against Apple Iphone which claims just 24 hrs. Overall battery power (talktime/standby) is also about 30% more in Nokia 5800. What more, 5800 has a removable battery which Iphone lacks.

Iphone: 5 hrs talk-time, 300 hrs standby, not removable.
Nokia 5800: 8.8 hrs talk-time, 406 hrs standby, removable battery.

9) Camera
Iphone: 2 MP, no flash, no zoom, no additional camera.
Nokia 5800: 3.2 MP, Flash, 3x digital zoom with Carl Zeiss lens. A second camera in front is available for video calling/conferencing.

10) Video Calling
Iphone: No Video calling possible in Iphone.
Nokia 5800: Video calling is possible.

11) Video Recording
IPhone: No option for video recording.
Nokia 5800: Video recording is included.

12) Music Service
Iphone: Paid service with Apple Itunes Store. You pay and download music to your Iphone.
Nokia 5800: “Comes with music” service is bundled with Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic phone by which you can download as much music as you want for 1 year- FREE!!

13) Voice Dialing
Iphone: Not Available
Nokia 5800: Available

14) Voice Recording
IPhone: Not Available
Nokia 5800: Available

15) Web Browser
Iphone: Webkit based Safari browser, no flash available.
Nokia 5800: Webkit based browser, supports flash lite.

16) FM Radio
Iphone: Not Available
Nokia 5800: Available

17) Bluetooth
Iphone: Bluetooth is available for just handsfree, no file sharing possible.
Nokia 5800: Bluetooth available for handsfree and file sharing is possible. Better audio quality on bluetooth in 5800 with A2DP technology which Iphone lacks.

18) Messaging
Iphone: It does not support message forwarding, multiple SMS deletion, sending SMS to multiple recipients and multimedia messages (MMS).
Nokia 5800: All the above is possible plus it has MMS ver 1.3, message size upto 600kb, and automatic resizing of Images for MMS.

19) Price
Nokia 5800 is hopefully unlocked (without any contract) and will sell much cheaper for just £219 in UK and in US for around $385 (US price is $269 now).

Apple iPhone 3G, on the other hand, with contract in US comes for $199 & $299 for 8 & 16 GB models and the plans with AT&T are way too expensive. Unlocked Apple Iphones sells for around $800 on Ebay.

In other parts of the world, the 8GB unsubsidized Iphone model costs 499 euros ($700) in Italy, 350 pounds ($620) in UK, $700 in India. Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic is expected to sell around the world for about $400 or below.

20) Experience
Nokia: Ages of experience, hundreds of success stories and dozens of smart handsets in current portfolio. Nokia has about 40% market share with the No.1 spot with no close competitors. Certainly the king when it comes to brand value, service and experience.

Apple: First phone ever launched by Apple is Iphone, no prior experience in the telecom market. It’s a novice in the market with a very less market share despite having millions of Iphone sold.

Verdict:
Almost all the major brands around the world like Samsung, HTC, LG, etc launched their touchscreen smartphones with a hope to beat Apple’s Iphone. No-one came close to Iphone when it comes to looks, style, feel and features.

This is the first time a tech giant like Nokia has hit it hard with its first true touchscreen smartphone. Nokia 5800 is a real Iphone killer with way ahead features, perfect looks and great price. Bravo Nokia, Well Done!!

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