We looked all around the web today to check what people are saying about Nokia 5800, how they are reviewing it, what their user experience is and if they are overall happy with their phone.
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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Saturday, March 7th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Very true its a very gud phone but i want to know will it support n-gage in future
Saturday, March 7th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
realy good phone. I’m really satisfied with this one.
Monday, March 9th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Great Phone!
useful applications are now popping up
Best music phone for me
Camera is just average unlike N-series phones
Browser is also on the average side it would be much better if they can improve this on upcoming Firwmare updates
Call quality is average they should implement the noise reduction like Motorola’s crystal talk technology
For me what separates 5800 from other music phones is the battery life it can last for almost two days with heavy music playing.
Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 4:01 am
A good phone with a exceptional build quality , have very nice feeling in hand, with a lot of on line support and application , excellent sound quality, but equalizer are not effective , after firmware up gradation finger touching also become quite responsive ,
Browsing is also very convenient ,for me it is land mark phone in it class
Saturday, March 14th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
really good phone
but my battry is very poor 1 day or 2
and hav prob in xp and vista with my mass storg
when i use keyboard window is close and try many times
or after 5 min with out use in vista can`t accese the memory card and check disk ( scan disk) runing
but over all is realy good
nice photo in day and hav good in night mode good geo tag
really best phone
Monday, April 6th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
using this for about 1 month now and i m loving every bit of it.
sound , camera quality, built quality every thing ,and its feel very nice in hand. a master in its own class.
just 1 thing which i miss most from my previous N82, n95 8gb. N-GAGE
i hope 5800 will get Ngage support soon
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
I got my Nokia 5800 a month ago and have had nothing but trouble with it I have been in constant touch with nokia to no avail. I got it because it played music like an Ipod and had a GPS. I ride a motorbike and with the headphones in I thought I would be able to ride and listen to my music and use the GPS on trips. It constantly freezes and you have to stop remove your gloves and helmet and reboot the thing only to have to go through the same procedure 5 or 6 times on an hour ride. I would advise anybody thinking of getting a 5800 to think again. IT’S A PIECE OF JUNK!!!!
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
@Ric- Sorry to hear that you are having issues with your 5800. Well its working like a charm for us and I guess its a problem particularly in your piece. Hope it gets resolved soon.
Saturday, July 18th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
It seriously works as a charm .It beats Iphone anyday .
Music , camera , bluetooth , spplications , clarity , battery etc , all are much better .
But for looks , iphone wins .
Whatever , Im happy with my phone.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 6:09 am
Hello!
Just to clarify for the western country (Americans). Stylus here for Nokia 5800 is not the main tool to be use for the screen. It is just one of the selection for the user on how he use the screen. Try first before you say anything…
iPhone cannot recognize handwriting recognition while nokia 5800 does.
Westerners thought that iphone is the most modern phone in the world… but they didn’t know it doesn’t.
I know westerners are too behind in terms of technology.
Example:
1. iphone still cannot send mms…(backwards)
2. iphone cannot send files through bluetooth. (I hope you know this term)
3. iphone don’t have 2 way video calling. Why? because apple doesn’t know much about this and also the technology of the country.
4. iphone still doesn’t have flash media on there OS.
5. iphone doesn’t have automatic voice recognition.
6. iphone cannot print directly to printer.
7. iphone cannot send video files or stream to other devices in real time.
8. HSDPA not yet in iphone and network.
9. much much more…
All of the above are already a standard features in Europe and Asia mobile phones eight (8) years ago.
3g (3rd generation network) has already been established 5 years ago.
How many mobile phone companies from US? 2?
motorola- is there any other design? horrible design.
apple iphone- what are other phone aside from iphone? uhmmm nothing?
That’s all folks. Hope you understand that.
Thank you.
Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Thanks Zen, a westerner here… What is the difference between the red/blue 5800 and the black 5800? There are a LOT of cheap black units on the market in North America.
Monday, October 12th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
i need some positive feedback of this phone bcoz i gonna plan to buy from two samsung star 3G OR Nokia 5800
thanks
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 9:49 pm
i so love this phone. very useful features & a simple but beautiful design. I love the way you can download apps to suit your needs. its my mobile internet machine. whenever i get wifi signals, i can read my news, blogs or get updated with my friends on their social networking accounts. I changed most of the phones on my arsenal because of tall these reasons w/c means I have more than 1 5800 now & I’m very happy with it. long live 5800.
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
I think its a great phone, wi fi is really good, the os seems to need a little trimming bcos it is seems a bit slow but it handles apps quite well, comparing with star 3g i will definitly go for xm 5800 though corby pro seems a good choice it terms of look and user interface, but maybe the new firmware update ver 40 will remove some of these negative s, the updates are available now, though i have not personally downloaded it myself, there is also a strip down versions of xm overall I would say its a great phone, I have used many phones ofcourse not all of them in the pricey bracket but this is the the first time I have really felt proud and satisfied with I bought, XM 5800 rocks like as if the very Devil’s tail is on fire !