Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Review

Model: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
Manufacturer: Nokia
Website: http://www.nokia.com
Market Price: Not Available

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic first sale starting in United Kingdom on 23 January. This phone was deliver to other country starting last year and it's also produced one million unit in others places sales.

You can buy Nokia 5800 XpressMusic via online at Nokia Online Store. Others than that, you can buy this phone model at nearest Nokia Dealer worldwide. As offer at the United Kingdom that the launching of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic can attract seeker attentions. This is because after all, this is the first appearance of S60 5th Editions that supports touch screen control. That may be enough to make you hurry out to get this phone. To me, may be this may be competent at the first attempt but still not succeeded to defeat iPhone.

There is no control Twitch. There are some sweeping control for example moving through photo and song list but the implement does not have charm and wow factor compared to the iPhone systems. Its seem it is more similar S60 + touch not bottom up touch screen interface design. Not suprising at all and really that's was it is.

My heart sunk when I realised there was a stylus sitting in a housing on the casing. I am inclined to think that any mobile that has a touch interface yet comes with a stylus is missing an important trick. Fortunately, I didn't have to resort to using this one.

Text entry is one of those all-important areas where the touch-based user interface has to be superb. If it works well then text messaging and emailing are easy. If not, they are frustrating. In this case, individual keys are small but not too small and there is a gentle vibrating response when you hit a key.

One potential problem is that keys don't actually register till you lift your finger away from them, so there's no chance of really fast typing that can result in physical contact with two keys at once. This may slow down the speedmongers.

Another irritation is that sometimes the screen wants a double tap and I had to get used to when this was the case. One example is choosing, rather than simply highlighting, an option in the music player. Press, wait, nothing happens, press again. Irritating. Still, these niggles aside, I'm inclined to give the touch implementation eight out of 10 for usability.
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