Nokia 5800 is a recent touch screen enabled high end mobile from Nokia and is coveted to be one of the competing rival of the luxurious Apple Iphone 3G. Considering its stylish look, touch screen, brilliant display, high end multimedia capabilities, better connectivity and more over a dearer price this is all set to beat the Iphone 3G which till now was the only new generation phone. Even this 5800 is powered with a variety of options/features that most Iphone fans were complaining with Apple Inc to include in the Iphone.
Nokia 5800 is codenamed as Tube and belongs to Nokia XpressMusic series. It is based on Symbian Series 60 platform (5th Edition). The best thing you would like here with 5800 is its cheaper price. In USA, the 3G enabled Nokia 5800 (Unlocked) would cost $350 and unlike the Iphone case there won’t be AT&T or any other to bill your calls at double rates.
Being a Series 60 Symbian powered cell, you can have your favourite and supported applications and games installed and use them whenever you like, like any other S60 devices like the Nokia N-Series. Also belonging to the prestigious XpressMusic series, Nokia 5800 has a much better multimedia playback with support for several formats of audio and video. And you enjoy high quality music and crystal clear videos with its powerful display of 360 x 640 pixels resolution and 9:16 aspect ratio. The Nokia 5800 display screen or the touch screen is of 3.2 inches with 16 million colours (24 Bit). The best features according to me are the GPS, Internet Connectivity (GPRS, HSDPA, WLAN, WCDMA 3G-USA only) and a hi-tech Integrated Camera. Yes the CMOS censored 3.2 mpxl camera of this 5800 is really awesome not only because of its Carl Zeiss lens, but also due to the presence of flash, autofocus and self timer.
You can capture 640 X 480 resolution videos with a nice frame rate of 30 FPS, which means quality video captures can be made. You can zoom at 3X while taking snaps and maximum video zoom that can be attained is 4X, but again this is all digital zoom. And now coming to video playback, the video file formats that are supported in the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic edition are – Flash Video, 3GP, MPEG-4, Real Media, Windows Media Video-WMV which is cool. Also supported are video calls, video ringtones and video calls, making this one of the rare phones to have all the best multimedia features. Most of the image/graphics file formats including JPEG, GIF, Bitmap and PNG are supported.
Using the efficient music player you can enjoy music in any of the popular file formats like – MP3, WAV, RAM, RM, AMR, AAC and MIDI (polyphonic). Besides normal playback, you can record and stream audio. The memory for storage is supported by a expandable Micro-SD memory card and you can have either 8GB or 16GB cards for storage, which is too good. You can transfer any multimedia or data including contacts from your Nokia 5800 to PC and vice-versa using the specified Datacable and USB. FM radio is the next thing you’ll find in this mobile and the headphone jack is 3.5mm. Several inbuilt applications including Nokia Maps are included plus there’s a big onboard storage unlike other Nokia phones.
