Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Unlocked Phone with U.S. 3G, GPS with Free Voice Navigation, Wi-Fi, and 8 GB MicroSD Card–U.S. Version with Warranty
- This unlocked cell phone is compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported. It will not work with CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless, Alltel and Sprint.
- Unlocked quad-band GSM cell phone compatible with 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies and US 3G compatibility via 850/1900 UMTS/HSDPA plus GPRS/EDGE data capabilities
- Touchscreen multimedia phone with included 8 GB MicroSD card (expandable to 16 GB); 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth stereo music; Wi-Fi connectivity; GPS for turn-by-turn directions
- Up to 4.2 hours of talk time, up to 336 hours (14 days) of standby time
- What’s in the Box: Handset, 8 GB MicroSD card, battery, charger, music headset, connectivity cable, stylus, user guide, quick start guide
Product Description
This amazing 3. 2″ high-definition touchscreen looks unlike any other and puts everything at your fingertips. It is perfectly proportioned for one hand, featuring intuitive fingertip, stylus, or plectrum control, and vibrant touch response. With automatic screen rotation, a full keyboard is for fast messaging, and handwriting recognition. The dedicated media bar means mobile entertainment is always on hand. High-resolution widescreen video and superior surround sound,. . . More >>
$249.99
OK. . to start, I gotta say that the FREE shipping from Amazon SUCKS. So, if you want good shipping, dont use the FREE shipping that Amazon offers. Why? Tracking is horrible, tracking history is completely inaccurate.
(I used the nokia N82 before)
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BUY THE CELLPHONE, READ THIS REVIEW. I THINK IT WILL HELP A LOT. IT IS LONG, I KNOW.
Moving on, the cellphone is good for the price. Come on, where will you get a 300$ cellphone that has all the functions that this one has? It is insane: 3. 2 camera, touchscreen, more customizable than iphone, external memory, etc etc.
Regarding the touchscreen. . . I think it is personal taste. . I never used the iphone, and I think that this touchscreen it is VERY responsive. AFTER buying this phone and getting used to it, I used a friend’s Itouch and I gotta say that my nokia 5800 is the winner. But as I said, it is personal taste. Still, it is a very responsible touchscreen (no matter you say that it is a resistive touchscreen). . like, you got no excuse. . it is responsive, and it is responsive. PERIOD.
Good things about it:
-Starting to have more apps. . . you just gotta know where to find, for FREE.
-MACRO of the camera is awesome.
-I got the GPS with turn by turn voice direction (trial), and it is a dream. I wont know when they take away my trial. . . however, with voice direction, this thing it is a real GPS.
-The media button is pretty useful.
-It is legit that it unlocks when you take it close to your face when you are talking.
-Speakers are also awesome. Super loud. Sound quality when you plug in earpieces are also really nice.
-I love the cable to plug it in to the tv. I convert videos, put it on my cellphone and lay on my bed, plug the cellphone into the tv and voila. It is REALLY nice.
-About apps. Right now I have 42 but I only use maybe 8 of them lol.
-The screen it is mega-clear. It is one of the best screens ive seen.
The “so-so” of this phone:
-Build quality. It is pretty well built, however the screen it is TOO plasticky. When I put it under the sun, the reflection shows a big difference in the surface, I mean. . it is not completely flat. Using the reflection of light you will realize it is not completely flat. In other words, the screen presents big flex (like in laptops, for instance). However, the rest of the cellphone is well built. If you take out the screen part of the cellphone, it is a pretty solid cellphone.
-The camera. I dont know. Sometime it takes great pictures, sometimes it stinks. When there is too much suns, it doesnt work well. When there isnt light, it also sucks. It has to have the right amount of light.
-For some people it may be ok, but this is a freaken fingerprint magnet. only the back cover it is mate. The rest of the cellphone devours fingerprint as a dinasour.
-Battery life it is not the best, but not the worst.
The bad:
-The interface it is not the friendliest. It could be better. I hope that with the update, it will be user friendlier.
-The screen. As I said, it is too flexible. It kills me to see differences with the reflection of the light (you know what im saying if you have the cellphone). It makes me hella nervous.
-Sometimes the phone in landscape mode, when you want to scroll down or up for example in some setting, it is freaking hard. I always keep tapping the wrong thing. in vertical mode this doesnt happen, because the scroll bar it is sticked to the right of the screen, so you dont have margin of error. however, in landscape mode the scroll bar is in the middle of the screen, so it gets tricky.
-Honestly, the phone it isnt the best looking phone in the market. It is just a chunk of plastic. (This is for people that care about appearances. I personally dont care, but im trying to be objective)
Ok, I think this is pretty much it. If you read this, you may decide whether to buy ir or not. I think it is a pretty good phone for the price. If you are RICH and money it is not your main problem, I would say go buy yourself a N97. Oppositely, I would say definitely go for this cellphone; I like it pretty much. You wont regret it (however, remember all the things I wrote in this review). If you are ok with the cons of this cellphone, you wont regret. And in my opinion, the Pro’s overcome the Con’s so. . . I dont know, it is your call!
I hope this helped.
Rating: 5 / 5
I had owned various phones in the past and Nokia is the best on any comparison, for the Features available on this phone, had Apple had all these features it will cost 10 times more, most people don’t even know it has extra camera on the front for video Calls along with the 3. 2 MP on the back, Video is far better and there were no sluggish performance as far as I had used for more than a month, unlike iPhone this phone can run multiple applications at same time which is like multitasking in PC, so I can play music and browse websites at same time and switch to GPS , attend a call and type an SMS. . And it goes on. . . all at same time, iPhone cannot do more than one at a time, we get millions of free software, games, themes etc. , unlike Apple App store, no need to pay more and more. Best feature, no MP3 conversion required, if you have lot of MP3 files on hard disk just drag and drop in few seconds, we can play, phone comes with 8GB of SD Card, can upgrade to 16 GB, that’s more than enough, I had used the N95 earlier which costs double this price, this is not a NSeries phone from nokia, but it had all the features + touch screen of N series phone at half the price.
If you like Garmin for GPS, Garmin GPS software available for this phone and installing that will make it the best GPS (it comes with Nokia’s map software too) and no data plan or internet required for GPS as maps are copied to memory. It comes with lot of add on and Its not too big like iPhone and not too small, exactly made for using with single hand and I had replaced the blackberry phone used for Office with this and configured my Office outlook exchange server along with Gmail, hotmail and yahoo, how cool is that.
It handles website just as a PC and there is no difference with any websites, I can login to bank accounts and do anything like PC, it has stereo speakers but the Nokia Headsets are far Superior in sound quality and build and it comes with built in Mic and buttons for music track change so we can play music and attend calls without touching phone.
And FM is there to use while driving and at the Gym, Google has lot of software available for this phone like latitude, docs etc. If you want free chat software Fring (www. fring. com) is available for free, it connects yahoo, hotmail, AOL, Gtalk and Skype users all in one place and we can even make voice calls to online users. It has the great sync software that syncs all your photos, videos, contacts, notes etc between phone and PC using Bluetooth, just switch on the PC and it does the sync automatically. We can import and export all contacts from outlook, Lotus notes etc.
And there is software to use the screen as a touch screen mouse for the PC like a wireless Bluetooth mouse and that’s free too.
For brand conscious users like me, I want to buy a phone from a telecom company like Nokia than a computer (apple) or TV (Samsung) company, who were just trying phones as one of their business.
iPhone doesn’t have many of these features and only selling because of marketing, if nokia did their part, this should beat any phone for sure, I don’t want to lock with AT&T for lifetime with iPhone and pay $ monthly and pay for any applications and did I say its unlocked? What else you can expect from a phone?
Rating: 5 / 5
I am huge on Nokia Phones (tried blackberry 8820, didn’t care for). I upgraded to this phone from the N95. I really like the N95, but since I have started texting so much, really got annoying texting on the N95 (it just has a numberpad, no qwerty). Landscape qwerty on this phone is really nice, but hand recognition is awesome! I can write faster then I can type when texting, and if you want to keep notes, memos, lists, etc. . . on your phone, the handwriting entry makes it go quickly. All you have to do is write on the screen and it will type what you write. A feature to love.
I have tried the GPS and it is similiar to the N95. I tested it against my Garmin Nuvi, and it is very similiar. Only complaint as that after you pass a road, it takes a second or two longer than the Garmin to realize you did or didn’t turn, which is only annoying if you make a wrong turn (I did so on purpose to test), But for a phone GPS, it is great. Nice for when walking around an unfamiliar metro area. Didn’t use POI’s much, but played around enough to know they hit all the major spots in our small town, and when pulling up a cateogry such as restaurants, the list was extensive. Very, very handy to have GPS on phone, as I never take my Garmin off my car mount, and prefer not to have to. Also, satellite lock was very quick. Nice!
You can keep 4 contacts (with photo icons) on homescreen for quick calling, texting, etc. . . but why only 4? Wish there was more. Dialing can be a pain, you have to click several times to get to the point of calling a contact, but I have gotten accusotmed to that (same on N95). Nokia should really make it a 2 click process, select contact and call, hope they make that change. If you pull up the name you want on your contacts you can press the green (go) bar at the bottom of phone and it will call that person.
Internet is nice as well, picks up on my wireless internet fast, as well as quickly at the local coffee spot, but haven’t used it beyond that. Video and photos are sweet on the lcd screen. Bluetooth makes transfer of photos and music from you computer to phone a snap. The speakers on this phone are amazing for a cell phone. Very easy to do. There are lots and lots of other nice applications to play with.
This is the best choice I could make for a cell phone (definetly a step up from the N95, which is a subperb phone). If you like to text and want a full keyboard (or the ability to handwrite using the stylus), keep documents on your phone, (bluetooth is quick and easy transfer back to computer), want to enjoy videos and music (with great sound), like surfing the web, want a GPS (with no need for a data plan), and are a techy-gadget person like myself who couldn’t pass up the idea of having a touchscreen, this is an awesome choice.
Rating: 5 / 5
i buy this phone bcos i want to use it as phone and i-pod like i-phone, i use t-mobile service which is far cheap than at&t’s i-phone service. . now i already use this phone for more than a month. .
first what i like about the phone
1 it has 3. 5mm audio jack where i can connect any speakers to use it as mp3 music player its at top like i pod.
2 8gb memory card enough to hold your likable 100 songs,10-15 videos and 1 movie in it. like i have in it.
3 sreen display quality is good. video quality is also real good
4 wifi is good. and browser also good loads all kind of web pages. it dont play flash videos. . big no no for me. .
5 gps also work great. . its capable of giving your exact location when you are on road. . . i load whole Texas(us) maps on it and it takes 200 mb of my space. . but if you have web connection on phone go with google maps application. nokia’s ovi maps are far behind google. for usa ovi maps dont works great i dont know about eurore or asia. .
6 desktop shortcuts are good but we need more than 4.
7 calender,clock aplications are good.
8 camera flash is bright i load torch software on phone and i can use it as torch also.
dont like abou the phone. .
1 cheap plastic body of phone. dont robost as nokia phones. . shaking body.
2 camera picture quality is too bad. . it is 3. 2mp only to take space consuming pics. . clarity of pics is too bad and there little color difference in pics too. . picture quality is little better when outside under sun. camera really disappoint you.
3 not easy to access the lists like phonebook. you have to scroll by using side scroll bar. you dont scroll the list from contacts like in i phone. and there is no up-down buttons on phone. if you have long list of cantacts like 150 and you want to scroll from scrollbar. you are unable to stop on contact you want from scrollbar it run too fast. (long list same scrollbar).
4 when you have to dial the number in between of call like–>slect 1 for english 2for spanish –>some time it dont take your input value. . i remember lot of times teller machine told to “hung up and try again”. bcos it dont get the input from me. .
5 no security for data. . anybody in your family or friend can access you photos,videos,masseges etc there is not even a simple pasword securiy on phone. . pin number only works when you restart the phone.
6 screen unlock key is provided at the side of phone. which is sliding one i dont think this key lasts long time. because every time i have to use the ihave to use that key. . even to look for time. . in i-phone u can unlock phone from screen itself and in samsung touch phones this key is push button key not the sliding key.
7 no outside music controls like pause/play,next. you have to unlock the phone for pausing or selecting new song.
8 data cable provided with phone is too small. i have to buy aconnector for it to increase the length. otherwise your phone is hanging on desktop.
9 audio quality when you use the headphones is not impressive even my 20$ 2gb mp3 player has better sound quality. even with higest volume and full bass you dont feel your head shaking. its just your hearing songs on it. without quality sound.
8 3. 2 inch screen size. . its big but its not like i-phone i-phone’s 3. 5 inch has square kind of size. but 5800 if too long lengthwise and too short with wise.
many time i think of returning the phone. . but i dont find any other phone in market which fulfill my reqirements. . i dont want to carry ipod and phone(two gadgets). i dont want to pay 100$ a month for i-phone AT&T. and nokia 5800 for only $299. think its good deal. . this phone needs a lot small changes. .
Rating: 3 / 5
works great in the bay area with att signal. had the iphone before and it was mediocre with such slow internet over a 3G connection. This phone has an excellent antenna. I live in probably the worst areas for a cell phone to operate and this thing constantly gets 3 bars better than any phone before including the iphone. this phone also connects at mostly 3. 5G (HSPDA) where not too many devices do which is like driving in the carpool lane – very fast download speeds. The mp3 player works great, sounds good. It is very easy to load music files into the phone either via usb transfer mode (fast) or by bluetooth. The internet is very functional and stable. Can open youtube videos, yelp, etc. Google maps can be downloaded and is better than the iphone version having more integration with the web browser and some other feature. Email is great, easy to setup with predefined profiles of gmail and other known sources. This phone also has a dedicated GPS chip and a assisted GPS chip so if you want you can use the maps software included with the phone and get turn by turn direction, re-routing as well as POI’s via telenav maps. It also has acompass via GPS but i havent used it yet. The battery is quite good, lasting over 2. 5 days with average use before needing a charge. Theathering can be done via bluetooth and you can use this phone as a high speed modem for your laptop. just make sure you use wap instead of isp and you don’t get all crazy, using the std data plan on att of $15 a month you get a pretty good deal. The camera takes decent shots during the day but is quite shotty at night or in low light. The LCD screen is not as vibrant as the iphone and the touch screen is good enough but i feel could of been better. Also the phone’s screen is more easily scratched than the iphone since it’s made of plastic and not harden glass. but all in all,i’d say for under $300 its a solid deal considering your data plan is halved each month.
Rating: 4 / 5