5800 XpressMusic

Can Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic -- its first touch screen mobile phone -- shape up as an iPhone 3G killer?

Good Gear Guide

  • Expert Rating

    3.50 / 5

  • User Rating

    2.50 / 5 (of 2 Reviews)

  • Price

    $ 979.00 (AUD)

User Reviews:

1

emily Sat 14/04/2012 - 07:16

  • Pros
    touch screen
  • Cons
    great music player/sound quality

I, myself, own this device and have been using it for about two and a half years. Starting from this year, the battery has been lasting for about only 5-6 hours from it just sitting there and me not using it.

Overall, I would not reccomend this phone to a friend. The camera quality is not that good either. The only thing that really impressed me was the quality of the music player. The web browser is not that great either. It sometimes crashes too.

Rated this product:
1.5
2

EnjoyChewyFri 18/03/2011 - 16:48

  • Pros
    Free Ovi World Maps
  • Cons
    Random OS hangs and slow-downs

Overall a pretty average smartphone. Web surfing is probably better using Opera Mobile than the native symbian browser. Easy bluetooth/USB tethering without the need for any installed Nokia PC client. Best thing about this phone is the free maps and GPS guidance appears to not rely too much on U-Turns - accurate and rarely incorrect. Battery life is average, 1 year old, I get 1 full day of normal usage (few hours of music, an hour of internet, few calls). Worst thing is the fact that the Ovi Store has only a few decently useful apps. The symbian OS is extremely clunky, slow with random freezes, resets and pauses (even the latest updated firmware version). Additonally, the in-phone memory is hardly enough space for everything it was designed for in the first place, causing out-of-space errors while web browsing. I'd say value for money, but I'd be more than happy to give this up for an Android phone with Google turn-by-turn nav in a hurry.

Rated this product:
3.0

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