Nokia 5800 XpressMusic review – a touch screen phone for music lovers
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is Nokia’s first touch screen mobile phone, and it shows that Nokia is well on track to develop an iPhone-beating device in the near future.
The biggest selling feature of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is that you can download music from Nokia’s online music store for 12 to 18 months after you buy the phone, which is certainly a boon for music lovers.
In this short, but informative BLORGE video, veteran journalist Alex Zaharov-Reutt reviews the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic:
Here’s a transcript from the video:
Hi, I’m Alex Zaharov-Reutt from BLORGE.com and today we have the Nokia touch screen phone.
Not the N97, that will come out in a couple of months time, but Nokia’s first touch screen phone, the DC 800 XpressMusic.
The biggest selling feature is that it comes with music, so for 12 months after the purchase of the phone or 18 months depending on your plan, you can download from millions of tracks, all from major artists and listen to them on your phone or computer and, after that 12 or 18 month period is up, you get to keep all the music you have downloaded.
Now, there is a catch.
You can only listen to it on your computer or on your phone, but you have to pay extra if you want to burn them a CD.
But, for me, the attraction of the 5800 is being able to buy your phone and plug it into your computer, then go to the Nokia music store, which is similar but not as smooth as iTunes, and then download pretty much anything that you want, favorite artists from childhood or other times, download and listen to them straight away.
And, as a music phone, it’s a very compelling device – 8 GB of memory on a little memory card that you can plug into a 32 GB device, you have a quite large 3 inch screen, the video playback is quite stunning, you have the accelerometer features and you also have Nokia’s version of an app store, which has actually been around a lot longer than Apple’s app store, but it doesn’t have the tens of thousands of applications that Apple’s app store now has.
So, if you are an iPhone fan, you’ll look at the phone and say, well, you know, it’s got all the Nokia stuff and it is not as smooth and, in many respects, iPhone owners will not be interested in this phone.
But, for all those people, especially younger teenagers and the like, who love the Nokia’s ability to send files by Bluetooth and just enjoy the whole Nokia experience, the user experience on this phone really adds to Nokia’s operating system and it is such a great indicator of how the N97 could well be.
I mean, the N97 will have this operating system but in theory, on steroids, with 32 GB of memory built in and other iPhone-like features.
There will be a big battle between the N97 and this phone, which is now on sale, and the upcoming iPhone 3.0.
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