While every cellular company was producing Touchscreen mobile phones passionately, people were wondering why their favorite brand was still out of the competition. Nokia is perhaps the largest mobile phone producing brand, but lacking far behind in the race of creating Touchscreen phones was un-understandable until Nokia hit the market with its first Touchscreen; XpressMusic 5800.

Following are the specifications of this trendy and sleek competitor of iPhone:

• Classic with full touch user interface, 4.37 x 2.04 x 0.61 in, 3.84 oz

• Touch user interface optimized for one-hand use with tactile feedback

• Size: 3.2″, 640 x 360 pixels, Up to 16 million colors

• Accelerometer for display rotation, 3D image engine

• Stylus, plectrum and finger touch support for text input and user interface control (alphanumeric keypad, full and mini QWERTY keyboard, handwriting recognition

• Dedicated Media Bar touch key for access to music, gallery, share on-line, Video Center and web browser

• Physical keys for application launch key (menu key), send & end, power, camera, lock, volume up & down

• Micro-USB connector, USB 2.0 High Speed

• 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector

• MicroSD card slot, small DC jack, Micro USB cable interface to PC (CA-101), TV out interface (CA-75U)

• BL-5J 1320 mAh Li-Ion battery

• Talk time GSM up to 8.8 hr, WCDMA up to 5 hr

• Standby time GSM up to 16.75 days WCDMA up to 16.7 days

• MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 16 GB, 81 MB internal memory

• 8GB microSD memory card in-box

• WCDMA 850/1900 MHz

• GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

• HSCSD

• GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177 kbps (DL/UL)

• WCDMA 850/1900 MHz with simultaneous voice and packet data, maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (UL/DL), CS maximum speed 64 kbps

• HSDPA cat 6, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps (DL)

• WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g (3G version only)

• TCP/IP support

• Bluetooth version 2.0

• TV out with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, in-box)

• Support for PC synchronization with Nokia PC suite

• Support for e-mail attachments

• HTML, XHTML, WML

• OSS browser

• Integrated GPS for pedestrian and car navigation

• Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch application

• 3.2    megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels), Carl Zeiss optics, 3x digital zoom,

• Autofocus, Dual LED flash

• Video recording Up to 4x digital video zoom

• RealPlayer

• Nokia Nseries digital music player

• Stereo FM radio (requires wired headset to be attached)

• S60 5th edition, Symbian OS version 9.4

Why should you buy it?

1. It has a display screen as large as of iPhone, and the display is quite vivid and bright.
2. Accelerometer works in most of the applications.
3. Screen is touch responsive.
4. Detailed phonebook
5. Wi-Fi and GPS support
6. Good camera quality
7. Large memory
8. TV out

Why should you avoid it?

1. Not a very good video quality
2. It is expensive.

Conclusion:

With all the recent technological features and a bright display, XpressMusic 5800 is a great effort by Nokia to enter into ongoing Touchscreen battle. Though a little expensive, this phone has already captured many hearts.

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