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The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a sleek, multimedia touch-screen device - the first ever touchscreen handset from Nokia. Its footprint is narrower than an iPhone, with a width of only 52mm (ideal for using one-handed) and it is lightweight for its feature set, at 109g.
It offers a virtual full QWERTY keyboard, a 3.2 megapixel camera and, as one would expect from a music-centric phone - a dedicated music bar. It delivers crystal clear surround sound and direct access to Nokia's music store.
It has built in GPS and Nokia Maps 2.0 touch, for direction/location finding, plus a fast Web browser with Wi-Fi for connectivity on the go. The high resolution, 16 million colour touch-screen is augmented by Carl Zeiss optics.
The 5800 is a quadband phone, supporting 3G video calling, has an FM radio and the range of standard features. It has 81 Mbytes’ internal memory, plus an 8GB microSD memory card (supporting up to 16 GB). Battery life on full charge will deliver up to 400 hours on standby, five hours (3G), 8.8 hours (2G) and music playback of up to an impressive 35 hours.
Specifications
- 1 Megapixel Camera
The smallest single component of an image is the definition of a pixel. This camera has 1 Megapixel or 1 million pixels. The more the pixels the clearer the image.
- 2G
2G phones are digital phones
- 3G or UMTS
Works in UMTS frequency channels 800/850/1900/2100 or 850/1700/1900/2100 MHz
- Built-in handsfree
You can use this phone's built-in speaker to listen to incoming or outgoing calls and music handsfree.
- Calculator
This phone has a calculator built in.
- Calendar
This phone has an organiser which includes a Calendar
- Camera
This phone has a built in camera
- Currency converter
A feature enabling the user to check equivalent amounts in a wide range of currencies.
This phone is capable of sending and receiving email
- Flip phone
This is a Flip Phone
- GPRS
Stands for General Packet Radio System. This basically allows you to browse internet websites using your phone. GPRS is mainly used for text based information - getting football results, checking train timetables, reading the news etc. GPRS is not bad at downloading pictures, however it is slower than 3G. You can use GPRS to received and send Multimedia messages such as a text with a picture.
It is advisable to choose a 3G handset for decent download speeds of videos and pictures rather than GPRS, however GPRS is pretty good for text based information and pictures with lower definition.
- Java compatible
This phone is Java compatible
- Multimedia Service MMS
Allows you to send and receive picture messages
- Polyphonic ring tone
Polyphonic ringtones are ringtones that play several types of tones at a time (up to 70 in recent phones)
- SMS - text messages
Short message service - allows you to send and receive texts
- T9 Predictive Text
You can select predictive text on this phone
- Triband
- 900 MHz (Europe/Brazil/Asia (ex Japan and S. Korea))
- 1800 MHz (Europe/Brazil)
- 1900 MHz (U.S./Canada/Latin America)
- Video calling
This phone has a video calling function. When calling someone that also has a video phone, you will be able to see the person if you are in 3G coverage.
- Video player
Plays videos
- Video recorder
Records videos
- Voice memo
You can save a voice memo on this phone. This is useful if something springs to mind and you son't want to forget it. You can also use the voice memo function to record a small conversation.
- WAP 2.0
Wireless Application Protocol, allows you to browse text based Internet sites
