This Nokia 5800 XpressMusic comes with advanced 3G technology. It is equipped with fast Internet facility that is enhanced by 3G HSDPA technology. It facilitates the user to download many things like songs, movies and wallpapers quickly. The wireless facility of Bluetooth is also integrated in this phone. One can share important files from one to other compatible devices through it.

One can capture many beautiful photos with the integration of 3.15 mega pixel camera. Through this camera, you can also record good quality videos of any occasion or party. Now, you can store all the captured images and some downloaded files into its 81megabytes of internal memory with 128 MB RAM. A new A-GPS feature has been provided to help the user in finding out the exact location through Nokia Maps. You can search Nokia 5800 XpressMusic from number of online mobile phone shops and buy it with new schemes or discounts.

The 5800 XpressMusic is a pretty much standard plasticky candy-bar without any metallic or chromed accents in it. The build quality, however, was pretty good – we didn’t find any parts on it that would creak when pressed or feel wobbly (just as you’d expect from this design, though). Also, there is nothing wrong with the 5800 Tube utilizing only plastic parts – some more expensive offerings don’t have any metallic accents either and somehow this fact doesn’t turn many off. Apparently, since the Nokia 5800 doesn’t have any other newsworthy drawbacks, its haters will be looking for any opportunity to blame it for not having metallic parts in its design. I especially like some “qualified” opinions of people who haven’t even touched the 5800 yet, but for some reason feel competent enough to share their point of view. Here are some gems:

* It’s a plasticky made-in-China toy
* All other touchscreen phones are made of metal, the 5800 is not – why?
* It looks and feels so cheap!

As far as music quality goes, the 5800 offers an unparalleled experience for an S60 device, but while it stands in one line with the N85 and the likes, it can’t keep up with the Motorola ZN5, Samsung i8510 INNOV8 and some other solutions. Nevertheless, it’s still good enough to take on the Apple iPod, plus less sophisticated users won’t notice any difference at all when listening to music in stock earphones.

The 5800 Tube comes boxed with iPhone-grade earphones, meaning that they’ll probably be the first thing you will need to get rid of. Custom headphones may be plugged either into the 3.5 mm jack on the phone’s casing or the remote control. The latter is nothing to write home about – we have already seen it in several previous phones from Nokia.

As far as our RMAA tests go, the 5800 came pretty close to the Nokia N85 – it wasn’t much of a revelation, but seemed like a worthy alternative to many popular stand-alone MP3-players.

The following formats are supported: AAC, AAC+, eAAC, eAAC+, MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, Mobile XMF, SP-MIDI, AMR (NB-AMR), MIDI Tones (poly 64), RealAudio 7,8,10, True tones (WB-AMR), WAV. MP3-files with various bit rates, including VBR, are seamlessly played back by the N81. Upon synchronization with Windows Media Player 11 and higher, you can take advantage of protected DRM-files (Janus DRM).

Equalizers. When the equalizer settings are modified the audio experience varies considerably. Every one of the 6 pre-installed equalizers features 8 bands and is fully user-manageable, save for the default settings. The list of presets is as follows – Bass Booster, Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock. In the Sound Settings you can adjust sound balance, Stereo Widening and Loudness.

The handset has random and repeat (all or one track) playback modes. When the standby screen is active is displays information about the currently playing track.

Bringing up the Music Menu allows you to browse all tracks, playlists and sort the library by artists, albums, genres and composers. The music library (or the track list) gets updated automatically on every successful synchronization with a PC via Nokia PC Suite except if you use a memory card with pre-loaded tracks. It’s worth noting, amongst all the other features, the Library Detail feature..

Podcasting – podcasts are now integrated right into the music player, whereas previously they were placed in a separate application. You can access podcasts either from the player’s menu or launch the application separately, which will give you access to the library, Nokia’s podcast catalogue, search, synchronization settings and so on. You can also choose to get your subscribed podcasts uploaded automatically (within the home network or via some specific access point). All in all this app is a breeze to navigate around and quite useful at that.

Music store – allows you to access the Nokia Music Store to buy tracks, albums and download them to your device.

FM-radio – the 5800 comes bundled with a pretty standard radio application that offers to pick your region when first launched (this choice will affect the FM frequencies you’ll have access to later on). Among its features are RDS, auto tuning and some neat visual enhancements.

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