I’m impressed! I had a positive experience since opening the box. The unit is well-made.

As a long-time Sony Ericsson user (my favorite phone being the K800i) I was pleasantly surprised to find the phone supporting Nokia’s Mail for Exchange client, the virtual/soft T9 keypad was natural to use.

Music: Transfering 4GB of music took over half an hour to copy over using my macbook, which I found something weird especially since this is supposed to support USB2.0. Music playback is amazing over the stereo speakers on the left side of the device, and I found stereo widening to be more natural over the speakers than the headset.

Video: I had a bunch of MP4 videos downloaded from YouTube that I copied onto the device. Some played back fine, others did not. However, I had a video with Arabic subtitles (the Arabic model is same as EU’s), Arabic characters are not displayed making it impossible to use.

Performance: In most instances, there is a slightly noticeable lag in making a selection and moving back to the previous menu. The lag is especially bad when starting or ending video/music playback, but I’m just being bitchy. Writing an SMS goes smooth, so that’s good in my books.

Connectitvity: Bluetooth is fast, microUSB as well.

Going online: APN and Wi-Fi connections were easy to setup, Connections are classified by Internet, and you simply add the relevant profiles into the group and order them by priority, and the system simply gets you online according to the preferred connection.

I managed to get Mail for Exchange working, and as expected, it worked perfectly and quickly. All my appointments, tasks, emails (over 200) and contacts (over 500) were synced in a matter of minutes. I have also set up my personal Gmail.

Camera: Disappointing. I get better pictures off my Sony Ericsson K800i, a pretty dated model with a 3.2MP camera and no benefit of the Carl Zeiss optics found on the 5800.

Impressions: The 5800 remains first and foremost a phone, media player second. So far, I’m loving it as a phone and was easily texting and calling friends and family within minutes (zero learning curve).

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Comments ( 10 )

Thanks for the review, looking forwards to by myself one next month.

Nizar added these pithy words on Jan 15 09 at 3:37 am

Is this really an iPhone replacement ?

Shadz added these pithy words on Jan 15 09 at 1:15 pm

Guys, this is just a normal, old “touch screen”
iPhone has mutli-touch capabilities!

Nayef added these pithy words on Jan 15 09 at 5:13 pm

Hi,

I’m confused between E66 , E71 and nokia 5800 xpressmusic…
I want a phone with a user friendly interface for sending personal mails(with word and jpg attachments). I am not too keen on music though.

Please suggest if 5800 will be easier for sending and managing personal mails since it has a touch screen, or E-series will be better??
I didnt like htc phones…. Please suggest….

Regards,
BK

bk added these pithy words on Jan 16 09 at 9:32 am

I think I’ll get one tomorrow!

Mahdi F. Al-Farra added these pithy words on Jan 17 09 at 11:24 pm

nothing amazin, found it a copy of iphone(with less capabilities but new look)… guys need to work hard to fight steve jobs

leonard added these pithy words on Jan 22 09 at 10:30 am

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pochemukers added these pithy words on Jan 30 09 at 6:16 pm

u said mail for exchange is working on nokia 5800..bt i think it doesnt work

mand added these pithy words on Mar 19 09 at 9:53 am

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