Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

As usual Nokia is the best on Mobile market and this is yet another best phone they made

Best Nokia Touch smart phone ever and still dominates in the market.

Nokia 5800 XM is the best ever smart phone made by Nokia and still they are struggling to find a better replacement for Nokia 5800

Don't buy this phone. DO NOT.

This phone advertises cool things such as handwriting texts .etc. Really it lacks the basics. The only thing I like about it is the camera.

Otherwise it is a disaster. Touch screen is awful - I have to calibrate it basically every day. They offer you 4 different ways to write a text, and yet I have to use an alpha numeric keypad (like a normal phone). The others take ages. The light flashes telling me I have a missed call/message when I don't.

Worst of all, it turns off, and freezes especially when trying to make a call. Sometimes I have to try calling someone 3 times for it to go through, or I have to take the battery out.

To add to the misery, its on a 24 month contract!

The stylus on this phone falls out after being used a dozen times, because of wear to the internal clip. The stylus hole is on the bottom edge of the phone, so the stylus then falls out. Since the wear is to the phone's innards rather than the stylus, buying a new stylus won't help.

The wrist strap is anchored to a concealed hook inside the phone. The hook is very weak, meaning that the slightest stress leaves you with a broken hook and intact wrist strap.

Every couple of months the email app simply forgets all the accounts. This isn't a simple case of reconfiguring the accounts - it then tries to download all old emails from the server, runs out of space and locks up. Trying to delete emails it had already downloaded didn't work because it got "clever" and assured me that despite me wanting to delete them it would keep the headers because it knew best.

Incoming text messages are timestamped with the time of ARRIVAL, rather than the time they were sent. So when I switch my phone on and get a message I have no way of knowing how old it is. THIS IS PATHETIC!

The touch screen is sluggish and the interface laggy. The menu system is inconsistent... in some contexts you can drag the actual menu to scroll (eg in Contacts) but in some (eg Apps) this just launches the app you touched. The scroll bars are far too sensitive and all too often there's too much content, so that it's actually impossible to see it all as moving the scroll bar a pixel whips the content up and down whole pages at a time.

Despite having installed several software updates since having the phone, they do not take effect. The date of last update is shown as two years ago!

The screen lock/unlock is a slider switch on the side of the phone... a switch even more vulnerable to accidental nudges than a numeric keypad, rendering it completely pointless!

The sensor which tells the phone which way up it is works only sometimes - I have to gently shake the handset so that it notices a change in orientation.

The email app behaves differently just about every day - sometimes automatically downloading everything, sometimes only headers, sometimes going completely manual, and sometimes (mentioned above) all but uninstallng itself.

The controls for menus, camera, etc are all awful. It's been designed with one aim in mind: To make you press lots of buttons. eg. In File Manager, you can view a list of photos. You can tap a photo to view it. (oops - its DOUBLE tap this time... that's another seemingly random arrangement - insome contexts you double tap, in others single.) So, you're viewing a photo in file manager... Can you delete it? NO! Can you move to next photo? NO! To do either of these you have to... TAP the photo to get a menu, BACK UP to the previous level, THEN go ahead and delete or move to next pic. Imagine going through a couple of dozen like that!

To delete all text messages in my inbox is easy. To delete them from Sent Items is completely different. Der!!!

I could go on and on... even a simple thing like making a telephone call is deliberately made difficult. And the apps?? Wow! Imagine this scenario EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU START FACEBOOK: Tap icon. Wait ten seconds. Get asked permission to continue. Tap. Wait ten seconds. Get asked again for permission to continue. Tap. Wait ten seconds. Finally get into app. ooh - I have a message... tap to show it... NO! Doesn't work! In short, this is the WORST phone I have EVER had. I implore you not to buy one, even very cheap second hand. In my honest opinion Nokia and (in my case) Vodafone are breaking UK law by even selling it. It's not "fit for purpose."

(And if a seller would like to argue with this: How about the promise of Facebook widget on desktop that simply doesn't happen?!!)

I had my nokia 5800 XpressMusic for six months when out of the blue my screen would start to go blurry every time I unlocked my phone. I asked around and found other people who have experienced the same problem with this phone, it not something you would expect to happen with a modern phone. The 5800 does have some good qualities though, like an excellent music player downside is when you purchase songs from nokia ovi store you cannot use them as your ringtones, why I have no idea. It looks stylish and has smart, good sized touchscreen. It also has a decent camera and you can get some cool apps for it, maybe not as many good apps as the likes of iphone but still ok. Overall this phone is alright but there are better ones out there.

Had a 5800 for 15 months with no problems. Great for music, and camera and video camera great as well. Now have the X6 but my partner is using the same 5800 with no problem. A great phone that is still better now than many others event though it has been around a while.

Very Good to Very Bad

Basic features are excellent and if those are all you use, you will like the phone, its a reasonable size with good battery life.Camera & video = very goodMusic player = very goodInternet = good but you may experience connectivity problemsBluetooth = connectivity problems & and the worst thing is that Nokia cant help you and they dont admit to problems, very poor service.Updates & bug fixes from Nokia = lenghthy, taking months with no guarantee of fixes.Touchscreen = Good, but can sometimes be unresponsive (annoying)menus = ok, can be a little lengthysummary = be prepared for one problem or another, even after updating the software, unless you are a basic user and not always connecting different devices etc. Check the reviews to make sure that the functions you want to use are not mentioned by others, as not working. (Nokia disscussions) is a good place to start.I would like to recommend this phone, but I wont. the lack of support from nokia and the delays in fixing software bugs, has meant that I have always had problems, for the last year. I have reverted to using my long standing and probably 1 of The best Nokia phones; The 6300.

The nokia 5800 express music is a great phone for people who will use it for music or watching video. I say this because its not a great phone to get a long with. It looks very stylish but feel really cheap. There have been some cases were people lose there stylus due to poor plastic quality. The system its self is really buggy. But nokia are bringing out updates to keep it functioning properly. I'm updated to the latest firmware (50.xxxx) And it has fixed a few known bugs and added Kinetic scrolling (Known from the iPhone) The camera on this phone is also really good, It has a 3.2 Mega-pixel Carl zeiss lens. This is really good for taking photos out side or filming out side. I say out side because this brings out the true quality of the camera.

If your looking for a easy to use music phone with a great screen and a decent camera then this is the phone for you.

I can honestly say this is the worst piece of junk I have ever had the misfortune to own as a phone. Within a couple of months of ownership the screen would go fuzzy to the point that eventually the screen disappeared. I would have to lightly press the off switch and the side button to get it to re appear before eventually losing it permanently. I binned it and bought a £10 phone from Tescos to last me until my contract allowed me a new upgrade.