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The phone is tailored to be functional from both portrait and landscape, but the first thing noticed when trying to take advantage of this is that the 5800 hates left handed people. Hates them. The accelerometer only works when turning the phone to the left through 90 degrees, which means all of the features from the media playback to browsing to even navigating the menus has to be done with the phone tilted the ‘wrong’ way for me. In turn, using the plectrum shaped of the two included styli (it is a music phone) in the wrong hand became a chore, and really left a steeper learning curve to using the phone than expected. Another thing that took some getting used to was the inconsistency of the user interface in terms of how to navigate. Sometimes item selection required a single tap, other times a double press was required, some menus used the iPhone ‘grab to scroll’ method, whilst others need the sidebar for scrolling up and down Windows Mobile-style. On top of that comes a media bar touch key existing above the entire touchscreen next to the ‘XpressMusic’ logo, giving instant access to a dropdown menu for music, images, media sharing, video and browsing.
A welcome addition, just the addition of yet another method of navigation smacks of indecision as to the direction of the first Nokia touch phone. This extends to entering text for messaging and the like. Offering a traditional alphanumeric keypad, fully QWERTY, half-screen QWERTY and handwriting recognition seems gross overcompensation for not finding a definitive reliable input on their screen. Or perhaps they are still thinking about the Asian market, who are still big on character inputs and stylus use whilst the rest of the world goes touch crazy… The inputs using a finger do often feel woolly and unsure unless the screen is pressed what feels far too hard, and even the impressive haptic feedback is insufficient if speed is of the essence when composing a message. The 5800 definitely seems happier when using the stylus, or even the plectrum.
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One place the 5800 XpressMusic definitely impressed was multimedia. The video playback was crisp and clear, and the 16:9 aspect ratio came into it’s own when watching BBC iPlayer or a video off the memory card. The former is a touch choppier than the iPhone’s digital output of the Beeb’s finest, but the picture quality is still excellent. Audio is nice, the stereo speakers on the left side of the 5800 belt out the tunes at a fair whack, and the music options in terms of playback are more than enough for an aficionado. The headphone jack is placed dead centre in the top of the phone, and is entirely welcome. Browsing with the Nokia is…average.
Having been spoiled rotten by slick Opera and Safari on other touchy phones, the Nokia browser is adequate, but lacks the sweet zooming and text rendering options the others have. Also the issues with landscape for left handers rear their ugly head again… However, Flash playback within the webpages was a pleasant surprise, the 5800 didn’t have to boot up a separate program to show you a YouTube video for example.
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That sparse front end sparks into life once you have some contacts, a couple of reminders and a track going on the media player. It becomes a hub to instantly access all manner of social functions on your phone be they texts or images uploaded by friends, or a status feed to see what everyone you know is currently up to. An impressive interface that integrates what were initially disparate phone features. As a phone it is also more than competent, with the calling functionality easy to get around, and contacts able to replace apps on your home screen for easy access.
All of these latter features are saving graces in a handset that has some ways to go to find itself in a crowded mobile phone market.
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