Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic Reviews

Even though Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic isn't coming out until 2009, the reviews are already starting to trickle in.

Early reviews indicate that call quality is solid, the new touch Symbian OS was mostly stable, and the display was a clear and easy to and interact with. Early reviewers had didn't find anything too negative to say about the phone. The reviewers noted that this is the handset for anyone after a "well-rounded, do-it-all solution."

Reviewers also stated that the Nokia 5800 and the iPhone were really two different types of phones not really worth comparing, and they gave the overall advantage to the Tube (sounds like they did compare then).

...the Nokia 5800's positioning shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out - it's simply the most feature-rich and affordable touchscreen device with a focus on music. Furthermore, you won't find any other phone that can come close to it in terms of price/quality ratio. Windows Mobile devices are by no means "multimedia-ready", so the only other way to go is the Apple iPhone - however, retailing for twice as much, it's not much of a mobile phone per se. And the Nokia 5800 makes it clear that the real price of the Apple iPhone 3G should revolve around 300-350 USD before subsidies. All in all, I suggest we wait until December and see how Apple will alter their pricing policy in view of Nokia's latest efforts on the touchscreen playground.

Let's hope all this new iPhone competition means we'll all be rockin' cheap iPhone style smartphones with endless apps within the next 2-years.

Read the whole review and check out the beautiful pictures here.