Devices News - Written by Mikey Bee on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 13:05 - 3 Comments

Nokia 5800 tech specs, first-look

Tags: 5800 XpressMusic, Comes With Music, Nokia, XpressMusic

$The 5800 XpressMusic IS the phone you\'ve been waiting for$ The device formally known as ‘Tube’, now trading under the Nokia 5800 moniker is getting ready to come out and play. We’ve been lucky enough to hang around with the new ‘coolest kid in class’ for some time now so we know how excited people are going to be when they finally see it in the flesh.

It’s taken some time to get the 5800 prepped for release but with that date now just around the corner; it’s time to get close and personal with your new best friend.

Some of the speculation was indeed true, with the 5800 XpressMusic’s screen stretching the tape measure to 3.2-inches. Plus it’s packing a proper high res 16:9 widescreen (640 x 360-pixel) that plays video back at 30fps, and looks great in bright sunlight and even in moderately dark rooms. It feels good in the hand too, slimmer than the N95 8GB, with feedback haptics when you tap away at the screen.

It’s packed and stacked with just about every you’ll want, the 3.2-megapixel shooter as a killer Carl Zeiss lens, and records VGA video at up to 30fps. Then there is GPS with Nokia Maps 2.0, so while you may protest to your mate that you’re going to be late, at least you’ll be able to find where you’re supposed to be meeting up!

It runs of Nokia’s new S60 5th Edition platform, that’s been modified fully for touch. The interface is smart too, with slick drop-down menus mixed with familiar icon set-up, so navigating is a cinch.

Most of that is just a taster of what’s to come as this device is all about the music. Forget locking in those lyrics, take a look at our top-spec sheet and get ready to sing to a new tune….

Tech specs
WCDMA 900/2100
GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
Automatic switching between GSM bands
Flight mode
OS: S60
Dimensions: 111 x52 x 16mm
Weight: Approx. 109g
Display: 3.2-inch (640 x 320-pixel) nHD resolution
Up to 16 million colours, 16:9 aspect ratio
Optimised for one hand use, automatic orientation centre
Battery: BL-5J 1320 mAh Li-Ion battery

Keys and input: Stylus, plectrum and finger touch support for text input and user interface control (alpha-numeric keypad, full and mini QWERTY keyboard, handwriting recognition)
Dedicated Media Bar touch key for access to music, gallery, share on-line,

Media
Memory: MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 16GB
81MB internal memory
8GB microSD memory card in-box, expandable up to 16GB
Video playback: Video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels and 30 fps (TV high quality)
4x digital video zoom
Front camera for video calling
Music playback: MP3, SpMidi, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA
Main Camera Lens: 3.2-megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels)
Carl Zeiss optics with 3x digital zoom
Image capture: JPEG
Video capture: MPEG4-SP playback 30fps VGA, MPEG4-AVC playback 30fps QVGA, WMV9 playback 30fps QVGA, MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps nHD
Aperture: F2.8
Focal length: 5.4 mm
Flash: Dual LED camera flash and video light
GPS and navigation: Integrated GPS for pedestrian and car navigation
Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch application

Connections: Micro-USB connector, USB 2.0 High Speed
3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
MicroSD card slot, small DC jack, Micro USB cable interface to PC (CA-101), TV out interface (CA-75U)

Synchronisation: Bluetooth version 2.0
- Bluetooth profiles: A2DP & AVRCP
MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) support
TV out with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, in-box)
Support for PC synchronisation with Nokia OVI Suite

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Ziso Regondo
Jan 8, 2009 10:33

I have never been one to entrust my precious contacts, calendars and special messges accumulated over 9 years of Nokia-only use to ANY S60 Nokia, but i might be able to overlook this one thing and rely more on backups if this turns out to 90% what the iphone interface is like.

We will see…

Mikey Bee
Jan 8, 2009 11:49

Two different things to consider there, the reliability of the backup software and then the GUI. I’m hoping to get my hands on a full working model in the next day or so, so I reckon we’ll be testing these factors out first – then we get on to the good stuff of checking how far we can push the services.

Ziso Regondo
Jan 9, 2009 9:59

The nokia backup software is more solid than it used to be. My two issues are the OS and the UI.

S60 is always in the news for the wrong reasons – S40 almost never because it\’s THAT good!. I currently use a Nokia 6233 with it\’s latest software version 5.60 and i\’m sure it does 99% of what the S60 can do. Maybe not all at once, but it can email, text, mms, shoot video, play FM, run games, run java apps, you name it! S60 is less reliable and currently under scruitiny manily because of their sms/email freeze-your-phone-for-fun bug. I cannot be dealing with that – my phone is a tool and i need near 100% up-time on it.

The UI – i can live with everything else as long as i can test fast. It\’s what i do most on my 6233 and it\’s what i\’ll expect to be able to do on whatever i upgrade to. I\’m known for texting 600-800 character to multiple recepients often, so i need my phone to be a solid texter!

As i say, we\’ll see…