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Aside from my wedding anniversay (4th), yesterday was the Nokia “iPhone-killer” day. Nokia just announced in London the new and much awaited Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, the first Nokia phone provided with a touchscreen display.
Been labeled as 5800, it means that it’s a mass market phone and the price has been defined accordingly, that is $390 (in Europe should be around euros 290), unlocked. For a complete set of features, take a look at the official Nokia 5800 website, full of animations, videos and complete specifications.
It’s pretty clear that everyone is looking at it as the iPhone’s rival, even if I expect that all the next high-end Nokia phones will be touchscreen and much more feature-rich. This means that this comparison is, to me, a bit like apples and pears and it doesn’t make much sense, but in any case it ‘s something people are looking for.
Who is gonna be the winner? Here are my opinions, broken down in 10 categories.
1) Display
Nokia 1 – Apple 1
The new Nokia phone is provided with a 3.2″, 16:9 – 640×360 nHD display with up to 16M colors. An accelerometer is included, so that the screen automatically rotates depending on the orientation of the phone.
The iPhone’s screen is a little bit bigger (3.5″) but the resolution is less, being 480×320. Not having tried the 5800 yet, I cannot tell you more, but I would say I would prefer a better resolution over a not much bigger screen.
2) Size
Nokia 1 – Apple 0
The iPhone is bigger, on average (a little bit longer 115mm vs 111mm, thinner 12.3mm vs 15.5mm and larger), that means the Nokia is about 25g lighter. Not a big deal, both of them are portable and designed to fit well in your hands. Having a smaller width, the Nokia should be easier to operate with one hand only.
3) Memory
Nokia 1 – Apple 0
While the iPhone comes in two versions, 8GB and 16GB internal memory, the Nokia is offered with 8GB only through a micro SD card. The latter is definitely a more flexible solution since it’s very easy and relatively cheap upgrading to 16GB, something iPhone’s owners cannot do.
4) Network
Nokia 0 – Apple 0
Both phones are provided with a complete range of available voice and data networks, both GSM and 3G, and both phones come in two different versions for 3G (850/1900MHz and 900/2100 Mhz).
5) Input methods
Nokia 1 – Apple 1
Your finger for the iphone, finger, stylus or plectrum for the Nokia. Even if I prefer my finger for both, many will definitely like having more available options. Here it’s only a metter of personal tastes. Unlike the iPhone, Nokia provides you with a traditional stylus – handwriting, much common to Windows mobile and Palm users.
6) Battery life
Nokia 1 – Apple 0
Daily usage with each of these phones is a different thing, of course, but according to the technical specifications, the Nokia 5800 is overall better either for voice, data and standby (about 15 to 30% more). In addition, Nokia claims up to 35h of music time against 24h of the Apple iPhone.
7) Camera
Nokia 1 – Apple 0
The Nokia is provided with a 3.2Mpix camera with Carl Zeiss Optics and dual flash. On the contrary, the iPhone mounts a very basic 2Mpix camera, no flash, no carl zeiss, far behind the Nokia’s one despite it is certainly not the top as the one mounted in the N95.
Video Recording
Nokia 1 – Apple 0
No native iPhone video recording yet, even if the iPhone is capable of playing various video formats. Services lik Qik works on jailbroken iPhones while it is pre installed in any Nokia 5800 phone. In addition you can record videos with the standard Nokia application and make video calls, something not yet possible on the iphone.
9) UI
Nokia 1 – Apple 1
Hard fight here. The iPhone UI is definitely cool and any customer loves it. The Nokia’s one is promising, with the new contact and multimedia bar (familiar to N-series owners) but not having tried it yet, I cannot say more. What I bet is that Nokia’s interface will be much better in terms of basic features still missing on the iPhone, like the much requested cut & paste or a much better bluetooth integration, with the ability to send all kind of multimedia files trough bluetooth. I would say it’s a draw at this moment.
10) Music
Nokia 1 – Apple 1
To me, another draw here. Nokia is pushing this phone as a music phone tightly integrated with their new online music store. In addition, any XpressMusic phone will come with one year subscription which lets you download unlimited songs (with DRM). The winner? iTunes is certainly a big one to fight but Nokia is the #1 in the mobile phone market, that means a preferred way to push their services to customers and, with that package, easier to make them prefer their store over iTunes.
Being a long time user of Nokia phones and having access to an iPhone (kinda, my wife’s owns it) I’m not surprised by this result. There is much more to say, like audio quality during phone calls (I bet Nokia will be far superior), GPS as well as the internet browsing experience, I bet much better on the iPhone.
Anyway, right now it looks like the Nokia 5800 is a potential winner, more likely to become a mass market phone rather than the iPhone, the latter being much more expensive and not available without a contract in certain markets like the US. In any case, it’s more a metter of how you are going to use it most.
What do you think? How much market share will Nokia get against the iPhone? Please leave your comments doen here.
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I have just bought the 5800 as cheaper and seems a whole lot better in most aspects. my ipod is broke anyway…one of the common errors where the 3.5mm headphone socket buggers up. only one head phone works!! apple are just riddled with bugs and errors. So am waiting for the 5800 to be delivered as will take longer than usual due to being in higher demand!!! I can now use that as my ipod and the years free music!! cant wait!!! i will miss itunes though
I have just bought the 5800 as cheaper and seems a whole lot better in most aspects. my ipod is broke anyway…one of the common errors where the 3.5mm headphone socket buggers up. only one head phone works!! apple are just riddled with bugs and errors. So am waiting for the 5800 to be delivered as will take longer than usual due to being in higher demand!!! I can now use that as my ipod and the years free music!! cant wait!!! i will miss itunes though
I have just bought the 5800 as cheaper and seems a whole lot better in most aspects. my ipod is broke anyway…one of the common errors where the 3.5mm headphone socket buggers up. only one head phone works!! apple are just riddled with bugs and errors. So am waiting for the 5800 to be delivered as will take longer than usual due to being in higher demand!!! I can now use that as my ipod and the years free music!! cant wait!!! i will miss itunes though
I have just bought the 5800 as cheaper and seems a whole lot better in most aspects. my ipod is broke anyway…one of the common errors where the 3.5mm headphone socket buggers up. only one head phone works!! apple are just riddled with bugs and errors. So am waiting for the 5800 to be delivered as will take longer than usual due to being in higher demand!!! I can now use that as my ipod and the years free music!! cant wait!!! i will miss itunes though
Thank you so much for this review.
I was contemplating at first, whether to get an iPhone or something else since it's about time to have a 3G phone.
It becomes a hype here to own an iPhone, since it'll be officially launch here in Malaysia next week, and I was thinking, “should I join the crowd or just follow my own path”.
Yeah, I admit that it is much more “cooler” to own an iPhone, but after reading your review, practically, Nokia 5800 is the best choice. Besides, it is much more cheaper!
I can save my money for an Hermes handbag or at least an LV handbag or maybe some other designer's handbag. That will make me be in the crowd as well.. Ha! Ha!
I'll definitely will be getting that Nokia 5800. No more second thought.
Thanks again!
Thank you so much for this review.
I was contemplating at first, whether to get an iPhone or something else since it's about time to have a 3G phone.
It becomes a hype here to own an iPhone, since it'll be officially launch here in Malaysia next week, and I was thinking, “should I join the crowd or just follow my own path”.
Yeah, I admit that it is much more “cooler” to own an iPhone, but after reading your review, practically, Nokia 5800 is the best choice. Besides, it is much more cheaper!
I can save my money for an Hermes handbag or at least an LV handbag or maybe some other designer's handbag. That will make me be in the crowd as well.. Ha! Ha!
I'll definitely will be getting that Nokia 5800. No more second thought.
Thanks again!
Thank you so much for this review.
I was contemplating at first, whether to get an iPhone or something else since it's about time to have a 3G phone.
It becomes a hype here to own an iPhone, since it'll be officially launch here in Malaysia next week, and I was thinking, “should I join the crowd or just follow my own path”.
Yeah, I admit that it is much more “cooler” to own an iPhone, but after reading your review, practically, Nokia 5800 is the best choice. Besides, it is much more cheaper!
I can save my money for an Hermes handbag or at least an LV handbag or maybe some other designer's handbag. That will make me be in the crowd as well.. Ha! Ha!
I'll definitely will be getting that Nokia 5800. No more second thought.
Thanks again!
Thank you so much for this review.
I was contemplating at first, whether to get an iPhone or something else since it's about time to have a 3G phone.
It becomes a hype here to own an iPhone, since it'll be officially launch here in Malaysia next week, and I was thinking, “should I join the crowd or just follow my own path”.
Yeah, I admit that it is much more “cooler” to own an iPhone, but after reading your review, practically, Nokia 5800 is the best choice. Besides, it is much more cheaper!
I can save my money for an Hermes handbag or at least an LV handbag or maybe some other designer's handbag. That will make me be in the crowd as well.. Ha! Ha!
I'll definitely will be getting that Nokia 5800. No more second thought.
Thanks again!
Thank you so much for this review.
I was contemplating at first, whether to get an iPhone or something else since it's about time to have a 3G phone.
It becomes a hype here to own an iPhone, since it'll be officially launch here in Malaysia next week, and I was thinking, “should I join the crowd or just follow my own path”.
Yeah, I admit that it is much more “cooler” to own an iPhone, but after reading your review, practically, Nokia 5800 is the best choice. Besides, it is much more cheaper!
I can save my money for an Hermes handbag or at least an LV handbag or maybe some other designer's handbag. That will make me be in the crowd as well.. Ha! Ha!
I'll definitely will be getting that Nokia 5800. No more second thought.
Thanks again!
nokia's 1st touch screen was the 7710…
nokia's 1st touch screen was the 7710…
nokia's 1st touch screen was the 7710…
nokia's 1st touch screen was the 7710…
nokia's 1st touch screen was the 7710…
hmmm some ponits r against iphone..
bt d features of iphone………really no comparion 4it….
dude d game graphics….d games….d music…no cmparion 4it wit it……….d quality of sound in hearphones…..d toch inteface…wer nokia n wern iphone dat u knw beeter……..
seee d keywords of nokia 5800.shit on it..
d cydia in iphone..dats only a lot to say bye bye to nokia 5800
ya its little cmplicat bt…iphone is iphone.a person usin iphone wil never use nokia 5800
n u knw dat beeter……
n wait 4 3.0 version of iphone..den it wil b d best…
in sort iphone is d best of all(let me say u nokia 5800 is a copy of iphone so it cant b better den it)
hope u reply…me rite na
hmmm some ponits r against iphone..
bt d features of iphone………really no comparion 4it….
dude d game graphics….d games….d music…no cmparion 4it wit it……….d quality of sound in hearphones…..d toch inteface…wer nokia n wern iphone dat u knw beeter……..
seee d keywords of nokia 5800.shit on it..
d cydia in iphone..dats only a lot to say bye bye to nokia 5800
ya its little cmplicat bt…iphone is iphone.a person usin iphone wil never use nokia 5800
n u knw dat beeter……
n wait 4 3.0 version of iphone..den it wil b d best…
in sort iphone is d best of all(let me say u nokia 5800 is a copy of iphone so it cant b better den it)
hope u reply…me rite na
hmmm some ponits r against iphone..
bt d features of iphone………really no comparion 4it….
dude d game graphics….d games….d music…no cmparion 4it wit it……….d quality of sound in hearphones…..d toch inteface…wer nokia n wern iphone dat u knw beeter……..
seee d keywords of nokia 5800.shit on it..
d cydia in iphone..dats only a lot to say bye bye to nokia 5800
ya its little cmplicat bt…iphone is iphone.a person usin iphone wil never use nokia 5800
n u knw dat beeter……
n wait 4 3.0 version of iphone..den it wil b d best…
in sort iphone is d best of all(let me say u nokia 5800 is a copy of iphone so it cant b better den it)
hope u reply…me rite na
hmmm some ponits r against iphone..
bt d features of iphone………really no comparion 4it….
dude d game graphics….d games….d music…no cmparion 4it wit it……….d quality of sound in hearphones…..d toch inteface…wer nokia n wern iphone dat u knw beeter……..
seee d keywords of nokia 5800.shit on it..
d cydia in iphone..dats only a lot to say bye bye to nokia 5800
ya its little cmplicat bt…iphone is iphone.a person usin iphone wil never use nokia 5800
n u knw dat beeter……
n wait 4 3.0 version of iphone..den it wil b d best…
in sort iphone is d best of all(let me say u nokia 5800 is a copy of iphone so it cant b better den it)
hope u reply…me rite na
hmmm some ponits r against iphone..
bt d features of iphone………really no comparion 4it….
dude d game graphics….d games….d music…no cmparion 4it wit it……….d quality of sound in hearphones…..d toch inteface…wer nokia n wern iphone dat u knw beeter……..
seee d keywords of nokia 5800.shit on it..
d cydia in iphone..dats only a lot to say bye bye to nokia 5800
ya its little cmplicat bt…iphone is iphone.a person usin iphone wil never use nokia 5800
n u knw dat beeter……
n wait 4 3.0 version of iphone..den it wil b d best…
in sort iphone is d best of all(let me say u nokia 5800 is a copy of iphone so it cant b better den it)
hope u reply…me rite na
Thank you for all the comments
One of the main things people seem to prefer iphone for is itunes
One big advantage in the nokia is they have been making phones for yrs and know what the customers want
Another advantage of Nokia is you can use different networks on contract and no unlocking
I have just ordered my Nokia today on Orange ONE THOUSAND free minutes UNLIMITED text messages and UNLIMITED browsing and all for TWENTY FIVE quid
Iphone was only SIX hundred minutes and would of been FORTY quid for the sixteen gig
Adnan: You like the Iphone “I think” where others cant understand it well you must be suited to it because I struggled to understand comments as they were half in text speak >>>> d music d did d dat d uvver Jeez people cant write normal anymore
Excuse my lack of punctuation and numerics as my shift key is sticking
Thank you for all the comments
One of the main things people seem to prefer iphone for is itunes
One big advantage in the nokia is they have been making phones for yrs and know what the customers want
Another advantage of Nokia is you can use different networks on contract and no unlocking
I have just ordered my Nokia today on Orange ONE THOUSAND free minutes UNLIMITED text messages and UNLIMITED browsing and all for TWENTY FIVE quid
Iphone was only SIX hundred minutes and would of been FORTY quid for the sixteen gig
Adnan: You like the Iphone “I think” where others cant understand it well you must be suited to it because I struggled to understand comments as they were half in text speak >>>> d music d did d dat d uvver Jeez people cant write normal anymore
Excuse my lack of punctuation and numerics as my shift key is sticking
Thank you for all the comments
One of the main things people seem to prefer iphone for is itunes
One big advantage in the nokia is they have been making phones for yrs and know what the customers want
Another advantage of Nokia is you can use different networks on contract and no unlocking
I have just ordered my Nokia today on Orange ONE THOUSAND free minutes UNLIMITED text messages and UNLIMITED browsing and all for TWENTY FIVE quid
Iphone was only SIX hundred minutes and would of been FORTY quid for the sixteen gig
Adnan: You like the Iphone “I think” where others cant understand it well you must be suited to it because I struggled to understand comments as they were half in text speak >>>> d music d did d dat d uvver Jeez people cant write normal anymore
Excuse my lack of punctuation and numerics as my shift key is sticking
Thank you for all the comments
One of the main things people seem to prefer iphone for is itunes
One big advantage in the nokia is they have been making phones for yrs and know what the customers want
Another advantage of Nokia is you can use different networks on contract and no unlocking
I have just ordered my Nokia today on Orange ONE THOUSAND free minutes UNLIMITED text messages and UNLIMITED browsing and all for TWENTY FIVE quid
Iphone was only SIX hundred minutes and would of been FORTY quid for the sixteen gig
Adnan: You like the Iphone “I think” where others cant understand it well you must be suited to it because I struggled to understand comments as they were half in text speak >>>> d music d did d dat d uvver Jeez people cant write normal anymore
Excuse my lack of punctuation and numerics as my shift key is sticking
Thank you for all the comments
One of the main things people seem to prefer iphone for is itunes
One big advantage in the nokia is they have been making phones for yrs and know what the customers want
Another advantage of Nokia is you can use different networks on contract and no unlocking
I have just ordered my Nokia today on Orange ONE THOUSAND free minutes UNLIMITED text messages and UNLIMITED browsing and all for TWENTY FIVE quid
Iphone was only SIX hundred minutes and would of been FORTY quid for the sixteen gig
Adnan: You like the Iphone “I think” where others cant understand it well you must be suited to it because I struggled to understand comments as they were half in text speak >>>> d music d did d dat d uvver Jeez people cant write normal anymore
Excuse my lack of punctuation and numerics as my shift key is sticking
i have a nokia 5800 and since i have had it i have loved it!!!. BUT as all electronics there are always falts for instance, sometime the camara wont work and it will just be a blank screen and also the touch screen will just stop working, i have not used the iphone because its too price and all my mate have said they regret getting it they only brought it because its a first for apple so although i have a had a few problems they have been sorted i have to new improver model and it works greak so if anyone want to know which to buy it the NNOOKKIIAA 55880000
East or West, Nokia is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The iPhones cool too but mac os is not at alllllll usr frndly.
Getting my 5800 tomorrow,cant wait after reading comments about the iphone and the 5800…5800 its a winner for me.
Just bought Nokia 5800 3 days ago… what happened today… my boss try to switch his Iphone with my Nokia… I guess Nokia 5800 just win this competition…
yey, i have already a 5800 Xpress Music Phone =)
i have iphone and nokia 5800 i think the nokia is so much better
it has so much its so cool love my nokia 5800 <3 <3
HOLY – I THINK I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH 5800
BUT STILL, IPHONE IS MUCH MUCH COOLER THAN 5800 BUT MUCHMUCH LESSER FEATURES
AND NOKIA5800EXPRESS MUSIC WINS!!!
i was looking forward ti it too. But the touch screen is not as responsive as iphone's. I am not saying that 5800 is bad but iphone is better as far as touch screen is concerned. Nokia gives wide range of applictaion compatibiity. Thats why i dont like iphone. Otherwise iphone has a great look. And whats the deal with no data transfer via bluethooth. Its beyond me……… I switched to n82. Awesome phone
i was looking forward ti it too. But the touch screen is not as responsive as iphone's. I am not saying that 5800 is bad but iphone is better as far as touch screen is concerned. Nokia gives wide range of applictaion compatibiity. Thats why i dont like iphone. Otherwise iphone has a great look. And whats the deal with no data transfer via bluethooth. Its beyond me……… I switched to n82. Awesome phone
i was looking forward ti it too. But the touch screen is not as responsive as iphone's. I am not saying that 5800 is bad but iphone is better as far as touch screen is concerned. Nokia gives wide range of applictaion compatibiity. Thats why i dont like iphone. Otherwise iphone has a great look. And whats the deal with no data transfer via bluethooth. Its beyond me……… I switched to n82. Awesome phone
i was looking forward ti it too. But the touch screen is not as responsive as iphone's. I am not saying that 5800 is bad but iphone is better as far as touch screen is concerned. Nokia gives wide range of applictaion compatibiity. Thats why i dont like iphone. Otherwise iphone has a great look. And whats the deal with no data transfer via bluethooth. Its beyond me……… I switched to n82. Awesome phone
This is the most reliable thing of thing we've ever used.
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