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Nokia 5800 phone
Average Customer Rating:
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58 out of 89(65%)customers would recommend this product to a friend.
Customer Reviews for Nokia 5800 phone
Review 1 for Nokia 5800 phone
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zakclh
Location: Walsall, West Midlands, UK
Gender: Male
One Of The Worst Phones Ever!
Date: March 12, 2010
This phone is not worth the money, I have had this phone since Nov 09 and since then I have had to have it changed and have had to master reset my current one two times. I was looking forward to having this phone and read all the reviews and they said it was good but it is not. The short-cut home screen don't work and sometimes when you type you are pressing one thing and it clicks another. The phone is slow, for example when you press applications it take about 20 seconds till the menu comes up. Personally I Prefer my old Sony Ericsson K800i and if I were you I would't buy this phone, well I wouldn't buy any Nokia phone if I was you.
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Review 2 for Nokia 5800 phone
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drumboy321
Amazing phone!
Date: March 10, 2010
I've had this phone now for around 4 months and i use it all the time, i play drums and needed a phone with good speakers and music player, this phone is perfect for what i use it for.It has frozen only once and i have had to switch it off then on but i don't know what people are saying about this not working in the cold because i walk to school at 7.15 for a mile every morning in the freezing cold and i go on the internet, listen to music, text people and phone people and it has never frozen because of the cold. The battery life on this is really good, it will last around two days on heavy 3G use and three days on general use. Would recommend this to anyone
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Review 3 for Nokia 5800 phone
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Dani88
Nokia 5800
Date: March 3, 2010
I have to say this phone was pretty good when i got it, but now it's the worst phone i've ever had, as silly as it sounds it dosen't work if it's cold, you have to heat up in your pocket before it actually starts to work again.
The worst phone i've had..
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Review 4 for Nokia 5800 phone
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jeffers
poor conectivity
Date: March 1, 2010
Sluggish is probably the best way to describe this phone. If you want internet access as I do, then I'd advise you to try something else. Got a bad review on the BBC Click programme for this reason which I thoroughly endorse. Everything else is fine and I like the stylus, but as I wanted it for the internet I wasted my money. I'm getting an i-phone which seems more up to the job.
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Review 5 for Nokia 5800 phone
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Speedy
Location: Oxfordshire
Gender: Male
Full review after 3 days
Date: February 18, 2010
True the 5800 isnt as flexible as a windows mobile device Like the HTC tytn2 in the sense of doing everything your PC can, but to be honest I'm starting to realise that alot of that was just clutter I never used on my old phone.
I thought the HTC had a good speaker for music but the 5800's blows it away, although the mediaplayer style playlist means playing a homemade compilation album is a right pain, as it sorts all the songs into original album titles so you cant just click the folder and play all. However I plan on getting powermusic3 which does this (at the princely sum of £8).
Its not quite as intuitive to use as a winmob device or Android, but its still no nonsense and easy to reach stuff, it might just take a couple of extra clicks.
The touch screen is waaay better than my oldTytn2's and I dont think theres a massive difference to the iphones of my mates, its just a slightly different amount of force or pause you have to use. The only big difference is that this doesnt have the multi touch option for zooming etc. but with a zoom button at the side, a double tap 3 preset zoom option AND a webpage overview option it really isnt missed.
The camera is faaaar Better than anything HTC can offer even now. Its certanily good enough for "recording the moment" or facebook entries. Plus you have 30fps video recording.
Text input is very easy and the full qwerty screenpad doesnt make too many mistakes, is only slightly slower to type in than if you had a physical keyboard and unlike others I find it easy to tap the screen to get the cursor between letters. The alphanumeric pad is great for typing while on the move too.
Internet browsing is easy, probably easier than my old HTC and I love the way it displays a stacked overview of each previous page when you tap back, but its a shame that while you can toggle between open webpages there seems like theres no option to actually open fresh pages, only toggle between those that have been created as pop ups!
Big hurrah for a far better phone keypad than on my old HTC and no accidental program opening while on the phone what with the proximity sensor.
A BIG bug bear I had with the HTC was that the alarm would only work if the phone was on, so at Night you couldnt turn the phone off. Not the case here. Also the calendar on Winmobile never gave you a preview of what was planned on each day unless you physically opened the day. The Nokia allows you to scroll through the month view and see whats happening each day.
Conectivity to your PCs outlook is great, so Calendar events, contacts, internet favourites etc all work seamlessly once transferred across. One annoyance is when swapping contacts from the HTC to the new phone via sim the HTC the contacts automatically save surname first whichyou can change in settings, but when you swap the SIM to the Nokia they are shown with the surname under the firstname and vice versa and theres no setting to swap them all round at once. This is more a problem with the HTCs organising and I could probably have solved it by swapping contacts through outlook.
Downsides: No office apps as standard and it looks like its £27 to download them (and I dont use them that often! maybe only once a month to write lists and lyrics). The copy and paste is ok (and at least its there, unlike the iphone I believe), but it is relatively basic in comparison to windows mobile and isnt available on everything. Ovi maps is a great app to have on there, the GPS picks up REALLY fast and is incredibly accurate. You can run your music etc at the same time and both continue to work even if they are in the background, but whilst its now free for audio instructions and turn by turn navigation (which google maps doesnt offer), the proggy seems to take you very weird ways to your destination, so TomTom will be going on soon (are s60 models backwards compatible with old TomTom versions etc??? [smiley=dunno.gif])
...and I have had one freeze.
I got an orange update where I had to turn off the phone then turn it back on and it froze. I thought it was because the battery was almost dead when I was notified and that I had buggered it because it had gone flat mid update, so I was in a strop for the rest of the night that the phone was frozen on the Nokia Logo, even if you took the battery out, then in or put it on charge ( I could almost swear also that whe looking at the nokia Logo the screen inside the casing is ever so everso not level but I could be wrong, its too small to make any difference). I finally tried removing the battery AND the SIM and putting them back and since then I've had no other issues.
Overall this phone does all the things people expect of modern phones and most of them it does better than the average person would expect. Better still I can still use it on my motorbike with gloves on if I'm pausing at the side of the road without having to take my glove off like you would with a capacitive screen. The i-phone and androids seem to have far more gimmicks that make using it as a toy fun but if you want something that still resembles a phone rather than a PC, but that does all the things an i-phone can do, just in a more traditional set out (not neccesarily worse), I say this is a fantastic device.
Now lets hope that the reports of freezing software are overplayed!!! :o ;)
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Review 6 for Nokia 5800 phone
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Mac
Best Phone I have Had
Date: February 18, 2010
I have had this phone for almost a year now and have to say it is the best phone i have had. I had the clock problem but a simple update of firmware solved that. I use it for Sat Nav which is excellent and web browsing. Also the fact it has wireless is great. Shame the replacement 5230 does not have this.
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Review 7 for Nokia 5800 phone
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united
great phone
Date: February 15, 2010
I got it for christmas and my cousin came down and he told me how to set up emails and other things and i think it is the best phone i ever got !
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Review 8 for Nokia 5800 phone
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Ber
Rotation Sensor
Date: February 15, 2010
To turn rotation off;
1. Go Settings Menu
2. Select 'Phone'
3. Scroll down to 'Sensor Settings'
4. then from 'Sensors' you can turn 'Turning(Rotation) Control' either on or off.
Ber
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Review 9 for Nokia 5800 phone
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nokia
Location: Birmingham UK
Gender: Female
Could Be Better
Date: February 13, 2010
Ive had this phone for a couple of weeks now, i expected a lot more techno stuff on it. The phone itself is good for a first touchscreen phone by Nokia but it has fairly standard features on it. I expected to be a little advanced with its features, hopefully the next model they release will be better
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Review 10 for Nokia 5800 phone
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MonkeyGirl
Amazing
Date: February 13, 2010
This phone is amazing once you figure out how all of the features work. I was a bit confused at first with how to set everything up but that is all sorted now. The only problem that i have with this phone is that when you turn the phone around it can sometimes be a bit slow to react. Other than that it is a fab phone! One of the best in ages!!!!
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Review 11 for Nokia 5800 phone
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Baz
Good phone
Date: February 8, 2010
I have had this phone now for 6 months and the only thing i faulted it for was the keyboard changing slowly when im turned the phone around.I went to the vodaphone shop where they sorted some of the issues of setups for me now i am happy,works for me. Also the battery does not last long if you leave bluetooth turned on it uses a lot of the battery power.
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Review 12 for Nokia 5800 phone
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greengirl9
it aint that bad!
Date: February 8, 2010
had this phone for nearly a month a long battery life,which is great for me.Never had any problems with it yet..it was a bit fiddley getting started but now i know how to use most of its functions it's ok. I haven't had ny of the problems that other people have mentioned.
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Review 13 for Nokia 5800 phone
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24/7/365
Location: Soth East England
Gender: Male
Super reliable, super stable, rock solid
Date: February 7, 2010
I have had the Nokia 5800 since April 2009 and I have found it to be both a pleasure to use and totally reliable. I was not a fan of touch screen phones to be honest and I didn't really know what I was letting myself in for when I ordered this. So after 30 minutes or so of familiarising myself I have not had any problems. The radio and music player are excellant, the camera takes perfectly fine pictures. The 3.2 megapixel doesn't sound like much but with the Zeiss lens its really is quite good, better than a lot of cheap digital cameras for sure. The storage space is pretty good too 8GB as standard is quite large. A phone like this needs to be understood as a work in progress even when it is put on sale. As such the features and performance are going to be continually improved. It is important to keep the firmware up to date to get the best from it. I have now updated mine 3 times and I'm looking forward to the latest version being released to the Vodafone models which will bring iPhone like scrolling to the touch screen for the first time. The most remarkable thing about this phone is its bullet proof reliablity and ruggedness. The only time I have switched the phone off is when I have been on a plane, apart from that it has been on non-stop and never hung or frozen or played up at all. I carry it in my pocket everywhere and the screen remains like new, not a single scratch and I don't really take much care to prevent it. Overall I receommend this phone highly. Sure it isn't a great looker but it does exactly what it says it will and it won't let you down.
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Review 14 for Nokia 5800 phone
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rosy
I regret getting this phone
Date: February 5, 2010
I have definitely regretted getting this phone. It seemed like a good idea because I wanted a touch screen phone and it has a big screen but they have done a bad job in terms of functionality. I have found it be very impractical, especially texting, the internet freezes, the phone itself freezes, I have experienced all the faults mentioned in these reviews. The worst one in my opinion is that it has a software malfunction that makes the clock ALWAYS slow (unless you set it update itself - probably through the internet - all the time). So many people use their phone as an alarm clock and I have found mine to be up to half an hour late without me realising!! And apparently this is a known fault but they haven't fixed it... surely they can get hold of a known software that ensures the clock runs at the right speed?! I would definitely advise people against this choice.
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Review 15 for Nokia 5800 phone
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sj
not the best nokia
Date: February 4, 2010
touch screen not very responsive, mine has just frozen altogether lost all music downloaded and games. be carefull if you are tempted to buy this.
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Review 16 for Nokia 5800 phone
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hezzy
rubbish
Date: February 3, 2010
This is the worst phone I've had. You have to switch the slider on and off to view a text. The touch screen is not a patch on other touch screen phones. My first Nokia 5800 only lasted a week and just died. Have just dropped my second one and now have a crack all the way across the screen with a black mark getting bigger everyday. Have now lost many keys making texting very difficult. Will not be repalcing it with another 5800, will upgrade.
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Review 17 for Nokia 5800 phone
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fergie
RUBBISH.
Date: January 31, 2010
I have to turn it off and then turn it back on just to view a text...!
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Review 18 for Nokia 5800 phone
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MelanieB
Best phone I have ever bought
Date: January 31, 2010
I bought this phone for my daughter. She loves it! The battery life is always full because she's always charging it and making very good use from it! I would definetley recomend this to friends and family! It's very easy to use, the features are great and when talking on the phone you can hear everybody easily and they can hear you easily. It hasn't got a scratch or hasn't broken yet (my daughter is very clumsy) so I would say it was a strong phone too! I think anybody should buy it!!! melanieb from hull
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Dave
Load of Rubbish
Date: January 30, 2010
Decided to upgrade from another Nokia phone to the 5800. This was the worst decision I ever made as this Nokia is actually bigger than my old phone and the documetation does not explain that extra charges are required to take advantage of some of the features this phone is supposed to have. i have decided to go back to the old Nokia and "bin" this rubbish!!!!!!!!
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pooh bear
Great phone
Date: January 25, 2010
hi it is a good phone you have to get it my dad has got it it does lots of stuff get internet and games and can music and can put it on your car music with a lead and get lots of other stuff on there bluetooth and lots more thanks for looking pooh bear
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