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"NOKIA 5800 XPRESSMUSIC – THE FIRST ‘REAL’ TOUCHSCREEN PHONE?" Nokia 5800 XpressMusic – The First ‘Real’ Touchscreen Phone? To say that the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was eagerly anticipated is an understatement. Leaked images of the first Nokia touchscreen phone known in development as the ‘Tube,’ (possibly in reference to the long and narrow screen) did the rounds and were lapped up by the online media, whilst a cameo in the Oscar-nominated Dark Knight movie and Britney’s comeback video got the masses into a lather.

Finally the 5800 XpressMusic in within the hands of mortals as well as fictional billionaire businessmen, but is it as good in the flesh? Well, it’s not an iPhone. Let’s get that out of the way, pronto . Both have touchscreens, both are impressively specced, and both handle multimedia nicely. However, the familiar red, green and white buttons at the base of the handset remind you that this is a Nokia, and pressing these (or sliding the lock button on the right side) brings the screen into life reaffirms the fact.

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Design-wise, this is an immediate and immaculate Nokia. The sturdy shape, the curved edges, the fingerprint imagery on the back, everything about the 5800 XpressMusic screams quality, but without the opulent touches of an N-series device like the Nokia N96. Equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, an nHD 640 x 360 display, a second camera for video calls, built-in GPS and 8GB of memory as standard (upgradable to 16GB), you are certainly getting a lot of bang for your buck with the 5800. Despite running on shiny Symbian S60 5th edition touchscreen software, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic feels like business as usual, with their standard 4 x 3 icon layout behind a strangely sparse home screen. It is definitely an evolution rather than a revolution, as the Nokia interface is easy to navigate if you’ve ever been exposed to any handset from the Finnish manufacturer in the last few years. 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.