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Nokia 5800, the phone star appearing in the film The Dark Knight, is already on the market. We all have heard rumors about Nokia and the development of a touch-screen phone, a rival to Apple's iPhone, and they launched Nokia 5800. The phone has a lot of new features such as a sensor that stops the display when you hold it near your face and other innovations that you can find throughout this Nokia 5800 review.

When you buy the phone, you receive many accessories: a stylus, a spare stylus, stereo headphones with a remote, 8 GB microSD card, TV-Out cable, USB data cable, a charger and a DVD with the software application.

Nokia 5800 has a classic candy-bar shape and is made out of plastic, but the materials are good enough in terms of quality. You can choose the color of your phone from red, blue and black. These colors can be seen only on the sides of the case.

On the right side, we find the buttons for volume control, a button used to lock the display and the camera button. The stylus is placed near its bottom side. On the left side, there are two slots, one for microSD cards and the other for the SIM card. Also on the right side we see the speakers of the phone. On the top side of the phone we find a 3.5 mm audio jack for the headphones, another 2 mm socket and the microUSB slot.

The phone measures 111x51.7x15.5 and weighs 109 grams. Therefore, 5800 is reasonably large and not too "fat". Although in terms of size, is a 2008 typical classic.

One of the strengths of this phone is the display that is covered by a layer of plastic so that it can be used however you want, either using your hand or the stylus. With its 3.2 inch diagonal, 16:9 aspect ratio, 16 million colors and a resolution of 640x360 pixels (39x69 mm), Nokia 5800's screen is really a miracle. You can view pictures, movies or surf on the internet. The screen rotates automatically with the phone. The display of the phone remains quite readable in sunlight, though it may have some problems with the legibility, but nothing major.

Being a touchscreen phone, Nokia 5800 does not have a conventional keyboard but, it has only three mechanical keys on the front - Call, End and Menu. By pressing the End (anywhere in the menu) you will return to the previous levels. In addition, there are three methods of text input, not just methods, but different types of keyboards.

The first one is a standard keyboard, just like on any other phone, and to activate it you must just hold the phone vertically, and the keyboard will allow you to write like any other mobile phone keypad. Next, we have the mini QWERTY keyboard, available both in "landscape" and in the "portrait" modes. Nokia 5800 will enlarge, a little bit, the button above which you are. The last one is the QWERTY keyboard; it has big buttons so you can write with both hands on the screen. As you can see the new Nokia 5800 comes with many options that will help you write more easily.

The phone uses a Li-Ion 320 mAh battery (BL-5J). The producer says that this phone can support up to 8.8 hours of talk time on GSM networks and up to 400 hours of standby. If you use it just to listen to music the phone can hold up to 35 hours, the video player about 5 hours and the phone can video record up to 210 minutes.

Nokia 5800 has 128 MB internal memory, but the user has available only 70-74 MB. However, Nokia 5800 has, in the sales package, an 8GB card and the phone can support up to 32 GB.

In terms of connectivity, the phone can connect via USB, Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi including WEP, WPA, WPA 2, plus the phone has a wizard that helps you to connect almost to any wireless network.

Lately, all mobile phone manufacturers have the tendency to put on their expensive models GPS navigation and Nokia 5800 makes no exception from this rule. The phone has Nokia Maps 2.0 pre-installed which has a new feature specially designed for this device, namely that you can control the map by simply tapping the screen with your finger.

Nokia 5800 offers a new musical experience, a quality multimedia experience for a S60 device. 5800 comes with iPhone type headphones, which means that this will be the first thing to get rid of. You can listen with your own headphones, because they put in a 3.5 mm audio jack. The phone supports the following formats: AAC, AAC +, eAAC, eAAC +, MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, Mobile XMF, SP-MIDI, AMR (NB-AMR), MIDI Tones (poly 64), RealAudio 7,8,10, True tones (WB-AMR), WAV. MP3, and in addition the Nokia 5800 has an FM radio with RDS support.

Nokia 5800 is equipped with a 3.2 Megapixel CMOS camera with autofocus and macromode, the camera has Carl Zeiss lens (2.8, 3.7) and a flash with two LEDs.

The available resolutions are:
• Print 3M - Large
• Print 2M - Large
• Print / e-mail 1M - Small
• Multimedia message 0.3M

The camera can be activated by pressing the dedicated button mounted on the case. Since the interface is touchscreen, you can easily navigate through options, with only a few taps. To zoom in / out, you will need to use the volume control buttons.

The quality of the photos is pretty good; the photos are similar to those taken with other Nokia phones with 3.2 Megapixels camera. When you record a video, the maximum resolution is 640x480 pixels, and the clip is saved in MPEG4 format. Nokia 5800 receives the same software image stabilization as Nokia N80.

After this Nokia 5800 review, we can say that of the first touchscreen phone from Nokia is a device without major problems that has plenty of features like Wi-Fi connectivity and one of the best displays on the market.