Nokia 5800 Xpress Music - Touch Screen Features Review

The latest smart phone to be marketed under the Nokia banner is the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music phone. The smart phone looks impressive and elegant. Nokia has launched this touch screen phone due to the increasing world wide appeal for touch screen devices. The Nokia 5800 comes with a number of exciting features.

Icons and Buttons
The user interface of this incredible touch screen phone is thoroughly optimized. Nokia 5800 has a touch friendly interface; the icons are large sized and so are the buttons. The touch sensitive button at the top gives easy access to the phone's multi media panel via the media bar. Each time you tap an icon or button on screen with your fingers the phone will vibrate to provide you a feedback.
The input keyboards include an alpha numeric keypad, QWERTY keyboard (full and mini), Full screen support for Chinese handwriting and handwriting recognition. The hand writing recognition feature is very accurate. You have to use the stylus to type on the mini keyboard but it is possible to use fingers on the full screen version of the QWERTY keyboard. The full screen QWERTY keyboard is available in the landscape version; it is an enormous key board making it easy to type long emails on the phone. The alphanumeric keypad is available in a portrait version.
The Screen

The screen is large, 3.2 inches. It has a high resolution of 640X360 pixels for sharp images. It displays color 3D images. It has a feature called accelerometer for enabling automatic screen rotation. The touch screen is of resistive variety. It uses the stylus option for touch input. Alternatively, you can hang a plectrum from a wrist strap to help input without smudging the screen. The LCD screen has a dull surface reducing glare. So, watching movies on the mobile may not be a nice experience. You might not receive the striking effect that the bright screens furnish.
Other Significant Features

Another unique feature of these models is the Voice recognition facility. It helps in dialing through voice commands. The home screen enables you to put four contacts in the list so that you can get in touch with your best friends with a touch of your fingers. You can share pictures, messages and great experiences with your friends as and when they happen

The web browser is also touchable. You can zoom with a finger tap. The images of the LCD are of great quality so viewing web pages on the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music smart phone is a fabulous experience. The games on the phone are accelerometer based. This makes the graphics really splendid. Its multi media panel has features like music gallery, video centre, web browser and share on-line.

Embedded with powerful features the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music touch screen smart phone offers real competition to I phones and touch screen phones that have been launched in a flurry in recent times. Nokia has indeed made a flamboyant entry into the arena of touch screen mobile phones with the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, its first touch screen phone.

Touch screens can be found in other devices from rival manufacturers such as the Samsung Omnia but the Nokia 5800 is the first release of its kind from Nokia, for further information please refer to our mobile phones shop online.

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