I have been using the 5800 Express Music for some time, and though I am biased about Symbian and S60 in particular, I do find myself going back to the device time and again for every day use, despite the other options available to me. This is always a sign of a strong product, and for my tastes, a sign of even more capable software. I am fortunate enough to have a small collection around at any one point in time. Right now this includes an iPhone, a G1, prerelease Omnia HD, e75, and n97, and the already popular n96, and n85.
Steve Litchfield over at All About Symbian recently wrote an article about the top ten things Nokia did right with the 5800. I would add a few more things that have me attached to the product, namely :
- Size. This is an overlooked feature. Fits in my jeans pockets on the weekend, and you do not have to treat it like a piece of jewelry when you set it on a table or take it to the park, ala the ever so chrome and wide iPhone.
- Video capture. Good quality and video worth keeping. The wide screen format and decent optics help a great deal.
- Widgets. Real web widgets, no kidding. As more and more developers learn the ease of creating *.wgz apps the value of this product will continue to get extended.
- Input options. Not simply content to provide a full screen qwerty with haptic feedback, you can one hand with a mini qwerty and use two other methods including character recognition or script.
- Touch games. Bounce and others, like the sensor specific racing games are perfect entertainment for the kids while out on the road, and the build quality of the device is such that you don’t worry about your 5 year old playing with it. In fact, I have let mine take one in to school for show and tell. The kids pics and videos were great, almost like being there.
I can go on, but I will stop. This is one that if you manage to put it in the gadget arsenal, it will prove to be a go to weapon of choice.
// Lee
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