Flashback: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic - the little touchscreen that couldn't

14 July 2019
The phone was commercially successful and reasonably well-liked by fans, but it was a herald of the end of Nokia as a smartphone maker.

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  • 13 Nov 2023

And now the phones come with a cable only inside the box. To charge your phone off a laptop/pc or in your car (new ones get type-c output instead of usb). What times had come to us :)

    Have u know the price difference between Iphone 3G & Nokia 5800? How you compare both.

      Look at these in box accessories!!! amazing!!!

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        • 18 Jun 2022

        AnonD-948658, 10 Jan 2021Apple killed Nokia and BlackberryIt's just Elop's fault that killed Nokia

          I used to have one (5800). It was a great device, I enjoyed the speakers a lot. All thanks to Nokia, so unfortunate Symbian could not survive agains IOS and Android

            gan, 10 May 2020Nokia went with windows because of the privacy issues with ... moreI could be right but honestly I would have chosen to tune Symbian.

              This XpressMusic was truly a great terminal, a complete Beauty, a complete Work of Art, Mobile Engineering at its best. Too bad Nokia trusted in its Power to see that it had built an Empire and that every year it was Solidifying, it never thought to imagine or rather it measured the Success of Apple with its iPhone and Samsung Galaxy.

              Although honestly if today I were a Millionaire or managed to have enough Influence in a Group of Investors, I would bet without hesitation in relaunching Nokia but again hand in hand with Symbian, an Operating System that for me will always be one of the best in Stability, Security and Optimization (I dare say better Optimization than iOS).

              Greetings from Land of Lakes and Volcanoes, "Nicaragua".

                Anonymous, 10 Nov 2020I'm STILL using one. It works fine, but I'm due f... moreI wish I had the opportunity to still use one of these beauties as a second line.

                  AnonD-948658, 10 Jan 2021Apple killed Nokia and BlackberryUnfortunately this was the case and the aggressive Campaign of Steve Jobs was so evident in the launch of the first iPhone where it clearly exposes Nokia and Blackberry Devices with Qwerty Keyboard, which are oriented towards Business Personnel.

                    alexrota1970, 21 Sep 2020My first REAL navigator! I was lucky to find the Navigation... moreWow How good that you had an excellent Experience with a Device of these, in those days I had a Nokia 5230 and truly the Experience of Navigating through Nokia Maps was a completely revolutionary Experience, I remember the first time I used this tool was on a Trip to a Sea At dawn, I still remember that Innovative moment.

                    Thank you Nokia for completely unforgettable moments, thank you.

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                      • 10 Jan 2021

                      Apple killed Nokia and Blackberry

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                        • 23 Nov 2020

                        Where can l get it shops and price

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                          • 10 Nov 2020

                          Vegetaholic, 01 Aug 2019Wow, to use it till 2017, must be some kind of masochizm to... moreI'm STILL using one. It works fine, but I'm due for a battery change.

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                            My first REAL navigator! I was lucky to find the Navigation Edition in a shop for just 179 Euro! I've been using it many times and I clearly saw that it was even better than well-known navigators sold for much more money. By the way, it was also a good phone and a good camera.
                            I still have it. I seldom switch it on only for music purposes, plug its audio jack to my speakers and listen the music that I copied in the MicroSD several years ago.

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                              • 10 May 2020

                              Nokia went with windows because of the privacy issues with android...Nokia used to respect customer privacy... Window os for mobile was very good on that. But people went with android because it gave free services and good customisation...

                              Good things always ends fast.

                                Vegetaholic, 01 Aug 2019At that time I had iphone 3g and decided that it was too po... moreI had Samsung Jet back then. It was a nice device but the touch screen was HORRIBLE, you could barely write a text message on it. My friend had Samsung i8910 and that was a spectacular phone with a very responsive touchscreen, I seriously don´t know how could Samsung produce such a good and such a bad screen at the same time.

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                                  • 09 Dec 2019

                                  I want NOKIA -6151, 3110, N80, 5800 once again!!!!!!

                                    Xavi3r , 14 Jul 2019I bought this phone back in 2009 and it served me so well, ... moreWow, to use it till 2017, must be some kind of masochizm to yourself :)

                                      At that time I had iphone 3g and decided that it was too posh for me, and sold it to get this one. Technically it was more superior device, kind of media powerhouse, but goimg from iphone 3g to this was massive blow. Resistive touchscreen and clunky menus was horrible and unresponsive. Plus most apps was really way behind iphone 3g. Though if you never used touchscreen device or iphone before it was definitely an impressive model at its time for a price.

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