Nokia 5800 Apps Free Download
Reece Pourier
When I start any application, that I wrote with python for my Nokia 5800(software version 60.0.003), it asks me for internet connection. Application doesn't use it or need it. And if I skip it applications works fine.
As almost everyone else on the AAS team has written about their experiences with the 5800, I thought I would add my tuppenceworth. This is all based on having used the 5800 as a primary day-to-day phone for the past three months, and this is all personal opinion which does not necessarily represent that of the site as a whole.
The intricate details of the phone have been covered quite a bit on All About Symbian and elsewhere, so this article will instead concentrate on what particularly stands out on the 5800 in the opinion of this writer.
(If you want more detailed info on the 5800, take a look at AAS's multipart 5800 (p)review by Rafe Blandford, an alternative 5800 review by Steve Litchfield, Ewan Spence's travels with the 5800 series, and AAS's 5800 tutorials for beginners.)
The 5800 isn't the highest spec Nokia, and there are more expensive phones out there which are better in many ways. But at 280 euros plus taxes for the unlocked 5800 (even cheaper if you buy it in the UK or USA), this is by far the best value-for-money smartphone so far. There has never been such a solid combination of hardware and software on a mobile device at this price level, and on top of that the imminent launch of Ovi Store will further add to the 5800's attractions by providing a built-in application and content shop.
Because it's Nokia's first touchscreen smartphone for five years, many have compared the 5800 with the iPhone. However, such comparisons are somewhat misleading because these two devices aren't really in direct competition. As a lot of people have pointed out, the 5800 costs half the price of the iPhone, and the 5800 is available through a much more flexible range of options (it's on all networks, on cheap contracts and on prepaid/pay-as-you-go, and is also available unlocked/unbranded/SIM-free). If you absolutely want to make a comparison, the 5800 is much more of a "people's phone", as it's far easier to buy and it costs far less. In the history of consumer products, the 5800 is following in the footsteps of the Ford Model T car or the Commodore 64 home computer, where value for money is a central part of the attraction.
After three months of use, it becomes obvious that Nokia's clearly spent a lot of time polishing the new S60 interface and on making it stable, much more than they have on previous S60 updates. It's not 100% perfect yet, but it's far more stable than the N95 was on its early firmware, and S60 5th Edition is much easier to use than S60 3rd Edition. There have already been two firmware updates for the 5800 at the time of writing (v21 is due as this article was being edited for publication - Ed), and the 5800's sales of three million devices in its first three months virtually guarantee that we will be seeing lots more firmware updates in the future (hopefully including fixes for the problems mentioned earlier).
Some will turn their noses up at the 5800, compare it to more expensive phones and claim that price isn't an issue. However, in the real world, for most of us, price is THE issue. The number one factor affecting a person's phone purchases is which price category the phone belongs to, and even if you're buying a phone on contract the total real cost of the hardware will determine the size of the monthly fee (because contracts are essentially just ways to buy a phone in installments). Nokia is greatly raising the bar for devices around the 300 euro mark. I can't think of any phone at this price that comes close to the 5800's abilities, certainly not from a big name manufacturer. Considering the current economic climate, this is potentially the right phone in the right place at the right time.
If you're looking for a cutting edge Symbian camera phone, you should probably look at the Nokia N82 or Samsung Innov8, or wait for the Nokia N97, N86 or Samsung Omnia HD. The 5800 isn't a great camera phone.
But if you're looking for a good all-rounder, a cheap and durable no-nonsense companion on your travels, with good multimedia, navigation, and internet capabilities, then the 5800 is a very strong candidate indeed.
(PS: I've left the question of third party applications uncovered in this review, as Ovi Store is about to launch next month and should give us a proper idea of what the 5800's application ecosystem will be like. AAS will of course be giving Ovi Store a review of its own, and I may update this article to look at Ovi Store in the context of the 5800.)
The Nokia 5530, 5230, 5800 and X6 are now looking very dated, with their small screens, small RAM quotients, slow processors and the legendarily clunky S60 5th Edition interface, adapted directly from the non-touch S60 3rd Edition version without a lot of touch optimisation. So why not give these devices a massive shot in the arm with some new software?
Here are the main things that CFW Symbian Anna 7.9 (a Spanish web page, so make sure you browse to it in Chrome, so that you get a translation provided!) brings to the Nokia 5530, 5230, 5800 and X6 (see the link for the full list):
I can't say that needing a huge Web cache was ever a priority for me on S60 5th Edition - big pages were so slow and problematic that I tended to stick to the mobile web instead. However, using disk E: for the Web cache will help those with smaller system disks, e.g. the Nokia 5800.
Taken as a whole, these improvements add up to a big deal. In the normal course of events, I'd have been wary of custom firmware for a device like the 5800 or X6, since Nokia has had a good track record of providing updates to each of these phonesm albeit with less drastic changes in functionality. But the chances of another update to any of these 2008/2009 phones is now close to zero, plus the value of the hardware is now well below 100 second hand, so why not give the custom firmwares a try? With the caveats mentioned above, of course....
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has a 3.2-inch display with a resolution of 640x360 pixels, and has many features standard to the Nokia Nseries, such as GPS, HSDPA and Wi-Fi support.[9] It was a highly anticipated device in 2008[10][11] and went on to become a commercial success with 8 million units sold a year after release.[12] It was praised for its supplied stylus and low price, but was viewed negatively by critics for its camera and software issues.
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is not the first touchscreen device in Nokia's range. In 2004, the Nokia 7700 was announced, a Nokia Series 90 device that was cancelled before it reached the market. This was followed by the Nokia 7710 which was an upgraded version of the 7700 and became available during 2005. Nokia also produced the UIQ-based Nokia 6708 phone in 2005, but this was not an in-house development and was bought in from Taiwanese manufacturer BenQ.[13] Nokia have also produced a range of Maemo-based Internet tablets which have a touchscreen interface, but are not mobile phones by themselves (one can connect and use a phone via Bluetooth). The 5800 is, however, Nokia's first Symbian S60 touchscreen device. The 16:9 aspect ratio display was the first among mobile phones. It has a compatibility mode for Java applications that are not touchscreen-aware. It works by using part of the screen for displaying the essential buttons required by the program.
The launch of the 5800 XpressMusic in January 2009 was followed-up with the release of the Nokia N97[14] in May and June 2009, followed by the Series 40 based Nokia 6208c in January 2009.[15] The device, as well as the Nokia Music Store, launched in South Africa on 24 April 2009.[16][17]
On the market, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic would compete with other touchscreen devices such as Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, Sony Ericsson Satio, iPhone 3G, HTC Touch Diamond, LG Renoir, LG Arena (KM900), BlackBerry Storm 9500, Samsung Pixon and Samsung i900 Omnia.
In early February 2009 the website Mobile-Review.com, which was initially very enthusiastic about the handset, published its research and concluded that the Nokia 5800 had a design flaw. Specifically, when phones were used on a daily basis, their earpieces, produced for Nokia under contract by a third party, would cease to function in a very short time. Repairs performed under warranty would only temporarily fix the problem. The defect was found to be in the earpiece design. Nokia's public relations department had admitted that the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic contained this design defect. According to Nokia, they switched to another earpiece manufacturer, so all 5800's produced during February 2009 or later should be free from defect, with previously produced earpieces eligible for free warranty repair. New earpiece parts have also been supplied to Nokia service centres and future phone repairs should permanently fix the defect.[18]
On 21 August 2009, Nokia announced a new variant named Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition. In addition to the normal Nokia 5800, it has the latest version of Nokia Maps pre-installed. It also comes with a car charger and car kit inside the box because the GPS decreases the battery life. Both the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the 5800 Navigation Edition, however, have free lifetime navigation, due to the new version of Ovi Maps.[19]The service was available at nokia.com.[20]
On 23 January 2009, Nokia announced it had shipped the millionth 5800 XpressMusic device, even though it still had not been fully released worldwide.[22] Noknok reported by April that it was one of the fastest selling smartphones of all time.[23] In Nokia's Q1 report released on 16 April 2009 it was announced the company had shipped 2.6 million units during the quarter, with cumulative shipments of more than 3 million units since the smartphone's launch.[24] Q2 results released 16 July 2009 reports 3.7 million units shipped during the quarter and more than 6.8 million units total have shipped since the release.[25] As of November 2009, over 8 million units had been sold.[12]
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