Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic all set to take on iPhone

Widely hyped as an iPhone killer Nokia's first touchscreen phone Nokia 5800 has a hand ful of feature that iPhone doesn't posses. Nokia 5800 could be the first real threat to the iPhone. Have a look at what iPhone doesn't have but Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic does, even with an advantage of price.

Video recording

One of the most discussed drawback of iPhone is the lack of video recording option. iphone uses a 2 megapixel camera with no flash while 5800 incorporates a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, auto focus and a dual-LED flash. It supports video recording upto 640x480 pixels and 30 fps.

Video conferencing

No video conferencing facilities in 3G iPhone as it doesn't support video recording Nokia 5800 also features video calling upto 3 hours.

Free Music service

An important advantage with iPhone is the services that Apple provides like app store, online store for music, TV, video etc. But hear Nokia made a forward leap with company's new music service, `Comes With Music', with one year free subscription! 

Alpha numeric keypad and landscape keyboard

Many are still not so conviced by the onscreen keyboard of iPhone, there is no fullscreen keyboard and an alpha numeric one. For text input Nokia's touchscreen phone has four options: handwriting, mini QWERTY keyboard, full screen QWERTY and alphanumeric keypad.

Replaceable Battery

The area where iPhone is being critizised the most is the non-replaceable battery. Apple claims replaceable battery make it bulky, but interestingly many decent sleek phones comes with replaceable battery, which are even not as expensive. Nokia 5800 is one, that claims 35 hours of music, 3hours of video playback and a standby time of 300 hours!

Adobe Flash Player

Though widely publicised as 'an internet communication device' iPhone doesn't support Adobe Flash player, an essential tool for today's browsing!

So that it cannot render video from many sites but Youtube provides special technical support though the large collection of video is not available to the iPhone users. Nokia 5800 comes with the Adobe Flash Player.

Messaging

Text messaging is considered one of the favorite services that mobile phone offers. But in an iPhone you cannot forward text messages! Nor you can send to multiple contacts. MMS feature is completely excluded. 5800 Xpressmusic features SMS, group messaging, MMS, image resizing for MMS etc.

Voice recognition

iPhone doesn't have support for voice recognition (though it recognise everything else from temperature, light...). So it lacks voice dialing or voice command unlike Nokia 5800.

Bluetooth

No bluetooth filesharing possible with an iPhone but provides support to Apple bluetooth headset. Here also the Nokia leads.

Expandable Memory slot

Yes 16 MB is quite large but look what Nokia 5800 offers. It has 81 MB internal memory and up to 16 Gb expandable micro SD slot. Little more handy than an iPhone with 8 or 16 GB options, right? In a way even leads to infinite storage capacity...