Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition deals & review

Tinkering with a successful product is not always a good idea in marketing but with the Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, the Finnish world leader in mobile phones Nokia did just that but took two steps further.

It harnessed the market momentum of the successful Nokia 5800 XpressMusic smartphone to perfectly match exactly the same product but with SatNav features. It’s really your 5800 XpressMusic with a lifetime Drive and Walk navigation license and gets a package kit that now included a car charger and an in-car holder that makes the 5800 handset a SatNav device. 

The other difference is the body color styles. The new incarnation gets only chrome and black color scheme and no of the other colors in the original XpressMusic phone.

SatNav Added Features

Apart from its built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS supports that gets preloaded with Nokia Maps 2.0, regional maps and the lifetime voice-guided pedestrian and in-vehicle navigation license, the new 5800 is a technical reincarnation of the 5800 XpressMusic.

It has the same 434 MHz ARM11 processor running the same Symbian S60 5^th release.   It’s the same quad band GSM radio with class 32 GPRS/EDGE on 2G and a dual band UMTS in US and European versions with HSDPA at 3.6 Mbps data speeds. It also supports hotspot surfing with WiFi 802.11b/g with UPnP technologies and has local data connectivity with Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and MicroUSB 2.0.

A 3.2-inch TFT LCD display with resistive touchscreen technology, half-VGA resolution and 16 million colors remains the same with the usual accelerometer for auto rotate viewing convenience, proximity sensor for auto-shut-off of its touchscreen sensitivity in a call and handwriting recognition. 

Its imaging get the same 3.2 megapixel autofocus snapper with LED flash and the famous Carl Zeiss optics with support for VGA video recording at 30fps. There’s also a front-facing 3g video call camera.  

Multimedia, the core strength of XpressMusic handsets also gets the same stereo FM radio with RDS as well as the media players for MP3/WMA/WAV/RA/AAC/M4A file formats and video files in the WMV/RV/MP4/3GP content codecs. It has TV out, stereo speakers and a 3.5mm audio jack as well as the A2SP profile support over Bluetooth for wireless stereo listening.

Onboard memory in the Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition gets 128 MB RAM, a phonebook capacity with nearly unlimited contact entries and fields and user storage of 81 MB that can be expanded up to 16 GB from its microSD slot. It even comes with an 8 GB microSD card in the sales kit. The 1230 mAh li-ion BL-5J battery coughs out up to 9 hours of talk time, 35 hours of music playback and 408 hours in standby mode on the GSM network on a single charge.