What's your favourite Symbian Touch screen device? :D

This is my father's first touchscreen phone. I remember playing a 3D version of Bounce on it 👌

I used to have that phone! Under the front facing camera is not a notification light, it’s a pressure sensitive button for Shortcuts. Also, if you long press the end call button the voice assistant appears. Bounce was iconic

I had this in red for many years. The top right "xpress music" thing is not only a light, it's also a shortcut for the music app. I don't think the barren Ovi Appstore contributed much to the demise of this, we Symbian users installed apps the old fashioned way back then: downloaded shady installer files from the web and sel-signing them on our home PCs. If I remember correctly there was also a CPU speed limit when it came out it only run at 396MHz, but in the software upgrade that enabled kinetic scrolling they unlocked the CPU and it became 434MHz. I used Opera Mini back then so the default Nokia browser was no issue, and it had double the screen resolution of the iPhone which was nice. You could also run the older Symbian apps and games that were designed for a non-touchscreen use, and use a virtual keypad. As for that virtual keyboard: the default setting was a T9 on portrait and a full qwerty in landscape, so basically when you wanted to enter a longer text, you used in landscape, but you could answer a text on the T9 with one hand if you preferred. The reason Nokia used a resistive touchscreen is most likely because it was a mature technology and very cheap with great precision, while capacitive screens were still new, expensive and delicate. The screen was also pressure-sensitive so it wasn't only touch or no-touch, but a level of pressure could be read too, some drawing apps made use of it. It also had a TV-output on the headphone jack, you can use the same cable for it that came with the N95. I think it was an important device for Nokia, because it was the first "no compromise" device for them. Previously you had the "business" phones that had WiFi, the "activity" phones that had a GPS and the "fun, kid-friendly" phones that had media-capabilities, but for the first time you had it all in one package and for a reasonable price. This was my first phone with a GPS. Google Maps was als still in it's infancy back then, so the Nokia Maps app with turn-by-turn navigation and offline maps were a huge thing! And you just barely mentioned Quickoffice, but it was a piece of software that made this phone a computer in a pocket back then, it was not obvious at the time that you can open and edit MS Office files. So I think it was a good phone fo the time. Despite that: I used it for about 2.5 years and it was my least favorite Nokia for some reason. As you said, it felt cobled-together, and sluggish, mainly because Nokia was notorious for only including the bare minimum amount of RAM needed to make the phone function. They did it all the time: a good hardware shot in the foot by not enough RAM. I think if Nokia simply put double the RAM in all their phones between 2005 and 2010 they'd have remained a key player because their phones would have felt more fluid and refined... Thanks for the review!

This was my 1st touch mobile in 2009. Great phone it was.

This was my first touch screen phone. At the time I loved it. The Nokia Maps was a great feature. I eventually replaced it with the Nokia C7

My mum and cousin had this phone. It's a beautiful phone with a beast of a speaker system!

I had for many many years and loved every bit of it

man, i like your videos, at-least someone is still wishing better for Nokia. Kudos

This phone was bomb when it came out during that time. I also got a free Sennheiser headphones along with this one and it had amazing sound too.

I remember playing the built in racing game and how amazing it was to navigate the car by tilting the phone right and left.

I had this phone and it was great experience back then, thank you for sharing

This was my first phone, really great piece used it for almost 6 years.

My first touch screen mobilephone, it was the Best!!! I have it till now, It's immortal!!!

My brother bought this phone for his 1st Nokia phone, and he's coming from sony Ericsson K800, I was pretty excited back then to try this phone since I also have mine but other model Nokia N79, and I still use my this phone as my secondary phone just for call only, battery pretty good for listening to music and I still never change battery even once since 10 years ago

2009, My first touchscreen Nokia phone , had the red one. Why am I crying ?

I still have one of these and remember being blown away compared to my own when a friend got this back when it was out. I had the X3 at the time. I'd love to see a video about it's lesser brothers and sisters in the 5000 series of touch screens as I love your format of videos

I had this and loved it back then. It was so pretty and different from any other phone I had up until that time. I remember looking at it a lot in awe lol! Crazy how fast tech evolved.

Thanx to you I'm able to remember those nostalgic days of using my Nokia 5800XM.........and never knew it had a blue color variant too.

My first touch phone ever🙂 This brings back a whole lot of memories.

I remember having this just for sensor car turning in game and roller coaster game to fancy around my friends, man this brings so much memories I've been missing ❤️

Best video ;). Brings so Many memories back👍🏻. Im still using my Nokia 5800

My first phone back in 2009. Loved playing music, incredible camera with dual led flash, the bounce game, and tons of memories. I literally can't thank my dad enough for this beautiful phone.

I have both and i love this phone. This is my first touchscreen i have ever had and yeah i agree. At first. Is kinda like "phone with pressing screen like Other Nokia Phone before". But, after the update. The phone is kinda smooth and better. I also love the stereo speaker and sound quality of this device too. But yeah, the camera sucks though Overall. I enjoy using this phone. I really hope Nokia will do another Xpress Music phone which is music oriented phones with editing music app. I think it will sell like hotcake

My brother owned one back then. I remember it coming in a big box with a lot of goodies in it like software CDs, an awesome set of earphones, a stylus that had a phone stand in it, stickers etc

You have no idea how much i love this phone the only reason i remembered it it's because i bought the zfold 4 and when it's folded it reminds me off my old nokia phone 📱, when it's folded

Finally, I've been commenting you to please review this phone. This is, IMO, the coolest thing that came out in 2008.

I still own it, though it has been sitting in a cardboard box in my store room for the past 5 years. Your video suddenly inspired me to take it out and use it once again.

This was back in the day when manufacturers really gave thought on the designs of a phone. I had the blue one and loved it. It came with a rubber case and an extra stylus shaped as a guitar pick.

Remember it was featured in JJ Abrams Star Trek? Car mode with it outsized buttons. It lead the way for modern car nodes. I loved mine. And my Express Twist to the Music. That came with a 1GB!! Memory card! The best keyboard of all the Nokia's I owned was between the Nokia E7 and the 9300. The 9309 was really a mobile version of a laptop with build in office.

Once a dream now a legend

I like the black version. One of my friends owned a Chinese knockoff version of this phone (Instead of XpressMusic, it said MusicXpress 🤣), but I really wish HMD Global would look into bringing back with that XpressMusic line for diehard audio fans though, and similarly, Sony would throw back out some 'Walkman' phones too, ans Motorola would have the iTunes music app equipped on certain phones. I miss those days!!! Those of us who had those phones from the 00's, would kill or be killed for that nostalgic feeling once again! They should look into reigniting that feeling to get a huge grab back of their fans! If HMD Global uses their head, they can even come out with a line of Nokia XpressMusic Bluetooth headphones and/or earbuds!!! Thanks for the vid, and the nostalgia!

This was my favourite phone when I got growing up, the selection of music being able to be downloaded was mad Oh god the Bounce game brings back memories ahhh

My first touch screen phone 🥺😍 bring me memories ..

Had this in 08. such a cool device. I miss the guita pick that mine came with in the original box. It can be used for the touch screen as well.

Still have this phone and it still works

I still have both the 5233 and 5800XM. Absolute legends, these two. Everybody had to have one of these phones back in the day. If you had any one of these, you were just cool, bottomline. And of course, I have the Red 5800XM because duh, XpressMusic = Red and black. I still have my 5130XM and that is also in red ❤️ Love these phones man, I miss these peak Nokia days so much 🥲

I had one of these in 2010. I loved it. First sort-of smartphone I ever owned, before I got my first Android phone a couple of years later.

The sound output was mind blowing in this...

Still have mine, one of the best .

Wow i had this in 2008, it was fun using it! iPhone and Samsung came out with a way superior OS then it was sadly the download fall of Nokia. Great memories using Nokia phones from late 90's to Mid 2000's!

Soo many memories with this phone

It was one revolutionary device from Nokia. What a design by Nokia which was actually the master of designing the phones.

I actually loved the Nokia 5800. The music reproduction through its stereo speakers and through headphones was stunning for its time. And yes, all of the other features (or lack there off) were the beginning of the end for Nokia.

Those were the days ❤

you have to get used to it for using this phone , once you're ready you can do tons of stuffs in it , it has great sound , good camera and app support , you can customise it's font's , use transition animation (some advance level system tweaks) , what i was more fascinated that using ovi maps that time , and i was surprised to see that it was more accurate than google maps and works with 2g internet

The 5800 was the second to the last Nokia ive owned (the Nokia C1-01 had that honor of last) and my first touch screen "smart phone". Used mine from 2009 to 2014... its last year relegated to media player duty. The interface, settings and look of the software is simple that i setup all the samsung phones anf tablets (add the Asus and Acer tablets) to look like the symbian s60 5 (still have the nokia wallpapers too). My 5800XM was a black with a silver stripe. Mine didnt have the Bounce game (must have deleted it in the unboxing).

This was my first phone as a kid (i didn't even get to have a sim and just played games or listened to music on it). There was a pre loaded song that i loved but accidentally deleted. It went something like "we keep running around, we run out of town and i don't wanna go home". If someone can help me find that song it'll be a huge help. Also there was a pre loaded game here where we had a trail of colored balls that kept moving towards the end. And we had to shoot a ball from a canon to remove the balls off the trail by matching 3 of the same color. We could choose characters that had special powers- one character could like freeze the balls, one could summon earth/dust that destroyed some of them, one had fire. It was a fun game. If someone can find it, that'll be a huge help too.

My favorite touch mobile from that time .loved it do much .

Bro I had this phone. It was crazy.

Back then, the Apple AppStore had just released. I still don't get why people complain about the lack of apps on Symbian/Windows when the original iPhone came with no app store or no way of side loading any apps, so you'd get only what Apple gave you and you could do nothing about it. I never had the 5800, but I had some slight variations: 5530 and 5230, both great. For me however, the best platform still is Windows Mobile which believe it or not still works well and it's still being used to this day on certain barcode scanners and other industrial machines. I had a HTC P3600 which was ages in front of Apple. It had 3G, the ability to install apps, change registry entries, homescreen (called Today screen). On the iPhone you can't even change your homescreen today. They'll probably "innovate" that in about 10 years. As if, we wouldn't have been able to do it on Android as well since forever.

My 1st touchscreen phone. I love that phone.😊

My first touch screen phone. Built with great speakers

I had the 5233 , was a great experience ❤️

Another one of my fave phone ❤️

I use mine to this day for music at work in my top pocket excellent for me.

I Still Have this Phone😎😎, I liked it's TV out feature that is working now also

This was my second phone ever, afte the 5320 xpressmusic. Loved it, used it to listen to music to such an extent, it was problematic. The camera was ridiculously good for the time. I love that phone

I had one at the age of 13 💙 my brother gifted me. It was the first 3G phone i had and No one my friends ware having a device like that with big touchscreen display and a touch pen we go together out side near town to get 3g network 😍 It was beautiful days with fast internet connectivity to download movies and 😉 etc…😋

Those days🥰

My brother gifted me 5233 which was identical to 5800, but i sold that phone and bought this gem of a phone and my family never knew it..! :D

This is my first touch phone ❤❤ when was in 2012 and completed my secondary grade with good grade. As a resulting my elder brother gift this phone...so that feelings like was like get moon

amazing, next unboxing nokia 5700 XM

At the time of the release, i was one of many to queue to buy this. Great phone at the time.

I still have this device working red color is my favorite

this was my first touchscreen phone, as well as my first symbian os phone..

My first smartphone can miss the times when I could make custom firmware for the Nokia 5800 to remove bloatwares and add speed performance and port features that are available on other Nokia S60v5 such as the Nokia C6-00, Nokia 5530, Nokia 97

I moved from a weird keyboard layout Symbian Siemens SX1 over an N73 with TomTom, Opera etc. to the 5800 and loved the large screen and yes resistive touch was a bit unsmooth, but hey I couldnt effort an iphone so what. I stayed with Symbian until I moved to Android. Was one of my favorite phones. ❤️

Hey Nice video !. I managed to download the lastes firmware for my Nokia 5800. currently using v60.0.003 using JAF setup etc. it works after the update realy smooth.

It would be dope if they made one that would be more usable for these times supporting current apps like instagram and stuff maybe a bit bigger

I loved this phone

I love its speaker at that time

i still have this phone.

this was my first touchscreen phone I absolutely loved it I still had this phone right up until 2013 until someone stole it I was angry

My first touch screen mobile 2010❤️🔥 using 4 years😢

Can't wait for Nokia 6600 review. Someday? Soon?

Hi , I like the blue , the mobiels look ma h nicer than now , more personality. . Thanks fore showing us . Greetings Freddy

I used the blue one. Back in the day, Ovi store was so exciting.

This was the first (and one of the only 2) phone that I bought new... There were so many things done right with it! But also so many things that were just a problem, specially with getting apps for Symbian and the OVI things... The other thing that for me was a big downside was the lack of physical music control buttons as the previous XpressMusic phones had...

My 1st touchscreen mobile

I'd be curious to see a vid on the xpressmusic 5530. remember having classmates with both models

My first phone

Raging thunder and toon warz were the best games i played on this phone. It had stereo speakers at that time.

I was obsessed with this phone when i was a kid. Sadly, i never had it

Still my fav Nokia phone. Btw up the top isn’t the notification light - you press on that to quick access your music and other media.

At that time i had 5230 and this was my dream phone.

NOSTALGIA 🔥

I remember mine came with series 2 of Gavin and Stacey preinstalled… I still bought it anyway

I think this phone still have one of the best speaker phone.

I have used Whatsapp on Nokia 5800 XM in year 2015. Sound quality, user interface, bright torch and 30 FPS camera were amazing at that time.

great cellphone, I remember I could use a video as ringtone

if you click on the little window beside the XpressMusic label (underneath the front facing camera) a shortcut menu would appear, atleast that's what i remember

1:28 That "light" is actually the 'Xpress' button!

my first phone

that was my first phone!

My first touch screen phone ❤️👍

I had this years ago. Best phone I ever owned until my current iPhone

I love the blue color

my 1st touch screen phone

I wanted this phone