New Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic

The Nokia has announced their first touch-screen mobile, which is more or less similar to Apple's iPhone. The new 5800 has certainly been inspired by the iPhone. Nokia, which previously was openly against touch-screen products, has now changed direction and after 17+ months finally responded with its first ever touch-screen handset, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

The Nokia 5800 offers many different features and ships with a huge built-in collection of music. Quite clearly Apple has started a trend and this is only just the beginning of Nokia's attempt at winning some of the market. Their future touch-screen products within the N-series range of phones are more likely to be direct competitors to the iPhone in terms of price and hardware.

The 5800 also boasts other features that are lacking on the iPhone: voice recognition; the ability to send MMS picture messages; file sharing via bluetooth; and a replaceable battery. Some of this can be rationalized: a flash can drain the battery faster; digital zoom is essentially a gimmick; video conferencing is rarely used and requires a second camera; voice recognition is not commonly used; and MMS can be achieved using e-mail instead. Some other omissions, though, are quite unforgivable - no built-in video recording is an amazing elision.

Apple's iPhone and the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic are comparable, at least on first glance, Nokia's answer appears to be a much less expensive and more feature-rich handset - and it comes with a sublime package if you are a music lover. The iPhone, however, has a more advanced touch screen and of course the beauty that comes with a product designed by Apple.