Nokia 5800 CWN good?

[Mcblue]

Thinking of getting this phone later today, any feedback?

[Tunge]

one of my target phone too when my contract ends...

 

wonder if anyone here is using the phone right now

[Josho]

using the phone now. not bad, depend on what u want. having the broadband on mobile is good for such phone.

[JonEthan]

i'm also using Nokia 5800. It's a good phone to have, especially if you do a lot of mobile internet surfing. I have 3 other friends using the same phone and they're all happy with it.

 

 

[Sabian]

On my shortlist too...

[Thypig33]

i'm also using Nokia 5800. It's a good phone to have, especially if you do a lot of mobile internet surfing. I have 3 other friends using the same phone and they're all happy with it.

 

How is typing of messages? I used to have a WM phone without keypad, it was O2 Atom, fully touchscreen and i swear i hated the soft keyboard, took so long to sms and its darn hard to sms while walking, need to stop to sms... I am using Nokia E71 now, love the qwerty keyboard that provides fast and accurate typing of messages and emails. Not to mention, the phone has quite long batteyr life.

 

So, How does the 5800 fare in messaging and battery life?

[Tunge]

i'm also using Nokia 5800. It's a good phone to have, especially if you do a lot of mobile internet surfing. I have 3 other friends using the same phone and they're all happy with it.

 

 

hmm that's good to hear... +1 for this phone... can't wait for my contract end then go buy new phone loh... been a long time since i used a Nokia... been with samsung the last few years

[Brock]

I'm withholding the urge to get it and anxiously waiting for the N97.

 

[Tunge]

Finally bought my NOKIA 5800 a few days ago... been playing around with it quite a bit and so far am pretty pleased with the phone.

 

one major plus point for this phone is that it's running on Symbian OS and there are many applications that can be downloaded for free (pretty much like iPhone cept maybe still not as many applications yet)

 

downside, need getting use to full touch screen, prob will take me another 2-3 weeks, still struggling sometimes with the lack of the key pad and navigation buttons...

 

 

[Ah_tee]

do u guys take a long time to connect to the internet ?

 

so far mine took 10mins end up i give up

 

for e.g we go to internet , bookmark then search for wlan, connect to wireless@sg

 

den "connecting", more than 10min n it still dont have anytrhing

[Tunge]

do u guys take a long time to connect to the internet ?

 

so far mine took 10mins end up i give up

 

for e.g we go to internet , bookmark then search for wlan, connect to wireless@sg

 

den "connecting", more than 10min n it still dont have anytrhing

 

 

it's probably e prob w wireless SG, when i connect to my WLAN network at home it's really fast... and connecting to GPRS also very fast

[Ngnguan]

Do we have to pay when using GPS service ?

[Osiris]

depend on how you use GPS

 

GPS is free use

AGPS have to incur GPRS charges

If use Nokia Map for voice navigation need to pay

If use Nokia Map for finding out where u are no need to pay.

[Osiris]

So far, connection is very quick both using own connection or wireless@sg

 

 

 

 

[Hiphiphoray]

I'm withholding the urge to get it and anxiously waiting for the N97.

 

when is this N97 available in spore har ?

 

I browse the nokia webby, there is even a N86.

[Ngnguan]

Maybe to you is a studip question but still ask as new to GPS phone.

 

What is the different between GPS and AGPS ?

Why 1 is free and the other need to pay ?

 

[Amokie]

Go google - GPS and AGPS yourself, you sound pretty lazy to me

Edited May 21, 2009 by Amokie

[Riverfish]

I'll share my experience:

 

I got my 5800 in early Apr, and it was sent back to the Orchard care center in 3 days as vibration stopped working. A few days later it was claimed to be fixed, and I collected it from the center. Within a day the same problem recurred and back it went to the center again. Another week passed by before I was informed that it was fixed. And guess what, within 24 hours after I collected from the center, the same problem was back again!

 

Then the center took back the phone after refusing to replace a new set for me and someone called me a few days later, and told me they would change the phone motherboard for me, which is as good as replacing with a new phone. Then it took another week for them to get it fixed, and I collected it a few days ago, and now I'm praying the problem is finally resolved.

 

You can count how many trips I made to the center for the same issue. For the past month of phone ownership, the phone was in someone else's hands rather than mine for the most part. The center also refused to courier the fixed phone back to me.

 

While I'm fully aware of possible problems with new technology (new Symbian OS version and first serious touchscreen phone for Nokia), I wasn't prepared for this kind of post-sales service.

 

Maybe I'm just the unlucky one to get a defective set. But you should be able to figure out the service standard from them.