With the impending release of Nokia's first touchscreen S60 phone, the 5800 XpressMusic (otherwise known as the 'Tube' further in this post), it just seems like the phone that will blow the P1i completely out of the water. Here's a dissection/analysis based on first impressions from various Youtube videos, pictures and reviews from the last month.
On paper, it's definitely as good as SE's P1 ex-flagship - with the Xperia X1 now taking over as SE's flagship phone - if not even better. A 3.2" 16 Million colour screen, 3.2 Megapixel Camera, Quad-band GSM, Support for HSDPA, WiFi (b/g), Built-in GPS, 3.5mm headphone support, OFFICIAL support for Flash...the list can go on. Oh yes, and it's only going for 279 Euros (before subsidies or taxes).
Technically, both phones target different segments of the market - the Tube cutting it for the music fans looking for a cheap and all-in-one music playing device, whilst the P1 is definitely for the business segment, with a QWERTY keyboard and support for Blackberry Connect. No matter how hard you try, a physical QWERTY keyboard is definitely more appealing than a touch screen solution, simply because by being able to feel it, you can always type with much more accuracy and speed.
But above all the desirable hardware, it runs Symbian S60 - and this probably won't cut it for many others, who have had a bad experience with S60 in the past (me included). This brings us to the OS discussion; S60 vs UIQ. The UIQ has been around for quite a while, optimised for touch screen phones (since the days of the P800) while this is S60's first attempt for touchscreen smartphones. Granted, some users may be willing to overlook some of the poorly implemented elements in the Tube's OS because it's the first S60 touch platform, but most users just want it to work out of the box.
With UIQ now part of the Symbian Foundation, I hope some of S60's best aspects rub off on it - i.e. the S60 browser, the customisation, etc. If Nokia puts this new UIQ on the Tube, I think I'm sold.
What do you readers think?
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IMHO, the success of P1 is simply out of words, even after year and more it is standing up to be compared from the upcoming phones with greater slick design and advanced processors with more variety of applications but it still can compete just every other model coming out from any of the big names in market. Of course it is not "the perfect" machine in hands but it is not less either.
Let see what another release for P series will bring on and when it does I am sure once again it will draw a new line of success all over again.
Nokia 5800 will surely take P1's place! no doubt about it..
waiting for january to come for me to have my N5800, hope I won't be disappointed..
yeah! a very good second phone.... But not a primary...
My friend recently got a Blackberry Storm on contract but quickly returned it for a 5800 instead. He says it's a brilliant phone. I have a p1i myself and it feels very old.
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I bought the 5800 recently and after a couple of months of use, sold it at a loss. Guess which phone I have bought as a replacement -- P1i. My observations on the 2 phones
1. Def targeted for diff segments, 5800 for the more trendy though less of a business crowd whereas P1i for the latter
2. P1i is slower than 5800, response times being greater, but 5800's OS was one of the worst Ive seen, with some real poorly implemented apps. And browsing is such a pain
3. QWERTY keyboard a must for messaging purposes. Hated the on-screen only
4. P1i is more stable whereas 5800 was very buggy, obv because of its 2007 release
5. 5800 is very thick, most ppl who were taking a look at it for the first time started seaching for a keyboard, they thought the set had one which accounted for its thickness.
But given everything IMO P1i is still a better fone than 5800, and there is not much diff in the price points as well
P1i is better!
p1i is better period.
P1 is better,i've been using my fone for more than a year now.
My p1 never got infected with virus, unlike any nokia fone i knew,., susceptible to infections