Nokia 5800 Tube browser screenshots appear, underwhelm
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 5th 2008 10:52AM
posted August 5th 2008 10:52AM
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posted August 5th 2008 10:52AM
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Amazing what lies these desperate "me too" users will post to prop up their obsolete devices. Now your saying Nokia is using an OS like Mac OS X, Unix core, Mach Kernel......and the gorgeous UI? Hilarious.
The real question is whether you can flip is sideways so you don't have to zoom in all the way with a long page as opposed to the wide page, that's one thing I like about the iPhone browser capabilities, being able to see webpages in both portrait and landscape. AND...I know this is about the browser, but the phone makes the browser just as much as the browser makes the phone.
You can, just as you can in current S60 phones.
Great to see that they don't have any side bar for scrolling and gone more like a'la iphone(and that's a good thing)
Picture here
http://forum2.mobile-review.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9362&d=1217855694
Really happy with the screen! Too bad that the guy who did take the picture didn't have any pic from some page not using Asian fonts.
Heh well could it be that they wheren't ever going to copy iphones OS? ;)
Plus iphone and S60 are using same core open-source engine that Nokia started using in 2005 and of course you can actually change the browser with coming S60 5th edition to something else(like Opera or Mobile Firefox) AND it can run flash pages.
So Engadget's starting assumption seems to be Apple can do no wrong and Nokia doesn't know anything about real-world use of communication products. Well I'd much rather use a Nokia phone to make calls then an Apple iPod with comms added to it.
Nokia's inability to make usable products started way before the iPhone came out.
Nokia should change their font, it looks too much 2-bit monochrome like they had on their phones over 10 years ago. Nokia ruled back then and I at least associate that font with that era.
You Nokia guys are the biggest damn cry babies I've ever seen. Nokia has little interest in the US networks. Most of the phones we get here are unsubsidized and overpriced. You are so used to being the big kid on the block that you can't stand for someone to come along and take away the spotlight. Last I looked, no one was lined up around the block at the Nokia store to buy anything.
The thing is, most of us iPhone users have suffered though owning some sort of Nokia handset at one time or another. You Nokia fanboys haven't owned an iPhone but you are always talking smack about it. The only half way decent Nokia phones are way overpriced. Last I looked, that killer new N96 was going to run over a grand and so have many of the other higher end Nokia's. In the US, most users aren't going to pay that much for an unsubsidized handset that their carrier won't support and they have to ship overseas to get repaired. Many of Nokia's offerings don't support 850mzh or US 3G bands.
It may be news to you Nokia fanboys but the majority of us just aren't as impressed with Nokia's as you are... They are okay, but not work the price and hassle. If you think this site is so biased, why don't you fine a Nokia fanboy site? I have not seen a negative post about anything Nokia that hasn't had you foaming at the mouth and trashing the iPhone...
Not sure what you are foaming here.
There's a lot Americans here, but it's international site and you can bet that there are alot of europeans and asians talking in this blog too. So i would think world biggest gadget manufacturer gets couple of posts every other day....
Phones are really personal and while you don't like something it dosen't mean it's somehow universal. Nokia actually raised it's market share in USA since 2 years in last quarter(Q2).
Your advise is keep looking for sites that say what we want about our favourite products. This is where you are wrong. News and reviews need to be balanced so you dont end up dissapointed when you actual buy said product and i agree with everyone when they say that engadget has double standards. I hope this changes as this is one of the better tech blogs.
The icons look similar to the icons on some icons on the Nokia N810/800. They are semi transparent and light up when touched. Classy and clean IMO. Besides, if you don't like them, just install another iphonesce/girlish looking skin with flashy hearts and colorful flowers for gods sake !!! I'm sure there will be tons of those available.
But, somehow I suspect that engadget writes this simply to get more pointers to their site anyway, cause they are Nokia fanboys at hearts, but just won't admit it.
The icons look similar to the icons on some icons on the Nokia
N810/800. They are semi transparent and light up when touched. Classy
and clean IMO. Besides, if you don't like them, just install another
iphonesce/girlish looking skin with flashy hearts and colorful
flowers for gods sake !!! I'm sure there will be tons of those
available.
But, somehow I suspect that engadget writes this simply to get more
pointers to their site anyway, cause they are Nokia fanboys at
hearts, but just won't admit it.
Comparing numbers with Nokia is kinda silly as Apple cant win there and wont ever try to go mass market as much as Nokia and Samsung. While people have been screaming iphone Nokia has been doing better and better.Iphone is a damn good product, but your comment just make other iphone lovers look bad... maybe you are working for Nokia!
Let me preface this by saying I've owned 3 different phones in the past that all ran Symbian and I was a fan of Nokia devices for about 5 years.
Personally I don't understand why Nokia keeps on using Symbian OS. It's clunky, has a horrible menu system and is very unstable considering it's a cell phone OS. It should have been retired years ago. Why would they try and tack touch abilities onto such a huge pile of shit?
Why aren't Nokia using the Linux distribution they built for their webtablets for something like this? I get the feeling they just don't get it.
Ok, how about this for a reason why the icons are terrible... besides the ugly pixel art style.
WHAT THE HELL DO THEY DO?
What do the 3 squares/dots/boulders do if I click/touch it?
What about the globe with the arrow pointing right? Does that take me to the internet? I thought I'm already in the web browser? Does it open a new page?
And lastly, the magnifier with the +, it seems like crossed metaphors, the magnifier is commonly associated with "Search", but the + inside it suggests it's a zoom? If this thing has multi-touch (which, honestly I don't know the specs on it) Why can't I just reverse pinch the area I'm interested in? So if it is a zoom, it would just zoom in towards the center, even if the content i'm interested in viewing at a larger size was in the upper right corner.
for when the tube 5800 into portugal? i read it goes 1º to spain and arabic and asian countries, prior to floding us market *good choice* probably due to the iphone monopoly there... but what other european countries get the nokia by xmas - can anyone tell me plz? need to save money now and prepare xmas gifts while the economic crisis reaches our shore!