Nokia 5800 XpressMusic To Get N97 Homepage Widgets, Decent Scrolling
A firmware update is set to make the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic even more fly, hip and mackadocious to the kids, as it gets bolstered by some genuinely impressive new features!
We were harsh on the scrolling through menus in our Nokia 5800 XpressMusic review, particularly the decision to opt for the inconsistent and annoying (after using the iPhone, anyway) ‘up is up’ dragging movement for navigating menus, and the annoying and inaccessible scroll bars along the right side.
All that is to be a thing of the past, as the handset embraces kinetic scrolling on the homescreen, contact lists and web browser. A nice start, but we would really want to see it throughout the handset…nothing more frustrating than using one convention, only to have it change in the following menu. Single taps? Double taps? make your mind up, 5800!
Also, the homescreen is set to get a refurb, looking far more like the version currently gracing TV screens up and down the land on those Nokia N97 adverts. Little widgets which are constantly updating information to your handset, from weather to news and Facebook status updates. A great move, but without that unique selling point, what makes the N97 such a great choice?
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will also be getting tweaks under the bonnet, including a swifter response to user inputs and improved camera performance, making for a very cool touch handset for the money. Between this device and the entry-level Nokia 5530 XpressMusic (a 5800 sans GPS and 3G) coming soon, the Finnish manufacturer seems set to have the music phone game sewn up.
However, we’ll soon see what the Sony Ericsson W205 has to say about that…
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