Nokia latest invention is the 5800 Xpress Music in Red. This touch screen smart phone is being touted as Nokia's answer to the I phone. The 5800 Xpress Music definitely has a lot of amazing features and represents the pinnacle of touch screen mobile technology. Nokia has released this phone to keep up with latest market trend of high end touch screen smart phones.

Rivaling the Apple iPhone, Samsung Tocco and LG Cookie the Nokia 5800 Red is an inexpensive touch screen phone that incorporates the very best music technology that the manufacturer has to offer. The phone accepts touch inputs. The OCR tool turns the handwritten text into digital symbols accurately. The stylus is to be used as a writing mediator. There is a virtual landscape oriented QWERTY keyboard, the full screen version being applicable from all applications. The virtual alphanumeric keyboard has large sized keys furnishing a high type rate.

The phone is entertainment oriented and is endowed with multi media features. The multimedia panel provides quick access with a finger tap to all multi media options of the phone. The 3.2 mp camera has flash support and 3X digital zoom capacity. There is a second camera at the back without flash support.

The video application supports video recording at 30 fps and has a strong resolution of 640X 480 pixels to give high quality images. Video calling is made possible by the front camera. There is a share online feature to enable uploading of multimedia content. The list of pending uploads and upload history are provided by the content manager.

Nokia's web browser supports HTML 4.01, Java Script 1.5, CASS1 and 2, and RSS standards.46 different languages are supported by this phone's browser. GIF, WBMP, JPEG, PNG, BMP are graphics formats supported by the browser. Audio formats accepted include ACC, MIDI, EACC+, WAV AMR-NB, MP3, AMR-WB and Real Audio.

You can navigate on the web pages using a minimap. You can make the minimap translucent so that it overlays the web page as you scroll through giving you a better grasp of your current position. The Red Nokia 5800 browser is a high performance application taking only seconds to change from the minimap view to normal view of web pages.

The browser enables bookmarks. You can send bookmarks as attachments to SMS messages. The browser supports both manual and automatic bookmarks. The regular bookmarks are manual and the adaptive book marks are automatically generated based on the history log. The Browser uses the latest and up-to-date Flash technology to manage flash movies and pages with ease. The Browser allows a great web surfing experience because of the 640 pixels screen which is so wide that you don't need to do much of vertical scrolling.

The search feature allows web search and internal phone content search through two separate windows. The screen will show a search form wherein keywords may be entered. Quick access to the search feature is possible from the active standby mode which has a shortcut to enable this.

The Nokia 5800 Xpress Music is fascinating and versatile device with above average well implemented specifications and features. The phone has been a success wherever it has been launched and has helped Nokia carve a niche in the touch screen phone market.