Nokia 5800

We weren't sure what to expect from Nokia's first touchscreen phone. It's obviously spent a lot of time in the design studio, and it looks like Nokia wisely resisted the temptation to rush something out. The 5800 no doubt has the occasional bug (all smart phones do), but these are few and will probably be ironed out pretty quickly with firmware updates. The 5800 XpressMusic manages to combine the benefits of touchscreen, without many downsides, and avoids being just another iPhone clone thanks to Nokia's attention to detail. It may not be perfect, but we're impressed by just how good it is, and it would be churlish to award anything less than 5 stars.

• Series 60 5th Edition Symbian version 9.4 3G Smartphone
• 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, 4x digital zoom and double LED flash
• Video recording (up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps), 4x digital video zoom, front camera for 3G video calling
• Display: Touchscreen, 16.7 million colours, 640 x 360 pixels (3.2 inches) with automatic display rotation
• NSeries music player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA formats) with 8-band graphical equaliser
• FM radio with Visual Radio
• Stereo loudspeakers
• Ringtones: MP3 & video ringtones, 64-voice polyphonic ringtones, vibration alert
• Voice commands: speaker independent dialling and voice commands
• Voice recorder (digital stereo microphone)
• Integrated handsfree speaker
• Games: 3D Bounce and Global Race
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (support for IMAP, POP, SMTP) plus attachments, Audio messaging
• Advanced Series 60 personal organiser functions, Flash Lite 3.0
• Integrated GPS with Nokia Maps
• Internet: HSCSD, GPRS, EDGE, 3G HSDPA (3.6 Mbps), XHTML web browser
• Connectivity: WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, 3.5 mm audio jack, TV-Out
• Memory: 81 Mbytes plus 8GB microSD memory card (up to 16 GB supported)
• Flight mode
• Quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz) plus 3G (WCDMA 900/2100 MHz)
• Size: 111 x 52 x 15.5 mm
• Weight: 109g
• Talktime: 5 hours (3G) - 8.8 hours (2G)
• Battery standby: 400 hours
• Music playback: up to 35 hours