iPhone or Nokia 5800 (or neither)?

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kibblerok said:
but it wasn't humorous? :confused:
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I think it's clear enough that it wasn't a serious comment. It's an obviously flawed comparison. And a sense of humour would have recognised that it was intended as such. Whether or not you personally find it amusing is quite another story.

Anyway. As I said above, there is no justification for the iPhone as far as I can see, due to the fact that with the Nokia you could buy an iPhone AS WELL and still be better off. Whether or not the 5800 is the best choice on the £15 per month contract is probably the best question...
 
Had a similar choice to make at the start of the year.

Similar needs to yours and I just couldn't justify paying more for the iphone for less of the features that I needed from a phone.

The 5800's screen quality - crisp, vibrant colours & a nice resolution, price & loudspeaker quality sold it to me.

I was still looking for a mobile phone I guess, 5800 feels like a normal phone - ok, a biggish phone but I can use it with one hand comfortably.

Also, I got very annoyed with the iphone adverts. They go on about quick & simple and then on the same frame of the ad you've got the fine print saying "...steps were not shown, & time shortened...".
 
I have a 5800 myself now which I've had for about a month or so, I had a play with a few touchscreens before choosing this one, tocco, renoir, iphone, pixon and of course the 5800.

For some reason I find the touch interface and feedback better on this than the others including the iphone, I didn't like the iphone interface at all really.

5800 for the price is a very hard phone to beat, I had an N95 before this and apart from the camera I prefer this hands down!

Best thing todo is go and actually have a play with a few in the shop.
 
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Seft said:
I'd go for the 5800. The price differential is enormous and the 5800 does most tasks almost as well or better. The iPhone has the better browser, but Opera Mini 4 is almost as good. The music player is better on iPhone, but the S60 music player is certainly good enough. App store is certainly more convenient, but Nokia has a store being launched soon. A quick Google will find you pretty much any app you could possibly need for S60 anyway.
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The 5800 sounds a lot better than the iPhone - so all in all the music player is better on the Nokia.
 
If you can wait, the Samsung OmniaHD will be due in a month or so. It pretty much blows the 5800 out of the water, yet is the same form factor, OS, interface, etc. The iPhone is in a class of its own. The basica hardware is rubbish (spec wise) but the software does make it amazing. Its not as flexible as most people want, but what it does do, it does well and is more then enough for 99% of people. Rumors are abound of new iPhones in the summer. If cost is an issue, get an iPod touch and a seperate phone. Best of both, its what I did.
 
Airax said:
If you can wait, the Samsung OmniaHD will be due in a month or so. It pretty much blows the 5800 out of the water, yet is the same form factor, OS, interface, etc.
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All well and good but they're not exactly going to be dishing out the OmniaHD for free on £15pm contracts are they?
 
I am in a similar quandry. The only thing thats putting me off the 5800 really is that it can't play .avi files without having to encode them first (not sure how you do this or how much of a bind it is). Our lass has a LG Renoir and she uses it as a small TV. I am jealous of this but other than that I'm not really a fan of her phone, the touch screen seems sluggish and the camera takes forever to set up and take the photo. I currently have a SE910i and my contract runs out next week. I really want an iphone but I've just taken a £200pcm paycut and can't really justify the expense
 
VonClinkerhofen said:
I am in a similar quandry. The only thing thats putting me off the 5800 really is that it can't play .avi files without having to encode them first
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This should only be a temporary problem until a S60v5-compatible version of Coreplayer (or similar) is released.
 
VonClinkerhofen said:
I am in a similar quandry. The only thing thats putting me off the 5800 really is that it can't play .avi files without having to encode them first (not sure how you do this or how much of a bind it is).
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Nokia's PC software converts video files on the fly.

I'm pretty sure that with the right software (TCMP?) you can play them without any re-encoding.
 
Had the same decision about a month ago and went for the Nokia. Love the phone and it was the right decision. The iphone is too overpriced!
 
OP your original comparison is a bit silly... the iPhone works out at 5x the price so it's no longer a case of "whichi is best" but 2which does my budget allow".

For the money nothing can touch the 5800, it's easily the best value touchscreen out there. Period.

mp3kla said:
No one mentioned the G1?

Does everything both of them do, and has a qwerty keyboard.
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And barring a potentially good yet still immature OS is every bit as bad hardware-wise as the iPone, barring the screen. It's a first-gen phone and looks like it, hence it's about to be replaced with a newer model.
 
I actually prefer my Xperia X1 to my iPhone 16GB 3G. Both are fantastic, and the iPhone is better at web browsing, but the Xperia is better at everything else, hands down.
 
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