Will 5800 substitute Nokia N96?
January 12, 2009 by M. Hussein
Filed under Nokia, Review, S60
Nokia N96 was the device that Nokia promoted in the last Christmas, all over the world we saw huge campaigns with this smartphone. Many were expecting to buy Nokia 5800 XpressMusic in 2008 but Nokia has announced that will start selling the device in Europe, first in UK, from 23rd January this year.
Does this means that Nokia N96 will lose market having the 5800 available? It’s cheaper, it’s touchscreen, it’s xpress music, has a great camera and GPS built-in. Well, probably Nokia will simply raise the sales.
In my point of view, N96 is focused for high-end users, like those who would buy HTC Touch HD, it’s expensive and a great mobile phone and at the level of Nokia n96. While Nokia 5800 will be sold for medium-end users, the price is over 300 euros, but might probably drop as time goes by to …200, 199 (hehe) or even 149 euros, so then, we would be able to really consider 5800 a medium-end mobile phone.
Having two great handsets in the market, N96 (..and futurely the N97) competing against HTC Touch Diamond, Touch HD and Blackberry Storm/Bold and the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, Nokia might get a big percentage of those 2 markets, high-end and medium-end users.
And as you already know, nowadays what can makes a successful device isn’t the device itself but all the advertisement investment that is made. We are in a big crisis which analysts predict it will increase in 2009 and we must have in mind that companys will invest less money in marketing and advertising, blackberry and HTC must cut those costs and the same will happen to Nokia, but as Nokia is a giant they are able to always mantain the promotion of some of their best handsets.
Mate on Thu, 15th Jan 2009 12:29 am
5800 will beat N96 in sales, but if you ask me, the whole idea of s60 5.0 is stupid.
Not only is UIQ optimised for touchscreen, but was I the only one who noticed lack of s60 4.0???
And 5800 and N97? No, thanks, I’ll stick with my N96 and hopefully Nokia will create something good enough to take it’s place.
Meraj Chhaya on Thu, 15th Jan 2009 2:46 pm
Lack of S60 4 exits because Nokia refrains from using that number, it’s a bad luck number for some Asian countries.
I also won’t buy the N97, will rather wait for an 8-megapixel phone with the same specs as the N97
anonymous on Fri, 12th Jun 2009 5:15 pm
fuck the N96! It is shit compared to 5800 . I have tried both and the 5800 is the best in every aspect.
roxy on Thu, 13th Aug 2009 2:59 pm
i have the nokia 5800 xpress music and to be honest iv had nothing but problems with it,when i txt it goes off and back sometimes deleting txt by accident which is really annoying if you have wrote loads,it cant handle two things at once and will crash and you have it apart as you cant switch it off,if your on internet it sometimes completely goes off and you have to start again,plus the times always delayed and you can keep putting it back but day after it will 4mins or more behind.ido like the phone its a shame it wont work proper.this is the four model iv had and they have all done same thing so today i will be receiveing the nokia n96 as its the only choice ican have or the htc touch 3g which luks pretty lame so hopefully the n96 will be good to me.i wont recommend the nokia 5800 you’ll be wasting your time and money.
aldrin on Thu, 29th Apr 2010 3:48 am
i love them both……nokia is the best among the best….their both elegant…if i were you….ill buy theme both coz…its hard to choose……