Flimsy. One drop and it's gone.

I must admit, this was my first impression when handling Nokia's attempt at a touch-screen, feature-toting, and media-playing phone.

Now of course, comparisons to that other fruity phone is inevitable and I will endeavour to keep said Fruit Phone from clouding my reviewing vision, but Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic definitely lacks the same sturdiness and ease of control found in aforementioned competitor.

That's not to say the phone is lacking in features — but we'll get to that in a little bit. First I need to get the bad taste so pervasive in my initial impression out of the way.

Putting the sim card in is a straightforward matter of lifting the flap on the side slot and sliding the sim in, if you know which way is up. A quick glance at the instruction manual (who reads those anyway?) should get you sorted out. Just don't try to get the sim out again — it requires removal of the back cover (without breaking it, it's that flimsy), removing the battery and then using a pen to slide the sim out. Why the phone doesn't have the same spring action for removal that the memory card slot right next to it has, is completely beyond me.

Anyway, with the sim in and after starting up the 5800 and listening to Nokia's über familiar start-up tone, it's time to get a touching with the screen. Unfortunately, the 5800's touch-screen requires more in the way of pressing than touching. If you're a fan of finger ballet on a touch-screen, move along. You will get irritated.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic runs on the Simbian operating system which is touch and go. Personally I found the interface badly designed — it's definitely the ugly neighbour of the Fruity Phone's beautiful interface and ease of use.

But right about there the complaints with the 5800 stops.

As crappy as the touch-screen experience can be, one advantage of the phone is that it comes with a stylus — something that's seriously lacking in the Fruit Phone. This also comes in very handy seeing as the Nokia 5800 supports handwriting. It takes a while getting the handwriting recognition software to recognise your scribblings but once you're done it can be quite a pleasure.

Speaking of the screen, it is a high quality, 640x360 pixels, 3.2" screen that can display 16:9 widescreen images when turned on its side. This is great for watching videos — an experience that is further enhanced by a high frame rate and impressive built-in speakers.

Apart from the built-in speakers, the phone also comes with a 3.5mm AV jack for your headphones. Sound quality is high and pure, so no complaints here.

If anything, the Nokia 5800 can do a lot. Its features include 8GB memory through a microSD card, full HTML web browser with Flash support (take that Fruit Phone!), SMS, email, IM, FM radio, a 3.2 MP camera (that can record videos), access to tons of Nokia apps, web connection through the usual networks (3G, HSDPA, wi-fi), up to 35 hours of music playback battery life, and an alleged 16 days stand-by time (not so sure about that one).

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has some nifty things too, such as a Media Bar accessed through a touch sensitive button in the top corner, a quick flip keylock switch on the side, and the ability to upload images to social networking sites like Facebook.

So if you're looking for a touch-screen phone that has a lot of features and great sound quality, and don't mind silly little things like a decent touch-screen and properly designed interface (pfft!), then the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is certainly an option.

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