Smartphone technology has come a long way until today. Thanks to the features it offers to the user, the smartphones that we use frequently in our daily lives continue to attract attention with new features that we cannot predict. Technology giants introduce new products by adding new features every year. When we look at the first smartphones, we encounter the legendary Nokia 5800 model.
Nokia, which had the highest market share on the 3G side of the time, managed to gather all the attention after introducing the 5800 model. The company has made good use of the fact that 3G technology has become very popular around the world, but thanks to the features of its new model, Nokia 5800, it has taken its first steps in the smart phone industry. Introduced in October 2008, Nokia’s first successful touchscreen smartphone was sold in 1 million units in the 5 months following its launch. So what features did the iconic Nokia 5800 offer us? Let’s examine it together.
Nokia 5800 Features:
3.2 inch touch screen
The company’s first touchscreen phone, the Nokia 5800, was launched with a 3.2-inch display. Although it looks quite small when compared to the smartphones produced today, we are talking about a rather large screen compared to 2008. For comparison, the iPhone 13 is 6.06 inches.
640 x 360 pixel resolution
This huge 3.2-inch screen of the period had a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels and support for 16 million colors. If we compare the 640 x 360 pixel resolution, which seems huge compared to 2008, with today’s, Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, the newest member of the Samsung Note series, has a resolution of 1440 x 3088 pixels.
3.2MP camera
One of the biggest features of today’s phones is the cameras that allow you to take high-quality photos and videos. The camera resolution, which is one of the biggest factors in choosing between phones, was not like this 14 years ago. Nokia’s 5800 model, which had legendary features at that time, had a 3.2 megapixel camera and a VGA front camera that supported video calls.
This camera with autofocus was capable of shooting 30 FPS video at 640×480 resolution. Another feature that marked those times was the Nokia 5800, a phone with a video call feature with this camera.
1320mAh battery
Although a battery with a capacity of 1320 mAh seems insufficient at the moment, it was more than enough for the Nokia 5800 at that time. Since today’s popular social media applications were not on the smartphone at that time, the 1320 mAh battery capacity was quite enough. The Nokia 5800 model, which has a standby time of 406 hours, managed to attract attention with a talk time of 8.8 hours.
Ability to listen to music for 35 hours
We said that the Nokia 5800 attracted a lot of attention with its features. One of the most important reasons why the phone attracted so much attention was its multimedia features. Nokia 5800 had the ability to listen to music continuously for up to 35 hours with its own multimedia tools.
3G Support
Let’s come to one of the most legendary features of the period. The 5800 had this feature when 3G support was just starting to settle in. The first iPhone that Apple produced a year ago had 2G support. After the touch phone that Apple introduced in those years, Nokia managed to attract all the attention by producing a 3G supported touchscreen. Moreover, it had a front camera that supports 3G technology.
Single core, 434 mHz ARM 11 processor
The Nokia 5800 had a 434 mHz ARM 11 processor, one of the popular mobile processors of the period. After the release of the 5800 model, Nokia made performance optimizations from time to time, making the phone even more powerful. The company changed the CPU frequency with the update it made in 2010 and managed to offer a better user experience with UI optimizations.
81MB internal memory
When we consider the 1 TB storage option of the most powerful iPhone model produced last year, we can see how little internal memory such as 81 MB is. But Nokia thought about this at that time and gave an 8 GB SD card as a gift in the box. Also, the Nokia 5800 model supported up to 16GB of storage. Although 8GB of storage may seem small, it was quite enough for the Nokia 5800 model.
Rich box content
While the Nokia 5800 managed to attract a lot of attention with its features, it was sold with a very rich box content compared to today’s smartphones. When you buy a smartphone today, you will find only one charging cable in the box. 14 years ago, the contents of the boxes were much richer. Here is the box contents of Nokia 5800;
- Nokia 5800
- Charger
- 1320mAh battery
- 2 stylus pens
- Software DVD
- Headset with remote
- picks
- video output cable
- Connection cable
- 8GB microSD
- Stand
- transport container
- Owner’s Manual
Although Nokia is not as popular as it used to be today, it was taking serious steps in the technology world at that time. Especially the Nokia 5800 model had the hallmarks of the era. Nokia made another smartphone trial with the 7700 model, 5 years before the 5800, and after a while, it focused on push-button phones again. Five years later, Nokia’s successful smartphone, the 5800, was introduced.
When we compare it with the popular iPhone or Samsung models today, we see that the Nokia 5800 is very old. But of course, producing a touchscreen smartphone for 2008 was an important step. Have you used the Nokia 5800 before? Don’t forget to give your opinion in the comments!
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