Touchscreen phones are the flavour of the month at the moment, thanks to Apple's iPhone, and Nokia's first attempt at a touchscreen handset has plenty to recommend it. The generous 3.2in widescreen display is pleasingly responsive to the touch, while it features a superior camera to the iPhone, as well as the ability to record video – a basic feature missing from Apple's deviceIts web browser is fast, thanks to the phone's reliance on the high-speed 3G network and support for Wi-Fi, but it's just not as much fun to use as that on the iPhone. Where the 5800 does score a major point over the iPhone, though, is in its support of Flash, a type of program used to power many online video services and websites, such as the film clips embedded in our own Telegraph website.The iPhone is not compatible with this technology, leaving some web pages that contain video clips frustratingly blank. The 5800 is first and foremost a music phone, and this is the area in which it gives the iPhone a run for its money. It has 8GB of memory, capable of storing about 4,000 songs, and this can be expanded to 16GB using a removable memory card. The use of a standard 3.5mm headphone jack is a welcome feature, as is one-touch access to music, photos and videos using the dedicated virtual ‘media bar’ key, which is always displayed on the phone’s screen regardless of what you’re doing on the handset.
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