Upgrade Your Nokia 5800 To A Nokia X6

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By Phil Barker on May 17,

2010 at 00:00,

Upgrade-your-nokia-5800-to-a-nokia-x6 copy The Nokia 5800 is the best selling touchscreen Nokia ever, with a staggering 8 million plus handsets sold over the past couple of years. Replacing it has been a difficult task, then, but if you’re in the market for an upgrade, then the Nokia X6 should be the first solution you check out. To find out why you should upgrade to the Nokia X6, join us after the break…

The Nokia 5800 has been a revolutionary handset for Nokia, from its Symbian S60 5th Edition OS, to the large 3.2-inch touchscreen display that’s perfect for media playback. The Nokia 5800 also proved itself as one of the best music players on the market, with the capacious 8GB of memory proving perfect for your music collection.

If you’re about to upgrade your Nokia 5800 to something a little more contemporary, then the first phone you should check out is the Nokia X6. It still features a similar form factor and large 3.2-inch touchscreen, but things have moved on. The styling is a lot cleaner and more modern, for a start, and it’s also considerably sleeker.

The touchscreen on the Nokia X6 is a capacitive panel, proving more responsive and a lot better suited to the touchscreen operating system. The specification has also improved, with up to 32GB of memory available for all of your music, photographs and video files. The Nokia 5800 is capable, but with 8GB of storage already on a microSD card, it’s more limited than the Nokia X6.

Like the Nokia 5800, the Nokia X6 is also available with a Comes With Music package, offering free music downloads for a year. Along with the 3.5mm earphone jack – letting you hook up your own favourite earphones, it’s the perfect replacement for your MP3 player.

Nokia 5800 vs Nokia X6 - Stat Clash

The camera on the Nokia X6 has received a welcome spec boost, and now provides a resolution of 5-Megapixels – up from 3.2-Megapixels on the Nokia 5800. Along with Carl Zeiss optics, it’s capable of delivering truly excellent image quality, and proves itself a worthy upgrade over the Nokia 5800.

Although the Nokia 5800 and Nokia X6 may look similar, then, the development time between the two makes the Nokia X6 a much better phone, and a device that you should really consider if you want to upgrade your Nokia 5800.

Have you upgraded from a Nokia 5800 to a Nokia X6? Let us know how you’ve been getting on if so in the Comments below.

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Andélson Marcelino

Nokia X6 hasn\’t a micro SD card slot, only memory built in..
Mikey Bee

@Andelson – Phil only mentions the Nokai 5800 having a microSD slot, pointing out that the memory in the Nokia X6 is all internal. Hope no confusion was caused?
5800XM Fan

I have the 5800xm and when I upgrade within the Nokia portfolio it will be to the N8, not the X6. Frankly, the X6 is not a cost effective upgrade to the 5800xm. Yes, the capacitive screen on the X6 is nice…but the resistive on the 5800xm with latest FW is still very responsive. Unlike the X6, the 5800 also offers MicroSD expansion, up to 16GB. I just bought an Otterbox commuter case for the phone, which not only makes it feel better and less bulky in the hand than the silicon case, but also makes any creaks and other noises that come from the plastic body literally go away. For as little as 20 dollars, it feels and looks like a new phone…so no X6 for me. Looks like I will get 2 years of use with the 5800 as a primary phone, which is pretty impressive these days. It’s still in pristine condition, because I’ve always used screen protectors/cases, and will remain a trusty backup for a long time to come. Excellent job Nokia.
Mikey Bee

ahh, that’s actually a very good argument but we were thinking of devices that were available right now. Anyone else thinking that the Nokia N8 is the natural upgrade device for the Nokia 5800?
Brian

If size, cost and availability are drivers, then no, the N8 is not the logical follow on.
Remember, the 5800 was as much an all around use introductory loss leader to capture market share as anything else. The 5800 was never intended to be a premier device.
A price search this morning shows the X6 16GB has entered 5800 territory (under 300$) in the U.S. markets.
Thinner form factor, camera appears to be a little better, no additional storage card option is available but 16GB isn\’t bad, the capacitive touch screen, sizable deployment base, FW maturity, most HW problems ironed out – all these factors probably clench the X6 as the logical follow on for general use today – this very moment.

On the other hand, if you\’re looking forward to a premier imaging/multimedia device, best wait another 6 months given the prospect of the N8 along with the maturation of WinMo, Android and Apple devices.
pav

I don’t think the N8 will be premium priced – it’ll represent excellent value against the IPhone. So N8 is the natural and best upgrade.
Phil B

It depends whether you’re talking about pay monthly or pay as you go deals. If you’re buying the Nokia N8 as part of the latter, don’t expect it to come cheap.

Obviously if you’re on a pay monthly contract – where the handset is subsidised by the network provided – you’ll have a lot more choice over what you can afford, and in this case the Nokia N8 may well prove as affordable as *cheaper* devices – at least, once it’s been on sale for a few months.
5800XM Fan

The N8 is to be priced at EURO 370 before taxes and subsidies. At the rate the EURO is going these days, by 3Q10 it will be an upper mid priced smartphone in my book. Certainly closer to the 5800XM price positioning than the N97Mini. Bottom line, it\’s a premier smartphone in its features with a value like sticker price. Maybe not within the reach of all 5800XM users…but a lot of them for sure.