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Has the real competition to Apple iPhone finally arrived with the unveiling of Nokia 5800? Since Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced iPhone in January 2007 MacWorld, there has been a flurry of touchscreen phone launches from almost all mobile phone manufacturers.

However, so far no one has really been able to steal the limelight from Apple despites many devices boasting of far more power in terms of features. In the past few months, the Finnish phone maker has often been criticised for having missed the `touchscreen’ bus. Will Nokia 5800 prove the critics wrong? Will Nokia 5800 be able to do to iPhone what no other phone could do? Only time can answer these questions.

Here we bring to you what Nokia 5800 has that its biggest rival Apple 3G iPhone doesn’t.

Nokia’s first touchscreen phone boasts of a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, 3x digital zoom, auto focus and a dual-LED flash. It also has a second backward facing camera. This compares to Apple 3G iPhone’s 2 megapixel camera with no video recording option and no flash support.

Unlike iPhone, Nokia 5800 offers video recording option at up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps (frames per second). It offers up to 4x digital video zoom. The phone’s front camera supports video calling feature. Nokia 5800 can support video playback up to 5.2 hours, video recording time up to 3.6 hours and video call time up to 3 hours.

No video recording in 3G iPhone also means no video conferencing. iPhone also lacks optical zoom feature.

Extra Features
Accelerometer Sensor
Flight Mode
FOTA Firmware over the Air
Nokia Maps 2.0
Proximity Sensor
Stereo FM RDS Radio
Stereo Handsfree Speakers
Still Image Editor
SyncML
Themes
TV Out

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