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So here’s part 2 of my review of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

I’ve been using it for roughly a week now, and have just about tried out every major function in the phone.

As you all would have known from Review Part 1 that – This Nokia X Starhub review is made possible by Ripplevox.

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I shall now cover the recommended data plan put out by Starhub.

I am currently using the Starhub MaxMobile Data Plan VAS which is presently priced @ a monthly subscription of $5.35, and comes with 10MB of data worth $30 (roughly equals 3 song downloads).

I have to say that I am satisfied with Starhub’s 3G speed. It takes roughly 15-20 seconds to fully load a roughly 1MB webpage.

It could however still be faster – I don’t fancy waiting too long for pages to load.

The catch here though, is that once you exceed 10MB of usage (which you almost definitely will after downloading endlessly in the Nokia music store), there will be a friendly price cap of $36.38.

Which means, for me, as I use roughly 10-20MB per day multiplied that by 30 days, I’ll consume roughly 450MB data usage per month on the 5800 XPM.

But I will still be charged just $36.38 tops.

Which means if you are able to use 1000GB – you will still be charged an affordable $36.38.

What’s more?

You are able to tether your phone to your computer e.g. Laptops, via Nokia’s One Touch Access, and use that unlimited 3G speed for your internet connectivity.

Time to ditch that free Wireless @ SG plan for no connection drops! =)

So far, so good.

Until this image encapsulated exactly what I felt:

Although I’ve already downloaded around half a thousand songs in a span of a few days – every song from the Nokia Music Store also Come-With-DRM-Protection.

Which means that you would effectively only be able to play them 1) on your computer AND 2) on your Comes-With-Music Phone.

The latest I’ve discovered is that the songs you downloaded would not be able to be set as your ringtone, as shown in the following picture.

“Unable to set as ringing tone. File is protected.”

Free, yet not able to fully utilise. Ambiguity much?

Hope they change it soon.

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Next up! Pictures shot on the Carl Zeiss Tessar 2.8/3.7, 3.2 megapixels with Auto-Focus lens.

How would they do in Outdoor Natural Sunlight?

Marina Barrage (Without Zoom)

Marina Barrage (With Zoom)

I took these photos while at Marina Barrage, facing the Singapore Flyer.

Above was without zoom, bottom was with zoom. The one with zoom had noticeable grain.

Both are of acceptable quality for casual purposes, but they still cannot replace the clarity found in standalone cameras.

Next: How would they do in Artificial Indoor Light?

Indoor Shot of my Desk (Vivid)

This shot is put to Vivid Mode colours to bring out what my desk colours and items really looked closely to.

The Normal mode looked like this:

Indoor Shot of my Desk (Normal)

The Normal Mode is plain dull and lifeless.

So there you go, pretty predictable-quality average pictures rendered.

We have come to the end of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Review Part 2 of 4.

*Updated*

Here’s to Part 4 of 4 of the review.

Here’s to Part 3 of 4 of the review.

Here’s to Part 1 of 4 of the review.

I will be going in-depth into the other functions of 5800 XpressMusic phone in my next review, part 3. =))

**Update**:

Although I pretty much put down the Nokia Music Store in my first part of the review for the lack of on-the-fly update for new songs, I feel compelled to let on that the Nokia Music Store is really damn useful and good at retriving past songs.

I’m somewhat like a raving rabid dog who muches at all the old songs…like Aqua, The Corrs, Wilson Philips, Sia, Enya, Nelly Furtado, Spice Girls (yes yes whatever, I also went to their Vegas concert haha I’m a die-hard fan), Blink 182, and the list goes on…