I REGRET CHOOSING THE 5800XM

I know some of you are in love with it but there's a whole lot of others who'll agree with me on this one. My 5800XM is one of the worst in history, what happened to customer satisfaction? The fone crashes a lot, the photo gallery shows no photos but I can view the photo indivisually in file manager, the music player doesn't refresh & songs disappear from the library while still available in file manager, you have to pay for plenty of applications which are normally free (i.e: PDF reader, quickoffice, etc.), I initially taught that as a smartphone it was supposed to come bundled with those apps but it wasn't. I really regret it, I wish i'd opted 4 a Sony Ericsson or Samsung. I tot of upgrading to the N97 but with it's own problems that I caught up with here, I guess it's goodbye to my 10 year long relationship with NOKIA.

Lets see
- phone crashes - mine never did, but then again the first batches of the 5800 was problematic (or due to problematic firmware installation)
- Photo Gallery shows no photos - a common problem with corrupted cards. A virus from the PC may have set the pics to become invisible. It can be seen in a PC where viewing invisible files are enabled, but not on the 5800. Just set the pics to visible on the PC and reformat the card to get rid of the corruption 
- PDF, quickoffice etc - its not the 5800's or Nokia's fault. If you go to the Adobe or Quick website these things arent free. They sell it and not provide it free. Even if you went for Satio from SE or Samsungs's Omnia HD you'd still pay for those stuff. Even if it was a smartphone, its also xpressmusic which by standard even when using s60v3 does not have these office apps bundled as it is targeted at a market of people who do not use these things a lot (teenagers), as of the moment AFAIK only the n97 and the mini get it bundled. All other s60v5 (5530, 5320) does not have it bundled. If you went for an s60v3 phone though, like n86, n85, these are available for free. So dont get mad at Nokia for this. One of the reasons why its cheap is that they did not pay for the licenses. It would be more expensive if they did. Getting an SE or Samsung with the same OS wouldnt help. You'd still be in the same situation.
-  If you are buying an SE for the same amount you dished out for the 5800, you'll be getting a dummyphone with no option to get PDF or quickoffice even if you paid for it, or an old outdated smartphone probably to get those. For samsung, this one would have been a decent alternative, although you might get less features for a similar priced phone which runs s60 as well. For a WinMo samsung you'll have to choose an older model or shell out more.
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