My first attempt was to update the operating system of the phone, to do this I installed Nokia System Updater which promptly crashed my computer. A real blue screen of death. On restarts the system hung after login and failed to work consistantly until I had cleaned the software off my computer.

I reinstalled and between system hangs I managed to get the updater working. After connecting the phone with all sorts of threats about how delicate the procedure was the application tried to download the 5800 update 5 times failing each time at around 80mb (the whole update is 120mb) until I had to force it to quit as it showed no signs of giving up. 5 times isn’t that bad you say? Well Nokia is running the slowest servers in the world it seems so 5 x 80mb on my normally speedy line took 6 hours!!

I gave up on the system update.

But then…today I decided I’d like to try the maps loader. I dutifully put the CD that came with the phone in and it went through the “do you want to download the latest from the web?” routine. 4 hours later and the application has failed to download anything meaningful from Nokia with the music software, Ovi NSU all failing due to the Nokia servers timing out.

Crazy! I guess this proves that even if the hardware is brilliant Google Android will still win over Symbian because they know how to run a server and can provide the exciting software experience people want tinkering with a smartphone.