HOW TO CHANGE OS ON NOKIA 5800

Bored of your 5800 homescreen? How about giving it the looks and functionality of Nokia N97 or the Samsung i8910? Not only that you can customize your 5800 homescreen the way you want it to be. Thanks to this amazing application- GDesk, 5800ers can now add more functionality to that 3.2″ homescreen.

To be honest we feel 5880er were largely let down by Nokia with their latest firmware not bringing the 5530 like scrollable contacts screen and music player widget to our 5800 homescreen. But the device and platform is so powerful that we don’t have to rely on Nokia alone for our customisation needs. Hit the jump button to see if GDesk is good enough to give our 5800 a makeover.

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Don’t they look cool? We are already sensing the restlessness of our readers to get these homescreens on their 5800s. Well, you gotta put some effort into this but thanks to Pesiran, a forumer at dailymobile.se for sharing his creations with us. The above two homescreens are his creations and we are so bowled over by his work. Great work Perisan!

Now lets get into the nitty-gritty of GDesk: before you can start customising your homescreen, you need to install a host of gdesk applications (there are 7 in total) which you can then use to customize your homescreens. Once installed you can invoke the GDesk application from the apps menu and what you see is a blank screen with windows like functionality. You can start customising the different aspects of your homescreen using the several options here or you can just use pre-downloaded gdd files like the ones we showed from Pesiran above. We would suggest the latter for most users but yeah advanced users can toy with the former and share your handiwork with us here.

What we like?

1. Amazing customization abilities

What we don’t like?

1. Not one of the easiest applications to use
2. Installing seven apps can be frustrating at times (The developers should have packed all the installers in just one sis file)

Verdict

GDesk is an amazingly powerful customization application. A right mix of creativity and practicality can take our 5800 to further extents and we don’t even have to rely on Nokia for that. The excellent adaptations of N97 and i8910 homescreens prove the versatility of this amazing application. We must confess that creating a homescreen is by no means a cakewalk but thanks to our friends like Pesiran, we can always rely on art connoisseurs like him to customize our homescreens. Further the GDesk community is pretty active and humming with several creative ideas and an excellent platform for enthusiasts to share their work and get help from other GDesk users.

In all, if you just wish to customize your homescreen but don’t have the time and patience to create your own, rely on designs from Pesiran and the like. If you are the creative type an wish to create your own homescreen, you are welcome to do so and for both cases GDesk is a must have.