Nokia Announces 5800 XpressMusic will Come
Now it's Nokia's turn to unveil its long-awaited touchscreen mobile phone, Nokia 5800 or also known as "The Tube" after T-Mobile's Google-powered G1 was officially launched recently.
The 5800 XpressMusic features the first WVGA (640×360) resistive touchscreen display ever found on a Nokia Series 60 device, and is also the first device that will launch with Series 60 5th Edition which enables support for more resolutions, touch displays, and other improvements.
The complete featureset includes quadband EDGE/GSM, dualband W-CDMA with HSDPA support, Wi-Fi radio, built-in GPS transceiver with A-GPS support, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, microSDHC slot, microUSB port, 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, video recorder, and Carl Zeiss optics.
The 5800 XpressMusic will be available in Europe by year’s end for 279 Euro/129 UK Pounds/$227 USD and it comes with a fancy plectrum-style stylus and an 8GB microSD. There are no carriers announced and it may be available from Nokia stores and online next year. This is also Nokia’s first Comes With Music phone, a service that offers unlimited music downloads for the first year of ownership.The5800 XpressMusic is expected to be released later this quarter with no US pricing information available at this time. In related news, Nokia also announced that it will bring both the Comes With Music subscription service and the bespoke version of the 5800 XpressMusic enabled with the service along with the N95 and 5610 next year to the US.
The 5800 XpressMusic Features:
- Dimension: 111 mm x 51.7 mm x 15.5 mm
- Weight: 109 g
- 3.2" screen with 16:9 aspect ratio
- 3.2 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics
- Virtual QWERTY keyboard & a pen stylus
- Bluetooth, GPS, 3G, and Wi-Fi
- 8GB memory
- FM radio
- Support for all main digital music formats
- Built-in surround sound stereo speakers
- Graphic equalizer
- Available in red, black and blue
Verizon Wireless plans to launch its own version of the relatively popular device, according to a filing with the FCC. Customers that are irritated with "T […]
AT&T has launched the second variant in the RAZR2 V9 series with the V9x. The Motorola V9x features the same external touch display, 2 megapixel camera wit […]
Apple’s success with the iPhone and iPhone 3G were recently highlighted when the company released it’s financial statements just last week. But, Apple’s meth […]
The iPhone Dev Team has been working away to make the iPhone 3G software unlock solution a reality. Sure, the iPhone 3G is available in just about every major […]
The well-heeled tech enthusiasts among us will be happy to hear that Sonos has released an iPhone application that turns their iPhone or iPhone 3G into a remote […]
If you haven’t already bought a T-Mobile G1 and still would like to, then you would be happy to know that you don’t have to buy a G1 from T-Mobile a […]
If like many people you have been waiting for the launch of the Sony Ericsson’s X1 with a level of excitement that could power the average family home, then yo […]
Google today launched Google Earth for iPhone and iPod touch. The application is a near-complete port of Google Earth from Mac OS X. It takes advantage of the i […]
Oct 24,Sprint launched the HTC Touch Pro, a Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for data entry, expandable storage with a microSD car […]
LG and Bell have announced a new fashion phone called the LG “Reveal” with no hesitation to promote it as looking like a make-up compact. This will be availa […]