Friday, October 3, 2008

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

The 'Tube' as it's commonly known is finally unvieled by Nokia yesterday. The Nokia 5800 is Nokia and S60's first "touch-screen' device!
It's the first device to be powered by S60 5th edition software and this brings a lot more features and applications.

This device's features are mainly: a 3.2 megapixel camera, Wi-fi, Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) and dual UMTS (900/2100) or (850/1900MHz), a standard 3.5mm audio jack, a GPS reciever etc.

The Nokia 5800 will come along with a 8GB microSD card and a desktop stand, also with a stylus that fits along the side of the device.
The device is black in colour but has a red/blue  strip on the sides.

Being a touch-screen device the text-input method are : on screen full QWERTY keyboard which can be used by fingers also, and the device is well equipped with hand-writing recognition where you have to use the Stylus of-course! 

This device being powered by S60 V5 software, the important part is that the applications designed for V3 deivces are compatible with it, now that is great news!

the technical specifications of the Nokia 5800 are as follows:
Operating System: S60 5th edition
Data: GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/Wi-fi/HSPDA
Size:111mm x 51.7mm x 15.5mm
Display: 3.2" 16 million colour HD, 640 x 360 pixel resolution
Camera: 3.2 megapixels with Autofocus and Carl Ziess optics and dual LED-flash
Video: Resolution 640 x 360 with recording upto 30 fps.
Memory: 81MB internal with microSD card slot and 8GB microSD card included

you can watch the product video over here


Well I personally geel this device is going to be a BIG hit ! and this is truly what I call an 'iPhone Killer'!!!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

What is the price of Nokia 5800 in INR?

Anonymous said...

Whats the price?

Stephen said...

REPLY TO PRICE ENQUIRY: well the price of the Nokia 5800 is about US $ 390/- which is about INR : Rs. 18000/- excluding taxes
Now thats a pretty fair price!

Anonymous said...

The price is superb (279 Euros) according to Nokia.
I think it might reach upto 21K (Including VAT,Octroi and excise duty) in India :(

Anonymous said...

Nice post..read my post on Nokia 5800 in www.keepwrite.com

http://www.keepwrite.com/2008/10/iphones-end-nearing.html

Thanks