Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Tube official
Nokia hasn’t exactly done a good job of keeping the Tube under wraps. But now the touchscreen phone, known from now on as the 5800 XpressMusic, has at last been given the official nod.
Nokia’s keen to let all and sundry know that this is a ‘music phone with touch capability’ and isn’t going after the might of the iPhone 3G or HTC Touch Diamond.
That said, it has got some corking features to make Sony Ericsson’s Walkman phones sit up and take notice. As well as Symbian S60 Touch, a 3.2in 640x360 screen, up to 16GB support for your tunes, a neat media bar for accessing music, GPS, snaps and video and HSDPA for getting online.
A contacts bar gives home page access to your four favourite people, their recent texts and web feeds like Facebook at the tap of the screen.
It’s pretty thick at 15.5mm and tips the scales at 109g. You’ll get nine hours talk time after one charge too.
Nokia says it’ll cost about £200 when it launches in the UK early in 2009, while it’ll hit ‘other markets’ before Christmas this year. There’ll also be a Comes With Music version in the first half of next year, but there’s no word on how much that version will cost.
Take a look at our exclusive hands–on video to see the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music in action.
Essentials
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
Price: £200
On sale: 2009
Contact: Nokia
Comments
Jah
3 years ago
SIM free, this about 1/2 the price of the other touch screen devices listed above. For some people price is important not just how cool gadgets are.
Joe M
3 years ago
Hi Jah
We've been very careful to make clear that this is a) an affordable phone and b) a mid–range one.
Nokia told me personally that this was not going to be any kind of top–end device and that it was very much a music phone which happens to have a touchscreen.
That said, it would be remiss of us not to mention other touch phones that it is likely to be compared with.
We are well aware that price is important and make sure we run plenty of news and features to this effect. Check out free netbook deals article, best phones under £100 and best budget headphones feature for more.
Cool is obviously important too. As with many things, gadgets are aspirational and people do want to have a good old ogle even if they can't afford it.
Cheers for your comments though. Drop me a line if you've got any more queries.
Thanks
Joe
Jah
3 years ago
@Joe
Fair response. But it is important to note there is no £200 touch screen device with the specification of the Xpress Music (HSDPA, AGPS, accelerometer and proximity sensors & a very very high screen pixel count). This is a mid-range device with hardware attributes of some of the top-end devices. Irrespective of what Nokia claim.