Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone

**hozay09** · 10-02-2008, 06:20 PM

Aka the phone used in Dark Knight.. gorgeous phone IMO. Will be available as an unlocked GSM phone.

From Engadget:

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While it may not be Nokia's first touchscreen phone (anyone out there remember the 7710?), the 5800 XpressMusic is certainly the first to come out of Finland with a mainstream appeal. What we've alternately known as the "Tube" throughout much of its development cycle is the first production device to run S60 5th Edition -- the fourth major overhaul of Nokia's ubiquitous smartphone platform since 2002 and the first to support fingers, styli, and high-res displays. Speaking of high-res displays, the 5800 comes equipped with an impressive 3.2-inch 640 x 360 resistive touchscreen to go along with its 3.2-megapixel autofocus cam, Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash, GPS, WiFi, 3.5mm jack, and a microSD slot with support for 16GB cards. It'll be available in three versions -- European HSDPA, North American HSDPA, and GSM only -- and ships this quarter in black, red, and blue for €279 (about $392) unlocked with an 8GB card thrown in for good measure. Music fans with voracious appetites for new tunes might want to hold out, though, for the Comes With Music-equipped version that follows on "early next year" at a to-be-announced price.

Engadget Mobile

**97TurboDSM** · 10-02-2008, 10:19 PM

yea. do want.

**hozay09** · 10-03-2008, 09:12 AM

Too many vid's to embed here but here's a link for those who want to see how it works.

Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic phone intimately detailed on video - Engadget Mobile

So far I'm pretty impressed. Like the fact that you have the option of using your finger or a stylist. At $400 unlocked it's not a bad deal.

**Vertabreaker** · 10-03-2008, 09:34 AM

Some more pics. Sorry if they've been posted(I can't see pics at work)

**Vertabreaker** · 10-03-2008, 09:35 AM

Article from TG

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Opinion – We had almost given up hope that any of the five largest cellphone makers would be able to come up with a true iPhone rival that could match its appeal and functionality. But Nokia’s 5800 came virtually out of nowhere and seems to have all the right ingredients to challenge Apple. From what we have seen so far, this is one fantastic, cool device with very few compromises. It looks great and beats the iPhone effortlessly in audio and video features. It comes with a full year of free, unlimited access to songs on the Nokia Music Store service. It is expected to be available as an unlocked phone that will cost about 25% less than the iPhone. No doubt about it: This one looks serious. Apple should be worried.

A brief glance at the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic unveiled earlier today must have sent shivers down Apple executives' spines. Not for what the handset is, but because it shows that cellphone have woken up and demonstrate that they can adapt to competitive challenges and won’t give up market share that easily.

The 5800 successfully challenges the iPhone in terms of design, coolness and shiny software, but it beats Apple's handset down in terms of music and video. What is somewhat surprising is that despite the fact that Nokia has taken clues from what has made the iPhone so successful, 5800 isn't a copy-cat: It includes some of the iPhone’s strongest features (such as a large touchscreen) and fixes some of its faults and combines everything in one stylish package. We are pretty sure that the 5800 will turn just as many heads as the iPhone did when it was new. Check out our gallery and see what we mean.

There is also decent hardware to back up its looks. Not only does it come with a proximity sensor and an accelerometer (both included in the iPhone as well), but it outclasses Apple's device in audio and video. The 5800 is equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera with a high-quality lens optics and a dual-LED flash for low-light conditions. Its music player matches the iPhone, minus "iPod" nametag. It "Comes with Music", a new service that lets you wirelessly download or stream songs from the Nokia Music Store service for free during first year.

The Nokia phone also records VGA quality video at 30 FPS, which should look great on its screen, which has twice as many pixels as the iPhone screen. Another feature that exploits an iPhone weakness: It has a replaceable battery and does MMS. It also knows software tricks. For instance, you can place four contacts on the home screen for quick access to their entire history, including phone logs, recent SMS messages, even photos and blog updates. You can easily bring up menu bar anytime for quick access to music, favorite tracks, videos, photos and web.

So, is this the phone that will kill the iPhone, right?

No. The 5800 is actually more a preview of things to come from Nokia. Both the 5800 and iPhone demonstrate two distinct philosophies in the mobile phone space - showbiz and the more conservative approach of a traditional cellphone company. Apple still trumps any other device cards on hardware integration and design, simplicity, gorgeous graphics and a unique UI that is spiced up with support for pinch zooming, content flicks and finger scrolling.

But it is clear that Nokia is going after Apple – interestingly with a strategy we know from Apple: Take the best from your rivals and fix their mistakes. We strongly believe that Steve Jobs and his team should be worried. In fact, they need to come up with the next and much improved iPhone really soon. Nokia’s 5800 is a clear sign that cellphone makers won’t allow Apple to duplicate its success with the iPod in the cellphone market. In fact, we believe that the iPhone and its features suddenly look somewhat dated – when compared to the new Nokia phone.

When the 5800 hits the market, Apple will still have advantages through its AppStore, user interface and applications such as Mobile Me. But if Apple decides to rest on its laurels, it is clear that the iPhone will be in serious trouble sooner or later.

**hozay09** · 10-03-2008, 09:38 AM

Those are pics from the link I posted. thanks for putting them up I was lazy

**Vertabreaker** · 10-03-2008, 10:40 PM

Here's a little "Hands on" by extreme tech. I'm a little drunk so if it's repeated info I apologize.....but not really.

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Nokia, the world's number-one cell phone maker, today announced the company's first touchscreen smartphone, the Nokia 5800.

The 5800 is part of Nokia's "Comes With Music" initiative, which gives you a year to download all the music you want – and lets you keep the tracks after the year is over.

If you live in the U.S. or Canada, you'll have to wait for Comes With Music, though. It isn't available here, though Nokia told us they're working on it. But the touch screen 5800 will be available by the end of the year for roughly $395 worldwide, including a U.S. version supporting AT&T's high-speed HSDPA network. T-Mobile users will enjoy EDGE and Wi-Fi connectivity.

The 5800 changes Nokia's mainstay Symbian Series 60 OS to make it friendlier to poke with your finger. It's got one of the highest-res screens available on a U.S. phone, at 640x360. That may sound like a weird resolution, but it's the same 16:9 aspect ratio as on HDTVs, potentially making the 5800 a good device for recording or watching video.

The long, lozenge-shaped phone has a look and interface similar to the Samsung Instinct's: big icons, virtual soft keys at the bottom of the screen, and drop-down menus. The home screen lets you highlight your four favorite contacts and track your history with them by clicking on them, like some of T-Mobile's MyFaves phones do.

We were able to play with a 5800 for a few minutes. The unit we used was pre-production, and that was clear: some interface elements were missing or blank. The browser crashed at one point, and rotating the screen seemed slow. That's to be expected from a phone that's not fully baked.

Nokia changed pretty much everything about interacting with Series 60. In the browser, for instance, you now drag with your finger and double-tap to zoom. (Generally, you single-tap to select things and double-tap to 'click' on them.) There's a much heavier use of big 'shortcut' icon buttons than on any Nokia phone before. A glowing icon on the upper right hand corner of the screen pops out the Media Bar, a set of quick-launch icons for the music player, video player, gallery, Web browser and a Nokia sharing service.

The 5800 offers four different kinds of text entry: a landscape QWERTY soft keyboard that takes up the whole screen, a phone-style keypad, a handwriting recognizer and an eensy-weensy, tiny QWERTY keyboard that only takes up part of the screen. That last one requires you to pull out the stylus, but it's a way to enter text while still looking at your Web page.

The touch screen is haptic, so the phone vibrates when you press a virtual key.

The phone's flagship feature is music support, but its music functions may play better overseas than here in the US and Canada. The 5800 comes with an 8GB MicroSD memory card for storage, powerful stereo speakers and support for protected WMA music, along with unprotected AAC and MP3 music. The top-ported stereo speakers (which point toward the top of the device, rather than the back, where they could be muffled by a tabletop) are quite loud. The phone has a 3.5-mm headphone jack, and also supports stereo Bluetooth. Nokia says the phone will get 35 hours of music playback on a charge.

All the interface changes mean that third-party app developers will have to recode their software; Nokia will put out a new SDK for the new Series 60 Version 5 when this phone comes out.

The 5800 will sync with Windows Media Player 11, but it looks like it will really come alive when it connects to Nokia's online music store – which Nokia said they're working on bringing here. Right now, the store is available in nine European countries, Singapore and Australia.

Nokia extends their Web-browsing leadership here with a WebKit-based browser that supports Flash, unlike many other smart phones. The device also has a 3.2-megapixel camera with 640x360, 30-frame-per-second video recording. A second small camera, on the front, lets the YouTube generation make videos of themselves.

The 5800 will try to compete against other touch-screen, media-centric smart phones like the Apple iPhone and Blackberry Storm. The big question is whether this unlocked device will provide the same quality experience that Apple can deliver with their iTunes/iPhone/App Store relationship, or that Blackberry can deliver with all of their carrier partnerships.

We'll have a full review of the 5800 when it becomes available.

10-03-2008, 09:12 AM	#3 (permalink)
hozay09 SOT Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The Ghetto Posts: 2,570	Too many vid's to embed here but here's a link for those who want to see how it works. Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic phone intimately detailed on video - Engadget Mobile So far I'm pretty impressed. Like the fact that you have the option of using your finger or a stylist. At $400 unlocked it's not a bad deal. __________________

10-03-2008, 09:34 AM	#4 (permalink)
Vertabreaker SOT N3rd Mod +1 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: The phone booth across the street Posts: 10,357 gXboxLive Leaderboard: 59^th	Some more pics. Sorry if they've been posted(I can't see pics at work) __________________ Every man dies, not every man really lives.

10-03-2008, 09:38 AM	#6 (permalink)
hozay09 SOT Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The Ghetto Posts: 2,570	Those are pics from the link I posted. thanks for putting them up I was lazy __________________

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10-02-2008, 10:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
97TurboDSM SOT Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,839	yea. do want.