Nokia 5800 ( Tube ) is Available Now

Nokia 5800, previously called Tube, acquired a lot attention since it was the first Nokia respond to Apple iPhone - not a competitor, but a phone with alike appears and interface. Touchscreen thumb-controlled devices are acquiring a lot and a lot of popularity, and Nokia's first effort in this marketplace - Nokia 5800 release - promises to be successful one. As was declared before, at October 2 Nokia finally acquainted its first multimedia touchscreen smartphone on Symbian - Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. We poked into details, which are described below.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic most interesting side is that it is working at a first Symbian S60 made especially for touchscreen controller and big resolutions - S60 5th Edition. It is designed to be controlled either by thumbs or stylus, with power to decide what you prefer the most (unlike Windows Mobile, S60 5th Edition is fully optimized for thumb usage - although, f you like, you are able to accept the stylus and work with it without any problems. On Windows Mobile all thumb controlling features are just a shell that works above stylus-oriented OS). Interesting enough, Nokia pointed this smartphone not as a premium class smartphone but as a middle-class music phone.

iIt goes with 3.2 inched sensor display with 640 x 360 resolution, which is greater than the iPhone's and is capable of exposing films or pictures very crisp and brightly, 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and dual LED torch, Global Positioning System. Wireless characteristics include Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, which, in combining with its high-resolution display, makes 5800 great for net browsing. Built-in accelerometer corrects picture on screen if the position of smartphone is switched from portrait to landscape style, this characteristic is present in almost every advanced multimedia smartphone, so it is not a WOW factor any longer.

While aimed at music lovers, smartphone has all that asked for hearing in comfort - 3.5 minijack slot for connecting almost every model of headphones to the device (no adapters or proprietary accessories is needed;, powerful multimedia player that runs smoothly and benefits tremendously from the display's size - album arts appear lovely, especially if saved in high resolution; expandable storage via microSD cards - up to 16 GB is supported, 8GB card is packed with the phone. Text input is done fully via touchscreen and virtual keyboard - it has two styles of operation, one for thumb input and one for stylus. Needless to say, phone supports 3G networks and has all that is needed for video calls.

First edition of this interesting smartphone will be released pretty soon - models in black, red and blue colors will be sold for attractive price - 279 Euros (around 380 US dollars), with special version "Nokia Comes With Music" launching in the beginning of 2009. It is curious, how it will be compatible with great number of S60 applications and games that are already released. In any case, ask to see a lot of great applications written to use all of Nokia Tube possibilities.