Nokia announced 5800 XpressMusic first touch screen mobile phone

[Noki]

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Nokia turned up the volume on its music offering today by unveiling the new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, a mobile device for music that brings innovative new features to the mass market. Delivering on Nokia's vision to provide the best total music experience possible, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be among the first devices to support Comes With Music, Nokia's groundbreaking service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalogue.

When it comes to music phones, people all over the world want a device that is a great music experience - with more memory, loud and powerful speakers, easy synchronization - and must still work well as a mobile phone with direct access to important contacts and content. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers on all counts and allows consumers to access and share content.

"With the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, we set out to connect people through the one thing we all feel a universal connection to - music," said Jo Harlow, Vice President, Nokia. "The way in which people enjoy music is different around the world. With that in mind, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic gives people the freedom to experience music they love in the way they prefer."

Taking advantage of touch screen technology, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic introduces the 'Media Bar', a handy drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, including favourite tracks, videos and photos. The Media Bar also offers a direct link to the web and to online sharing. Because the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic supports Flash content, individuals can surf the entire web, not just pieces of it. In addition, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers all the music essentials, including a graphic equalizer, 8GB memory for up to 6000 tracks and support for all main digital music formats, and a 3.5mm jack. Built-in surround sound stereo speakers offer the industry's most powerful sound.

Ensuring a seamless music experience, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic also provides easy access to browse and purchase tracks from the Nokia Music Store, where applicable, while the newly updated Nokia Music PC software allows for easy drag-and-drop transfer of songs and management of any music collection.

The innovative 'Contacts Bar' lets consumers highlight four favorite contacts on their home-screen and, through a single touch, track a digital history of recent text messages, emails, phone logs, photos and blog updates.

[Noki]

"As Nokia's first mass-market device with a touch screen, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic turns a 'user interface' into a 'human interface' by truly putting people first. For example, we've introduced the Nokia Contacts Bar, which is like a digital RSS feed on your life," said Harlow. "By adding the benefits of touch screen technology to S60, the world's leading smartphone interface, Nokia is taking the familiar and giving it a human touch. We have used touch technology where it really adds value such as the Contacts Bar, Media Bar and clever shortcuts from the homescreen to menu items such as calendar, profiles and clock. "

For the best screen resolution available on a mobile phone, the 3.2" widescreen display brings photos, video clips and web content to life in vibrant color and true clarity. With a 16 by 9 aspect ratio and 30 frames-per-second playback and recording, the device is ideal for VGA quality video recording and playback.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic also features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and, with a single touch, images or videos can be shared via a favorite online community, such as Share on Ovi, Flickr, or Facebook. Music playlist song titles can also be shared through Bluetooth, MMS or online sharing.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic supports 60 languages worldwide, which covers nearly 90 percent of the world's population. As people around the world use their phones in different ways, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers a variety of input methods including a virtual alphanumeric keypad, a virtual computer-style QWERTY keyboard, a pen stylus -- and for true music enthusiasts, a plectrum -- are all available.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be available worldwide beginning in the fourth quarter of 2008 for an estimated retail price of 279 EUR before taxes and subsidies. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic featuring Comes With Music will be available early next year. Pricing details to follow.

Enhancing the experience, Nokia today unveiled four new music accessories including a new Bluetooth headset and three new stereo headsets.

[Jakub]

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Specification

Dimensions :

• Height 111mm
• Width : 51.7mm
• Depth : 15.5mm
• Weight : 109 g

Screen :

• 3.2"widescreen touch display
• Optimised for one hand use with responsive tactile feedback
• 640 X 360 pixel nHD resolution
• Upto 16 million colours
• 16:9 aspect ratio
• Automatic orientation sensor (Accelerometer) for display rotation
• 3D image engine

Keys and input method

• Stylus, plectrum and finger touch support for text input and user interface control (alphanumeric keypad, full and mini qwerty keyboard, handwriting recognition, full screen handwriting for Chinese language)
• Dedicated Media Bar touch key for access to music, gallery, share on-line, Video Centre and web browser
• Voice commands
• Physical keys for application launch key (menu key), send & end, power, camera, lock, volume up & down

Connectors

• Micro-USB connector, USB 2.0 High Speed
• 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
• MicroSD card slot, small DC jack, Micro USB cable interface to PC (CA-101), TV out interface (CA-75U)

Power

• BL-5J 1320 mAh Li-Ion battery
• Talk time (maximum):
  - GSM 8.8 h
  - WCDMA 5 h
• Standby time (maximum):
  - GSM 406.2 h
  - WCDMA 400 h
  - WCDMA 400 h
• Browsing time with packet data (maximum): 3.4 h
• Video playback time (maximum): 5.2 h, Video playback time (maximum, nHD/Mpeg4) 3.4 h, VGA video playback using TV-Out with Stereo BT Headset 3.8 h
• Video recording time (maximum): 3.6 h
• Video call time (maximum): 3 h
• Music playback time (maximum): Up to 35 h
• Gaming time (maximum): 5.6 h

Memory

• MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 16 GB
• 81 MB internal memory
• 8GB microSD memory card in-box, expandable up to 16GB

connectivity

• Bluetooth version 2.0
  - Bluetooth profiles: A2DP & AVRCP
• MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) support
• TV out with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, in-box)
• Support for PC synchronisation with Nokia OVI Suite

[Jakub]

Call features

• Integrated hands-free speakerphone
• Number screening for messaging and calls
• Automatic answer with headset or car kit
• Any key answer
• Call waiting, call hold, call divert
• Call timer
• Logging of dialled, received and missed calls
• Automatic redial
• Speed dialling
• Voice dialling: speaker independent dialling and voice commands (SIND)
• Fixed dialling number support
• Vibrating alert (internal), also with tactile feedback
• Side volume keys
• Mute/unmute
• Contacts bar for 4 contacts with images and communication history (SMS, IM, email, web feeds)
• Talking ring tones
• Conference calling with up to 6 participants
• Video calling: up to 3h, QCIF 176 x 144 pixels, low up to 5 fps, normal up to 10 fps, smooth up to 15 fps

Messaging

• SMS
• Multiple SMS deletion
• MMS version 1.3, message size up to 600 kb
• Automatic resizing of images for MMS
• Nokia Xpress audio messaging
• Common inbox for SMS and MMS messages
• Number screening for messaging
• Distribution lists for messaging
• Instant messaging client
• Cell broadcast

E-mail

• Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP
• Support for e-mail attachments
• OMA e-mail notification support
• Mail for Exchange 2008 in DL client, in 2009 embedded

Web browsing

• Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML, WML
• Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP, JavaScript
• TCP/IP support
• OSS browser
• Nokia Mobile Search

GPS and navigation

• Integrated GPS for pedestrian and car navigation
• Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch application

Camera

• 3.2 megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels)
• Image formats: JPEG
• Carl Zeiss optics
• 3x digital zoom
• Autofocus
• Dual LED flash
• Flash modes: On, off, automatic, red-eye reduction
• White balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
• Centre weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.5 step
• Normal, Sepia, Black & White, Vivid, Negative
• Dedicated camera key
• Landscape (horizontal) orientation
• Photo editor on device
• Direct printing to compatible picture printers

Video

• Main camera
  Video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps (TV high quality), up to 640 x 352 pixels and up to 30 fps (widescreen quality), up to 320 x 240 pixels and up to 30 fps/15 fps (email high/normal quality), up to 176 x 144 and up to 15 fps (sharing quality)
  - Up to 4x digital video zoom
• Front camera for video calling
• Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp
• Audio recording formats: WAV (normal), AMR (MMS), AAC/MP4 (high quality)
• Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
• Scene modes: automatic, night
• Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative
• Clip length (maximum): 1 h 30 min (high or normal quality). Dependable on available memory.
• RealPlayer
• Video playback file formats: MPEG4-SP playback 30fps VGA, MPEG4-AVC playback 30fps QVGA, WMV9 playback 30fps QVGA, MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps nHD
• Video streaming: 3GPP and CIF
• Landscape mode video playback
• Video editor on device
• Video Centre service supported: download and stream video content, WMV support, video feeds

Music and audio playback

• Nokia Nseries digital music player
  - Playlists
  - 8-band graphical equaliser
  - selection by artist, composers, album and genre
  album graphics display and audio visualisations
  bass booster, stereo widening, loudness
• Music playback file formats: .mp3, SpMidi, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA
• Dedicated volume keys & immediate access to Music Player from Media Bar, dedicated music keys in the headset control unit AD-54
• Stereo FM radio
• 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
• Music Player
• Nokia Music Manager
• Nokia Music Store support
• Nokia Podcasting support
• Ring tones: 3D stereo ring tones, 64-tone polyphonic, mp3 & video ring tones (3 videos and 9 mp3 songs built-in)
• Integrated stereo speakers with surround sound (crystal clear hi-fi sound quality with dedicated audio chip)

Voice and audio recording

• Voice commands
• Speaker-independent name dialling (SIND)
• Voice recorder
• AMR, NB-AMR, FR, EFR
• Digital stereo microphone

Personalisation: profiles, themes, ring tones

• Customisable profiles
• Ring tones: 3D stereo ring tones, 64-tone polyphonic, mp3 & video ring tones
• Themes

Software

• S60 5th edition
• Symbian OS version 9.4
• Active standby
• Media Bar
• Contacts bar

Applications

• Java TM MIDP 2.0
• Flash Lite 3.0
• Games: 3D Bounce and Global Race
• DVD: Ulead VTB
• Nokia Music Store
• Nokia Maps
• Map loader
• PC Download
• PC Photos
• OVI Suite with Nokia Music
• Download!
• Share on OVI
• Adding more applications:
  - Over-the-air (OTA) downloads

[ShaneW]

The Nokia 5800 is priced at €279 ($392) unlocked. This iPhone competitor is powered by the S60 5th Edition operating system and features a 3.2 inch 640 x 360 (resistive) touchscreen with stylus input, a 3.2MP shooter with autofocus Carl Zeiss lens and LED flash, Wi-Fi connectivity, HSDPA (North American), GPS navigation, 8GB internal memory and a microSDHC memory card slot.

[absolute55]

The Foundations said it best in their 1968 classic, but seriously, why let us down like this? Nokia didn’t mind busting out a litany of press shots and all the specifications one could need to get amped up about the 5800 XpressMusic, but it obviously has something holding it back from launching in “mature markets” before 2009. In an announcement that’s just as disappointing to the suits in Espoo as it is to those in North America and Down Under (just to name a couple), we’ve now learned that the touchscreen-dominated handset will only be available in seven countries in Asia, the Middle East and Europe before 2009 dawns. Even worse? Not knowing how deep into next year we’ll have to wait for this thing here in the US of A. Catch our feelings spelled out in video form after the break.

[cool_gags]

can i know what is price of these phone

which are the best sliding mobiles in nokia at a cheap rate

[delta4]

price of nokia 5800 is fluctuating between 18,400/- to 19,200/-

[delta4]

do not go for nokia sliding phones, the slider gives a problem if its used harshly...300 to 600 bucks for repairing it...