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Hi all,

Firstly, I’d like to thank Nokia for inviting me for a special preview of their upcoming device, the 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen phone.

According to Nokia, the target audience for this phone is the mid range market and youths. The price is 279 Euro before tax.

As usual, there has to be a photo of me holding the device. ahah

The 5800 will feature a screen with resolution 640*360px. It’s is also called the nHD screen because it is basically 1/9th of a HD screen. Let me show you a diagram I drew prior to this post.

The 5800 will be the first S60 touchscreen phone from Nokia and it will also be the most advanced XpressMusic device in it’s category.

Some of the features of the 5800 includes the new S60 5th edition and the latest version of the Symbian OS, 3.2mpx Carl Zeiss Optics camera, 30fps DVD-like video recording, dual LED flash and GPS.

Connectivity wise, it supports 3G, Wifi, Bluetooth and USB.

3.2inch wide screen… dual speakers

The top part of the phone spots an on/off button, 3.5mm headphone jack and a micro USB port.

The phone will come in 3 XpressMusic colours… yes you’ve guessed it. haha… red, blue and grey.

As you can see, the right side of the phone places the camera shutter button, touchscreen slider lock and the volume/zoom keys.

2 new innovations I like about the 5800.

- Haptic feedback: It feels very different from the other touchscreens I’ve tried. This one doesn’t feel like vibration. It feels more like erm… a 0.5mm nudge.. which feels a lot more solid than the rest. (Edit: The haptic felt like a general one.. not specifically at the spot you touch)

- Touch media bar key: Can you see the bright little logo next to the word “XpressMusic” above the screen? Thats the touch sensitive key. Once touched, the quick access media bar will appear.. (the red vertical bar in the photo) and gives access to Music, Photos, Share Online, Videos and Internet.

I’m sure by now you would have noticed the 4 little photos on the main screen.

You can actually set the photos to display the 4 most frequently contacted person so when you touch on their faces, the call logs, sms history and RSS feeds will be shown respectively in tabs.

The 2 keys at the bottom of the screen are dial pad and phonebook respectively.

Now ready for some videos?

In this post, I will show you guys 2 videos.

Video 1: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic accessing OVI Share Online.


Prefer to watch it on Youtube? Click here.

Video 2: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic playing music.


Prefer to watch it on Youtube? Click here.

What do you think of my preview post?
Do you like how the 5800 looks like?
Leave me a comment to tell me what’s on your mind.

NEXT UP!!! Playing VIDEOS on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen phone.

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124 Comments

mitoNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

hey, can you try to play RMVB file? thanks

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@mito, i dont have it with me already.. cant test. sorry

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voonNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, how about the GPS.. is build in GPS receiver aslo? and how much is after tax in malaysia??

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October 3rd, 2008

Wow!! nice phone indeed. Good features and functions. You had the privilege to try it, so good!

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Gabriel Lai, ahah yea. i feel glad too

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BimNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

Wow.. my finger was aching pressing the fresh key in the last 2 mins of 10 mins :-)
Excellent.. good to see the first nokia touch screen phone.. and you have bet symbian freak and allaboutsymbian to this. wow..
IT has also GPS.. how is it targetted only for youth..
What about gaming options? browing?

Thanks for the early preview buddy

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Bim, ahah thanks for staying up for the update. :D

ill post videos of the accelerobeter and touch based game soon :D

targeted to youth cos music.. and the very low price of 279euro

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October 3rd, 2008

i like the phone. but but..can’t sms while driving worrr..

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@annna, haha touchscreens memang cannot lor hehe

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October 3rd, 2008

Jason, It has digital QWERTY keyboard as in HTC touch?

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@ahmike, yes it has qwerty keyboard, mini keyboard, handwirting and normal phone keypad.. 4 diff ways of input

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Gabriel LaiNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, this seems to be very powerful as most phones don’t have 4 input methods

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SasimiNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

Aaaah, I want one.

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Sasimi, ahha buy it when its out

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October 3rd, 2008

waaaa nokia is always getting better n better…. i as a sony ericsson user oso ABIT jealous lmao D:

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@bryanlyt, ahha no need to be jealous… just get a nokia lor :D

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October 3rd, 2008

Hey Pop, I’m sure you can do a better review than this. More specs, information and opinion. Perhaps in your next post, part 2? :D

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@loonatik, read the last line of my post

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DNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

Would you happen to have any pics of the main menu, and also the keyboard for text msg entry?

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@D, yes will have photos and videos. coming up next.

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October 3rd, 2008

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October 3rd, 2008

Like ahmike, same question… How’s the virtual keyboard?

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Oskar NRK, yes it has qwerty keyboard, mini keyboard, handwirting and normal phone keypad.. 4 diff ways of input.

will show video soon

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October 3rd, 2008

Nokia taking too long to produce a touch screen phone. Apple definitely gonna leads. Nice song by the way, WILCO ROCKS! Hahahaha, try Fujiya & Miyagi bro!

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@maverick, ahhaa thanks bro :D love the music you send me

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October 3rd, 2008

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TonyNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

Nice review and one superb music phone , I want it ! Greate price

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Tony, yea i want it too! ill probably buy 2.. since its only 279euro before tax

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October 3rd, 2008

open my eyes, open my mind…
wow, first touchscreen symbian phone!

Impressive =)
Must have my first try at it

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@boon kheng, yes buy it too. its very promising. ill buy one myself also when its out

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nookieNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

it is NOT the first nokia touchscreen handset. 7710 was the first full touch interface device

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@nookie, please read again.

i wrote there first nokia symbian touchscreen… not nokia first touchscreen

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ArunKarthikNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, Nope, 7710 was a symbian just series 90. and then there’s nokia 6708 which was bad, but still symbian uiq.

Yes, this is nokia’s first touchscreen phone with s60! ;) btw great job dude!! :D

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October 3rd, 2008

You had the goods even when Nokia couldn’t provide them (their Virtual Launch Event isn’t working!)

Great post!

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Anthony, thanks mate!

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jaych3ongNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

not bad :)
cant wait for the review~
is it responsive enough? any lagging?
n how bout the virtual keyboard?
:)

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@jaych3ong, this is still prototype stage.. so cannot judge yet.

ill post video of the keyboard soon. it has qwerty keyboard, mini keyboard, handwirting and normal phone keypad.. 4 diff ways of input

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October 3rd, 2008

Nookie is right, 7710 was the first touchscreen for Nokia. A friend of mine had it, but it was more at the support service then in his hands…

I’m curious for the keyboard :)

PS: did you hear the price? 279 euros without taxes, in Italy 20%, then 335… I want it!!! Samsung Omnia i900 (with Windows Mobile, that I hate) costs 500 euros!

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Oskar NRK, I wrote there first nokia symbian touchscreen. not first nokia touchscreen. do you know that 7710 was not symbian?

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Oskar NRKNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, I didn’t know, I’m sorry..

PS: thank you for the replies :)

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NameNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, The 7710 was based on Symbian OS v7.0s and the Nokia “Series 90″ (S90) 1.0 software/UI platform. And it was actually preceded by the 7700, which was never really for sale anywhere (same Symbian/Series 90).

And the first “Symbian” touch screen device of all time (just before the OS was renamed Symbian) was the Ericsson R380 (circa year 2000):
http://www.gsmarena.com/ericsson_r380-195.php

The first “actual” Symbian based touch screen phone was the Sony Ericsson P800 (Symbian 7.0, UIQ 2.0).

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Name, thats why i wrote there Nokia symbian touchscreen and not sony ericsson symbian touchscreen.

anyways, I made a mistake.

7710 was symbian.. but it was series 90.

So i shall edit my post to First nokia s60 touchscreen phone

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October 3rd, 2008

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October 3rd, 2008

Mmm interesting..is this better than an iPhone? :)

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Dario Salvelli, with 3.2mpx carl zeiss auto focus camera, VGA 30fps video recording, loud stereo speakers, video call, bluetooth, MMS… i wouldnt know.

what say you? :D

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mitoNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

Thanks, by the way, 7710 also Symbian …., first S60 Touch?

Never mind, small matter, the matter is that when it out? Gotham City has it already …

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@mito, anyways, I made a mistake.

7710 was symbian.. but it was series 90.

So i shall edit my post to First nokia s60 touchscreen phone.

thanks for correcting me.

it will be out early january

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ArunKarthikNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, at the nokia conversations site, this is what i found:

“When will the 5800 XpressMusic be shipping in India?”

Before the end of this year, says Jo.

so wouldn’ that mean elsewhere it should release soon or atleast at the same time? i’m from india btw! :D

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@ArunKarthik, according to Nokia Malaysia, it will only be available in the market very very early january

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October 3rd, 2008

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October 3rd, 2008

its in grey, blue and red.

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@gitm, yup. updated :D

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October 3rd, 2008

It’s a baby iPhone killer..

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@kinz, totally agree :D

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October 3rd, 2008

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October 3rd, 2008

gonna be sweet!

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@KY, agree :D

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jaych3ongNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

wow…come with grey as well…cool :D

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October 3rd, 2008

Great job brother! One day alone you drove thousands of traffics.. looking for more great posts!

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MarkNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

Hey, looks pretty nice, especially for a mass market device, it should do quite well and seems to be very reasonably priced too.

I would have liked to see it a little thinner and if they made the screen AMOLED that would have been an absolute killer, OK perhaps they’ll save that for the N Series full touch!!

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Mark, then it wouldnt be mid range and the price will not be 279 anymore :D

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MarkNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, definitely true! Although I’m sure they’ll add an extra $100 to the price by the time it reaches Australia, as is always the case, these companies seem to think we have too much cash here!

Looking forward to more full touch devices from Nokia, hopefully its a sign of things to come.

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Mark, ahah serious? thats very bad! well we r all now looking forward to the nseries touchscreen but in the meantime ill play with this first ahah

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October 3rd, 2008

Looks really promising so far, and congrats on beating all the major sites to get the first ‘review’ :)

I might eventually skip this phone and wait for their next touch phone to be released. I’m guessing this one will have a few flaws in one way or another since it’s their first shot at this specific market. I’m guessing an N Series phone will be announced in a not so distant future, I might hit that one instead.

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Daniel, ill buy both. lol

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DanielNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, Why am I not even surprised :P

Btw., what plugin are you using for this reply feature in the comments? It’s awesome, and I’d really love to have it on my own weblog :)

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Daniel, its called wordpress threaded comment

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DanielNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, Cheers mate :)

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October 3rd, 2008

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crazeemunkyNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

i recognize the red side bar! isnt this the phone that took out the building in dark knight?

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@crazeemunky, yes its the phone batman used in the dark knight :D

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genXhippieNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

Really impressive photos, best I’ve seen on the web thus far, to be honest. ;)

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@genXhippie, thanks mate. next update will have more photos and videos of 5800 accelrometer game

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October 3rd, 2008

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I lve this phoneNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

Will it be full of your finger prints just like N78???
Is it WIFI enabled??

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@I lve this phone, yes fingerprints all over.

yes wifi. i wrote there already. please read

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October 3rd, 2008

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ArunKarthikNo Gravatar

October 3rd, 2008

the haptics, the touch screen. thats the Only thing that might be a bit IFFY… if its usable and not a tedious job, then this phone will be mine! just tell me how hard do we have to press the screen using fingers, and what about scratches on the display? that would suck!

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@ArunKarthik, you dont have to press hard. just a light tap will do.

scratches? get a screen protector… but dont worry cos the 5800 comes with a wonderful case

http://symbian.smashpop.net/nokia-5800-xpressmusic-gaming-casing

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ArunKarthikNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, wow if its that simple then it’d be awesome! would the t9 input work well? i’m a big t9 junkie and one main reason why i’m gettin this phone is because of that! even with touch screen, would it be fast enough? and by fast i mean really really fast!! :P

and also, is there any vibra-response when the screen is touched?

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@ArunKarthik, hi yes. even if T9 is fast.. will you be fast enough? its not the same typing t9 on a flat surface you know?

and please read my post again on “2 new innovations I like about the 5800.”

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ArunKarthikNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, wow fast reply! today’s my bday and i was hopin to buy this today itself lol! anyway yeah will have to wait! But thanks a lot for all the replies dude you rock!

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October 3rd, 2008

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tatotkNo Gravatar

October 4th, 2008

Hi,
you could insert some photos to know the quality of the camera?
thanks

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@tatotk, i will. check out my blog daily. Currently im posting 5800: Gaming.

Next up is 5800 input methods.

So eventually photo samples will be up

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Genial21No Gravatar

October 4th, 2008

Yo lo quiero y a la espera que ENTEL PCS lo traiga a chile…

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mirrorNo Gravatar

October 4th, 2008

Nice post. :)

Perfect phone with amazing price. Definitely my next phone.

Where the stereo speakers located? I can’t find them in any picture.

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@mirror, its at the bottom. watch out for my upcoming post. ill show the speakers in video

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rodak69No Gravatar

October 4th, 2008

You lucky bastard! ;)

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@rodak69, lol

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AlexNo Gravatar

October 5th, 2008

yo pop! when will they realease n85??

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Alex, in few weeks time will start shipping

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AlexNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, i heard the price is around rm2100-rm2500 izzit right??

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Alex, nope. its 279 euro. go calculate. :D

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AlexNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop, so the price is around 1341…. i thought 2.1k-2.5k LOL
DUDE u ROXX!!!!

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SeaedgeNo Gravatar

October 6th, 2008

lucky fella! :) thickness is like n73? from the photos.. and ur hand.. i am guessing its around n73’s thickness…

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Seaedge, yea around there

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BoyBawangNo Gravatar

October 7th, 2008

Hi smashpop,
I’m most interested about the effectiveness of its HAPTICS because of the absence of physical keys. Is it the whole device that vibrates or just the screen? And what makes it different from other devices that also employs haptics?

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@BoyBawang, the whole phone vibrates. not as expected huh… well the better haptics might be implemented in upcoming touch devices

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October 9th, 2008

any idea about the launch dates in india??

price is expected to be around 18-20k

im just waiting for the phone to launch . cause im goin to buy it on day 1.

the minute i saw the launch of the phone on oct 2nd i made up my mind that i was goin to get it.. ever since i`ve been waiting for the phone(not been too long tho :-P)

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@cbarai, see this

http://symbian.smashpop.net/nokia-5800-release-date-for-7-countries

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cbaraiNo Gravatar Reply:

@smashpop,

yes i saw that post but it doesnt metion dates. just an approximate time frame.
i was looking for more specific dates like we had for the uk (16th october– before it got pushed to Q1 09)

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October 9th, 2008

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acid255No Gravatar

October 11th, 2008

Please tell me what is the music of background of this video:
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic: Maps?
Thanks:).

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@acid255, Tonight by Lykke Li

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neo_sharkyNo Gravatar

October 12th, 2008

planning to get this phone soon as the price does not exceed MYR1.5K :)

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@neo_sharky, don worry. im sure ull get it then

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Nseries freakNo Gravatar

October 12th, 2008

This is better than 5800?
http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/008/10/nseries_flagship_touch_to_be_released_sooner_than_expected.htm

as it is a Nseries i suppose

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@Nseries freak, no comment yet :D

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WimbleNo Gravatar

October 14th, 2008

Is the 5800 rsap enabled? (remote SIM application protocol)

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arthyNo Gravatar

October 15th, 2008

wat s d indian price of nokia 5800??

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smashpopNo Gravatar Reply:

@arthy, its 279 euro without tax.. so you calculate according to the exchange rate ok? im nto quite sure about that

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sum_alNo Gravatar

October 23rd, 2008

Well i heared all the goodies about this phone and am lookin forward to get it. but before that i would like to know some flaws of it during your experience with this phone..
thanx.

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sum_alNo Gravatar

October 23rd, 2008

..and would also like to know the nearest contender of the phone if we keep the price aside.

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November 12th, 2008

omg thats one omfg phone i wanna get!

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SnehaNo Gravatar

November 19th, 2008

Hi, Smashpop…Will u pls tell me whether the touch screen is scratch proof or not??I’ve used Sony Ericsson W 960i and it makes scratches over the screen… I dont want to make another mistake …Thats y i’m asking u in advance.. Pls Clarify …

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