In an effort to compete with the boom of Apple iPhone, Nokia is launching its first ever touch-screen handset.
Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, formerly known as "Tube" looks similarly with the Apple iPhone but with a better camera, smaller form, sharper screen and cheaper price.
The 5800 runs Symbian's Series 60 OS which Nokia says is designed to be user-friendly, a signature characteristics of Nokia. It has a drop-down media bar that gives one-touch access to music, photos, video or the Internet.
The 5800 will support Adobe Flash multimedia technology, which is not supported by the iPhone. While many websites have created mobile versions of their sites to support the iPhone's capabilities, the 5800 could potentially work with many more websites without modification.Like the iPhone, the 5800 has a software keyboard rather than a tactile one. Apple's software keyboard can at times be difficult to manipulate since it requires a person's fingertip to touch the screen. Harlow said the 5800's soft keyboard will work with a fingernail or even a guitar pick in addition to a finger.
When tilted on its side, the 5800 has a full-screen QWERTY keyboard plus a mini-QWERTY one. The 5800 is also equipped with handwriting recognition, which will recognize 60 languages, which will cover about 90 percent of the world's mobile-phone users.
Nokia said the 5800 has built-in surround-sound speakers, which are louder than any other mobile device on the market. Nokia let those attending the launch try out the 5800's speakers in a soundproof booth. The 5800 has a 3.2-megapixel camera with a dual flash and a Carl Zeiss lens. The 5800's screen supports 16 million colours, which is claimed to be the best in the industry.
The suggested retail price for the 5800 is £218 ($393) = estimate of P20, 000 without subsidies or taxes.
The 5800 lets users capture VGA (Video Graphics Array)-quality video and display videos in landscape mode. "When you take a video on the phone it shows as a wide screen and plays and looks very good," one critic said.
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