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  When Chinese can make a concept phone to reality, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. The latest addition to the perfectly cloned masterpiece is PK Nokia 5800 which is the obvious rip-off of Nokia 5800XM. If the cheap price tag, dual SIM card and coolness that matches Nokia are the things you dig for, [...]

  Our bet for the next XpressMusic phone was 5730 but Nokia surprised us today by announcing 5630 XpressMusic. The phone is claimed to be 5800XM’s candybar sibling and runs Symbian S60 v3 with Feature Pack 2. One of the best things this phone features is, a 600MHz ARM11 processor, making it convincingly faster than [...]

  Nokia has announced that they have shipped more than 1 million units of its touchscreen enabled 5800 XpressMusic phone. Now there’s every reason for Nokia to be excited since 5800 is a serious touchscreen attempt from them. Right price, decent looks, powerpacked features and of course, proper marketing contributed to garner consumer interest. Press [...]

  Eldar from Mobile-Review spilled the beans on what is called as Nokia’s 5730 XpressMusic phone. It looks like another XpressMusic candybar phone from top with a 2-inch QVGA screen and an alphanumeric keypad. But the USP lies under it – a horizontal sliding QWERTY keyboard. The phone will run on Symbian Series 60 FP2 [...]

  Nokia announced the availability of new firmware of three devices – E71, 5800 XpressMusic and N96. The E71 software now moves to v200.21.118 and includes lots of changes. Changelog from NokiaAddict: – Internet Radio application – My Nokia application – 3G power reduction for applications using keep-alive style messaging – User experience improvements: – [...]

  Looks like Nokia inadvertently leaked out the successor of 5700 XpressMusic. The 5710 XpressMusic was found lurking on Nokia’s US website. The rumors about the successor were doing the rounds for around a year and if this phone carries the same rumored specs, then there will be not many changes except the camera, which [...]

  Nokia’s ‘Touch’ 5800 XpressMusic phone has reached the Indian shores and is available at all Nokia outlets. The phone is priced at a competitive Rs. 19,999 which makes it a worthy contender to snag some share off the music phone market. Here’s a rerun of the specs – 5800 XpressMusic features a large 3.2-inch [...]

  Nokia India today revealed the price as well as the launch month of its 5800 XpressMusic phone ending much of the speculation. The 5800 touted as the ‘first mass-market device with a touchscreen’ will hit the retail shelves in January next year for Rs. 21,839 ($439). Nokia also announced the launch of the Music [...]

Nokia was the first one to recognize the power of upcoming and emerging markets. They created a niche for low budget phones which eventually made them the undisputed leader in the mobile phone market. Still being bullish on the bottom of the pyramid, Nokia today announced seven new phones costing not more than $120.   [...]

  Nokia finally took off the covers from its touch screen phone, 5800 XpressMusic. The phone better known as Tube is the first to run on Symbian’s Series 60 5th Edition OS. We would refrain it to compare it with iPhone but LG’s KP500 could be its next best competitor in terms of price. The [...]

  Leaking wild pictures of unreleased products seems like an act of the past as we are seeing leaks of the press materials of unreleased products. First it was Nokia’s E72 and E75, then T-Mobile G1 and now purportedly the press image of Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic which is rumored to be launched on October 2. [...]

  Nokia’s rumored all touchscreen phone is in the news again. First it was reportedly seen in the movie, Dark Knight and now we have got some more shots of this phone to ogle. The phone is expected to be labeled as 5800 under the XpressMusic series and boast a nice 3.2-inch display running the [...]