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Nokia
touch phone launched in India
Nokia’s much-awaited touch screen phone is
finally launched in India. The much speculated
and talked about phone -- Nokia 5800 Xpress
Music -- is touted as the company's answer to
Apple iPhone.
Seems, the world's top cell phone maker took
some cues from Apple iPhone’s pricing in India,
Nokia 5800 is priced at Rs 21,800 (almost Rs
9,000 less than 8GB iPhone and Rs 14,000 less
than 16 GB iPhone).
The phone will also feature Nokia's Comes With
Music service, which challenges Apple Inc's
dominance in the digital music market.
Wondering what are the other specs that Nokia’s
contender in the touch screen phone market
offers? Read on to find out.
Looks
On the looks front Nokia 5800 has same
rounded corners and similar screen like iPhone.
The screen size is 81mm (3.2-inch) diagonally,
with 640x480-pixel touchscreen display that can
play multiple types of video at a high
resolution. Measuring 111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm, the
Nokia 5800 weighs 109 grams. Positioned as a
music phone, the phone will be available in
black, red, and blue variants.
The phone supports both finger and stylus touch.
Storage and battery
Nokia's touch phone comes with 81MB internal
memory, 8GB microSD memory card, capable of
storing approximately 6,000 songs. The memory
can be further expanded upto 16GB. Nokia 5800 is
equipped with the Symbian S60 interface which
Nokia showed off last year.
The battery life is reportedly as much as nine
hours (GSM) or five hours (HSDPA), 35 hours for
music playback or three hours of video. The
company claims that the standby time is up to 17
days.
Multimedia features
Nokia 5800 has 3.2 megapixel camera with a
Carl Zeiss lens and a dual-LED flash with 30 fps
video recording. It also has a second backward
facing camera.
Nokia 5800 has built-in surround stereo
speakers, Nokia Maps, GPS, Wi-Fi, stereo
Bluetooth and a top-mounted 3.5mm headphone
socket.
Unlike the Apple iPhone, the Nokia 5800 has
Flash support, a programme used to power many
online video services and websites.
The phone has a Media Bar, a drop down menu that
provides direct access to music and
entertainment.
A new Contacts Bar lets users highlight four
favorite contacts on their homescreen. There is
also an option to track digital history of
recent text messages, email, phone logs, photos
and blog updates.
Nokia 5800 also has an accelerometer for display
rotation. However, the phone's biggest miss is
the ability to download extra software and
applications, which is possible in both Apple
iPhone and Google G1.
Cost
Priced at Rs 21, 839, Nokia's touchscreen
phone will be available at other mobile stores
starting 15th January. Currently it is available
at all Nokia Priority dealers.
In India Nokia sell phones with no operator
lock, unlike Apple iPhone with Bharti and Airtel.
So, seems Nokia 5800 Xpress Music is all set to
give tough competition to Apple iPhone which
retails at Rs 31,000 for 8GB and Rs 36,000 for
16GB in India. Google phone G1, said to reach
India by January end, is also likely to be
priced above Rs 20,000.
Supports 3G
Like the iPhone and other smartphone rivals
including BlackBerry Storm and Samsung Omnia,
Nokia's touch phone too offers support for 3G.
This enables faster Web browsing and
downloading.
The handset is a GSM/EDGE/HSDPA 3G device along
with 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (with stereo
audio) and USB 2.0 connectivity. It also has
A-GPS and Nokia Maps for voice-guided
navigation.
Billed as a music phone, Nokia 5800 comes
pre-loaded with a vast range of music
collection. The phone will feature Nokia's Comes
With Music service which will let users download
music for free for a year from a catalog that
includes 4 million songs.
Nokia's music download package is its first
major push into the services business. The
company said that all major music labels and
most independent labels will offer their tracks
as part of Nokia's 'free' music bundle "Comes
with Music," raising the total number of tracks
to around 5 million.
The phone support Playback protected WMA, AAC
and MP3, and is reportedly compatible with
Windows Media Player 11.
Other music features include stereo speakers,
3.5mm headphone jack, stereo Bluetooth, and a
guitar pick stylus.
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