Yes Nokia has finally unveiled the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 Express Music phone aka the Tube officially. Styled exclusively for music lovers, the Finnish giant hopes the innovative touch screen phone catches up with the otherwise iPhone crazy market.
A classy music phone, the Nokia 5800 Express comes with some top of the class features. It sports a large 3.2” touch screen, 8GB memory, a 3.2 megapixel camera and nice built-in surround speakers. The phone gives you direct access to Nokia’s Music Store via Nokia’s Come With Music service. So all you music loving souls enjoy a 1 year unlimited access to Nokia’s catalogue.
Other than being a great music phone, the Nokia 5800 Express phone is packed with GPS and Bluetooth along with a support for 60 languages. The highlight of the phone is much better texting and emailing capabilities with a full QWERTY keyboard. Get ready for a tactile feedback when handwriting with the stylus on the touch screen.
In addition to this, the novel touch screen phone boasts of a Media Bar and Contacts Bar too. While the former feature is a drop down menu giving you direct access to music, videos and photos along with direct link to a website or for online sharing, the Contacts Bar feature is like a feedback of your own life. Highlight up to four of your favorite contacts and track a digital history of previous text messages or emails and photos, and more from these contacts.
Expected to start shipping in the coming few weeks, the Nokia 5800 Express Music phone should cost around 279 euros excluding subsidies and tax.