Nokia’s wowed crowds at its Remix London event by officially unveiling the 5800 XpressMusic, otherwise known as the Nokia Tube.
Thinner than we expected, it’ll also be one of the first phones to support Nokia’s unlimited Comes With Music service, allowing all-you-can-eat music downloads for the first year of ownership.
It’s also Nokia’s first touchscreen phone, with a special version of the Symbian operating system responding to finger presses.
The interface includes a new “media bar,” giving drop-down access to music, videos and photos. There are also handy links to the web and online sharing services in there too.
Elsewhere, a new “contacts bar” puts four of your favourite friends on the home screen, so you can text or call them with a single poke of a finger.
Nokia’s keen to point out that the 5800 also supports Flash. “[It can] surf the entire web, not just pieces of it” the company says. Take that Apple.
The screen’s also a true 16:9 widescreen, so it won’t leave a black border around movies. That’s another quiet dig at Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch then.
The phone’s equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera, shooting VGA quality video, and there’s a proper headphone jack, and 8GB of memory built in. That’s on top of A-GPS and Wi-Fi.
A proper music phone then, and much, much more.
Out Q4 08 | £219 | Nokia
