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Nokia 5900 XpressMusic probably a fake

, May 11th 2009 Discuss [0]

Remember those photos purporting to show Nokia’s 5900 XpressMusic phone?  At the time we weren’t sure whether they were a legitimate leak or a Chinese faux-phone; now Kunal over at Tech Ticker has been training his eagle-eye over the photos, and flagging up some obvious issues.  The biggest is shown here: the memory card slot appears to be labeled “TFLASH”, presumably for Transflash.

nokia_5900_xpressmusic_transflash

That seems an unlikely tag for Nokia, who don’t generally refer to Transflash whatsoever.  Meanwhile Kumal also points out the absence of a flash, the inclusion of which you’d expect with the supposedly upgraded 5-megapixel camera.

His other points – the lack of Carl Zeiss branding on the camera lens, and the omission of 3G and a front video camera on the spec sheet – could be explained away by virtue of the handsets being pre-production prototypes, but all in all there’s still plenty of doubt hanging over the cellphone.  It looks like we may have to wait a little longer for the real Nokia 5800 XpressMusic successor.

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