If the 2.5G of the 5530 XpressMusic doesn’t appeal, and you want both 3G and some PND goodness in your new touchscreen Nokia, then the company’s latest bundle may catch your eye. The Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition takes a standard 5800, subjects it to a few cosmetic tweaks, and packages it with Nokia’s car kit and lifetime drive and walk navigation with voice-prompts for Ovi Maps.
Video demo after the cut
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.
Images claiming to show Nokia’s follow-up to the 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen cellphone, the Nokia 5900 XpressMusic, have leaked, and while there’s no confirmation that these are legitimate they certainly look the part. Believed to include a larger, 3.5-inch touchscreen, 3.5mm headphone jack and 5-megapixel camera, the 5900 XpressMusic is expected to run the same Symbian S60 5th Edition OS as its predecessor.
Fans of the Nokia XpressMusic phones rejoice! You can now get your hands on the 5800 XpressMusic in the U.S. on Cincinnati Bell Wireless. While you could buy the device in the country before, you could only do so at an unsubsidized price, shelling out about $400.
On Cincinnati Bell, the smartphone will cost $149 with a two-year contract and a $100 mail-in rebate. But besides the lower price, this device remains the same as it is in other countries and as it’s unsubsidized counterpart.
Standard features include GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, a 3.2-inch 360 x 640 touchscreen, a web browser and more. We don’t know if the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will make it to other U.S. carriers, but for now, at least you have one option.
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Nokia has something rather interesting up their sleeves. They’ve just announced that they will be releasing a special edition of their 5800 XpressMusic phone that ties in with the new Star Trek movie. Cool, huh?
Chalk up another success for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic: the BBC have added live TV streaming functionality to Nokia’s touchscreen media phone. Available at www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/live/tv through the 5800’s browser, the service offers current content from all of the BBC’s mainstream and digital channels.
Nokia have released an update for their 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen music-phone. The updated software – which is a free download – boosts internet data access speeds and tweaks in-device searching and the onboard email app.
Full changelist after the cut
Nokia are hoping to have turned a page on the 5800 XpressMusic NAM edition 3G signal debacle, with the news that a “configuration change” is to blame for the handset’s poor reception. In its statement, Nokia calls the problem an “isolated situation” and claims that, once sales of the 5800 NAM resume, those models will not experience any issues.
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic NAM 3G saga continues, with the latest being talk of a firmware update that will solve all reception woes. According to an internal Nokia source, when reception was tested on a 5800 NAM edition with the latest firmware, no problems were found.
As more users report ongoing problems with their 5800 XpressMusic handsets seeming inability to spot a 3G signal when it’s metaphorically staring them in the face, Nokia have finally commented on the situation. According to the Finnish company, the 5800 reception issue is limited to those in the New York and Chicago areas, and Nokia are investigating both the devices and the networks in use in those places.
Full Nokia statement after the cut
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