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Rameshjeee

India to get Nokia 5800 Touch Screen in November

Nokia has decided to launch its first touchscreen phone in India in the third week of November. The Finnish handset major will position the phone --Nokia 5800 -- under its music platform XpressMusic series and is likely to price it at sub-Rs 20,000. The model has just been unveiled globally and pegged by analysts as the iPhone killer.

Nokia 5800 Tube specifications

• 3.2-inch touchscreen display with 16 Million colors
• 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus
• Quad-band (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) GSM/EDGE radio

-3G UMTS/HSDPA

• Bluetooth 2.0
• WiFi
• GPS
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• TV-out port
• 140MB on-board storage
• 111 x 52 x 14.5 mm
• 104g

More details on India to get Nokia 5800 in Nov

Nokia 5800 Vs Nokia N96

Rameshjeee

Nokia N-series touch phone soon

It seems Nokia is keen to foray deep into the touchscreen phone market, taking on Apple's iPhone. After the launch of its first touchscreen phone with 5800 Xpressmusic this month, Nokia is now gearing up to roll out another touchscreen phone as part of its popular N-series.

Interestingly, this model too would be rolled out in key Asia-Pacific markets like India ahead of the US and Europe, according to company sources.

According to speculation, the device could come ported with an 8 megapixel camera. Currently, Nokia phones come with cameras up to 5 megapixel resolution, unlike many Samsung and LG phones which boast of 8 megapixel cameras. If true, this will indicate an ever-increasing willingness in the Nokia stable to take on Apple at one hand and take on its aggressive Korean rivals on the other.

The launch of another Nokia touchscreen phone will further fuel the already sizzling battle of touchscreen phones. In the last few months, all major mobile manufacturers like Samsung, BlackBerry, Motorola and Google have unveiled their touchscreen devices.

Earlier this month, Nokia had unveiled its much-awaited touchscreen phone, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The company's answer to Apple's iconic touchscreen gadget iPhone, Nokia 5800 can handle 60 different languages and will be in shops all over the globe, including the US, just before the end of the year.

Nokia 58100 has 81MB of internal memory and comes with an 8GB micro-SD card as standard equipment. The phone runs on Nokia/Symbian's S60 fifth edition operating system.

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.

Nokia 5800 has a pair of stereo speakers and a 3.2 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and a dual-LED flash. 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. Standby time is up to 17 days.

Beginning next year, the phone will feature Nokia's Comes With Music service, which aims to challenge Apple Inc's dominance of the digital music market.

DZire

20,000 ??
I doubt. If N-71 is 20,000.... this will be higher..

Rameshjeee

Lets wait till nov 3rd week.....

Admin

All mobile phones which are not 3g compatible will be available at much lower prices in days to come in my opinion. 3G phones are very cheap in UK and some lg 3g phones with video calling and all that are available at Rs 3000-4000 in UK.

DZire

that's indeed great !!!

I dont understand why its taking 3G so long in India...
May be you can get couple of sets transfered to india (hidden under) and offer them to IBB mmbs...

Rameshjeee

BSNL will roll out its 3G services in the north-eastern states and Chennai by January 2009.

Another telecom PSU MTNL would also roll out 3G services in Delhi and Mumbai by December.

Government had alloted one block of spectrum each to state-run BSNL and MTNL paving the way for the PSUs to roll out their 3G services.

The spectrum blocks released for the two companies have the size of 2x5 MHz in 2.1 GHz Band. Both PSUs had started their mobile services after private players were already established themselves in the mobile segment. But on 3G, these two PSUs would have a headstart.

MTNL would start 3G services in the Delhi circle within three months after getting the spectrum.

StarK

Nice to see Nokia comin out with new touchscreen fones... the n series touch will definitely b worth it i think..