Nokia has issued a press release saying that the 5800 XpressMusic is shipping to many countries, including Russia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Finland. This means that you can get yours in time for Christmas!
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic now shipping
November 27, 2008
Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced today that the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is now, or soon will be, available in select markets globally, including Russia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Finland, among others. The latest in Nokia's XpressMusic range, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers an affordable music device with a touch screen interface to the mass market.
Aiming to put music into the hands of millions, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers all the music essentials including a graphic equalizer, 8GB memory for up to 6000 tracks, support for all main digital music formats, and a 3.5mm jack. Built-in surround sound stereo speakers offer the industry's most powerful sound.
"When it comes to music phones, people all over the world want a device that is a great music experience and still works really well as a mobile phone, without sacrificing features," said Jo Harlow, Vice President, Nokia. "The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers on this and allows consumers to quickly and easily access and share the content that is most important to them with the people that are most important to them."
Making the most of touch screen technology, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers easy and fast access to all music, video and photos through a one-touch 'Mediabar' drop down menu. The Media Bar also offers a direct link to the Web and to online sharing. Because the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic supports Flash content, individuals can surf the entire web.
The innovative 'Contacts Bar' lets people highlight four favorite contacts on their home-screen and, through a single touch, track a digital history of recent text messages, emails, phone logs, photos and blog updates.
For the best screen resolution available on a mobile phone, the 3.2" widescreen display brings photos, video clips and web content to life in vibrant color and true clarity. With a 16 by 9 aspect ratio and 30 frames-per-second playback and recording, the device is ideal for VGA quality video recording and playback. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic also features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and, with a single touch, images or videos can be shared via a favorite online community, such as Share on Ovi, Flickr, or Facebook.
Ensuring a seamless music experience, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic also provides easy access to browse and purchase tracks from the Nokia Music Store, where applicable, while the newly updated Nokia Music PC software allows for easy drag-and-drop transfer of songs and management of any music collection.
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic supports 60 languages worldwide and offers a variety of input methods including a virtual alphanumeric keypad, a virtual computer-style QWERTY keyboard, a pen stylus -- and for true music enthusiasts, a plectrum -- are all available.
Nokia 5800 Blog readers and enthusiasts from India, your time has come, the phone now has a release date for your country, so pre-order it, and let us know your reactions when January comes!
According to Symbian-Freak, the price will be Rs 21,839, which is higher than the price announced for Europe. Is it normal pricing in India? Is it fair, unfair? Let us know! What I do know is that it's lower than the iPhone there, and it won't be locked to network.
Here is the statement from Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia:
"With more than 300 million music enabled devices sold, and a strong base of over 10 Nokia Music stores in operation globally, Nokia has been able to gain incredible amount of knowledge and insights on what people want in a music device and track important trends on how people consume music. We will continue to break new grounds in this space by building more and better services for our consumers."
D. Shivakumar, Managing Director, Nokia India said:
"As Nokia's first mass-market device with a touch screen, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic turns a 'user interface' into a 'human interface' by truly putting people first. When it comes to music phones, people all over the world want a device that is a great music experience - with more memory, loud and powerful speakers, easy synchronization - and must still work well as a mobile phone with direct access to important contacts and content. The iconic Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers on all these counts."
Oh, and if that wasn't enough, Nokia Music Store beta should open in January too.
For the meanwhile, delight yourself with the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic review from PhoneReport.
Just got this from Symbian-Freak, GyPSii will be the first location-based services-aware application for the Nokia 5800. Read the press release:
GyPSii gets the Nokia Touch
GyPSii Location-Based Social Networking available on
Touch for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
November 24th, 2008, Salo, Finland and Amsterdam, The Netherlands: GeoSentricOyj’s (NASDAQ OMX: GEO1V), GeoSolutions BV Business Unit (GyPSii), the market-leadingmobile digital lifestyle application and geo-mobility social networking platform, todayannounced that it is the first location-based social networking application with touch screenexperience to be able to support the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
“GyPSii is ideally placed as the leading innovative application that incorporates social networking and communities with location-aware features – in particular, the ability to provide a location and social graph context to any media captured on the device. GyPSii’s ability to deliver a touch screen experience in one integrated application is key to the Nokia Touch device customer,” said Jure Sustersic, Business Development Manager at Forum Nokia EMEA.
GyPSii’s launch on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, further support’s the Company’s capability to deliver on a global reach and extend reach into more mass markets. As a member of Forum Nokia, GyPSii has developed a strong relationship with the world’s largest handset manufacturer.
GyPSii is already available for current Nokia S60 devices - including the N95, the N73, the N78, the N82, N6210, N6220, E66, E71 and the 6110 Navigator phone. The continued expansion onto devices further opens up the application to mass-market adoption.
“GyPSii allows people to record their lives, and explore and share their world with their social networks and communities,” said Dan Harple, Executive Chairman of GeoSentric. “And unlike any other social networking platform, GyPSii is designed and built for a mobile device and uses location information and social graph relationships to not only drive details about where you are – but also about who or what is close by.”
GyPSii members can uniquely experience a broad range of location-specific functions and mobile lifestyle services - including user generated content, content-sharing, mobile geolocation content search and social networking, as well the ability to view it all on a map – all within a single user experience. Using GyPSii, members can access and enjoy “real-time” mobile features on their device, such as “Locating Friends” and sharing information on nearby point of interests, including places – restaurants, bars and clubs – contributed by friends and fellow GyPSii members.
GYPSii will be available for download on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic via Download! Nokia’s on-device content distribution service. http://download.nokia.com. For other S60-based devices the GyPSii application is available for download direct from the company’s website – www.gypsii.com or from your phone browser at www.gypsii.com/m.
Image from CScout
The guys at CNMobiBar have taken exclusive pictures of the 5800 clone. If believe that this mobile was produced in China, you are totally right.
Once again China is in the front line and even before the release of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, they made their own 5800. In my opinion the clone looks ugly with front buttons (green and red), the design is totally different and it does not run Symbian S60.
Li 5800 (the phone's name) has a 3 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of only 240 x 400 while the resolution of the real 5800’s screen is of 360 x 640 pixels), it has Bluetooth, and runs MP3, MP4 and Video 3GP.
Spanish consumers will be the first to get the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, on the 1st of December, a day before Nokia World opens in Barcelona, according to NokNok.
The 5800 is rumoured to sell at 279€ only, which doesn't make sense, as that was the price announced without subsidies or taxes.
Nokia World will run on the 2nd and 3rd of December. Other countries should also get the 5800 for Christmas, but for those who don't, it should be there January the latest.
[via ElectricPig]
You'll never these many together before they go commercial! From my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic review at PhoneReport.
I didn't have the phone with me for more than a half an hour, so I was only able to cover features such as superficial apps and such. Hardware isn't very difficult to cover as I only to interpret what I felt, but I am waiting for the review unit so that I can share full insight into what the 5800 can really do.
Mikko Röntynen, Head of S60 Customer Spearhead Projects, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, Nokia, was very kind in letting us photograph the phone and explaining some of the upgrades. You can check the video where he explains the use of adaptive search in contacts here.
I cant beleve it! 
:!: 
... any one activated it ?? uptillnow nothing happened 
... finally i won 