Hold the phone: Nokia's Tube is the Nokia 5800

By Nate Lanxon on 30 September 2008

(Credit: mobile.cz)

There's an event on next week. Actually, there are loads. But we have good reason to believe Nokia is going to unveil the oft-discussed Tube handset — a fully touch-controlled music phone — now also known as the 5800.

The 5800 will be a quad-band 3G handset with HSDPA connectivity, the Series 60 Symbian OS, an 81mm (3.2-inch) 640x480-pixel touch-sensitive screen and a 3.2-megapixel camera with LED flash. GPS, Wi-Fi and stereo Bluetooth will connect you up, plus there's support for up to 16GB microSD cards, 150MB of internal memory and a top-mounted 3.5mm headphone socket. It'll weigh just over 100g.

We'll be honest: although it's a high-spec phone, there's nothing new in terms of features under the hood, even though the touchscreen will make these decent specifications more enjoyable. That big, high-res screen will make this one of Nokia's best mobile video handsets ever, if not the best, despite being a good year or so behind the rest of the world.

Now, what it doesn't seem to have: a front-mounted camera for video calling, a decent xenon flash, or a main camera with greater than 5 megapixels to compete with Sony Ericsson's C905 or Samsung's INNOV8 — two phones that boast 8-megapixel cameras.

Topics: 5300, mobile phone, mp3, music, nokia, tube, xpressmusic, 5800, handset, phone

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Comments (8)

  • tony commented on 29/07/2009 23:10 Report abuse

    how much?

  • rahmaan commented on 29/05/2009 15:15 Report abuse

    when nokia 97 or nokia 86 8 mp coming

  • eugene bruce commented on 05/02/2009 22:44 Report abuse

    where can i buy dat tube phone of nokia?

  • zamzoom commented on 05/11/2008 10:00 Report abuse

    it's coming out in 3 days maybe

  • Bj commented on 13/10/2008 14:06 Report abuse

    Do you know when it's going ot come out?

  • anindya.chattaraj commented on 01/10/2008 04:08 Report abuse

    superv mob, exlnt.............
    Nice Look..........
    perfect color maching..........
    if i got some loan then definately i want to buy this phone..........ossm....................

  • tubefanatic commented on 30/09/2008 16:28 Report abuse

    its gonna kill the iphone!

  • tubefanatic commented on 30/09/2008 16:25 Report abuse

    yay! first! 5800 looks really cool. i'm gonna buy it when it comes out. how much will it cost?

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