Official Nokia 5800 XpressMusic discussion thread

[IronManForever]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

^^ I mean the current S60 Software that we have does not support touchscreen UI; simply because S60 was never toushcreen OS until now. Isnt it?

 

[bhushan2k]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

they might hv developed n hv 2 b developed such an OS on which previous apps too shud run....

 

[krazzy]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

Support for current S60 apps is extremely unlikely. All these apps were designed with the current S60 phone hardware in mind, like physical keys and have support for only a select few display resolutions. The display in 5800 has a completely different resolution. Even more, it has no physical keys resembling current S60 phones and has a completely touch screen based interface. The current apps were never written with this arrangement in mind and hence they will not work on 5800. Same goes for the apps which will be written for 5800. They will not work for current S60 phones. Hopefully they'll be as good as the ones on the iPhone though.

 

[Power UP]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

Well there is a possibility that it can be backwards compatible. They could probably use something like virtual keypad & d-pad for the older apps. Afterall it has enough resolution to spare. All the conversions done in the os itself to fool the app into thinking its physical keys.

But this is very doubtful. Probably Nokia won't implement such a feature, afterall more number of compatible apps will eventually appear as soon as more number of touch devices touches the market.

 

[IronManForever]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

Support for current S60 apps is extremely unlikely. All these apps were designed with the current S60 phone hardware in mind, like physical keys and have support for only a select few display resolutions. The display in 5800 has a completely different resolution. Even more, it has no physical keys resembling current S60 phones and has a completely touch screen based interface. The current apps were never written with this arrangement in mind and hence they will not work on 5800. Same goes for the apps which will be written for 5800. They will not work for current S60 phones. Hopefully they'll be as good as the ones on the iPhone though.

+1.
pretty much what I was thinking... I too think its very unlikely that current apps will work. Though Java apps will. pretty sure. But having a considerable no. of S60 aps oughtta take time...

 

[cooldudie3]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

It is Xpress Music. All phones with 5XXX are now in Xpress Music. As for the cost, I don't see it being sold under 25k.

It's XpressMedia, not XpressMusic

 

[krazzy]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

Nokia 5800 officially announced! Runs Symbian S60 5th Edition!

*www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8201_Nokia_5800-touch_enabled_mid_r.php

*www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8203_S60_5th_Edition-touch_and_sens.php

*twitter.com/AAS

 

[bhushan2k]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

yeah...S60 5th n a ver of Symbian OS is 9.4..

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a S60 5th Edition device with a resistive touch screen and tactile feedback. The device has a large 3,2“, bright nHD (640 x 360 pixels and 16:9 aspect ratio) color display. The device has variety of input methods: stylus, plectrum and finger touch support for text input and UI control (alphanumeric keypad, full and mini qwerty keyboard, handwriting recognition). Use the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to connect to mobile broadband using WLAN or HSDPA (3.5G). Find directions and locations with the integrated A-GPS and included maps. Additional features include a 3.2 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, and USB 2.0 High-Speed. Supported WCDMA frequencies depend on the region where the device is available.

SOURCE

 

[Pat]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

Well I read somewhere that Nokia was planning to launch this for around 17k-18k INR range. Dont know how true that it.

 

[bhushan2k]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

well it still hvnt come with new features which was implemented by nokia in previous phones like bluetooth 2.1 which is appeared in Nokia 7510 Supernova

Well I read somewhere that Nokia was planning to launch this for around 17k-18k INR range. Dont know how true that it.

where did u hear?? then it wil gona b rockin in d market...'ll gv tough competition to n-series too...

 

[Pat]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

Even here it says 270 Euros worldwide. I am pretty sure they are not going to be sold with contract at that price.

*www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8201_Nokia_5800-touch_enabled_mid_r.php

 

[orionindia]

New and better photogrphs of Nokia 5800 Tube

Here are the photographs
*bestmobilesite.blogspot.com/2008/10/nokia-music-5800-tube-photgoraphs-enjoy.html


Specifications are as follows -
General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 2100 / 900
HSDPA 850 / 1900 - US version

Size Dimensions 111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm, 83 cc
Weight 109 g
Display Type TFT touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Handwriting recognition
Ringtones Type Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3
Customization Download
Vibration Yes
- Stereo speakers
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Detailed, max 30 days
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB, 8GB included
81 MB internal memory
128 MB SDRAM memory

Dual ARM 11 369 MHz CPU
Data GPRS Class 32
HSCSD Yes
EDGE Class 32
3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB
Features OS Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
Camera 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video(VGA@30fps), flash; secondary videocall camera

 

[skeletor]

Re: New and better photogrphs of Nokia 5800 Tube

Posting them directly over here:

*img238.imageshack.us/img238/236/nokia5800ofc03li1.jpg
*img139.imageshack.us/img139/2519/nokia5800ofc00dp1.jpg
*img139.imageshack.us/img139/1623/nokia5800ofc04ah1.jpg

I didn't like the icons....

Here is the video of the interface: *www.youtube.com/watch?v=njEG9CcMs74

 

[dreamcatcher]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

270 euros is a brilliant price. Goodmove.Just hope it isnt too laggy in the first place.

 

[Power UP]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

Here is another video.

Nokia 5800 xpress music hands on Remix London

Looks like some of the bugs have been fixed.

Hmm the user is applying too much force, the touch screen looks like its not very responsive.

Lets wait for the final build of the phone

 

[Coool]

Re: New and better photogrphs of Nokia 5800 Tube

Nice pics. tanx

 

[krazzy]

All right folks. This is now the ultimate anything and everything related to Nokia 5800 XpressMusic thread. All 5800 related stuff should go in here. DO NOT create any more threads for this phone; just use this one.

 

[nikhilpai]

Now who is going to buy mobiles such as N95 8GB, E71, N85 & N79 at a price more than the 5800?
Nokia has killed its own products with its 5800.

 

[Pat]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

Here is another video.

Nokia 5800 xpress music hands on Remix London

Looks like some of the bugs have been fixed.

Hmm the user is applying too much force, the touch screen looks like its not very responsive.

Lets wait for the final build of the phone

Wel, thats kindof exptected because of two reasons:

a. Resistive Touch-screen and
b. only 369 Mhz processor. (WTF ?)

 

[Power UP]

Re: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic's 1st appearance

Wel, thats kindof exptected because of two reasons:

a. Resistive Touch-screen and
b. only 369 Mhz processor. (WTF ?)

Yup i know its resistive one , but it was a bit too unresponsive. Probably a firmware bug.
369 mhz good enuf for symbian (its not win mo ) , though more would be nice.

As i said before lets wait for the final build.