Nokia XpressMusic 5800 "Tube" turns up in German poster
Nokia's 5800 "Tube" handset hasn't exactly been doing the best job staying under cover, and it's now turned up yet again to offer another sign of its presumably imminent launch, this time in a poster for Germany's SMS Shop. Somewhat curiously, the touchscreen-based device (S60, specifically) is now apparently branded with the XpressMusic moniker, rather than XpressMedia, although your guess is as good as ours as to what that might indicate. Otherwise, the only tidbits the poster has to offer is that the device does in fact boast WLAN and HSDPA capabilities, although given that all the other phones in the poster have been officially announced, it seems safe to bet that we should be hearing more about the 5800 straight from Nokia sooner rather than later.
[Thanks, Dax]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
yode @ Jun 17th 2008 4:32PM
Test
youngcalihottie @ Jun 17th 2008 11:04PM
they better hurry up and announce the tube
if it has tri hsdpa and gets a price and date within the next 3 weeks, i'll wait for it.
otherwise, ill get an iphone 3g.
if nokia doesnt speak up soon they may be stuck with this very dilemma in 70 countries........
Omagus @ Jun 17th 2008 11:10PM
I doubt it. The Apple brand isn't anywhere near as powerful outside of the US as it is domestically. There are probably a lot more people who would be willing to wait for an S60 device with touch than there are people who want to pick up something from Apple.
Pdexter @ Jun 18th 2008 8:40AM
It might be hard to imagine if you are living in states, but Nokia has strong brand actually as just a brand it's Europeas most powerfull(google it ;)).
This has been said hundred of times already, but the sales Apple does arent anything in global sales, but in smartphone sales they are about under a 1% with Nokia's 50%. Not to even talk about that Apple's sales are hurting least Nokia of all top 5 players. Because Nokia dosent exist there and Apple's top sales will always come from state side.
And any way i got feeling that 5800 wont be much of Apple killer .....there wont ever be.
If you want featured up Apple with not as good looking interface, but you can do much more you could wait till N series or E series TS phones come out. 5800 will be just low end phone with 3.2mp camera and more like to test to Nokia.