Today Nokia announced its first touch screen-based phone, the XpressMusic 5800. The 5800 hits the market a full 15 months after the iPhone touched off the touch screen craze. Two homescreen add-ons do sound intriguing. With the Media Bar music, media and online content are a fingertip away. The Media Bar offers a direct link to the web and to online sharing. The Contacts Bar provide enhanced touch-based handling of contacts, including setting favorites, logging calls, texts and recent communication. It has a 3.2-inch touch resistance screen. It packs in a massive number of pixels (640 x 360), giving it HD resolution
First, the basic specs. The phone has a 3.2-megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack and comes with an 8 GB micro-SD card. It includes Enterprise support, haptic feedback for its touchscreen, a TV-out cable, and the ability to shoot DVD-quality video. Speaking of video, it can record at 30 frames per second.
The phone has tons of radios. It will come in two basic flavors, with one supporting European and Asian 3G networks, and another supporting North American 3G networks. Both versions also include Bluetooth 2.0 with stereo support, Wi-Fi, and a GPS. The 5800 is running S60 5th Edition. Yes, 5th Edition. (Nokia somehow managed to forget about S60 4th Edition, which hasn’t even been announced.) This new version of S60 is, of course, optimized for touch input. A slew of demo and instruction videos have just been slapped up, allowing you to get a better notion of just how the device works, and what it looks like when it’s doing it.. here is the video
