Just like we had mentioned a while back Nokia has come out with the 5800 XPress Music — is Nokia’s first touch-sensitive phone. It comes after rivals such as LG, Samsung, and Apple with its new iPhone entered the field. However, the more sedate pace of this Scandinavian player has also ensured that it sized up the competition and added its own features: like full Web browsing including Flash content; a GPS receiver and a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Video can be played back and recorded at up to 30 frames per second in 16:9 aspect ratio. The 8 GB internal memory can be beefed up with another 16 GB on a micro SD type memory card - which means one can store over 18,000 songs if one were a hard-core music freak. The 5th Edition also has a framework for incorporating advanced sensor technology, which developers can use to create motion-based applications. For example, this could potentially let the end user silence their phone by turning it upside down, as well as lead to motion-based games.

The biggest plus point of Nokia’s 5800 XPress Music phone is the new “Comes With Music” service, which means that buying this handset or new units of the 5310 XPress Music phone or the N95 smart phone, enables one to access a music repertoire running into millions from publishers such as Universal, Sony BMG, Warners or EMI. The phone is set to cost approx $390, not bad for a few squeaks and cranks.

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