Since this being an age of the touchscreen mobile phones (All thanks to Apple iPhone), you definitely would not expect Nokia to lag behind in this field. They have obviously, put forth a range of gadgets that came par with the iPhone like, Nokia N95 mobile phone, Nokia N96 mobile phone and Nokia 85 mobile phone, which faired in the European market considerably well. However, it remains a fact that Nokia could not forward an appropriate solution for the iPhone menace, though some other brands like Blackberry and Samsung has taken the battle to the iPhone camp with their fagship models like Samsung Omnia and Blackberry Thunder 9500 mobile phones. The prime advantage with these two models to catch the bull by its horns is the inclusion of a full-fledged multi-touch interface that incidentally, has been the forte of Apple iPhone. Perhaps though belated, Nokia also has recognises this fact to launch one touch-interface prototype, that comes with the name Nokia Xpress Music 5800 Tube Multimedia Mobile Phone.

This Nokia mobile phone that was very much anticipated by the world mobile phone market also carries the nickname, the 'Tube'. As the name suggests, this mobile phone lays high stress on its multimedia part, that would denote the first part of their tactics to tackle the iPhone; to take on a smartphone with multimedia aspects with a multimedia phone with smartphone features. Today, you have some idea on the design of this mobile phone for its fleeting part in the movie, 'The Dark Knight'. At least you know that this gadget is a good looking one with a weight of 104 grams and a thickness of 14.5 millimetres. This mobile phone is expected to come with an internal memory of 140MB, though you can expand it up to 8GB using a MicroSD card. This mobile phone, being a multimedia handset, would possess great audio capabilities like the realisation of a handful of audio formats, backed up by a 3.5mm jack plug to employ your headphone set. The screen of this mobile phone that is expected to come adorned by multi-touch technological aspects (Haptic Feedback), would also possess a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, making it perfect to watch movies on.

Nokia Xpress Music 5800 GPS Mobile Phone would hit the market early next month with all the prevailing connectivity niceties like HSDPA, UMTS, GPRS, EDGE and Wi-Fi for networking and Bluetooth for wireless, short distance data transfer. An integrated A-GPS receiver that features in the connectivity ranks of this mobile phone is expected to club with the built-in camera of this mobile phone to facilitate exceptional geotagging. This camera of 3megapixels resolution would be coming backed up by a Carl Zeiss lens and a LED flash.

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