Nokia’s brand spanking new 5800 XpressMusic phone, formerly known as The Tube, has been announced for a grand total of ten days and there’s already a number of reviews for the device. We’ve collected the best of them. So what’s the verdict? Generally positive. All of the reviewers seem to agree that the 5800 provides a [...]

Nokia’s Eseries phones tend to come with a lot of relatively unknown productivity/business software, ranging from the mundane/borderline useless Quickoffice app, to such gems like the Multiscanner. While I won’t be getting into the Multiscanner this time around, I do want to mention another awesome (preloaded) application: Active Notes. Now all S60 phones (Eseries devices included) [...]

Reuters reports that the Nokia’s first touch-screen cell phone, the 5800 XpressMusic (aka Tube), won’t be hitting some of the more important markets by the Christmas season. It will, however, be on sale in a random jumble of countries: the United Arab Emirates, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia and Spain. Well, maybe not quite some [...]

The Big Four record companies. That’s Universal, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and EMI. And a couple of days ago, EMI became the last of the Big Four to join Nokia’s unlimited music downloading service, Comes With Music. Interesting statistic: last year the company made a grand total of -260 million pounds (-$452 million USD), and [...]

During the S60 Fifth Edition webcast, there were a couple slides that showed a generic touch-screen concept device. Normally, this wouldn’t be news except for this questionable picture on one slide: So the left image is your stereotypical hand holding a stereotypical Nokia S60 phone. Fair enough. Now fast forward like 20 seconds later, and we [...]

The Tube is here. Nokia’s first full touch-screen cell phone was announced today at Nokia Remix in London/Singapore, along with a crapload of accessories, and, of course, the Comes With Music service. There’s nothing too surprising here - the 5800 XpressMusic was long rumored to be a mid-range music phone, and it certainly delivers in [...]

Well, that was quick. The Nokia N96, fresh from being released mere (days? weeks?) ago, already has its own firmware update. While no one’s sure on what the firmware actually fixed, what’s more important is what the update actually broke: earpiece volume. Ouch. Meanwhile, owners of the N82 candy bar get a nice, smooth ride to [...]

A shiny new Nokia E66 arrived at my door today, and I spent a couple of hours transferring stuff from my old phone, changing settings, and just generally messing around with it. Here’s my initial impressions of the business-oriented slider: First, the quick summary. No question about it, the E66 is easily one of the most [...]

No, there’s still no firm announcement date for Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic, aka the Tube, but an article by Forbes sort-of-but-not-really confirms what’s been floating around the ‘net for the past two weeks: the launch of the Tube will be this Thursday, along with Nokia’s new Comes With Music service. Forbes does mention that the device will [...]

Wow, it’s been a long time, NFC - the last time I wrote about you was almost a year ago. At that time, Nokia was conducting yet another trial experiment in London, where NFC guinea pigs received a Nokia 6131 NFC-enabled phone and 200 GBP spending money - not a bad haul. So flash forward 10 [...]