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]

[schmitty338 @ Jun 17th 2008 4:33PM]

Ich liebe dich?

Ich denke das ist schon?

[Danakin @ Jun 17th 2008 4:38PM]

Du bist ein dumkopf?

[schmitty338 @ Jun 17th 2008 4:50PM]

Nein!....oder....ja ja...:-(

[teej @ Jun 17th 2008 5:20PM]

Scheisse scheisse, es ist lieben!!!

[phanbouy @ Jun 17th 2008 6:47PM]

du

du hast

du hast meich

[namtastic @ Jun 17th 2008 7:01PM]

"Es ist nein stackenblochen!"

[phanbouy @ Jun 17th 2008 7:30PM]

Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!...
Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.

But at Peenemunde in the Autumn of '44,
the Germans were working on a joke of their own.

Die ist ein Kinnerhunder und zwei Mackel uber und der bitte schon ist den Wunderhaus sprechensie. 'Nein' sprecht der Herren 'Ist aufern borger mit zveitingen'.

[phanbouy @ Jun 17th 2008 11:07PM]

ok, +50 internets to anyone who got that that was a Monty Python's Flying Circus reference

[qwert @ Jun 18th 2008 3:53AM]

cool. i get +50 internets.
what can i buy me with that?

[Anthony @ Jun 17th 2008 4:34PM]

I hope they announce soon. W/ the N96 coming out soon & my N95 8gb starting to look a little long in the tooth (raised buttons!) I want all info before putting down any pre-order commitments.

[The Dude @ Jun 17th 2008 4:35PM]

"Die neuen Spielmacher!"

But I already have a spill maker. And while currently flaccid, it's not dead like the ones in the ad.

[Andrew @ Jun 17th 2008 5:03PM]

FYI: spielmacher -> playmaker, a player in a team game who leads attacks or brings other players on the same side into a position from which they could score..

The European football championships (euro2008.com) is the hottest thing in Germany and Europe right now.

[c|ak @ Jun 17th 2008 5:16PM]

obviously the dude knows nothin about no whatchamacallit? sucker...no, soccer. we call them quarterbacks here thankyouverymuch.

[Matt @ Jun 17th 2008 8:21PM]

@clak,

Not all americans are as ignorant about other countries flagship sports, I live in america and in my opinion Futbal is way better than football.

[Engadgetluvsappl @ Jun 17th 2008 4:44PM]

Engadget, why use Symbian-Freaks watermarked version of that image (even though it's not even their picture...) when there are clean ones available?

http://www.cellfanatic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/nokia_5800_xpressmusic_poster.jpg

[The Dude @ Jun 17th 2008 4:46PM]

Nokia obviously needs to take clak's advice srsly 'cause he sells so many handsets around the world.

?Huhwut?


Nah, but srsly though. I can see how the line-up can be perceived as convoluted. I don't really have a problem with it, as long as I don't have to pay an added-features-that-I'll-never-use tax that you may encounter like with undiversified product lines. I'll be assed if I'm going to pay for HSDPA on a phone that I don't even want a data plan with.

[Mark Anderson @ Jun 17th 2008 4:54PM]

That's their low end market testing touchscreen, isn't it?

[P.K @ Jun 17th 2008 5:01PM]

Exactly

[P.K @ Jun 17th 2008 4:59PM]

There's flagship S60 TS phone in the make and that's why i will pass with this one and get me E66 white till that comes out.

[spass @ Jun 17th 2008 5:00PM]

Nokia does not need more versions, their offer is too wide and confusing already. Apple only has ONE phone and doing just fine.

[Atanas Boev @ Jun 17th 2008 5:06PM]

Next month :)

[Pdexter @ Jun 17th 2008 5:13PM]

Too wide? Nokia sells 140 million phones in a 3 months time while having less phones in their portfolio than Samsung that has 15% market share compared to Nokia's 40%. So idd say it's fine.
and what's confusing about them? 5xxx is example music, 1xxx is for super low end phones, 8xxx are premium phones, 9xxx are or where for communicators, N series is for multimedia and E series is for business.
Xpressmedia seem to be added for coming S60 TS phones. N99 xpressmedia or for example mid end music TS phone 5800 xpressmedia.

[Fredster @ Jun 17th 2008 5:12PM]

Fake!

[spass @ Jun 17th 2008 5:32PM]

@Pdexter
I just hate when people tell me what my phone is for.
I want one good phone that can do everything: music, video, internet, etc.

[Rich @ Jun 17th 2008 6:39PM]

"Nokia does not need more versions, their offer is too wide and confusing already. Apple only has ONE phone and doing just fine."

If Nokia sold 10 million phones a year, they wouldn't be doing "just fine". 10 million phones a day would be disastrous for any of the big phone manufacturers. Just fine in Nokia's vocabulary is a million phones a day, which they achieve by selling phones to suit everyone's needs and, more importantly, wallet size.

"I want one good phone that can do everything: music, video, internet, etc."

But not decent photos, video recording, A2DP or MMS? Interesting definition of everything you have there.

[w @ Jun 17th 2008 6:54PM]

"Nokia does not need more versions, their offer is too wide and confusing already. Apple only has ONE phone and doing just fine"
the world is filled with people with different needs and different tastes, their offer is never too wide.
confusing? why? because they are on same catalogue? are you stupid?

"i just hate when people tell me what my phone is for."

have you considered buying one of those surprise boxes from ebay?

"i want one good phone that can do everything: music, video, internet, etc."

awesome, buy JUST ONE.

[Pdexter @ Jun 17th 2008 7:03PM]

Wouldnt we all :) Well N series is the got it all brand and i would think that N series xpressmedia phone would probally be closest to has it all, but it's impossible to make that one device that would be perfect for all and Nokia and others in top 5 have to have large portfolio for phones starting from the fact that i dont think if Nokia had 1 phone and 40% of people had that same device more people would buy something else just for the sake to have different device. Not to talk about that people arent ready to pay extra for featurs they dont need. 6xxx series fits nicely here as 6xxx series is mostly random mid market phones with many different features and form factors.

[qwert @ Jun 18th 2008 3:56AM]

Am i the only one that thinks the thing in the background looks creepy? what is this? is it human and female, or did it escape from a cheap b movie horror flick.

So i say: fake.
Even my fellow german "handy" shops wouldnt use such a bad poster. Or maybe they would?

[maff @ Jun 18th 2008 10:57AM]

6600? i see they are re-using model names now!

[MrBoJangles @ Jun 18th 2008 3:40PM]

I'd turn my tube up in that German if you know what I mean, and I think that you do!

[skyline100 @ Jun 19th 2008 4:18AM]

nice & pretty device...beat the iPone 3G...

[jptech @ Jul 11th 2008 5:26PM]

This would be a great phone if it weren't $900. Nokia n-series phones are great in concept, but seem to be produced in small batches. They are way overpriced and most US carriers don't sell them or support them. This is partially because the US wireless market is so far behind the rest of the world.

I've never owned any brand of phone but Nokia in the past 12 years. I'm growing tired of the phones which promise great features that rarely work properly.

My carrier doesn't allow high speed data for my n80 phone. The browser doesn't work properly. 80% of websites don't work right. There is a very small cache for it. When the cache fills, the browser crashes. There's no flash support. The wifi doesn't support wpa2. The phone is really kind of slow. The only redeeming feature of s60 is it's freedom with media. You can take mp3s and put them on the microSD card and make them ringtones. You can make .wav files into ringtones. You can add a picture for any caller. I just wish the n80 screen was larger. Though it's a very small phone.

so this tube phone will just be another gimmick which doesn't work properly either. I'd love to have one, but I would have to sell my car to afford it.