Nokia 5800 XpressMusic just chills with the FCC for a little while
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Oct 13th 2008 5:02PM
posted Oct 13th 2008 5:02PM
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OMFG! Finally a touch screen phone with LED blubs!
I do love blubs! Sorry, I couldn't help it.
"this does us just about as much good as a Nokia with a resistive touch... ah, wait."
whats this suppose to mean?
Does it imply that the 5800 has a resistive touch screen?
@Anand Yeah, it does. Nokia claims they used a resistive touchscreen in the 5800 because Asian people don't like using their fingers with touch screens and would rather use stylii and "plectrums" (which apparently is a fancy name for a guitar pick) instead. I have a feeling that the cheaper price might have been a factor as well.
Resistive Touch is gonna be the reason I won't buy this phone. The world has moved on.
Not that Asian people don't "like" capacitive touch, but just the fact that capacitive touch technology supposedly has too poor a resolution for tiny menus that Nokia uses, and also for inputting Asian characters, supposedly.
The perfect solution would be an N-Trig solution- Capacitive + Electromagnetic (Wacom-esque), Win-Win. Except on the price, which is Nokia's main point-of-view.
CarrotAndStick : That was what I expected to get when I first saw the pictures. What a disappointment.
not sure if this is the right...ahem...forum (get it?!) but which wireless bands are used where again? i could use a refresher.
GSM:
850/1800/1900 --> US
900/1800/1900 --> Europe
Quad-Band GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 --> Works worldwide
3G:
2100 --> Europe
1700 and 2100 --> T-Mobile (US). This 2100 is a bit off the European 3G standard though, as noted here: http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/06/t-mobile-details-3g-plans/
1900 --> AT&T (US)
Hope that clears things up.
wow! thanks tejas!
I think it isn't the touchscreen version??
You think wrong.
Ok then, how do you control it?
They should at least think of shipping this to Alltel because I want a new phone, but Alltel has no selection and I'm stuck with it.
Rhetorical question;
"How many phones does it take to kill an iPhone."
Rhetorical Question: "Why does any phone have to be an iPhone-killer?"
The "iPhone-killer" moniker is just a much abused term coined by the media to create a lot of hype.
First of all, for anything to be marked to be "killed", the device in question has to be (unquestionably) the best at what it does, which the iPhone clearly isn't, so honestly there's no need for that competition...
Secondly, I don't believe Nokia's deemed the 5800 to be an iPhone-killer either... and neither has that status been granted on the Android OS (which technically isn't even competing with the iPhone, but rather with the iPhone's OS) by Google.
So, let's just get over our need to call any phone with a touchscreen an 'iPhone-killer'! Pretty please? :-)
rhetorical question.
Who gives a shit?
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