Nokia 5800 XpressMusic launch dubbed 'stunning success;' 120 Russians can't be wrong
We love covering the antics of gadget-crazed buyers on launch day as much as anyone, whether it be die-hard gamers waiting for a PS3 or international fanatics clamoring for Apple's latest. Sometimes, though, these big launch sellouts feel a bit... contrived. Such is the case with Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic, dropped first in Russia on Wednesday ahead of its worldwide release yesterday. An internal memo (conveniently posted onto the Mobile-Review forums by a Nokia employee) talks up the usual release day shenanigans: buyers camping for days, bribery attempts for spots in line, inventory disappearing in minutes, and an inevitable prediction that this thing will be bigger than the iPhone. However, while the memo liberally quotes from the LiveJournal musings of Mobile-Review editor Eldar Murtazin, it skips over one choice bit of information he provided: a measly 120 phones were available at this "flagship" location in Moscow.
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I really wouldn't be too suprised if 5800 sold more than iphone. I mean 6300 for example sold over 20 million last year and don't know how much it have sold to this day , 6500 sold over 10 million, 5310 +10 million or how about N95 with over 17 million sold, but these things just don't get much of a advert and neither does Nokia really advertise those numbers. And why should they when it's expected for them to sell that amount of phones.
To me iphone will still have better TS input, but other than that 5800 is damn good phone and if people have been only following engadget they might be suprised how fast 5800 is currently. Could i even say that it's faster than iphone. Thought iphone and 5800 will be bought some what different people while Apple having it's stronghold in USA and Nokia keeps going where it left in Europe and Asia.
One thing is for sure that Apple had impact in market and that's greater than what iphone have sold.
I'm not generally a slippery-slope kind of person, so though I strongly and stubbornly want to buy the music I want for myself individually, the more ways to get music legally, the better.
As much as I love Apple products myself, being a Mac user for the last 5 odd years, like many others I think that there is blatant negative spin on anything not Apple but in direct competition. I also don't understand many of the comparisons drawn earlier above. From what I see, there some technology inside the iPhone itself is about a generation behind everything else, including the 5800. Where is the HSDPA??
Im not to bash on Nokia phones, but the Tube is a bit disappointing in speed. They should call it SluggishMusic 5800 :)
your mom wasn't great in speed too, did you call her SluggishMom 5800 (lbs.) ?
Every post on this topic is high ranked !!!
at least now I know that most readers aren't Apple Fanboys after all, I guess it's only the editors then.
Lets hope Engadget and AOL other blogs bublish high guality articles with some real content.
As always with big companys, can you trust them? Frightening thought ...
http://www.timewarner.com/corp/businesses/detail/aol/index.html
Well, you would expect that during recession AOL would be worried about having such redundancy as having two Apple blogs.
TUAW and Engadget (latter of which could be named "TUAW with some crap from other manufacturers").
There is a big reason for for several blogs...
found from wiki
Competition
AOL's subscriber base is declining, and declines are expected to continue, adversely affecting subscription and advertising revenue. As more individuals are using non-PC devices to access the Internet, AOL is under pressure to secure placement of its services and applications on mobile devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner
You've got to love the cold war era jokes...