S60 touch was first announced at the Barcelona spring congress. Our initial experiences and predictions are available in this article:  smape.com/en/articles/reportings/S60-touch-MWC-rev.html. In a nutshell: the changes balance between evolutionary and revolutionary sticking a bit more to the evolutionary side to keep the trademark interface style recognizable.

Nokia 5800 is equipped with a 3.2’’ TFT screen with a resolution of 640x360 px and a color palette of 16M colors; the screen matrix sports a full touch action capability – something the fans of Symbian S60 have long been dreaming of, jealous of Symbian UIQ solutions. Originally the solution was planned to give birth to a new XpressMedia product family, though currently it is decided that Tube will expand the well-known XpressMusic series.XpressMedia.

The gadget utilizes the S60 5th Edition platform and comes equipped with an integrated accelerometer for automatical screen orientation adjustment. Let’s compare the dimensions of Nokia 5800, Nokia N82 and Sony Ericsson W850i:

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic measures 115 x 52 x 14,5 mm and weighs 104 g. Quite adequate values for the announced stuffing. The smartphone is equipped with a 3 Mp auto-focusing camera sporting Carl Zeiss optics, a double LED flash and a photo geo-tagging capability provided by the onboard GPS unit supporting A-GPS.

The connectivity capabilities are quite impressive: quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, UMTS/HSDPA, Wi-Fi b/g, A2DP (commonly referred to as Stereo Bluetooth); USB 2.0, 3.5 mm audio out, TV-out. Nokia XpressMusic has 140 Mb of onboard memory and a microSD memory card slot supporting capacities up to 8 Gb. The new product is powered by a high-capacity Nokia BL-5J battery (1320 mAh)

According to the exclusive announcement made by the official sources especially for Smape.com, the announce is planned for September; the device will become available at retail starting from late November / early December, the estimated starting price is 360 euros. This makes the device a potential bestseller and one of the most anticipated smartphones. We hope Nokia will keep up with the good work, delivering the revolutionary Tube in six weeks, as currently claimed.