Nokia is finally officially announced its much awaited touchscreen phone, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Nokia 5800 can handle 60 different languages and will be in shops all over the globe, in the last quarter of 2008.

It is powered by Symbian S60 5th Edition operating system and comes with a 3.2 inch 640 x 360 (resistive) touchscreen with stylus input, a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus Carl Zeiss lens and LED flash, WiFi connectivity, HSDPA (North American), GPS navigation, 8GB internal memory and a microSDHC memory card slot. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be available at the price of 279€ excluding tax and subsidies.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Features List:
• Contacts Bar -Person centric user interface with visualized contacts
• Media Bar -Always an easy access to your favorite media
• 3.2 inch display
• Stereo speakers with surround sound
• Stylus and finger touch support for text input and user interface control
• Powerful connections with 3G, HSDPA and WLAN
• 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeissoptics and dual-LED flash
• Front camera for video calls
• Built-in A-GPS and Nokia Maps and voice guided navigation
• Responsive touch screen with tactile feedback
• Proximity sensor for preventing inadvertent touches and for saving power
• nHDwidescreen quality video playback

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Specifications:
• WCDMA 2100/900,GSM 850/900/1800/1900,HSDPA, WLAN
• or GSM 850/900/1800/1900
• or WCDMA 850/1900, HSDPA, WLAN, GSM 850/900/1800/1900
• User Interface:S60 5th Edition
• Dimensions:111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm (L x W x T)
• Weight:109 g
• Display:3.2 inch nHD(640 x 360 pixels) with up to 16 million colors
• Battery: Nokia Battery BL-5J,1320mAh Lion
• Memory:81 MB internal memory, support for up to 16GB microSD memory card
• CameraLens:Carl ZeissTessar
• Image capture:Up to 3.2 megapixels(2048 x 1536)
• Video capture:nHD(640 x 360) at up to 30 fps
• Flash:Dual-LED camera flash
• Talk time: Up to 9 hours (GSM),5 hours (WCDMA)
• Standby time: Up to 17 days (GSM),17 days (WCDMA)
• Music playback:Up to 35 hours
• Video playback:Up to 5 hours (Mpeg4) 3 hours (nHD)
• WLAN (IEEE 802.11 b/g)
• MicroUSB, 3.5 mm AV connector
• Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0 with A2DP stereo audio, AVRCP

Nokia’s N96 has been launched in the country and will be available from the 16th September, 2008. The dual slide phone expected to be an iphone killer will sell for a whopping Rs. 35,000.

The N96 has a 2.8-inch TFT display with a 240 x 320 pixel resolution and 16 million colors.
It runs on a Dual ARM 9 264 MHz CPU and comes with 128MB RAM, 256MB storage memory and 16GB of internal memory as well as microSD card support. For net connectivity the N96 is equipped with

• Wi-Fi,
• 3G support with HSDPA speeds,
• EDGE class 32,
• GPRS/WAP,
• Bluetooth with A2DP and
• microUSB v2.0 for data transfer.

It also features a 5 MP auto-focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics. It's also capable of video capture (VGA 30fps) and comes with the dual LED flash. The N96 also has a secondary VGA videocall camera in front.

The phone comes equipped with a 3.5mm earphone socket that doubles as a TV Out. It even has an FM radio with RDS and Visual Radio.

The N96 will come preloaded with the movie ‘Om Shanti Om’, 50 music videos, music tracks in Hindi and English and 3 N-Gage games with an unlimited license on for the 3rd edition of Asphalt Urban. It will also have 3 country Nokia Maps that include Singapore, UAE and of course India and a 3 month Navigation license for 8 Indian cities.

The handset can be pre-booked by logging on to www.nokia.co.in/n96 and registering.