LONDON: Having toyed for months with its own challenge to ’smart’
touch-sensitive phones like Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Omnia, the
biggest handset maker of them all, Nokia, has finally entered the
lists. This week sees the global unveiling here of the 5800 XPress
Music, a mobile phone optimised for music and browsing experience, with
a semi-professional-style camera and satellite navigation thrown in.
And yes, it makes and takes telephone calls. Nokia calls this the
‘first mass-market phone with a touch-screen’ — at a suggested price of
euro 279 ($390) before any service provider subsidies, it costs about
half the asking price of most other smart touch phones.
Vice President Jo Harlow said the company had taken its time to get
the product design just right, with intuitive controls, multiple ways
of entering text including a virtual qwerty keyboard for tapping or
stylus and a conventional numeric keypad with advanced ‘haptic’ touch
features. The new handset is to be available in India by year end.
From : http://www.hindu.com/
