October 2, 2008

Reviews of Nokia's Tube touchscreen mobile phone are hitting the web, and some include some details of the integrated Comes With Music service. Aside from the product reviews, the key news of the day is the XpressMusic 5310 with the bundled Comes With Music service will cost £130.

The Times Online: "The 5800 Tube provides one-touch access to browse and purchase tracks from the store. There are strong music features to go with Comes with Music - a graphic equaliser and support for all the main digital formats. But there is only 8GB of memory in the form of a microSD card (enough for 6,000 tracks) and many music fans will be disappointed. Many other phones (including the iPhone) already offer 16GB. Nokia says a 16GB card will be available in 2009."

Stuff.tv gets hands on with the Tube: "The music and camera sections use the touchscreen nicely, and nicely show off the hi-res, 640x360 screen."

Engadget's hands-on review: "Appropriately nicknamed the Tube, the device has a number of Nokia peculiarities that could appeal to certain sensibilities, but probably won't be taking a big bite out of existing touchphone market share -- at least in the S60-phobic United State."

Gizmodo's hands-on review: "The 5800 seems like a solid mid-level touch phone for music—especially if Comes With Music pans out as a cool service. But don't plan on using this thing for heavy emailing or texting—you'll probably be using T9 text entry with the touch dialpad or the stylus for most of your text entry unless you have the patience of a monk, which kind of defeats the point for an all-touch device these days."

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Posted by Glenn at 12:11 PM | | Comes With Music | Nokia

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