As we covered previously after iPhone HTC Diamond was expected to the iPhone competitor but now Nokia has also stepped up and it has been confirmed that this October Nokia will be launching its first touchscreen cell phone named “Nokia 5800 XpressMusic” code named “Tube”.

The touchScreen technology is becoming very common in cell phones and the consumer demand for the technology has also increase massively. Within the last 2 weeks we have seen three new touchscreen phones announced first it was HTC Diamond then Google G1 and now Nokia 5800.

What makes Nokia 5800 so Special

The new Nokia 5800 have a 3.2-inch touchscreen display with 16 Million colors with a 3.2 Mega Pixel auto focus camera with dual LED Flash and 30 FPS VGA recording. The phone will be on a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) GSM/EDGE radio with 3G UMTS/HSDPA, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi.

The specification so far released of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will include:

• High resolution 16:9 touchscreen range between 3 inch to 3.5 inch
• 3.2″ 640×360px, 16M color touchscreen display
• finger touch operation will provide vibration feedback function
• Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900), UMTS 2100, GSM/Edge, HSDPA connectivity
• Symbian S60 Taco 5 OS
• 3.2mpx autofocus camera with dual LED flash and 30 FPS VGA recording
• Built-in A-GPS and Wi-Fi
• USB 2.0 and  Bluetooth 2.0
• 3.5mm headphone jack, TV-Out port
• 150MB of User memory
• microSDHC memory card slot (up to 16GB, 8GB memory card in a box)
• 140MB on-board storage
• Measurements: 111 × 52 × 14.5 mm, and weighs only 104 grams.
• Dual LED flash
• 3.5 mm Headset interface
• TV-out interface
• BL-5J 1150mah Battery
• Built-in GPS
• 140 MB RAM

Compare Nokia 5800 vs iPhone

If i have to compare in terms of design, i don’t think Nokia can come to that level, product design is something that Apple is best at and it would be very difficult for other companies to compete with it, even HTC Diamond was not as good as iPhone. In terms of features yes Nokia 5800 might have taken a few leaps ahead but not that far either.

So here are some basic feature difference when iPhone 3G compared with Nokia 5800:

• iPhone >> 3.5-inch (diagonal) wide screen Multi-Touch display 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
• Nokia  >> 3.2″ 640×360px, 16M color touchscreen display
• iPhone >> 2.0 megapixel
• Nokia  >> 3.2mpx auto focus camera with dual LED flash and 30 FPS VGA recording
• iPhone >> weight 133 grams
• Nokia >> weight 104 grams