Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, out now (and sold out) in Moscow!
Finally, it seems that the wait is over! The very first European 5800 XpressMusic was sold in Moscow, Russia, without annoucements, but with great results.
The first european delivery of 50 Nokia "Tubes" was made yesterday in Moscow, the phones were priced at 15.000 rubles (429 Eur) and, from the time the phone was put on shelves, to the sold-out annouced, only 44 minutes passed.
The store sold 50 phones a little more than half an hour, meaning 1,13 phones sold per minute. The shop staff said they had never seen something like this, even with the iphones, and the most important thing to consider, is that no advertising has been made, nor the launch was annouced by Nokia. The phones, when arrived, were put on display in the shop, that’s all.
Right after this news arrive to Nokia, so they decided to deliver 120 more phones to the store today, to be sold starting from 17:00 today. I guess that they are already sold now 
With this strange experiment, it seems that Nokia is willmanage to achieve an outstanding result: to sell, in Moscow and in one week only, more Nokia 5800 than iPhones, without any kind of advertising, and without even annoucing the release date!
Bye bye, Apple!
Thank you, anonymous informer
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very nice…
good
XpressMusic is here , iphone beware
I've got my N95 and i dont want this monster…TNX (and even if i want one here in holyland it will take a lot of time until someone will sell it…)
Better wait for the N-series rival of the touch OS.
Wow. You're such a Nokia fanboy. And I mean that in a bad way. How does the fact that Nokia sold 50 phones prove that they're going to own the iPhone?
Lol, obviously there are going to be at least 50 Nokia fanatics that want the phone, thus the reason they were sold out quickly. Had Nokia shipped more than, say 5,000 phones without any sort of announcement, they wouldn't have sold them all.
And what Nokia did here, if it was deliberate, is pretty smart. It got people to think that maybe this phone will be a success. But anyone with a brain can see past this trick, and it doesn't prove anything.
Am I saying the Tube won't do well? No. It might. But honestly, I doubt it. And I'm not a Nokia hater. I own an N78. Hell, I'm typing this message on it right now. However, if I were to get a new phone right now, I wouldn't get another Nokia, except maybe an E71. Nokia is way behind, and it shows with the fact that they're only getting their first touchscreen phone out now. The Tube is NOT an iPhone killer. Period.
Maybe when Nokia get's some more respectable, up-to-date phones out, my faith in them will be restored. But for now, sorry Nokia. You're way behind.
One last thing. I remember you said something about the Tube being the most anticipated phone of this year. That seriously made of laugh out loud. Did you totally miss the launch of the iPhone 3G? People camping outside stores? Over 1 million sold in the first weekend? … Yeah, 50 Nokia Tubes doesn't look so impressive now, does it?
(Note: as I have stated before, I am a Nokia user myself. I don't even want an iPhone, but honestly, I want a tube even less.)
there is no proof that Apple has sold 1 million phones on one week. That is bullshit…. iPhone 3g is worst phone i ever had
Staircase, you are serious? iPhone has failed on sale in Russia, it simply do not buy, it is not interesting to people… In Russia there do not live fans Apple, people legible in a choice, 5800 will surpass iPhone in sales! Official to sale will begin since December, 3rd only
Over 1 million sold in the first weekend?
Apple fans and no more… The model has become outdated at the moment of release
Nokia sold about 45 Millions of N-Series phones in 2008, and in 2009 they
will sell more, because of the new upcoming touchscreen Nseries.
The iphone is expected to sell less than 10 millions units in 2008.
Also, the iPhone has great features, the touchscreens is just the top
available in the market, and the appstore is great.
But as for functionality, the iphone features as a low-end Nokia device that
retails for 99$.
It does not have videocall over 3g, no MMS, a crap camera, no video
recording, while Nokia features high resolution video recording, no Flash
support, no memory card.
Professional Press uses Nokia Nseries for live reports, via Qik software.
They make live videos, live pictures, they write reports and they stream
the video them directly on the web. You will never see those people working
with an iPhone, just because, it's a shiny cool toy for pseudo-geek of
fashion victim loking for the coolest gadget. The Nseries phones are maybe
less cool, but just much more profesional.
I played with the iphone and I was amazed by its design, and screen. But
after using it for a day, I just tought that I could not trade the above
mentioned features for a cool multitouch.
However, in older posts, I too complained Nokia for using an old-type
touchscreen, instead of a multitouch one.
So, please, don't call me fanboy. And you say, “Nokia, you are behind”.
Typical fanboy statement.
Regards
Pizero.
Maybe in Russia it will, but I wasn't talking *just* Russia.
I'm confused… are you calling me an Apple fanboy? And calling the iPhone outdated?
Firstly, I clearly stated that I don't own an iPhone, nor do I even want one. I don't own any Apple products. In fact, I own a Nokia N78.
Also, what? How is the iPhone outdated and Nokia phones not? Nokia's first touchscreen phone is just coming out now. And TBH I don't find it that impressing.
“Nokia sold about 45 Millions of N-Series phones in 2008, and in 2009 they
will sell more, because of the new upcoming touchscreen Nseries.
The iphone is expected to sell less than 10 millions units in 2008.”
Yeah, but the iPhone is only one phone whereas the N-series line has many different models. That's not a fair comparison.
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“Also, the iPhone has great features, the touchscreens is just the top
available in the market, and the appstore is great.
But as for functionality, the iphone features as a low-end Nokia device that
retails for 99$.
It does not have videocall over 3g, no MMS, a crap camera, no video
recording, while Nokia features high resolution video recording, no Flash
support, no memory card.”
Yes, it is missing out on many basic features, but how can you say MMS and video calling is more useful than an app store? The app store basically allows for great potential usefulness for the iPhone, while video recording and MMS can only go so far.
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“Professional Press uses Nokia Nseries for live reports, via Qik software.
They make live videos, live pictures, they write reports and they stream
the video them directly on the web. You will never see those people working
with an iPhone, just because, it's a shiny cool toy for pseudo-geek of
fashion victim loking for the coolest gadget. The Nseries phones are maybe
less cool, but just much more profesional.”
Are you serious? The iPhone is very critically acclaimed. It may be the “cool” thing to have, but it's not bad by any means. You're making unsubstantiated claims that the iPhone is bad, just because it's the hot thing to have.
Also, how are N-series phones more professional than the iPhone? The N-series are multimedia phones. At most, they're equally unprofessional. But professional users still use the iPhone, because it now has Exchange support, etc.
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“I played with the iphone and I was amazed by its design, and screen. But
after using it for a day, I just tought that I could not trade the above
mentioned features for a cool multitouch.”
Personally, I wouldn't care about video recording, camera, MMS, etc, if I had the functionality of the iPhone. But it's personal preference, I know.
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So, please, don't call me fanboy. And you say, “Nokia, you are behind”.
Typical fanboy statement.”
I find my statement of Nokia being behind to be pretty objective. Nokia hasn't come out with a touchscreen phone until now, and their phone resolutions are only 320×240/240×320, even on the N-series, and the N96 is even advertised as being able to play videos. Sure, but it's not worth it on such a tiny screen.
Also, I have told you that I'm not an Apple fanboy. I don't have or even want an iPhone. I do not own any Apple products. And I posted my original comment on my Nokia N78. I'm just expressing my disappointment in Nokia, because I thought they could do better than this, and I'm not the one to bring up the iPhone comparison: you mentioned it in your post, and I was merely responding to it.
Also, I realized that I may have been overly rude in my post. Sorry for that.
no problem for that.
However, I did not want to say that the iPhone is bad. If I could afford
having 2 hi-end phones at the same time, I would have bought it last summer,
because it has some really good features. But, as I wrote in the post below,
I think Nokia has some overall better features, and it performs better under
many aspects. If you read older posts in the symbian section, you will find
that i'm really not a fanboy. Only, as this website is related to Nokia, I
prefer talking about their phones. I really appreciate the company, and I
wish they could implement the good features that we see in other phones, as
long as the basic features offered by Nokia phones are impossible to
replace, for me. So I prefer to have a little less innovative device,
instead of accepting to miss some basic features.
Then it's probably just a cultural difference. Everyone I know would much rather have an iPhone with the app store than a Nokia phone with a duller OS that has MMS, a good camera, and video recording.
But personally, I don't find Nokia phones to be outstanding in neither hardware or software.
at last it was just the first touch phone of nokia.like 3250 what we should do now is wait and wait
Yummm…
I bought one from first Novosibirsk delivery. It's good! More than good!
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I think it very good with Excellent features.
Thanks
this phone model is not launch in my country but that is not a big problem since i got my N series now
Thanks