This is a good addition to the line of music phones as it adds instant messaging and access to Ovi’s plethora of services. As an added treat, this phone comes with a resilient battery putting up its standby time to a maximum of 12 days on not-so-regular use.

Since it is an XpressMusic phone, it comes with a dedicated audio player and a 3.5mm jack with earphones. A great buy.

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As a device, the X6 comes with 32GB of storage, it also comes with pretty much anything you’d see in a modern day Nokia phone such as AGPS, 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Ovi, 3.2 inch screen, TV-Out … honestly apart from the look, there doesn’t seem to be anything else that wows my attention.

The X6 is expected in the fourth quarter of 2009 with a retail price of EUR459.

[photo c/o Nokia Conversations]

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The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is the first every QWERTY device under the music line. Improved from the previous versions, this phone utilizes the new UI for the home screen allowing access to more things — music, games, email, calendar and up to 20 contacts from the scroll bar.

Integrated with the phone is Ovi contacts, which lets other users know if their friends are online given that they are signed up with Ovi.

On the other end of the spectrum, the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic has voice controlled features allowing you to name songs using the “Say and Play” feature. Voice technology isn’t new and if you’ve been fans of Nokia’s voice commands feature, you’d be quick to realize that this was the next logical step. The device comes with a 4GB memory card.

The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic has a suggested retail price of roughly $ 450 USD while the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic retails for about $340 USD.PhP13,020 and comes in black with red accent or grey with blue accent.

[photo c/o Nokia SEA PR]

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Nokia recently unveiled the Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, which is their most affordable music phone in these trying times. it comes with a 2MP camera, 3.5mm AV connectors, 1GB expansion card (upgradable to 2GB) and access to 100 songs from Universal Music initially for download.

If you live in the Philippines, the phone is available for only P6,700 — that’s a good deal for a great quality music phone! Nokia also bundles Share on Ovi for the 5130, allowing access to photos and video sharing and Ovi Mail. The 5130 only comes with EDGE and GPRS connectivity though, so don’t expect high speed Internet access from this.

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The Nokia XpressMusic 5630 is Nokia’s latest music phone for the month of February. The phone features everything we love about their music line – thin design, 3.5mm jack and ultra loud audio. But this version brings forth an updated UI that features favorite contacts and a 4GB card.

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You know what sucks? We left BEFORE they unveiled this huge ass screen. The unveil was breathtaking. This is the video showing the 5800 Xpressmusic being officially unveiled at A Venue, in Makati, Philippines.

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Here’s a little guide I made for hot spots using the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. Do you have anything to add? Feel free to leave them in the comments!

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If you’re one of the few kids who own a brand spankin’ new Nokia 5800 AND happen to own a Macintosh, you will probably notice that the Nokia iSync support site still doesn’t have a device driver for this phone. No worries, one will come soon. It always does. But in the meantime, you can check out tnkgrl’s self-developed iSync plugin which works just as fine!

Here’s a screenshot from my iSync profile. As you can see from the bottom, it recognizes the device!

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Since there’s a pretty significant contingent of PH based readers, I’d like to share with you one really cool promo. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was prelauched today and Nokia is reserving 58 units for a preorder price of P20,000 which is roughly equivalent to USD $400.00

Live in the Philippines? Have you been eyeing the Nokia 5800? All you need to do is sign up at the launch page and reserve your unit now! Now that’s a great Christmas deal!

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So Nokia launched their new 5800 XpressMusic phone, which by some comparison is similar to the iPhone because of its touch screen. Of course, with the iPhone being the phone to beat, journalists can’t help but ask and compare this little beauty to the iPhone. You can’t blame them. It’s part of a story angle for human interest.

So all things come in context if you read this post first. Read it? OK great.

It is good that product managers are very aware of the competition. But marketing is marketing – they should only mention the “other phone that begins with an i” if a journalist asks a question pertaining to that during a press conference. Otherwise, I don’t see a need to passively promote your competitor’s products.

So a journo did ask about the iPhone and guess what the Nokia product manager said?

Well according to Rico, the PM simply says that the touch screen feature is there to offer a new variety of choices for consumers and some consumers do prefer a touch screen.

What a brilliant answer! No really!

In the PR industry, public relations specialists should train their clients to answer these difficult questions and the PM for the XpressMusic series isn’t stupid. It is a tactic PR practitioners use for their clients – don’t answer the question directly. Instead, use that as an opportunity to get your key communication points through.

As someone who’s been through this process before, I can easily point out that one of the key communication points is that the new touch screen of the 5800 series offers more choices for consumers as this is Nokia’s first touch screen phone.

That’s how it’s done! Not like that other PM in my previous link, that sounded so defensive.

[source image: Nokia PR Photos]

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