Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Comes With Music Service Unveiled, LG Announces LG-KC910 and More

Nokia has a busy day and unveils Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Comes With Music Service where as LG announces LG-KC910 or the Renoir. Here is a round up of today’s stories.



It’s finally here. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic aka the Tube got unveiled by Nokia. The touchscreen wonder is all geared up to take on the iPhone and features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, 8GB storage, access to Nokia Music Store, 3.2" widescreen display and a 'Media Bar', a handy drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be available worldwide beginning in the fourth quarter of 2008 for an estimated retail price of 279 EUR before taxes and subsidies




At the Nokia Remix, Nokia announced the debut of Comes with Music digital entertainment service.The service offers one year of unlimited access to the Nokia Music Store catalogue and customers can keep all the music that they have downloaded at the end of the year. The United Kingdom will be the first market to offer Comes With Music with sales planned to start on October 16, 2008.





An Adobe representative confirmed in a press meet that the company is indeed working on flash support for iPhone. "My team is working on Flash on the iPhone, but it's a closed platform," Flash Magazine quoted Adobe's senior director, engineering, Paul Betlem.

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Looks like theLG-KC910 may just steal Nokia 5800 XpressMusic’s  thunder. This behemoth of a device not only sports an 8 MP camera but also features Schneider-Kreuznach certified optics, a Xenon flash, auto and manual focus and touch -enhanced features. It also goes by the name of Renoir and should be available Europe in early October.



Nokia in a press release announced that they have made the S60 5th Edition SDK and other tools available to developers. With S60 5th Edition, the user interface is extended by the introduction of touch and with full support for tactile feedback. For further information and news about the S60 and the S60 community, please visit www.s60.com