I am not sure if Nokia actually sold all the 500,000 5800 XpressMusic or “Tubes” but that is the number of 5800 phones Nokia says it’s shipped in just a month’s. It’s quite an achievement, which only means that the 5800, which is of course Nokia’s only touchscreen phone for now, is the closest thing we have to an iPhone killer. The touchscreen smartphone race, we are happy to see, isn’t over.
Update: Nokia says they have shipped 1 million 5800 Tubes since launch. Also take note that the 5800 XpressMusic has a limited-market release, so indeed an iPhone rival.
[via engadget]
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
hehe, i love you bb… iphone killer is here to stay!!
January 25th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
I can’t wait to actually see one of these phones. I do remember Apple saying they sold X amount of iPhones but they really meant shipped to stores not actually sold to customers. I guess Nokia is the same.
February 11th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I saw the line at bonifacio high street where i wanted to buy the phone sadly the branch ran out of stock .. i was number 635. I recently bought my 5800 at automatic centre glorietta 4 apparently its now available in stores with the 5800 booth wohhoooo
April 4th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
it,s worth selling my iphone for this… expands up to 16GB(but har to find micro sd)