Well, it might be a leak or it might be a cunning attempt to tred on Apple’s big 3G iPhone reveal.
Either way, some new photos of the 5800 XpressMedia (aka the ‘Tube’) have emerged. The Tube is reportedly Nokia’s answer to Apple’s finest with a revolutionary new touchscreen UI.
Assuming these are real it.. looks just like an iPhone, really. The major external differences seem to be the 3.2 Megapixel camera (with the now ubiquitous Carl Zeiss optics) and Dual LED flash (that’s two more flash LEDs than the iPhone folks!) the Nokia branding and the way the screen doesn’t look as nice.
Still, its early days yet and the proof of this pudding will be in the, er, using. If the new UI is up to snuff then we can forgive a few unsightly design decisions. Something that seems to have drawn the ire of the blogosphere is the pictured stylus. This is seen as somehow ‘impure’ and harkening back to the bad old days of Palm Pilots and WinMo atrocities.
Personally, I don’t mind a stylus and it’s interesting that in the demo video this is shown as being optional - switching to a stylus for fine grained control seems fair enough, espeiclaly if you have chunky fingers.
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