I’m a Computer, Gadget geek from way back. Besides computers and gadgets, I also enjoy photography, snorkeling and SCUBA diving, fast cars and even faster women (or is that the other way around?). Just kidding about the fast women, so no offense to the ladies here. Wink I also enjoy astronomy, and being a computer, gadget geek, of course I also like video games.

In spite of my fascination with gadgets, I only recently got into fancy cell phones (”smart” phones). I used to carry a basic phone and a PDA, because I didn’t like what was available in “convergence” devices. It just seemed like they were too much of a compromise.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic “Tube” seems to have changed my mind, since my old Razr and Zodiac have been collecting dust lately. There are things the Zodiac did better, but I’m still early in the learning curve for the 5800, and I’m pretty confident that with some more time (and applications) I will find it easy to forget the old Z.

There are, of course, lots of things the 5800 does better, so even if I can’t totally forget the Z, I’m sure I won’t have any regrets.

Oh well..I hang out at http://www.Nokia5800Forum.com a lot. take care all. See ya ’round.

Its so popular because consumers follow every hype. Ohhhhhh…gee wizz! look at that display.. duh :P

@ Nokia:
Now, as to the Nokia 5800, I’m dissapointed, cause at the early store sales in Europe on December 16th, they wanted to charge 106 Euro more than their announced price… At the announced price tag of 279 Euro, it was a reasonable deal. But at the higher price, it can’t compete – not even with some of Nokia’s own offerings.

Unless of course, a touchscreen is some sort of magical thing to you. To me, a touch screen is just an alteration on how to manipulate your device, it can’t replace or make up for missing features you need.

So, I’ll just buy an N82 for 200 bucks for now and call it a day. When the N97 comes out in May 2009, I’ll buy that, barring any negative surprises.