Good news: There is a new firmware update released for Nokia 5800 today. This latest firmware version is v31.0.101. The update is available via Nokia Software Updater (NSU) and Over-The-Air (OTA) for some product codes.

Bad News: The update is a minor one (like the previous update) with no big improvements and no official changelog. The update fixes few minor bugs and some speed improvement is also noticed. But of course, there is still no sign of the kinetic scrolling or widgetized homescreen. Check the product codes list below and see if the update is available for you. Read more »

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The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone is a great platform for board games. We’ve covered and recommended some of them here on Tube5800. In this article, we’d like to show you another mind-bending game that has been a staple in simple toys for years. Perhaps you had this one when you were a kid. But now, you can enjoy it in yourphone – a game simply called Fifteen Touch from OffScreen Technologies.

Fifteen is a simple game where the object is to arrange the fifteen red and flesh-colored squares which are numbered from one to fifteen in the game board in successive order. Problem is that the squares are all jumbled up. How do we arrange them in proper order? You slide the squares vertically and horizontally until you get them in their proper place. Read more »

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Nokia marketing team is in full swing and bringing amazing offers every other day for their fans. This time Nokia guys have teamed up with the UK based News of the world and they bring for you a chance to meet the gorgeous Cheryl Cole. Cheryl was in the top 10 of FHM’s 100 sexiest women in the world ‘09 and is one of the hottest English celebrity today.

One lucky winner of this contest and his/her two mates will meet Cheryl Cole in person on the set of her new video- ‘3 Words’ with William. The prize includes travel to the shoot in London, from one UK or ROI address and one night’s accommodation in a London hotel. Plus you could also win 1 of 25 Nokia 5800 Comes With Music phones courtesy of T-Mobile. Read more »

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Heres another chance to win Nokia 5800s- Everyday! Nokia Music has some music riddles for you daily and if you are the first one to solve that, a shiny Nokia 5800 is your prize together with the comes with music subscription.

Nokia Music has teamed up with riddle partners like Rock Sound and London Electricity who will challenge you in their twitter feeds daily with a music riddle. Check out after the break how you can participate, the eligibility criteria and the contest rules. Read more »

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With our 5800s selling in bucketloads everywhere, its been hard differentiating our 5800s from others. While you can always customize your phones with different wallpapers and homescreens, there is no telling them apart when the phones are locked. How about customizing the way you lock/unlock yourphone? Sounds cool right? So thought our friend Yuelongr with his application- MyKeyLock v1.1.7.

Yuelongr is adding a whole new dimension to how 5800ers can customize their phones and stand out in the crowd. Eager to know what MyKeyLock can do? Hit on the jump button for screenshots and a demo video. Read more »

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If anyone were to ever ask us whats sorely missing in our 5800s, we would say the absence of a powerful media player with extended capabilities that go beyond playing music files and displaying album art. One thing we sorely missing in the present symbian music player is the genre specific shuffle and catering exactly to this need is the latest music app in ovi store- Playlist DJ.

While the shuffle mode of the player is satisfactory for random playback of pre-loaded tracks, an intelligent shuffle tool that can shortlist tracks depending on our mood can go a long way in extending the music capabilities of our 5800s. Does Playlist DJ fill in the void in the symbian music player? Hit the jump button to find out. Read more »

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Sudoku, the classic paper based game has been adapted on to our 5800s since long and guess what, it just got better, wait way better! Gameloft have released the updated version of best selling electronic Sudoku game- Platinum Sudoku to v2.

Sudoku as you may know consists of 9×9 grid made up of nine 3×3 matrices. The objective of the game is to fill in the grid such that each matrix has numerals 1-9, such that no numeral is repeated either within the matrix and along that respective row and column. Doesn’t that make up for an exciting puzzle? No wonder the puzzle has a huge fan following and is one of the most popular electronic games in the web today. We have been hunting for that perfect Sudoku client for our 5800s and had adjudged Sensible Sudoku as the winner when it was first launched a couple of quarters ago. Will Platinum Sudoku 2 dislodge Sensible Sudoku from the coveted title? Read further to find out. Read more »

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Furtiv! What Furtiv? This is exactly the question that popped into our mind when we first heard about it from our friends over at AAS. Furtiv is a service which adds more artillery to the armor of Share Online and though the service is still in public beta, the lure of linking Share Online with some of the most popular networking services of facebook, twitter to name a few was more than that was needed for us to testride it on our 5800s.

Before we dwell into more details, we should highlight that this service from Furtiv is in direct competition with Pixelpipe, which we had earlier called a “gem of an application” when we reviewed it a couple of months ago. Can furtiv has in it what it takes to beat a powerhouse like Pixelpipe? Lets find out after the break. Read more »

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" The most notable event this time is Vopium hitting the Nokia Ovi store. Availability of Vopium at Ovi means Nokia users can now take full advantage of Vopium’s award winning application to save big on their international calling needs.

We are also running promotion on all the call packages making it cheapest ever calling solution available. Take for example, our “Reach Out” package which offers 2000 minutes in 0.6p making it just 1 cent per minute call to 49 popular destinations in the world including USA, UK, Australia, France, Germany, Italy and other Far Eastern countries.

Our other packages like “Call India” offers 1.5 p/min call, “Call Turkey” offers 1.2 p/min call and “Call Pakistan” offers 2.4 p/min call. " said Vopium

To take advantage of significantly cheaper international mobile phone calls, all Nokia phone users need to do is simply download Vopium in one click via the Ovi Store on the handset or from the web based solution on www.ovi.com. Once downloaded, users will be able to create a Vopium account and immediately start calling international numbers, saving up to 90% on their traditional operator rates. All new users will receive 30 free minutes and 30 free international text messages (SMS) to any country in the world.

“Vopium on Nokia Ovi Store extends our commitment to offering all mobile users cheap, high quality international calls, said Tanveer Sharif, CEO of Vopium. “Vopium aims to help users to communicate across the globe and the Nokia Ovi Store application combined with our applications on iPhone, BlackBerry and Android helps us to bring this vision to life.”

Vopium’s award winning technology takes advantage of 3G, GSM and WiFi networks, and automatically re-routes calls via the cheapest available route enabling customers to save money when calling international numbers. Vopium users can also send low-cost international text messages using the standard Nokia SMS interface. Once downloaded, the Vopium application seamlessly integrates with the address book and intelligently recognises international numbers. When an international number is dialed, the call is made using the cheapest method available whilst also preserving the highest level of call quality.

Vopium on OviStore

Sign up for Vopium to get Cheap Calls & SMS around the World

Losing sleep over malware attacks and theft of your 5800? Fret not, for now we have a solution for all your security needs of your phone in the form of F-Secure Mobile Security 5.

F-Secure is one of the most trusted names in the security business when it comes to mobile platforms, where the number of players is very limited. With our smartphones becoming increasingly reliant on the web with carriers now providing seamless connectivity over high speed 3G data access points, malware and virus attacks are not uncommon in smartphones today. Hit on the jump button to know how F-Secure can shield your 5800 from these attacks. Read more »

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Yeah thats Nell McAndrews and yes she is sporting only a 5800 and a pair of sneakers in this shot and no we didn’t switch to covering glamour models in our blog. It just happens that the Lara Croft model of the last decade- Nell took part in the UK Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon held on 11th October in London, donning the Nokia kit comprising of Nokia 5800 Comes With Music loaded with Nokia Sports Tracker.

The London Marathon started from Hyde Park and cover ed some of the most famous landmarks in London including: The London Eye, Marble Arch and The Royal Albert Hall in a 13.1 mile run. Eww! We know thats a lot, but hey joggers gotta see Nell in action too! Read more »

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Great news for users in India, Nokia is offering 100 free tracks during the festive season of Diwali. These tracks range from the following sections – Bollywood/South/Devotional and other miscellaneous. To avail this offer, you need to log on to http://music.nokia.co.in . If you are logging on for the first time, the website would require you to download and install Nokia Music 1.3 software. After downloading and installing the same, re-login to the site. Sign up for a UserId at the site and remember that you can open one account per mobile number. Once you have signed up, navigate to the home page and click on the “100 Free Tracks” banner. This will bring up the free tracks page which will list all the tracks that are free. They actually have a specified list of 100 free tracks that are spread across languages spoken in south and north india. You can download any song any number of times absolutely free of cost. As per my understanding they have listed some very recent song releases for download.

Have you ever used animated theme on Nokia 5800? You may used some need 3rd part plug-in installed to support the flash or gif animation, all of those theme are pretty occupy memory and slow down system memory, also it's not very steady, cuz it needs to use 3rd part plug-in.

However today, we received an unique & exclusive animated theme from MMMOOO(our nice app provider, who developed the rocketing MyPhone), the Street Fever animated theme, it generates more than 70000 downloads in 2 weeks at Ovi store. The theme is a non need 3rd part plug-in animated theme, and the animation will change in every 20 minutes from Orange to Blue with sequentially changing of colors. You will not see the real time animation, but you can see now it's orange, a few minutes later it's lite orange or deep blue, pretty cool!

Below is the file from MMMOOO on my 5800:

Features from Ovi description:

• The vivid animation will change it's color in every 20 minutes.
• It has UNIQUE high animated tech inside from MMMOOO, the No.1 theme provider worldwide.
• Use SVG elements, a theme wont drag the operation speed.
• The Theme is compatible well with All S60 models with 3rd, 5th platform

You may download the theme file directly at our blog here with proudly Nokia5800.net certified mark, or you can download it from the Ovi store.

Nokia has released Live TV 1.1 for the Nokia 5800 via Application Update. It is 3772 KB in size. Nokia Live TV allows you to view TV channels on you phone. However, it is not so simple as it seems. You need an extra accessory for Nokia Live TV. It is the Nokia Mobile TV Receiver SU-33W. You need to buy this accessory and connect to it with your phone using Bluetooth. With Nokia Mobile TV Receiver SU-33W, you can receive DVB-H mobile TV broadcasting via Bluetooth on Nokia 5800. You can watch all your favorite TV programs and channels on the move. You can receive phone calls while you are watching Mobile TV on Nokia 5800.

I was really glad when I first bought my Nokia 5800. One of the reasons was the fact that I got a free Zip Manager software from Nokia which made it so easy to decompress zip files and extract them. One of the problems I faced was decompressing the RAR files. I could not find single Symbian software which decompressed RAR files. As my last option, I used to rely on some java applications that did decompress the RAR files but most of the times it was with errors and took a long time which a number of prompts asking you to allow access to the application.

Bowman2, which is like the most popular flash based game on the PC/Mac platform has arrived on our 5800 and boy we couldn’t wait to get our hands on it and once we did we assure you that we made good use of it (3 hrs of gameplay at a stretch!).

If you haven’t really tried this game before, we suggest you straightaway head over to this gaming portal and get some hands on experience on the PC/Mac platform before installing this game on your 5800s (which we are most certain you will!). The flash game is yet another successful port from the PC/Mac platform to s60v5. Hit the jump button for screenshots and a brief review. Read more »

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Augmented Reality Apps which has been the flavour of this season in the iTunes App Store have finally arrived on our 5800 as well. As we have been saying since long, our 5800 is no lesser than iPhone by any standards. Proving our point is the latest app in ovi store- Mobnotes.

Mobnotes is an augmented reality app which lets users update their status on popular networking services of Twitter and Facebook along with showing the location of friends in a live map. As one can expect from a augmented reality app, the app can help users find places of interest in the vicinity of users. Hit the jump button for screenshots and more details. Read more »

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Sometimes while working on the PC or laptop, you tend to forget your phone until it is someone calling you. If there is a sms, the notification is not much longer or significant to attract your attention. In such cases, it is really nice to have some application that notifies you in real time of any sms that you receive on your phone through a pop-up on your computer.

Nokia PC Suite notifies the user on the computer if your connected phone receives any sms or call only when you are connected via cable or Bluetooth. It still does not have a WiFi support for connecting to the phone. WiFi SMS is an interesting application further exploring the capabilities of Nokia 5800. WiFi SMS application once connected to your phone via WiFi, notifies of any sms that you receive real time and also provides you with an option to reply to it.

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From phone to digital clock.

Many programmers around that world have taken advantage of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phones’ built-in features. Unknown to many, when you purchase this gadget, it comes with some very valuable accessories that are usually sold separately – earphones, rubber casing and an extra stencil. One intriguing in particular is a phone stand which works just like the ones used to display plates on tables. OffScreen Technologies found a way to use this miniscule accessory and turn it into a necessity with the Night Stand.

What is the Night Stand application?

The Night Stand application turns your Nokia 5800 phone into a digital clock. The application displays time in hour, minute and second and is in a military time format. No AM or PM here. Below it displays the day of the week.

Most of the time, we are stuck in situations like boring meetings, boring get-togethers etc when we really fall short of excuses for an ultimate escape. This is where Bye Bye Caller comes into picture. Bye Bye Caller is an application that allows you to receive fake calls on your phone.

Bye Bye Caller is an innovative application which may find a lot of utility among people. It has a simple mechanism. You can set the time interval after which you wish to receive the call. You can even set the operator name that displays on your home screen when the fake call comes. You can specify the name of the person calling. You can set the ringtone volume and the vibration option and you can even set your home screen backlight to blink when the call comes.

Another deal comes to us from Dell, but this time, it’s the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic at $224.99 + Free Shipping after $30 off Coupon Code: 9K78JTP99FW1FP. This deal will expire on 10/14. All you need to do is go to Dell Small Business and look for item #: A2489032 and use the coupon code above.

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Nokia 5530 XpressMusic vs. 5800 XpressMusic: What’s the device for the masses?

When the our iPhone killer- Nokia 5800 was first launched, we remember a considerable chunk of critics pointing out to the absence of avid third party applications. Its been around a year since the launch now and not only has the 5800 silenced the critics with its stellar sales of around 8 million worldwide, but the developer community has welcomed the new platform with open arms.

While we have been covering apps from biggies like SBSH, MMMOOO, Offscr, ThinkChange, SPB, etc, individual developers are also coming up with indigenous solutions. One such game is Memory Challenge by our friend Neil from Ireland who has designed a fun little memory game, the kinda which you would have played sometime or the other. Hit the jump button for screenshots and a brief review. Read more »

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Does Nokia always punish early adopters? Thats the question almost every geek who has ever owned a Nokia device would have asked himself atleast with one of their products. While the saga of Internet tablets from Nokia is a classical example of the Finnish company being hard on early adopters, our very own 5800 hasn’t been spared either.

Nokia 5800, which was Nokia’s first touch screen device was also the first to feature the symbian fifth edition (s60 v5) OS. While s60 v5 has steadily matured into its present version, the number of devices featuring the OS has also increased over the last year. Nokia now has as many as 3 other (5530, N97, X6) models under its s60 v5 hood, all of which feature marginally improved features in the phone OS. Read more »

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At last, a FREE converter!

Your Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone is more than just a hi-tech gadget. It is a great platform to roll out meaningful applications. One such application that we recommend is the Converter Touch application brought to us by OffScreen Technologies.

What is the Converter Touch application?

The Converter application is a sleek program that lets you do conversion between two different units of measure specifically between the English and Metric methods of measurement (or vice-versa).

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Let's play checkers.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has been a great phone to enjoy traditional board games. One of these games is Checkers that you can now play for FREE.

What is Checkers?

Checkers is a board game that is played on an 8×8 board with 12 pieces on each side. We can’t explain in detail how the game is played. But, generally, the goal is to capture all the pieces of your opponent through moving your pieces diagonally.

When you launch the game, you are greeted with a wonderfully crafted checkers game board. You can see the board and its pieces in 3D. They look so real with the addition of some slight shadows.

At the lower left corner, you will see a big “I” which will transport you to another screen that has a simple Help screen. This includes text such as “How to Play”, “About the Game” and Usage and Copyright” text. At the lower right corner, you will see a big “X” which ends the application.

The game asks you “Who goes first?” which looks like a button. Instinctively, you will tap on this. A random decision will be made. You can be the first to move or the computer. If you don’t like the decision, you can always tap on the “Restart” button.

Also, please remember that you are the white piece and the computer is red. You cannot choose which color piece you can become. Sorry to those who love red.

To move your piece, choose the piece you want. There will be a blue glow on the piece you chose. Then, pick the square you will place your piece. Afterwards, it’s the computer’s turn. Just play the game just like you would on the real checkerboard.

Who's winning?

My Take on Checkers

I love board games and I believe that the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone is a fine platform to do these types of games.

I admire the realness of the gameboard and its pieces. However, I think the pieces are too small. It would be best that you use the stylus that comes with the phone when playing this game.

I would have liked it if there was any animation especially when moving your piece from one square to another. Just a simple sliding movement would do. Also, there weren’t any sound effects, which would have made the game more entertaining.

One simple tweak would have been to let the player choose which color piece he wants (red or white). Maybe it’s because of the programming but it would have been a good option. And make it a two-player game as well.

My Verdict

For avid checker players, this game can provide hours of challenging play. I would recommend it as part of your game roster in your Nokia 5800 phone.

The Checkers game can be downloaded for FREE HERE at the Ovi Store. Just register to access the site. You can also download this application straight to your Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone by installing the Ovi Store Application.

Nokia App: Today Touch

Trivia at your fingertips.

Ever wondered what it happened on a particular day on a certain year? With all the significant events that have happened in the past, is there a way for me to find out what they are quickly and efficiently? Now you can with OffScreen’s newest application simply called “Today Touch.”

What is Today Touch?

Today Touch is a simple, intuitive and lite application that you can install in your Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. The Today application is your one-stop program that contains most of the significant events that have happened in the past years. Think of it as your personal trivia program.