Nokia Tube – more details revealed

According to blog site Symbian Freak, who’ve wangled a hands on with the touchscreen Nokia, it’ll come packing Symbian’s S60 Touch, as predicted.

The 16:9 screen will be bigger than the 3in offering on the iPhone, but this won’t be the complete rival to Apple we’ve all ben hoping for. That’s coming soon after the Tube’s launch, apparently.

This means we’re not looking at an N–series phone, rather an ‘Xpress Media’ one which will sit alongside the Xpress Music cells released last year.

Features–wise, the Tube is certainly stacked. We’re talking EDGE, GPRS, HSDPA, WLAN, Bluetooth and GPS. The screen however, won’t be multitouch, but rather the haptic approach favoured by Samsung.

If you want one, you’re going to have to wait until Q1 2009, which should place around the time of next year’s Mobile World Congress. It’s also come out that the name is likely to change once it gets official.

Check out how we broke the news of the Nokia Tube yesterday.

Essentials

Nokia Tube

Price: £Q1 2009

On sale: 2008

Contact: Nokia

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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