Nokia 5800 XpressMusic price jump from €279 to €429
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has to win awards for how long can you wait for a mobile phone, it seems like a distant memory when we were writing about the Nokia touchscreen phone called ‘the tube’ but yet we are still waiting for release dates in the UK.
But if you live in Spain then the official release date for the Nokia 5800 is December 1. So for all you music hungry smartphone addicts in Spain your wait will seen be over, or will it? The price might shock you.
Originally we head that the 5800 XpressMusic would be available 279 Euros, but suddenly Nokia have release a new higher price of 429 Euros, wow that’s $550 a jump of 150 Euros.
With the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic you will get a 3.2 megapixel camera, chose the handset in either red or black, 3.2 inch touch-screen with hapic feedback, a SD card which supports up to 16GB of music that Nokia allows you to download for free and lots of fun games.
Question has to be, is the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic worth the 429 Euros? With phones out from Research in Motion like the BlackBerry Storm and the forever popular Apple iPhone can Nokia really entice consumers with prices like this? Let phonesreview know your opinion of the XpressMusic in Spain?
Source: engadget
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8 thoughts on “Nokia 5800 XpressMusic price jump from €279 to €429”
this is crazy and a marketing disaster, i have been waiting for this phone since the oct 2 launch but i am sure i will not buy at the 400+ eur price. add to that nokia 5800 does not have capacitive touch like iphone and tmobile g which makes it even tougher for nokia to crack the touchscreen market the way they would have liked to.
i can tell u nokia did manage to grab a lot of interest due to the low price announced earlier, but such gimmicks will leave consumers with a bad taste for future announcement, i can believe a company of size of nokia gooffed up pricing so big time
adios nokia tube 5800 before it arrive
thanks,
Dennis
Hey dennis, same as I! Was waiting for it since the announcement… 280 seemed to be a reasonable price, but fellas, 430 is a 150 jump that NONE taxes could pump that much.
So, Nokia, Adios! Sorry… $430EU is $550US and for $500 i can get IPhone, the phone that i didn want to trade my old Nokia to… Seems that i´ll be tradeing my old nokia phone for and appel…
Bad bad move Nokia….
i sware this is stupid move on the part of nokia to raise the prices…im sure the sales will reduce tremendously…in a situation of world economic recession,,no one will want to pay such a high price…even i had been waiting for this phone a long time..but im not if d price is raised so much,i will prefer 2 buy it…der r many more touchscreens available…fr cheaper rates
I have been waiting for it. Intended to buy 2 as my daughter was pushing. As a result of new price she got her… iPhone. I am now considering i908 from Samsung. Too bad.
i cant buy me a nokia 5800 4 anything less than 300euro wat the heck is nokia thinking…any they just lost a sale and will lose many more…am off to get me an Apple
Well… so far i read that nokia is doing this price to the launch and every country will have their own price, so, other countrys can, and will, do a diferent price… so, this $100EU that you can by things on nokia store wont be happening in other places… they also said that this is due the black market sales, to stop it…
lets see…
hey 450 euros for the tube aint worth at all!! i guess u cud buy an htc touch HD for dat amount. anyways ive got notin to complain abt cus the 5800 costs 1500 saudi riyals which is equivalent to 250 euros….
hey shakeel,
where did u buy the 5800 in KSA? i’ve been looking for a gud place to buy it in riyadh….i’m thinking electro or extra? theres best buy here too..but i usually trust the former 2 stores.