Nokia X5 Arrives in India; Priced at Rs. 10,499

Five months after its unveiling, the Nokia X5 is finally hitting our shores. The X5 slider phone looks like a cross between a Nokia E series smartphone and an XpressMusic handset. Nokia X5 is on sale for Rs. 10,499.

It sports a 5 megapixel camera with LED Flash, 2.36 inch QVGA display and a slide out QWERTY keypad. Storage is covered by a 200 MB internal memory and bundled 2 GB microSD memory card.

The phone sports dedicated music keys, and comes with a year's worth of unlimited music from Ovi Music. Nokia X5 music oriented features include a built in 'Surprise me!' option that plays random tracks when the phone is spun around. 'Playlist DJ' feature allows playlist creation tools. When music is not playing, you can shake the phone to see the number of new SMSes in the Inbox.

It runs the same Symbian Series 60 OS found on the E-series smartphones, which gives access to slew of social networking services. Connectivity options include Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and USB 2.0. Nokia X5's battery is claimed to last 16-days on standby and gives 24 hours of music playback.

Mobile Updates : Nokia N85 Firmware v20.175

Nokia has just rolled out a new firmware for the Nokia N85, one of the best handset in the Nseries lineup. The v20.175 firmware, up from v11, brings in bug fixes and improvements along with the standby email plugin to show your emails on the standby screen. Other additions include turning controls which now allows you to flip to silence incoming calls alarms, internet telephony set up and an email wizard to setup your Nokia Email or Nokia Messaging.

Samsung S8300 Ultra Touch or Nokia N97...??

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Nokia N97

Nokia N96 for Rs. 40,000?

The Nokia spokesperson (India) has just confirmed with us that the N96 will priced between Rs. 32,000 and 35,000.


The iPhone killer hopeful, Nokia's N96 is officially out of the box. It comes loaded with features, and a rather heavy price tag of EUR 550 (around Rs. 43,000) excluding taxes!

The N96 features a 2.8-inch display, as well as a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. It also offers live TV, turn-by-turn voice navigation, 16GB of internal memory that can be increased to 24GB with an optional microSD card, superior sound and music, as well as N-Gage gaming.

Feature-rich? Sure! Value for money? No way! But then again, which latest drool-worthy gadget is nowadays? The N96 sure looked drool-worthy when it was introduced, but the price looks set to bury a fan's excitement.




The N96 is expected to turn out to be yet another dampener for Indians those still mourning the price of Apple's iPhone 3G in this part of the world, where it was launched with a logic-defying 30K plus price tag.

However unlikely it may seem, we hope Nokia will reduce the announced price for their new phone.

As for the pricing of this phone here, we haven't been able to get in touch with Nokia India, as yet. In the meantime, check out this unboxing video for the N96.