2009 is truly the year of innovation for the touchscreen based phones. In 2007, Apple set in motion a trend that many ignored. By introducing the ground breaking (well, not exactly) iPhone, Apple set in motion a renewed mass interest in touchscreen phones which until then were considered only novelty toys.

By 2008, rivals had realised the importance of the iPhone and Apple itself introduced a better version iPhone 3G. By end of 2008, the world’s no. 1 phone maker, Nokia, announced the 5800 XpressMusic which gave a stamp of legitimacy to the iPhone’s brand of phonomics.

Following Nokia, other makers introduced their own versions of iPhone beater phones. SonyEriccsson has released the Xperia X1, BlackBerry the Storm, Samsung the Omnia and HTC has introduced the Touch HD.

So, if you plan to checkout which phone is the best for you, here’s an article that compares the leading non-iPhone touchscreen phones on the market and gives you a lowdown of the features available with each phone. It is, then, for you to decide which one suits you the best.

I already have the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic for my entertainment . Great phone for me!

So, after returning from my vacation in India (4th Dec to 20th Jan), I came back to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. As I was preparing to leave India, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was launched there. Each day for almost 10 days in a row, I could listen to non-stop ads for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic on Radio Mirchi (93.5 FM), I was thinking at the back of my mind to atleast check that phone out once I landed in Jeddah.

So, the first thing I did on the very first weekend in Jeddah, I visited the nearest dealer on Palestine Street and asked for the Nokia 5800. To my (pleasant) surprise, the salesman said they had sold out. So, I visited the next outlet of the same dealer and he also told me of the phone being sold out. This handset was selling like hot cakes and I was afraid (and became even more determined to purchase it rather than see it!) that I might not see it for the whole of January.

Anyway, I decided to call it a day after visiting about 10 dealer shops and not being able to find a single piece to look at.

So, on the following Sunday, I glanced an ad for a hypermarket (HyperPanda) advertising the 5800 at a very exclusive price valid for 4 days. I decided to visit the market with a friend. Even though I expected to return empty handed, I found my phone. And I asked him to pack it up in about 5 minutes! That’s all the time I took to order that phone!

So, I am now the proud owner of a great phone; the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic! The phone came with 100 preloaded songs (both English and Arabic). I really missed out on purchasing the phone in India since that would have brought me a collection of 200 songs (English & Hindi).

So, now my collection of phones include (newest first): Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N82, Nokia N81, Nokia N73 Music Edition.

Before anybody says anything, I will tell you that all these phone are with my family. I have with me the 5800 and the N81 at the moment. Both are excellent phones. I am on the look out for a free GPS navigation software for the 5800. So, if you happen to have any info regarding this, please drop your comments.

Nokia has finally unveiled it’s much touted iPhone rival device earlier code-named the ‘Tube’. The new device is the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The phone has a 3.2″ touchscreen device and is intended to be more of a multimedia device as is evident with it’s positioning (under the XpressMusic brand) in Nokia’s lineup.

Incidentally, today has been quite stressful for me. At work, I had to deal with very stupid people and actually work with them (sic.).

In the evening, I was looking out for a used car and when I did find an interesting ad, I took up my N82 (which was lying on the table) and started to dial the number on the ad when I noticed the phone wasn’t working.

This was quite surprising for me and so I checked it. I plugged in for charging. No activity. I took out the battery and then put it back in and tried turning it on. Nothing. I, took out the battery again and tried plugging in the charger and turning on the handset. Still nothing. I get dressed (as fast as possible, I assume you can understand that!) and run to the road and catch a taxi and head down to the store from where I purchased it (it was, luckily, less than a mile from my home).

Widely believed to be the successors to the extremely popular N73 and the music oriented N81, Nokia has unveiled the N79 and the N85 phones.

The Nokia N79

Fresh out of Beta Labs at Nokia is an excellent application called Step Counter. Before I talk about what this application does (many of you may already be aware of what it does but I’ll explain it anyways), I would like to tell you that Step Counter only works on Accelerometer enabled Nokia phones which are: N95-1 (Original release version), N95-2 (8GB) and the N82.

If you remember, the accelerometer is used to switch the screen to portrait or landscape in these devices.

I have finally managed to purchase one of the coolest phones around with some of the most wanted features ever to grace a Smartphone.

The Nokia N82 Black Edition

On the night of 20th August 2008, I visited the nearby Haddad Telecom store (an authorized Nokia dealership chain) and after much contemplation and comparison between the Nokia N95 8GB and the Nokia N82, I decided to go for the latter (when I say much contemplation and blah blah blah, please understand that I made the store executive go crazy!).

Nokia PC Suite v7.0 is now available for download from Nokia. It is the first major version release since v6.0 so expect good amount of improvements in it. It supports majority of Nokia’s phones.

Nokia has cut prices of many of its phones by up to 10 per cent, with the steepest cuts in music and media phones, according to market data and industry sources.

Naa, this ain’t about any upcoming movie… It’s about the classic Nokia Snakes Game being played on a Building…! Absolutely Hillarious video. A must watch People! What I was pondering upon was how did they really manage to pull this one off. It’s from Japan. They really are intelligent