I've previously read about the Nokia Tube at the Symbian Freak web site. Is the Nokia 5800 or popularly known as the Nokia Tube the much deserving mobile phone that will go head to head with Apple’s iPhone and HTC/Google/T-Mobile’s G1 mobile phone?

Apart from the usual multimedia mobile phone specs, what makes the Nokia 5800 mobile phone interesting is that it has a touch screen or finger touch operation and the resoluton is 640 x 360 — a lot higher that the 480 x 320 resolution of the iPhone and the recently launched Android-based T-Mobile G1 cell phone.

We might not be waiting that much longer because I read a post about it’s pending release and Symbian Freak has also published a post about the Nokia 5800 being available for pre-order already.

Still not much specs to go with except the ones below:

Measurements: 111 × 52 × 14.5 mm, and weighs only 104 grams.

16 million color TFT LCD

640 × 360 pixel resolution

16:9 display mode

Fifth edition of Symbian S60.

finger touch operation will provide vibration feedback function.

3.2 megapixel Carl Zeiss optical lens with autofocus

Dual LED flash

Built-in GPS

140 MB RAM

GSM / GPRS / EDGE / WCDMA / HSDPA / WLAN wireless networking and Bluetooth technology.

3.5 mm Headset interface

TV-out interface

BL-5J 1150mah Battery