Noking out the competition?

Noking out the competition?

IT seems to have been a busy week for NOKIA - and that's no surprise when their financial state means they need to sell some phones. First up, the NOKIA 5800 is now on the COMES WITH MUSIC service SIM-free meaning you can get access to more than six million tracks to download for nowt. You'll find it all in the Nokia Music Store and £299 buys you as many entries to the virtual shop as your ears can handle for a whole year. You can even keep everything you've downloaded after that. The 5800 also allows downloads over the air as well as via a PC.

The handset is a great one and the addition of this going onto Pay As You Go is likely to prove good business for Nokia. After all, it does away with the need to buy an iPod and then pay for songs on iTunes as well. Spec-wise it has a 3.2 megapixel camera, 3D surround sound, a bass booster, eight-band graphic equaliser and an FM radio.

The Finnish firm is also launching the NOKIA N97 finally and has just put it out to pre-order. It's not cheap, in fact, you'll need a pound less than 500 quid if you want one SIM-free but that possibility is now a reality via the Nokia online shop. The touchscreen device is more like a mobile computer than a phone and it's the first to connect up to the Ovi Store to download apps, videos and the like.

It flips up to reveal a keyboard, while still staying svelte, and while there's only a five megapixel camera, you do get a whopping 32 gigabyte memory drive inside. Strangely, they've not actually said when it is coming out, but why should that stop you snapping one up. Finally, if you nip to Vodafone, you can buy a 5800 pre-loaded with Series 2 of hit comedy Gavin and Stacey.