A day later than expected, the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music is officially here in the US. After a false alarm at their NY and Chicago stores yesterday where they got the phones in, but didn’t actually begin selling them, the phones are now officially on the shelves.

Nokia delves into the touchscreen market with a music smart phone that many people have been looking forward to. While not really up to the iPhone like lots of people were hoping for when it was first being talked about, its reviews seem pretty positive.

It has 8 GB of memory which lets you store up to 6000 tracks and also supports all of the big digital music formats. You’ve got the 3.5-mm jack, and surround sound stereo speakers. The XpressMusic gives you quick access to music (as well as videos and photos) through the “Media Bar.” You can also use the Media Bar to link directly to the Web.

Implementing the latest S60 OS, the touch screen is a 3.2-inch widescreen with a 16:9 aspect ratio. You also have a 3.2 megapixel camera featuring a Carl Zeiss lens. You can do one touch photo uploads as well, which is handy. Users get a few input methods to choose from – the QWERTY keyboard, the virtual alphanumeric keypad, or a pen stylus. You can even use a guitar pick if that is your thing.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic , the one with “Comes with Music” service, has hit a landmark event. One million Nokia 5800s have been shipped around the world. The phone has also just been released in the UK.

It took Nokia four months to reach the million mark; the 5800 XpressMusic was released in October of 2008. It only took the original iPhone 74 days to hit one million, and one weekend for the iPhone 3G to accomplish the same feat. Like many phone manufacturers, Nokia entered the touchscreen phone market after Apple changed the game. The 5800 is their first major attempt at a touchscreen phone.

Nokia will soon be launching its “Comes With Music” service to the UK market. The music service will provide users of specific Nokia handsets with one year of unlimited access to the Nokia Music Store catalog. Good news is, users can keep all downloaded tracks for more than one year. To kick off the opening of the “Comes With Music” service, Nokia has enlisted Carphone Warehouse in UK to offer the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic “Comes With Music” edition. According to Nokia, lucky users who will buy the Nokia 5310 will get “unprecedented freedom” to find and listen to music from the Nokia Music Store catalog.

Its been quite a while since Nokia had first announced 5610 XpressMusic phone, almost a year to be exact, but some good news for T-Mobile users it looks like they will soon be able to grab one. The handset was originally expected to be available back in June, but was then pushed back to July more »

Nokia has announced the new 5220 and 5320 XpressMusic phones offering affordable music and entertainment experiences for loyal Nokia fans. Both handsets works with the recently launched Nokia Music Store where users can easily download music tracks.

The first of these two phones being the higher-end model is the 3G capable 5320 handset. This Nokia 5320 boasts of a voice-controlled say and play feature which is a voice-activated command for playing music. Aside from this, the Nokia 5320 also has a dedicated key for the XpressMusic menu, a 3.5 mm audio jack, up to 24-hours of audio playback time, Hi-Fi sound, memory card slot for storage expansion, USB 2.0 for transferring music and HSDPA for data access. Accentuating its HSDPA feature are some quick access keys for various Nokia web mobile products and services, that includes the Ovi portal, Nokia mobile search engine and the N-Gage for downloading mobile games.

We recently saw the FCC approval come through for the Nokia 5610 and now have some better details thanks to the Nokia Forums. This version is however not the one that will be released here in the US, but instead the WCDMA 850/2100 European model. The Nokia 5610 is a 3G capable phone that features: more »

The Nokia 5610 XpressMusic has just gotten its approval from the FCC. A mid-range slider style phone that is music-centric, the 5610 is an upgrade to the current 5310. Improvements include a better camera, now at 3-megapixels and up to 18-20 hours of music playback. No word on pricing, availability date or carriers. Possibly this more »