Canadian wireless provider Rogers will soon offer the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic handset, if we believe the billboard advertising displayed below. The ad, located at a ‘The Source’ retail store in Ottawa, is reported to be one of many placed across the provider’s locations throughout Canada.

Nokia 5800 has been available in Europe, North American and other markets for a little while, but it has yet to receive carrier support in Canada. That may soon be changing if the Tube phone tie its knots with Rogers. Read more »

Nimbuzz, a popular chat client and social messenger recently got updated for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Now the good folks at Nimbuzz are giving away 3 brand new Nokia 5800s if you take an online survey with them.

Nimbuzz says about the survey, “With this survey we would like to find out more about you, the hyper-connected and super social Nimbuzz users out there. What impact did Nimbuzz have in your life? As an incentive for spending 5 minutes to complete the survey we are giving away 3 brand new Nokia 5800s at random to 3 lucky winners.” Read more »

ProfiMail is an application for your everyday life. It is a powerful email client and communication solution for your Nokia 5800 device. It allows you to read your mail on go, and send text with attachments directly from your device.

Its an excellent alternative for default e-mail application as it offers more advanced features, a more efficient interface with zero wasted space and speedier operation over all. You can also use ProfiMail for being in touch with your friends, who use e-mail on a desktop computer. For example, you can send photos taken with phone camera immediately. Read more »

Nokia’s eagerly awaited ‘Ovi Store‘ launched today with a start from Australia, followed by few other countries. Those who have no clue what the Ovi Store is, its an on-device mobile application marketplace for applications, themes, ringtones, widgets, and other content for Nokia cell phones. In short, it’s Nokia’s very own version of Apple’s App Store.

Initial reports came from Australia few hours back where the Ovi Store found first available on multiple Australian carriers. And now it seems its also live in Ireland, Singapore and Spain. The buzz has started with this soft launch and the store is expected to be available globally in next few hours/days. Read more »

A new Flash Lite version is available for Nokia 5800 phones. Adobe and Nokia have updated Flash Lite to v3.1. You won’t have to wait for firmware updated to get it. Simply use that App update utility to install it.

The update brings improved web browsing, smoother videos, better handling of images, streaming MP3 support and overall much better flash rendering performance. Read more »

We sometimes need to write a quick note, phone number, reminder, etc. urgently but don’t find the pen or paper near us when we need the most. Does that happen with you too? If yes, this is the application for you.

ScratchPad is a free application for Nokia 5800 that turns your phone into a notepad. With it, you can take a note by simply writing on the phone display like a paper notepad. You can also turn pages or tear a page. Simple and quick. Read more »

A week ago Nokia announced the ‘Comes With Music’ service coming on Nokia 5800 via Orange in UK. And now the news out is it will also be available ‘unlocked’ starting May-22 for just £299. The SIM-free version of the handset will initially be available at Nokia T5, Nokia Regent Street, as well as at Nokia’s online store.

You can also have an impressive 50% off if you are among the first 100 customers who will reach the Nokia’s Regent Street store in London between 12 noon and 1pm on 22nd May. You just need to bring an old mobile handset of any brand as well as one MP3 player (including ipod) to exchange them with the handset. Read more »

We are glad to announce today the winners of the MyPhone contest. The contest was highly successful with immense response to the ‘MyPhone Exceeding Iphone’ application from all of you.

Hundreds of people participated via the comments and a lot of them doubled their chance of winning by also subscribing to the email updates. All email subscribers are counted twice while picking the winners. Check your name in the winners list if you participated in the contest. Read more »

Par 72 Golf by RESETgame is a realistic 3D golf game with three 18 hole courses. The simulation game features hills, water, sand traps, and sloping greens. Over the river and around the bunker, on to the sloping green, perfect your swing and aim for the flag in Par 72 golf for your Nokia 5800.

Par 72 Golf presents the player with a 3D perspective view of the fairway which is dotted with hills, water, sand traps, trees, cacti, and other environmental elements–fairly standard fare for mobile golf games of this sort. A zoomable overhead view of the course is also provided. Read more »

Checkers is a widget based game for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The game supports both Portrait and Horizontal modes and works pretty well. As you might have guessed, this widget allows you to play checkers on your phone, simple as that.

The latest version of Checkers even supports vibration feedback, for a more exciting gameplay. The game is a freeware, i.e its completely free full version game, not a demo or trial. Read more »