Nokia’s new adverts in UK claims that Nokia 5800 is the new highest selling portable music player. According to GFK Retail and Technology data, the Nokia 5800 was the top device in both volume and value in Q1 of 2009 in the UK. This makes it the best selling portable music player beating even the Apple Ipod.
The touch phone has well placed itself as a phone cum mp3 player in the market. Nokia 5800’s mega success has surprised the competitors, analysts and even the manufacturers. Nokia’s CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo recently said that the sales figures for 5800 are well beyond their expectations and this device has a potential to become the most sold Nokia phone EVER.
The latest adverts in UK says it all-
‘Nokia 5800: UK’s No. 1 Selling Portable Music Player’
Meanwhile, retailers reported stock shortages on the product in UK. The manufacturer has acknowledged the initial ‘capacity’ problems with the product due to unexpected high demands. Nokia says the N5800 phone is now shipping at one million units per month globally and it now accounts for 20% of all touchscreens sold worldwide.
Nokia’s ‘comes with Music‘ service has also gained a decent user base of 23,000 so far in UK which is increasing sharply.
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009 at 5:29 am
well that is an excellent news to nokia. but please nokia fix our problem on our 5800. It has many issues on the phone. Some bugs and hangs are there. I know that it can be fix by updating firmware. Eventually u have already release an update on firmware but it is not supported on all nokia 5800 worldwide. In the latest many nokia 5800 blogs u have release a v21 but my phone 5800 can’t update the said firmware. I hope u read this comment. I am such a huge fan of your nokia phone and in all my nokia phone this 5800 gave me a problem.
Sunday, April 26th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
I had the vertical lines on LCD screen problem and the phone was sent to Nokia Care Centre, just in 24 hours the screen and earpiece replaced, good service but there’s still a lot of issues to be solved, perhaps the development of firmware update can be made open so that we all informed as the customer we are well-informed.
Monday, April 27th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Nokia doesn’t want to inform about upcoming patches, because some issues might come up and they would be forced to delay the patch, thus making customers disappointed. But believe me, there is heavy patching and new feature implemention on going all the time. And since the 5800XM is such a bit hit, it will keep getting patches for a long time.
Next “big patch” v30.xx (depending on which RC passes the tests), will contain something visually new together with Ovi Store obviously…
IMO, the phone works pretty good (firmware v21) and Nokia even could have launched the phone earlier to hit the christmas markets around the globe, because the initial release was very polished already.
Monday, April 27th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
How ironic that the Bus is located ideally outside the apple store in regent street london! Own Goal!