Looks like our friends in the North America just got lucky for Nokia has now officially launched the Navigation Edition of Nokia 5800 in the land of McDonalds and Walmarts.

Along with the chrome bezel along its rim, the navigation edition of Nokia 5800 comes with lifetime license of voice-guided drive and walk navigation in the North Americas (USA and Canada) and an auto kit consisting of Nokia Car Charger (DC-4), Car Holder Pack (CR-103), Rotating swivel adaptor (AD-69) and Easy Mount (HH-17). Looks sweet right and we haven’t even mentioned the price yet. At US $299 and a further $50 mail-in rebate on signing up for an Ovi account, this is one of the must haves for the Americans, this holiday season. Read more »

Who says being a Dad is all about stress and sacrifices? It can be fun too and thanks to Nokia for bringing out a game based on Ovi Maps in the form of Dad’s Car, parenting is all the more appealing and fun.

Dad’s Cab and Ovi Maps synchronisation and we say parenting is fun with this app. Sounds pretty much confusing for a 5800 game, right? You must be wondering, “what does this game do after all?” Well for the starters its a game/app for Dad’s who often ferry their kids to school in their cars and it makes the drive all the more entertaining with Dads acting as cab drivers and charging the kids for the ferry service. Ofcourse, the kids cannot pay in cash but they can pay via certain good deeds. Sounds interesting, right? If you are a parent, you would probably want to hit the read button to get a glimpse of the screenshots and a brief review. Others might give this a miss for this app is not meant to appeal to teenagers and bachelors. Read more »

This one came rather a month too late but better late than ever. Story of Michael Jackson is a small e-book describing the life story of King of Pop by a fan. Developed by EyeMags, this the best tribute, 5800ers can pay to one of the best entertainers of our times.

In case you were wondering, you would have to read a tome to learn about Michael Jackson, you are in for luck as EyeMags are no strangers to limitations imposed by mobile devices on applications and have packed the bio-graphy in just 9 pages, yeah just 9 pages. Wanna see some screenshots before you jump to get the app? Hit on the read button. Read more »

The last few days we have been pretty busy catching up with the application updates on our 5800s, needless to say with hundred odd applications that we have on our 5800s, it’s by no means an easy task. However, it gives us great joy to play around with the latest apps and we deem its our duty to keep our readers updated with the latest apps as well.

Two of the most popular 5800 apps, which we are sure are installed on every 5800 out there in the market today- Google Maps and Ovi store client were updated recently. Hit on the jump button to see what new features these updates bring to your 5800s. Read more »

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In case you were wondering where our good ol’ friends from MMMOOO disappeared, we have some good news for you. They were not on a long holiday as you might have guessed but they were working overnight to enhance the usability of 5800s’ best selling application- MyPhone v2.4.

If you have been following the developments of MMMOOO, you should be knowing that MyPhone v2.4 was released almost a fortnight ago at the MMMOOO shop and no we were not sleeping, we were busy working with the MMMOOO guys to update the Tube5800 version of your favorite 5800 app. There were a couple of bugs as well, which we were working on and in case you are already have a license of MyPhone, you may face some problems on updating. Please refer to the MMMOOO blog for troubleshooting. By now its well known that the folks at MMMOOO add a few cool  features to MyPhone with every update. So what have they added this time around? Let’s find out, after the break though. Read more »

Twitter, which is probably the most happening networking cum micro-blogging service went mobile today, and as usual we gave it a test drive on our 5800s.

It’s not like Twitter was not mobile till today, there have been a considerable number of apps bringing twitter access to 5800ers, Gravity and Tweets60 being our favorites, apart from the twitter service from the browser. However the official twitter web page lacked a mobile version till today and after playing around with it for a couple of hours, we find it largely disappointing. Hit on the jump button to know why. Read more »

Opera, probably the best known third party browser on the symbian platform keeps getting better by the day! After releasing the first beta of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 in early November, Opera has now released beta 2 of the two browsers, in just under a month. Somebody is losing sleep over enhancing the browsing experience on our 5800s!

In case you are wondering Opera Mini is the java version and Opera Mobile 10 has been coded in C++. Thats for the geeks; in layman terms Mini is a low end version and can be accessed from a much wider spectrum of mobile phones and Mobile is the high end version, accessible only by some smartphones and yeah our 5800 can use both. More details after the break. Read more »

We have been seeing a disturbing trend with our service providers here who start charging us for the voicemail services after the first few months of subscription which is kinda rip off, considering the service it offers. A simple answering machine can take care of the services provided by the voicemail and it would cost us a fraction of the monthly charges being billed to us.

Seems like we were in luck when we stumbled upon Best Answering Machine and to add icing to the cake, the lite version of the app is now available for free at the ovi store. But we would recommend getting the full version which costs just $10.95 and delivers more services than the voice mail service of the carriers ever would. Hit on the jump button to find out why. Read more »

Popular VoIP app on the mobile platforms, Fring just got better with the recent update to v4.00.05. The app which we have been often overlooking to Nimbuzz now dislodges Nimbuzz from the top VoIP app for 5800, for its video calls over VoIP functionality, a feature that is available only in Fring as of now.

We have also noticed several other advantages with Fring when compared to Nimbuzz, the most prominent being the data usage during VoIP calls. On an average we found that Nimbuzz uses 4 times more data traffic than Fring for VoIP calls. Thats another reason, to get Fring on your 5800. Wanna know more? Hit on the read button for more tid-bits on Fring. Read more »

Missed out on some black Friday deals? Fret not, we at Tube5800 are giving you a good reason to celebrate after the Thanksgiving weekend. Welcome Cyber Monday with another shopping extravaganza as we are offering no less than 50% discount on 10 of our best selling applications at our exclusive Tube5800 store.

Now that one great deal to start your Cyber Monday deal hunt. ain’t it? And unlike any of the Black Friday deals you don’t have to bother hitting the queuing up in serpentine queues for you can avail all our discounts very much from the comfort of your home or wherever you are, as long as you are connected to the net. Wanna know what applications make it to our top 10 best selling list? Hit on the read button to find out. Read more »