Nokia Hong Kong Offers Free 5800 XpressMusic Apps

Nokia Hong Kong Offers Free 5800 XpressMusic Apps

Here’s another instance of Nokia creating great content for its devices, but then hiding it on an obscure website, with no fanfare. Friedbrains of HowardForums found this great site at Nokia Hong Kong with a handful of free applications designed specifically to take advantage of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic’s touchscreen display.

There are 2 cool looking music apps (since it is an XpressMusic phone, after all), including a piano and a guitar. The piano allows you to choose from a few different instruments, which looks cool. The guitar application takes advantage of the plectrum (aka guitar pick) included with the 5800 XpressMusic, allowing you to ’strum’ across the screen to produce various notes. Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Piano Application

There is also a dice application, which is something I remember having on (I think) the Nokia 6682. You can choose a number of dice to use, and then ‘roll’ them. This is great if you like playing craps behind the bus stop in middle school, but also extremely handy if, like Nokia’s Phil Schwarzmann, you’re a board game fanatic, but sometimes find that you’ve misplaced the included dice for Monopoly.

My personal favorite, though, is the Touch Popper application. Oh yes, Nokia created bubble wrap, for the 5800 XpressMusic. You can pop all the bubbles, then refresh the screen and start all over again. Who needs touch-enabled N-Gage when you have bubble wrap, seriously?

If you’re a 5800 XpressMusic owner, you *definitely* want to cruise over to this page to download these free applications. If you’re a Nokian, you *definitely* need to smack whoever hid this on the Hong Kong pages, and post these on the Nokia Conversations site, or the 5800 XpressMusic site, or somewhere else that people can actually find them.

We at Symbian-Guru are expecting our 5800 XpressMusic next week, and rest assured, we’ll be going over it with a fine-toothed comb to see just how well Nokia’s first touch-enabled S60 phone really is.

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Comments

  1. apparently a bit "laggy" on 6800 but had a totally excellent game (after a few beers) against my friend (who had owned the 6800 for about 6 hours)

    he managed to beat me (me hosting the game on my E90), ashe is good at games and i suck. It was totally cool to see his car going sideways down the track couple of times (i have been around the track like 10-20 times, but i suck at games so...)

    His commetn; why are there not more games like this!
  2. Thanks for the tip Ricky - it is indeed surprising, that nobody pushes these things. But my next sentence would be about Download!, App Store and ... I just stop instead.
  3. All of them are working on mine N82 because they are flash lite apps or widgets,apart from motion dice box.The only usable with the keyboard and the d-pad is the Touch Popper and of courese the dictionarybut it is a sis app.
  4. Guys, understand that Nokia, while being a big company, is still comprised of a bunch of smaller companies.

    That said, for Nokia HK to post a game up is one thing, for Nokia to post it on it's larger international sites, is another.

    Not only may Nokia be required to test the software on dozens of other product codes, firmwares and/or customizations, but also support it in all those other languages/regions as well.

    While this may seem small to those on the outside, for a large corporation, it's usually a much larger endeavour.

    Furthermore, for those feeling entitled, just because you wandered and found it on the HK site doesn't mean they need to extend it or offer it elsewhere...then again, maybe they don't care to either...or maybe they're already working on it.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by JP ∞ View Post
    Not only may Nokia be required to test the software on dozens of other product codes, firmwares and/or customizations, but also support it in all those other languages/regions as well.
    That's nonsense and you know it, dude. Test an application on different product codes or firmwares? Seriously? Btw, each of those has 4 language options, one of which is english.
  6. obviously its not nonsense since these apps still aren't universally available.

    Nokia's a very disjointed company, we know this, so clearly this is just another example. It's more or less the same reason why firmwares aren't available everywhere simultaneously.

    It's not only about testing, its also about supporting the customers.
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  7. music programs load on my 5800, but don't work. no sound.
  8. i can't find the options where you put on the sound in the games, so i dont hear any sounds at all, plaease someone help me to find that option
  9. A Must have for a Nokia 5800 Owner..
    Any other site for other apps.. (English)
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gamaliel Aguilar View Post
    A Must have for a Nokia 5800 Owner..
    Any other site for other apps.. (English)
    My Dear friend,

    i know few websites that have good applications for Nokia 5800.

    Nokia 5800 Tube Blog
    Nokia 5800 Blog

    plz check out these sites i hope you will find appropriate appl for your phone.

    thanks
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