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Anyone who likes touchscreen phones should be excited; the most well known face in the industry has announced not one, but TWO mobile phones: the sleek Nokia 5800 and the completely jaw-dropping Nokia N97.

Phones we’d rather forget – Nokia touchscreen mobile phones in the past

A lot of people are under the false assumption that the Nokia 5800 is the first touchscreen phone to wear the Nokia label. It isn’t. The opposite’s true, because there have been a few touch-based phones to wear the Nokia name. Starting with the 7700, we’ve seen a couple of Nokia mobile phones which are controlled by you prodding and poking the screen. They all had reasonably big (for their time) screens, but the other feature they had in common, unfortunately, was that they were utterly rubbish. Only one of those handsets, the 6708, displayed any promise, but that was destined exclusively to be sold in China, and thus, it never saw the light of day in Britain. So, we were relegated to handsets that were utter, and complete bobbins.

However, these unpleasant memories have now been exorcised by the debut of two new Nokia mobile phones, both of which come with touchscreens, and both of which are much, much nicer…

Nokia 5800 – if music be the food of love…

First up is a whole new member of Nokia’s Xpress line of music mobile phones, the mouth-watering Nokia 5800. This one’s quite obviously made for music and video; you can tell by the separate XpressMedia touch-key that opens a list of shortcuts to music, videos, the web, and so on. Oh, and the Nokia 5800 has a 3.2 inch touchscreen, to let you muck about with those different media content. Basically, the Nokia 5800 was created to be a little handheld jukebox and movie player, and as music handsets go, this is just about the sweetest. The Nokia 5800 has also got a 3 megapixel camera, HSDPA internet connection and sat-nav, so that it’s a wonderful all-rounder, on top of being a superb media player. Oh, and it has a strap to clip on a fake guitar pick. That’s pretty cool, that.

However, the Nokia 5800 is very definitely a mid-range device; it isn’t, nor was it ever meant to be, an absolute top-ender. That position goes to another handset…

Nokia N97 – the single best phone EVER made?

With the Nokia 5800 all set to bring touchscreen mobile phones to the mid-range market, that leaves a very big gap at the very top-end, and yes, there IS a touchscreen mobile phone waiting to be unleashed to fill that gap: the utterly awesome Nokia N97. This uses the same Symbian S60 Touch operating system and crams it inside the body of a proper, full-tilt smartphone. Which means it has an even more huge, 3.5 inch screen, a slide out QWERTY keyboard, and the camera now weighs in at a meaty 5 megapixels. The Nokia N97 is, obviously, destined to be the new flagship Nseries mobile phone, and it really is as high-spec as we’d heard from rumours, with HSDPA, sat-nav, digital compass, and integrated Flash, meaning you get an internet experience that tops any other mobile phones! Put simply the Nokia N97 is simple incredible. It gleefully relieves itself over other mobile phones and as the Nokia 5800 angles firmly for the mid-range, I’m predicting that the Nokia N97 will totally DESTROY the competition in 2009!

Every person has a different concept of what makes a city “big.”  Maybe some people identify the city as any location with skyscrapers as far as the eye can see.  For others the definition of city may be any concentration of houses, business, or industry that can no longer be defined as countryside.  No matter how a person looks at it, many of the biggest cities in the US today have one thing in common- their layout.  The characteristic layout of the American city is a consolidated downtown area, complete with high rises and a picturesque skyline, surrounded by outlying rings of successively lower city-type structures.  Eventually the “city” will melt into the “burbs” but however you look at it, the average American city is growing not only up, but out.  Two perfect examples are Las Vegas, and Chicago.  In order to stay connected all around town, many residents are changing up their internet service.

Today for mobile internet on the go, most people believe there is just one option, 3G wireless service.  For those who don’t know, 3G service is the version of the mobile internet picked up by cell phones, PDA devices, Blackberries and iPhones.  It’s great for simple things like sending and receiving emails, basic browsing, and maybe even watching a YouTube video, but for anything more complex it’s just not the practical way to go.  When one needs a fast, broadband internet connection, capable of completing tasks like international video conference calls, sending or receiving large documents, or completing major downloads fast, it’s time to hit up the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot.  While it may seem like there are Wi-Fi hotspots on every corner these days, they tend to be like public restrooms: whenever you need one urgently there are none to be found anywhere.  This gap in wireless internet technology leaves a lot to be desired for the constantly moving residents of Las Vegas and Chicago, not to mention the rest of the country.

Filling in where the others leave off is WiMax internet service.  This fully mobile broadband internet allows users to stay connected while on the go, literally.  Users can be moving in the car, on the bus, or on the train, traversing their beloved cities or suburbs while performing all the same internet functions they can on their home PC, or at a Wi-Fi hotspot.  It works by sending out an internet signal from special towers.  Much like a cell phone, anyone connected to the network by a plan or subscription can access the signal whenever and wherever they like.  With coverage zones spanning entire cities, the city limits, and the urban sprawl, everyone can enjoy a high speed broadband “hotspot” wherever they are.  From the bright lights of the Vegas Strip to the windy streets of Chicago, there is no more need to go charging through town in search of a signal when WiMax internet service is around.  With a variety of available plans, users can get hooked up to the 4th Generation of wireless service at home, on the go, or both.