14 DAY TRIAL // Nokia just unveiled, during the Growing Together 2008 conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa, four new entry-level mobile phones, mainly created for emerging markets. Among them, a handset that stands out is Nokia 5000, the first 1.3 Megapixel device to come from the Finnish company for a price under 100 Euro.
What makes Nokia 5000 stand out is not really the affordable price, but the way it looks. Designed in the same manner as the 5310 model (a mid-end phone released at the end of 2007), the new Nokia 5000 comes with a white-green margin which, together with its black/blue center, offers a view that would probably be best described as "cartoonish". If the handset had been targeted for kids this wouldn't have been a bad thing, but since Nokia mentioned nothing about children, we assume the 5000 wants to be a phone for all ages. But with these colors I can't really see too many adults wanting to buy it.
Anyway, besides the arguable aspect, Nokia 5000 brings dual-band GSM connectivity (900/1800 or 850/1900 MHz), an 1.3 Megapixel camera, a 2 inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels and 65k colors support, MP3 Player, FM radio, Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging, Bluetooth, WAP browser, email, Java MIDP 2.0, calculator and handsfree. The phone measures only 106 x 46 x 11.1 millimeters and weighs 74 grams, including the 700 mAh battery that can provide up to 4.75 hours of talk-time and up to 336 hours of stand-by time.
The weird and green Nokia 5000 will be available starting this summer for 90 Euros (about $140) before taxes and subsidies. No details about the markets which will get the phone first, but seeing the GSM bands it works on, Nokia 5000 is fit for the whole world: Europe, the Americas (US included), Africa and Asia.
