Nokia 5000

Outside of CTIA Wireless, Nokia announced the new Nokia 5000 with a price point interesting for emerging markets. The Nokia 5000, which offers a 1.3 megapixel camera and a large QVGA display is costs under 90 Euro.

The Nokia 5000 is expected to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2008 with an estimated retail price of EUR 90, before subsidies and taxes.

The Nokia 5000 will set a new standard for functionalty and affordability. For mobile entrepreneurs as well as people on the move, the Nokia 5000 supports email and other essential benefits.

The 5000 is a Bluetooth capable handset with a 2″ 240×320 pixel display. There’s an FM radio, web browser and email client plus a range of PIM functions, all running on the familiar S40 operating system. With this low cost, it’s surprising that the 5000 has a multimedia player which can play back MP3 files, but with only 12MB of internal memory and no card slot, this may be of limited use.

It’s a little bit of a surprise to see that the Nokia 5000 is a very ordinary looking handset. This is actually an entry-level phone aimed at emerging markets, and as a result the 5000 is very inexpensive. Overall though, this looks like a pretty good phone for the money. There aren’t many handsets in this class with a display like this. Better still, the whole package weighs only 74 grams. Talktime is up to 4 hours 45 minutes with a maximum of 14 days standby time.

Besides Nokia 5000, Nokia also introduced 3 more others new mobile phone at the Growing Together 2008 conference held today in Johannesburg on 2 April 2008: Nokia 2680 slide, Nokia 7070 Prism and Nokia 1680 classic. This new batch of phones contain some of Nokia’s most affordable phones with features of mid-end phones.