Nokia's 5800 Navigation Edition announced, finding its way to stores soon

The Garmin-Asus nuvifone is finally inbound to domestic retailers, but it's taken so many wrong turns on the way that it's given the competition plenty of time to catch up and prepare their own nav-enabled mobile offerings. TomTom's iPhone kit is due any minute, and now Nokia is getting into the game, announcing the 5800 Navigation Edition. Instead of coming with music it comes with a pre-loaded copy of Ovi Maps and lifetime licenses for voice-guided driving and walking directions. It also includes a car charger and a handy-dandy auto mounting kit, all swingingly demonstrated in a video below, and is set to ship sometime in the third quarter of this year (i.e. soon) at an expected retail of €285 (about $410).

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[carcomptoy Posted Aug 21st 2009 1:13PM]

If nothing else, I do like it for the chrome bezel instead of the cheap plastic with the red or blue ring.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 21st 2009 1:28PM]

Thought it has cheap plastic, it is much durable than the phones with chrome/aluminium.
The entire rim is designed to protect your phone when dropped. My phone was already saved once due to this sturdy design. I am sure, if it was iphone, it would have broken, the way i dropped it.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 21st 2009 2:55PM]

Well, look at this. I think we found our suspect from the mug shot a few days ago.