Its barely been a month since the Nokia 5800 started shipping and Nokia has already shipped over a million pieces of its first S60 touchscreen. Staggering. If someone were to tell me that this was going to happen so soon a month back, I wouldn’t have believed him. This is even more surprising because the handset is not even on sale around the world yet, infact UK just got it yesterday.

I have been playing with the 5800 for over two weeks and before I had started using it, I though I won’t be able to use it for two days because of the lack of a physical keyboard. Even when I was using a N96 or even the N85, there would be times when I missed the E71 – but not this time. The 5800 has pleasantly surprised me and the curious thing is that I am not even a big fan of touch based devices.

Here’s a list of what I have simply loved on the 5800.

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The Nokia Chat application that we have been used to will now cease to be, instead its time to welcome its new face – Contacts On Ovi. Along with the new name come a host of improvements, bug fixes and features like displaying your friend’s location via Nokia Maps. The compatibility has also been widened to include support for FP2 devices such as the N85, N96 and even Nokia Series 40 phones.

You can also use this application to chat with your Google Talk buddies and other XMPP compatible services. The updated clients are available here. Make sure you uninstall Nokia Chat before you install this application. In you are new to this, check out the major features below.

• Chat: Send instant messages and enrich them with smileys, voice and location messages.
• Presence: At a glance you can see if your friends are available, busy or on the phone.
• Enhanced presence: You can Labslet your friends know what you are listening and broadcast your important scenes.

And while you are at it, make sure you check out the newly updated Nokia Beta Labs Site.

Nokia has just released another firmware update for the N78 in the form of v. 20.149.051.1. The new firmware packs a ton of bug fixes, an update to the preinstalled maps application along with UI speed and transition enhancements. A new theme called ‘Music’. also makes an appearance.

The new firmware is available over-the-air (OTA) by simply pressing *#0000# from the standby screen and checking for updates. The phone features user data preservation (UDP) so your data should be safe even after the update, however a backup never hurts.

Full changelog below.

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