Stevie Wonder and Bill Cosby to Appear at Jazz Themed Celebration at Oberlin

Wonder and Cosby to receive honorary degrees and to perform at opening of new home for jazz studies at Oberlin

By Aubrey Everett

Stevie Wonder and Bill Cosby will each give performances and receive honorary degrees from Oberlin College during the school’s grand opening celebration of its new home for jazz studies. The two-day celebration, scheduled for April 30 and May 1, will honor the new Litoff Building and include concerts, jazz films, workshops, a panel discussion and the honorary degree ceremony.
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Architectural drawing of the Litoff Building, courtesy of Westlake Reed Leskosky
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Robin Eubanks, photo courtesy of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music
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Stevie Wonder

The Litoff

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Manufacturer	Nokia
Compatible networks	GSM, EGPRS, WCDMA, HSDPA, A-GPS
Predecessor	None
Successor	Nokia X6, (unofficial) Nokia C6-01 [1]
Related	Nokia C5-03
Form factor	Candybar
Dimensions	111 × 51.7 × 15.5 mm
Weight	109g
Operating system	Symbian OS 9.4 (Firmware Version V60.0.003)
CPU	ARM11 @ 434 Mhz after firmware V20 [2]
Memory	128 MB SDRAM, 256 MB NAND, 81 MB Internal User Storage
Removable storage	max. 16 GB microSDHC (32 GB unofficial), 8 GB card included
Battery	BL-5J (3.7V 1320mAh); 2 mm charging connector
Data inputs	Touchscreen with Nokia Dynamic Intelligent Layouts, proximity sensor, accelerometer
Display	nHD 640 x 360 pixels,[3][4] 3.2 inch 16:9 widescreen, (16.7 million colours)
Rear camera	3.2 Megapixels, Carl Zeiss AG optics with autofocus and dual LED flash
Front camera	Front camera for video calls
Media	AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 2 VGA / H.264 QVGA), M4A, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, Mobile XMF, SP-MIDI, MIDI Tones (poly 64), RealAudio 7,8,10, True tones, WAV, but not Ogg files.
Connectivity	Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR/A2DP), WLAN (802.11 b/g), USB Micro B 2.0; 3.5 mm headphone and video-out jack

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a smartphone and portable entertainment device by Nokia.^[5] It was introduced on January 2, 2008^[6] and released on April 27, 2008.^[7] Code-named "Tube", it is the first touchscreen-equipped S60 device by Nokia, the version being s60v5. It's part of the XpressMusic series of phones, which emphasizes music and multimedia playback. The touchscreen features tactile feedback (though it does not use Nokia's Haptikos technology).^[8]

The 5800 has a compatibility mode for Java applications that are not touchscreen-aware. It works by using part of the screen for displaying the essential buttons required by the program.

On January 23, 2009, Nokia announced it had shipped the millionth 5800 XpressMusic device, even though it still had not been fully released worldwide.^[9] In Nokia's Q1 report released on April 16, 2009 it was announced they had shipped 2.6 million units during the quarter, with cumulative shipments of more than 3 million units since the smartphone's launch in late April 2008.^[10] Q2 results released July 16, 2009 reports 3.7 million units shipped during the quarter and more than 6.8 million units total have shipped since the release.^[11] As of November 2009, over 8 million units had been sold.^[12]

History

RIM launches Blackberry Torch to challenge iPhone

The phone will be available in the US in August and globally in September

Research in Motion (RIM) has launched a touchscreen mobile in an effort to maintain its lead over Apple's iPhone and handsets running Google software.

The new addition to its popular Blackberry phones is called the Torch.

RIM has also given the operating system an upgrade, in a nod to the richer functionality of other smartphones.