Nokia 5800 XpressMusic kick-starts the year of the widget

GLOBAL – It’s fair to say that in 2008 widgets were more of a hardcore curiosity for users of top-end devices than the mainstream staple of smartphone living. However, 2009 is almost certainly destined to become the year of the widget, popularizing these bite-size Internet-linked applications with the advent of Nokia touchscreen devices tailored towards widget-centric home screens. In fact, the year of the widget is already gaining serious momentum with the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, and when the Nokia N97 launches it’s certain to cement these web-connected mini apps as an indispensable new breed of tool tailored to extracting dynamic Internet information on the move.