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Nokia Lumia 800: Stephen Elop has just announced the new Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone smartphone on stage at Nokia World in London. Prices from:
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Review
The Nokia Lumia 800 is the company’s new Windows Phone 7 Mango handset and comes with a striking design that is unlike any phone that you’ve previously seen down the pub.
That striking design, which really isn’t like anything on the market from Apple, Samsung, HTC or LG, will come in three different colours: black, cyan and pink.
Engine Room
The Lumia is based on the ill-fated Nokia N9. It's shorn of buttons and includes a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 1.4Ghz single-core processor with 512MB of RAM.
it’s running Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”, while the 8MP Carl Zeiss lens camera sports a f2.2 aperture. As for exclusive software? The Nokia Lumia 800 comes with Nokia Drive pre-installed, with voice turn by turn navigation for free – you can download maps in advance or over 3G while you drive, and has 69 million points of interest noted down.
Display
The front sports a large 3.7-inch Super AMOLED screen that screams out from the design with clarity and crispness and the Limia 800 has the lowest display pixel density at 800 by 480 pixels. That display helps, even on a sunny day, make the iconography of Windows Phone 7 stand out and ready to sing. Buth there is no front facing camera.
Camera
The phone has 8-megapixel camera with LED flash and Carl Zeiss lens on the back. Nokia has made some strong claims about the camera and we were able to snap a couple of shots, but not get them onto our computer to analyse further. The camera was quick to respond to our tap to focus. It offers 720p video capture too.
Design
Beneath the screen is the customary three Windows Phone 7 buttons: back, home, and search. The only physical buttons to be found on the phone are down the right hand side of the 800. They are silver and offer volume up and down, power and a dedicated shutter button for the camera that is found around the back of the handset.
The handset comes with 512MB of RAM and weighs 142g and is 12.1mm thin. The body of the 800 is hewn from a single piece of polycarbonate, so it has the sort of seamless design that other "unibody" models offer.
In this case the matte finish on the case means you won’t be forever polishing it, as it shrugs off fingerprints. It has a nice tactile feeling to it too, so we walk away with the impression that it will be fairly secure in your hands even though it is light.
Storage
The phone comes with 16GB of internal storage and 25GB of cloud storage free via SkyDrive.
Connectivity
The top of the device sports an identical layout to the Nokia N9 and that means a hidden compartment for the micro USB connector. Plus, there's a strange sliding out microSIM tray that is actually the size of a regular SIM card slot.
Top, by a 3.5mm stereo jack socket, and the bottom by a speaker that is capable of blasting out tunes.
Battery Life
The battery isn’t replaceable and, like the iPhone, you aren’t going to get anywhere near seeing what the inside of this phone actually looks like. In fact, such is the way that it is built, you don’t get to see any seams.
Has 1450mAh battery lurks — not bad, but it could definitely be better. It’s not as svelte as some of the other just-announced phones, such as the Motorola Droid RAZR, but its 12.1mm waistline is an improvement over the days of the N95, at the very least.
Price
The phone becomes available in November in US for around £450 unlocked.
Overall
Nokia’s Lumia 800 could be an interesting proposal for those who want a smartphone that’s not an iPhone or Android, with solid guts and shiny looks. But when compared to its competitors, the Lumia 800 does not have anything extraordinary to offer: The phone isnt the thinnest or fastest of phone, nor has it the best camera or extra features (no expandable storage, no secondary camera, no HDMI, no NFC).
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