Nokia Lumia 800 Specification and Reviews

Is this really the first windows phone of Nokia ?

Nokia finally introduced its new mobile phone The Lumia 800 that uses Windows Phone 7.5, with a few Nokia-centric additions like Nokia Maps, Nokia Music, and Nokia Drive (turn-by-turn navigation). This phone isn't new, exactly. It has previously existed as the Nokia N9, a thoroughly odd outlier of a phone that may be the only phone to ever use the MeeGo operating system.

Nokia Lumia 800

The Nokia Lumia 800 shares its exterior styling with the previously substantially less hyped Nokia N9, a Meego-based smartphone, although the screen size is reduced from 3.9" (854x480 pixels) to 3.7" (800x480 pixels) to conform to the Windows Phone spec list. The CPU, however, increases from the 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 to the 1.4GHz MSM8255 Snapdragon/Scorpion which certainly helps add snap to the Windows Phone Mango OS. That being said, the Lumia has probably the best, darkest blacks I've ever seen on a phone, which is a very good thing in an optionally black-heavy OS like Windows Phone.

16GB of non-expandable memory is pretty low, especially given how great a media device this is. It's not a dealbreaker, especially if you use a subscription music service like Rdio, Spotify, or, I guess, Zune, but 32GB or more would be preferable. (with no microSD expansion--you're stuck with 16GB).

You can check the video of Nokia Lumia 800 here:

In addition, the camera is also great--not as good as the iPhone 4S, and, oddly, not as good as the older and worse-in-every-other-conceivable-way Nokia N8. But still, definitely one of the better cameras I've used. It uses an f/2.2 lens, and gives more manual control than other Windows Phones to take advantage of it. I was very pleased with the image quality.

The phone is ever so slightly thicker than the iPhone, a millimeter or two at most, so it still feels very sleek in the hand. The Nokia Lumia 800, although being the more expensive of the two Nokia Windows Phone offerings (the other being the budget Nokia Lumia 710) shares the Nokia N9's 16-bit AMOLED ClearBlack display whereas the Nokia Lumia 710 sports a 24-bit ClearBlack TFT.

Based on the two manufacturer's product specs it soon becomes apparent that the Nokia Lumia 800 is intended to compete against the HTC Titan and the Nokia Lumia 710 with the HTC Radar.

Nokia Lumia 800 Price
According to information in the market, Nokia Lumia 710 will be marketed with a very affordable price, at around 270 euros. While the price of Nokia Lumia 800 will be priced at 2x more expensive than the price of the Nokia Lumia 710.

Nokia Lumia 800 Specification

Network
2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100

Dimension 
Dimension: 116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm, 76.1 cc
Weight: 142 g

Screen
Type: AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size: 480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches (~252 ppi pixel density)
- Nokia ClearBlack display
- Multi-touch input method
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive controls

Audio
Alert types: Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker: Yes
3.5mm jack: Yes

Memory
Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records: Yes
Internal: 16 GB storage, 512 MB RAM
Card slot: No

Data
GPRS: Class 33
EDGE: Class 33
3G: HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth: Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
Infrared port: No
USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0

Camera
Primary: 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, dual-LED flash
Features: Geo-tagging
Video: Yes, 720p@30fps
Secondary: No

Features
OS: Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango
CPU: 1.4 GHz processor, Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset, 3D Graphics HW Accelerator
Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML5, RSS feeds
Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games: Yes + downloadable
Color: Black, Cyan, Magenta
GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support
Java: Yes, MIDP 2.1
- MicroSIM card support only
- SNS integration
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- Digital compass
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player
- MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- Document viewer
- Video/photo editor
- Voice memo/command/dial
- Predictive text input

Battery

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1450 mAh (BV-5JW)
- Stand-by: Up to 265 h (2G) / Up to 335 h (3G)
- Talk time: Up to 13 h (2G) / Up to 9 h 30 min (3G)

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