Nokia Lumia 800 Hands-on

Yesterday was a revolutionary day for Nokia, because the company showed the first results of its transition. I think it has planned everything very well, and we clearly saw how Nokia can surprise  the entire mobile world. As you know, Nokia introduced its first smartphone running Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango platform, the Nokia Lumia 800. We also saw several other devices and improved apps. And let’s not forget about the much anticipated Purity HD headset. Anyway, at this moment let’s concentrate on the Nokia Lumia 800 — the most important handset in this list on which Nokia’s future plans are based on.

The Nokia Lumia 800 has no buttons on the front, which makes the phone outstand in the market, because all Android-flowered phones and the iPhone have at least one physical button, and as for the Ice Cream Sandwich, there is only one handset missing buttons — the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. So in this sense, the Nokia Lumia 800 together with the Nokia N9 can gather a huge number of satellites. Well, the design of the phone is more or less familiar to us, and it was described in details in the Nokia N9 preview, so let’s switch to less familiar features.

The Nokia Lumia 800 is a quad-band handset with GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 providing 14.4mbps connectivity in 3G. The phone is packed with a 3.7-inch AMOLED capacitive Nokia ClearBlack display, though in my previous posts I was claiming it comes with the same housing as the Nokia N9, so the screen size must be the same as well. Anyway, unlike the Lumia 800, the Nokia N9 sports a 3.9-inch AMOLED capacitive Gorilla glass display, and we must dig deeper. I promise we’ll come back to this with explanations!

The smartphone is equipped with a single-core 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with hardware acceleration and a graphics processor. It also comes with 512MB of RAM and 16GB of internal memory. It seems 16GB is too low, but consumers will get 25GB of free SkyDrive storage.

On the back, you’ll find an 8MP camera with autofocus, dual-LED flash, and a Carl Zeiss f/2.2 lens. This is not the most powerful camera on the market, as there is always the Nokia N8 with its 12MP, but the Nokia Lumia 800 is rather well armed in this aspect. Unlike the Nokia N9, this handset lacks a front-facing camera. Lastly, the device is packed with a 1450mAh battery providing up to 13 hours of talk time and 11 days of standby on 2G.

As for the software, the Nokia Lumia 800 runs Windows Phone 7.5, which doesn’t differ from its previous version, though the developers have made some improvements in the platform; a turn-by-turn navigation app, a streaming music service and a sports information app.

The turn-by-turn navigation is called Nokia Drive, and it’s exclusively for Nokia phones. Moreover, it’s the only voice-controlled navigation app allowing users to download maps to their devices for offline use. As for the music service, it’s called Nokia Music, which also comes to Nokia phones exclusively. It offers a streaming feature called MixRadio. That’s an amazing feature offering users to stream music for free to their phone wherever they are. The sports app was made as a result of partnership with ESPN and Nokia. It allows users to access to scores and news for their favorite teams.

Other features worth mentioning — The Nokia Lumia 800 comes with dimension of 116.5×61.2×12.1mm and weighs 142g. It’ll be sold in black, cyan, and magenta colors (with color matched soft cover included). The first countries to meet the Nokia Lumia 800 are the UK, Italy, Spain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. The phone will be offered for 420 EUR ($577). Other countries will join the list before the end of the year. The U.S. will get it sometime in 2012.

 

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