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November 2011
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The editors liked
Microsoft Office
Outlook and Xbox LIVE integration
Full web browsing
Free music streaming with Nokia Music and Mix Radio
Small
Nicely built
Refreshing OS
Built-in Microsoft apps
Good cross-platform support
Stylish looks
Great build quality
Promising operating system
Excellent styling
Really responsive display
Free sat nav
Top social network and email facilities
Nokia Maps beats Bing Maps handsdown
Quality design
Clever interface
Speedy browser
Intuitive contact linking
Xbox integration
Windows Phone software is slick and fun to use
Free music streaming with Nokia's Mix Radio
Onboard navigation software
Stylish
Sturdy design
Beautiful design
Amoled screen
Free Nokia music and navigation apps
Reasonable battery life
Let's cut to the point
The Nokia Lumia 800 is arguably the best Nokia smartphone we've ever seen. It features the same amazing design as the Nokia N9
With a uni-body design that matches the Apple iPhone 4S for design and quality – and it also features a stunning bright
Colourful and sharp screen. The 3.7-inch display gets Nokia's CBD (ClearBlack Display) technology to boost colour reproduction
Great hardware design
Good camera
Nokia has made some neat additions to Windows Mobile
Tough polycarbonate chassis
Free Nokia Drive sat nav
Camera and screen
AMOLED screen
Nokia Drive
Nokia Music
Design
Superb design
Fast and responsive
Form factor
Design and build quality
Overall performance
Powerful free GPS service
Radio Mix
14 million free tracks to stream
Decent camera with room for improvement
Well built
Excellent ergonomics and basic performance
The best Windows Phone phone
Nokia Drive and Mix Radio are useful extras
Solid build
Elegant design
Improved support for offboard services
8megapixel camera
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango
Sharp 3.7inch touch screen
Fast processor
8MP camera with 720p HD video recording
Nokia Mix Radio
Nokia Drive satnav
The editors didn't like
Lack of apps compared to Android and Apple
Disappointing camera and non-expandable memory
Design
The Lumia has a polycarbonate shell available in three colours
Black
Blue and pink. The long sides are curved which gives it a nice feel in your hands. A
Video lacks detail
No Flash support
Few third-part apps
No wireless streaming
Mediocre screen and camera quality
Disappointing snapper
Windows apps are way behind the choices available for iOS and Android users
Nokia Maps still not functional
Internet text display dodgy at times
No Flash video
Zune player takes ages to copy video across
Mix Radio downloads unavailable
Camera is pretty average
No microSD card slot
Lacks a front-facing camera
Not as many apps as Android or iPhone
No Adobe Flash support
No micro-SD card slot
It's not all good
However. The biggest problem with the Nokia Lumia 800 is the lack of applications for the Windows Phone operating system. It's getting better all the time
Granted
But it's still not a patch on Android or iOS.
No memory expansion
No Flash support.
Average battery life
Media still a pain to transfer
Port flaps won't last
No front facing camera
No nfc
No replaceable battery
Glossy screen attracts fingerprints.
No frontfacing camera
Memory can't be extended
MarketPlace has fewer apps than Apple and Android equivalents
The Lumia 800 is indubitably the best Windows Phone hardware out there right now. When people previously spoke in hushed tones about wanting Nokia to make Windows Phones, the unspoken reasons for wanting a Nokia WP7 device were a few notable features - a...
I was quite impressed with the Nokia Lumia 800, the smartphone features an excellent design, probably one of the best looking Windows Phone devices we have tested.It certainly feels like a quality smartphone, just what you would expect from Nokia in te...
Abstract: The Nokia Lumia 800 is Nokia 's Flagship and first entry device into the Windows Phone arena. Nokia has brought with it to Windows Phone its award winning design,. The Lumia 800 sports a lovely 3.7-inch curved ClearBlack AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass ...
Abstract: Nokia Drive is Nokia 's turn-by-turn GPS navigation answer on Windows Phone. It is only available to owners of Nokia Windows Phone devices the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. Simply put you can only get Nokia Drive on a Nokia Windows phone device . Nok...
Abstract: The Nokia Lumia 800 touts a Carl Zeiss lens on an 8-megapixel camera with an aperture of F/2.2 and records at 720p ( Microsoft why?). This video is a recording of the Nokia Lumia 800 Camera at 720p detailing the video and audio quality of the device. The ...
Abstract: Nokia Lumia 800 (Photo credit: Raymond Wong/DVICE)Nokia's Lumia 800 leaves a solid first impression. I had a few minutes to play with it when the phone was first unveiled, and I came away from that thinking that this was finally it. The Nokia Lumia 80...
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No frontfacing camera, and the 8 MP rearfacing camera is subpar compared to peers like the Samsung Galaxy S II and iPhone 4S. Not actually available in the U.S. yet
As I said at the beginning of this review, I couldn’t wait for the Lumia 800 to arrive so that I could finally see just how well Nokia was able to marry Windows Phone 7.5, an operating system I already love, with the Finnish phone maker’s incredible ha...
I suppose the bottom line is that this is not Nokia's "A" game. This might be kind of like Nokia's "Do whatever you can to get something decent out before the end of the year" game. While the Lumia 800 isn't the best at photos, nor the best at value-a...
Bright AMOLED display with Clear Black Display technology for readability under direct sunlight, compact size, dedicated camera button, added value through apps (Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Location Scout, Nokia Music, and others), zippy performance and co
Some push notifications may be lost due to non-centralized notification system, camera performance is great, but not excellent, chrome strip that holds the camera pod on rear prone to scratching, no NFC support, no front-facing camera, no HDMI output, n
The Lumia 800 may be Nokia's first Windows Phone 7 device, but it also is part of a lineage of strong smartphones from Nokia, and Nokia's expertise in smartphone manufacturing really shows. When the company's CEO Stephen Elop took the stage at Nokia World...
