Nokia’s first Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, was announced 3 months ago yet it still hasn’t made its way to the Philippine soil officially. Well, CTB actually got a word from a valued source at Nokia Philippines that it will land in the country sometime in Q2 this year – which I’m thinking could be a bit late given the fact that the next Mobile World Congress is just around the corner and we’re again to see several new handsets in the line.
Nokia is one of the exhibitors of such big annual event in the mobile industry, yet we still have no idea what the Finnish phone maker will unveil next. My theory though is the company will announce another Windows Phone to add on its portfolio, or perhaps its developments and future plans for Symbian OS. Well, while we’re waiting what Nokia has in store for us on MWC – let’s revisit once again what I personally believe one of the best Windows Phones available today, the Nokia Lumia 800.
CTB readers and friends, meet the Nokia Lumia 800!
I had my first impression of this handset when I met Nokia’s Senior Services Marketing Manager in the Philippines a couple of days ago, and I must say that it’s really gorgeous as it is, with overall external design that feels like the Nokia N9.
The Lumia 800 runs on Windows Phone 7.5, aka Mango — and one will find the entire UI intuitive and easy to use. It’s known for everyone what exactly you can find inside the Lumia 800, but to recap – below are the most notable hardware specs of the handset.
Nokia Lumia 800 Specs
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango
3.7-inch (480×800) AMOLED display (with Nokia ClearBlack technology)
1.4GHz Scorpion CPU (Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon chipset)
512 MB RAM
16 GB storage
8MP AF Dual-LED Flash camera with Carl Zeiss optics
720p video recording @ 30fps
3G (HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps)
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
GPS, A-GPS
Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, EDR
Sensors (Accelerometer, proximity, compass)
microUSB 2.0
3.5mm audio jack
1450mAh Li-Ion battery
116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm
142g
Also from my first encounter with the Nokia Lumia 800, I learned that the handset also has its own voice-command feature (Voice-to-Text) which Nokia says still hasn’t branded by Microsoft yet. I saw the demo how it works, but it’s still undeniably less sophisticated than the Siri feature on iPhone 4S. What I’m impressed instead on Lumia 800, as far as Windows Phone OS is concerned, is its ability to “guess the song” title and singer just by allowing the handset listen to any music played – and let the user download the music if it’s available in the marketplace.
The phone also has the ability to read texts and images when the camera is hovered just near the surface. Say for example if you’re in a Chinese restaurant and you see posters printed with Chinese characters – just point the camera near the characters and the handset will translate it for you in your preferred language. Sounds cool, isn’t?
The Nokia Lumia 800 also features Microsoft’s popular products and services like Office, Lync, Outlook, its cloud-based storage SkyDrive, and etc.
I’m still looking for possibility of having a more detailed review of Nokia Lumia 800; but so far, even just with the quick hands-on, I’m already impressed.
Nokia is still yet to announce the official availability as well as the SRP of Lumia 800 here in the Philippines; however, the company isn’t mum when it comes to price guesstimates and target release date – saying the handset will hit local stores in Q2 this year, with a price tag between Php 25-28K.
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