Just quickly: buy. from a design standpoint- both hardware and software, is well-worth the (then) high asking premium. You’ll be somewhat disappointed if you had set out to look for a unique piece of kit simply because Lumia 800 has stolen the limelight with its near-identical hardware design. Fans can spot the difference especially the slight-bulge of the display that makes it all the more beautiful. Not forgetting however, you’d still have the very unique and intuitive OS to play with.
The beautiful white version was made available in December 2011, two months after its initial release in black.
White, 64GB version on Amazon.com
Black, 64GB version on Amazon.com
Black, 16GB version on Amazon.com
Read on for more.
Goods
exquisite (but no-longer) unique hardware design
MeegoOS/software design screams premium
smooth ui animations do a fair job hiding load times
intuitive innovative ui beats ALL current mobile OS (wait till you try multitasking out of a playing video! edit: see below)
phenomenal batterylife
uses a microsim likely for space-saving purpose
absolutely perfect execution in showing off an AMOLED’s features- from the glowing boot logo animation to the illuminated standby clock and every single vivid colour reproduction in-between
swype is a godsend here
surprising number of apps in the appstore
8 megapixel camera is quite acceptable in mid to good lighting
Nokia’s own included silicon skin fits as though the phone was made for it
integrated Nokia music store (that actually works outside of the US and EU) and other Nokia services
Bads
wasted hardware design, made redundant and common by Lumia 800- you can be certain that you’ll be mistaken as holding a WP7
slightly protruding hardware buttons are annoying, but is remedied with the included silicon skin
smooth ui relied on to hide relatively slow loading times
can especially benefit from a faster single core cpu, considering the amount of leeway the good battery life can afford
ui gestures introduces some unintentional/accidental actions, especially when gaming
Networking in general feels slow e.g. refreshing for updates
has a questionably flimsy plastic usb flap
screensize leaves more to be desired. software keyboard suitable more for small to medium hand sizes
uses a microsim
non-user accessible battery
updates are still in the works but sooner rather than later, Nokia will cease supporting the OS as suggested by Steven Elop.
popular apps such as Whatsapp may not be available
while there’s no graphic equalizer in N9’s music app, there is a free app available on the app store
Just quickly: buy. from a design standpoint- both hardware and software, is well-worth the (then) high asking premium. You’ll be somewhat disappointed if you had set out to look for a unique piece of kit simply because Lumia 800 has stolen the limelight with its near-identical hardware design. Fans can spot the difference especially the slight-bulge of the display that makes it all the more beautiful. Not forgetting however, you’d still have the very unique and intuitive OS to play with.
The beautiful white version was made available in December 2011, two months after its initial release in black.
White, 64GB version on Amazon.com
Black, 64GB version on Amazon.com
Black, 16GB version on Amazon.com
