Nokia has been churning out WP7 phones for the Lumia series and has
earned quite a success from the consumers mainly for the affordable
price and the stylish Metro UI of the WP7 OS. Since then, many more
consumers are getting hooked with the WP7 phones thanks to the power of
the Nokia brand in the country. What we have here is the Nokia Lumia 800
which was announced last November although it was only recently that it
became available in the local market.
Design and Features
At first look, you might mistake it for the N9 both in size, shape,
smell and color but there’s the added camera button at the right side of
the Lumia 800. The phone comes in black, magenta, white and cyan in
which we have here right now so there’s quite a lot of color to choose
from.
The overall feel of the phone is pretty solid, like a premium phone
as inherited from the N9’s design. There’s the really smooth and almost
rubbery feel of the back while the 3.7” AMOLED (480 x 800 pixels of WVGA
resolution) Gorilla Glass screen graces the front. As you’ll be doing a
lot of swiping with the WP7’s Metro UI, you’ll notice that the screen
slightly curves to the sides giving you a seemingly comfortable swiping
experience. You might say Nokia has it all thought out in order to
impress the consumers.
With the Lumia 800’s screen size, the keyboard keys are big enough
for typing even in portrait mode. The graphics and texts are rendered
crisp, it may not look like it in the picture but you have to see the
phone itself to appreciate it.
For the shutterbugs, the Lumia 800 houses an 8MP Carl Zeiss camera with
dual LED flash and an f/2.2 aperture which is ideal for low light
photography. However, there is no front-facing camera for this one so
video calls and self portraits won’t be possible
