Nokia Lumia 800 review: New beginnings

2 December 2011
It will take crowds erupting in delight to silence the ring of the "burning platform" speech in the Nokia Lumia 800's ears. The speaker being Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and the burning platform Symbian...

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  • Anonymous
  • PRW
  • 03 Dec 2011

oks4n4, 03 Dec 2011Why Manggo??? Why nokia not make android phone??? What's wr... morenokia is different :) and there are many brand with android you can choose and change the brand with nokia sticker :p

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    • Anonymous
    • PRW
    • 03 Dec 2011

    "Despite some talk that Nokia would be allowed to modify the Windows Phone interface, the Lumia 800 uses a completely unmodified interface" Nokia need 5years to make UI :)

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      • AnonD-14553
      • fsV
      • 03 Dec 2011

      A beautiful iPhone by Nokia. But sorry Nokia, I'm not an iFan. The mobile industry is now gravitating away from sophistication and versatility towards simplicity, fluidity and dumbness. Question is, why can't we have the best of both worlds? Wait a sec, I guess that's what android is set to achieve. Thumbs-up to google!

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        • truth
        • Lft
        • 03 Dec 2011

        Too bad that WP is the worst mobile OS on market. It's more like firmware for dumbphones than real OS for smartphones - it lacks so much functionality. Symbian had tons more functionality years ago. Microsoft paid millions of dollars to Nokia to kill Meego - they know, that Nokia with their name and patents was only one company that could save WP. They bribed the mammoth with cheap money and killed the company. Nokia is now just hw manufacturer. Sad.

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          • Usman
          • sy3
          • 03 Dec 2011

          Is it just me or i just hate nokia switching to wp plateform. Its really boring

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            • sahilcool
            • 9GH
            • 03 Dec 2011

            I say no to this particular handset, its old os in higher price. No video calling, front facing cam, exp memory, old bluetooth, file transfer.
            Is Nokia made this phone and in a high price, it will not highly acceptable by Nokia lovers. Not happy from specs. Camera not best, screen lacks small size, non user battery.

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              • Anonymous
              • vxi
              • 03 Dec 2011

              great hardware with great operating system. will wait for it to launch locally and im getting this. used to have mozart but did not like the look. this is best of both worlds for me. great job nokia!

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                • johnnydepp15
                • wdM
                • 03 Dec 2011

                phone looks promising & will surely help nokia to get their true position at the top. Nice review btw

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                  • Anonymous
                  • Pv9
                  • 03 Dec 2011

                  nokia n9 have better camera too.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • Pv9
                    • 03 Dec 2011

                    gsmarena u forgot no bluetooth file transfers.
                    old bluetooth specs.

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                      • v64
                      • 03 Dec 2011

                      remember all, this was never meant to be a flagship, it was meant to be a very solid and good phone for the average user to boost windows OS in america and put some spark and interest into windows phone and nokia together worldwide. Nokia will use the '900' series windows devices to battle the high end devices like galaxy s3. after MWC we will see nokias and microsoft's full intentions with their flagship/s

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                        • v0q
                        • 03 Dec 2011

                        Anonymous, 02 Dec 2011Why would you pay $800 for a mediocre windows phone when yo... moreyou'd be better of with Android if you're going cheap WP7 phones by samsung and HTC

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                          • pui
                          • 03 Dec 2011

                          This is definitely going to be my next phone. Just waiting until the price drops a little bit at least which should happen post Christmas.

                          The beauty of the N9 design combined with the most intuitive OS... who could say NO to that.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • ttc
                            • 03 Dec 2011

                            It cant beat a half priced live with walkman in audio quality section....really a junk phone....nokia should bring some expressmusic quality back!!!!

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                              • IV5
                              • 03 Dec 2011

                              Why isn't there a full-fledged new GSM Arena's battery life test?

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                                • Sun Down
                                • PF5
                                • 03 Dec 2011

                                WP7 Mango is simply beautiful. Add to that Nokia's quality hardware combination and we've got ourselves a winner!

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • YPb
                                  • 03 Dec 2011

                                  Even if i should choose one WP, i wouldn't buy this overpriced medicore junk.

                                  In terms of spec, Flash S is miles better than this or other brands are selling similar specs with much low cost. Why should we choose Lumia 800? Nothing special about this phone!

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                                    • Lola
                                    • 3nX
                                    • 03 Dec 2011

                                    Windows sucks! I love this design, but I don't wont dead OS like MeeGo or ugly OS like WP7... If this was Android or even Symbian Belle, that would be something.

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                                      • pI{
                                      • 03 Dec 2011

                                      I prefer S2 with better camera, specs, lower price and no stupid zune.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • KAk
                                        • 03 Dec 2011

                                        I can remember when Nokia N97 came out and at that same time samsung omnia hd also came out. Both were equally priced but please compare the spec of both phones.

                                        Now several dual core phones are out there at similar/lower price or even some windows7 phone of similar spec out there which priced about half of this nokia lumia 800.

                                        I hope now people can see how nokia is cheating the customers.