Lumia 800 is Nokia’s first foray into
their strategic alliance with Microsoft, to partner and bring forth a
range of devices with Nokia’s name and Microsoft’s new Baby OS – Windows
Phone 7.5. The device comes in at a premium price and seems to be
dwindling in terms of market capping, Here is our Review :
Build Quality
The N9 never made it to India, or the US
for that matter, looks like Nokia used the exact same hardware and
decided to switch the OS. The build quality has to be good, since its a
die cast unibody polycarbonate shell. No loose ends or removable covers
and a solid in-hand feel. The front has a curved gorilla glass display
that not only looks good, but will last a long time with the shell. The
top door for the power/data cable seems to be a bit of a bother. But
should not be a big problem if carefully operated.
Specs
| Price | Rs. 29,990/- |
| Frequency | Quad Band |
| Phone Style |
Curved glass, 3.7″ touchscreen, smooth one-piece body |
| Thickness | 12.1mm |
| Length | 116.5mm |
| Width | 61.2mm |
| Weight |
142g |
| Built-in Memory |
16 GB mass memory (no slot for micro-SD cards) |
| High-speed Data | GPRS, 3G, HSDPA |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth 3, USB, Wi-Fi b/g/n, A-GPS |
| Screen Size | 3.7-inches 480x800px, Curved Gorilla Glass |
| Secondary Screen Size | N/A |
| Screen | 16 million colors, ClearBlack – Super Amoled |
| Camera | Yes |
| Camera Resolution | 8 megapixels / 720p video |
| Flash | Yes, dual LED |
| Radio | Yes, with RDS |
| Battery | 1450 mAh, 13hrs talktime on 2G and 9.5hrs on 3G; 55 hrs of music play |
Display and Multimedia
The Nokia Lumia 800
has a Super Amoled Display which has something called clear black
technology. This makes the color reproduction deep and blacks really –
Black. The phone is however difficult to read outdoors and does not
fare well at all under sunlight. The display indoors is bright and vivid
and makes using the device a good experience. Watching movies and
playing games will be enjoyed a lot due to Clearblack .
The sound quality is decent but not as
loud or great as we expected from Nokia. The speaker is at the bottom of
the device and hence, may hinder usage. The location of the speaker
also makes holding the device difficult with both hands while playing
games, because the sound keeps getting muffled.
The phone has an inbuilt FM with RDS and
also has the capability of streaming movies from Youtube, and other
online sites . The phone can also stream internet radio with the help of
many apps from the Windows Marketplace.
The camera on the Lumia is an 8 MP
camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, don’t go by the fancy naming, image
quality is nowhere near Nokia cameras we have seen in the past. The
camera is quick to shoot , but color reproduction is poor and white
balance is all over the place. You do have manual settings, but if you
wanted manual settings you would buy an dSLR, right? Video quality is as
good a 720p can be, but light needs to be plentiful to get good video.
Forget shooting indoors with this if you have mere tube lights
illuminating the area. The included flash is decently bright and serves
its purpose well. We hoped for a 1080p capability, who knows maybe Nokia
can unlock it in a future OS update.
The device is missing a front facing
camera, which is available in phones as cheap as In Rs. 7000. Even the
much cheaper Omnia W has a front camera, So why not Lumia 800?
Phone and Messaging.
The Network connectivity was strong
throughout our tests and we literally faced no issues like dropped calls
or voice breakage. The phone did its fair share of talking and was
steady throughout. Connectivity to the internet was buggy, it played
nice on Airtel and Vodafone but was off and on on MTNL and Idea.
The Lumia 800 has Windows Phone OS
hence, according to iGyaan, has the best possible touchscreen keyboard.
The keyboard is fast and intuitive and the popping sound that comes when
you type a key is calmly reassuring. The keyboard is a joy to use , so
is mailing and messaging on the device. The Lumia 800 also seamlessly
connects with your Facebook and Twitter, it also updates your social
streams from the ME live tile.
Internet , Gaming and Battery Life
The internet browser – IE – is a really
fast and responsive mobile browser. It loads up all types of content
with the exception to certain scrips and of course Flash. Web browsing
is a breeze, pinch to zoom and panning is as great as on a full-sized
PC.
Games play wonderfully on the Lumia 800,
the processor and RAM are ample enough to handle all sorts of games
available in the WP7 marketplace. No laggings or crashing during
gameplay, its smooth sailing all the way, you can also hold down on the
back button to pause your game real time while you attend to other
things such as messages and mail. Then return to exactly where you were
in your game.
Battery life on the Lumia 800 was
difficult to actually calculate, Ranging from as much as 5 hours of talk
time to as low as 3.5 hours on the talk time segment. Standby time was
also erratic with the phone staying on successfully for upto 3 days
sometime and sometimes only a day. We fear its due to the erratic data
connectivity and transfer bug in WP7.5, which has not yet been fixed.
The one thing that we would like to
mention is that the device is missing certain things from the mix,
including Internet Tethering, which is a Windows Phone Mango standard,
Nokia somehow decided that it wasn’t useful enough for the buyer.
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