Nokia Lumia 800 is one of the most attractive devices produced by the iconic Finnish Smartphone manufacturer and it is the best Windows phone hardware right now. These Lumia series are the Nokia’s first device running Windows phone 7.5. This Smartphone looks stylish with the touch screen and it hides speakerphone, microphone and very few virtual keys are present.
The Nokia Lumia 800 is greatly influenced by the Nokia N9. The exteriors of Lumia are much more similar to Nokia N9 but interior of both is made up of completely different beasts. The really interesting feature about Lumia is that the exterior is not glossy and it features a light matte texture. This also has a uniform round edge at the left and right side. The device supports 512 MB of RAM. The important thing to be noted is that the handset does not feel cheap and of plastic.
DETAILED REVIEW OF NOKIA LUMIA 800:
Battery life:
If we have to judge whether the phone is good, one of the important factor we should consider is the battery life of the phone. Battery life depends on how long the charge remains while loading over 3G and Wi-Fi, and then call time. It also indicates the charge capacity, battery status and the instantaneous current draw. This phone provides a total storage of about 13.86 GB but the available storage capacity is 13.14 GB. It has some battery issues and Nokia-Windows combined to resolve this issue by updating the OS.
The Nokia Lumia 800 supports these timings for the different purpose:
- Web browsing (cellular 3G) – 4.25 hours.
- Web browsing (Wi-Fi) – 7.367 hours.
- Talk time – 7.843 hours.
From the above observation I can say that the Nokia Lumia battery life is better in talk time and the web browsing with Wi-Fi than in the web browsing with 3G. In web browsing with the 3G the Nokia N8 supports the more battery capacity than Nokia Lumia 800.
WP7 ports or analogs:
Majority of the benchmarks does not have WP7 ports or analogs. The WP7 is already present on other Smartphone platforms and this is as a result of two main things. First is the Microsoft’s observation about their new Smartphone platform with hardware requirements and the Second is the availability of native and managed code execution environment. Availability of the WP7 provides a good UI smoothness. The Lumia’s WP7 ports are based around Qualcomm SoCs. The Lumia 800 is based around Qualcomm’s single core S2 Snapdragon at 1.4 GHz with Adreno 205 graphics at the core and dual channel LPDDR2 memory interfaces.
The WP7.5 brings a improved JavaScript engine. The Nokia Lumia 800 has a stock browser of 6752.1ms in terms of SunSpider JavaScript benchmark 0.9.1, which is a very good score.
Nokia Apps in Lumia 800:
Nokia Lumia 800 features with number of preloaded Nokia applications like Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Nokia Music and other application highlights. In addition the Lumia 800 features a Nokia blue colour theme which provides an interesting and nice touch.
Nokia Drive:
It provides a navigation application, provides voice guidance and maps based on your choice of location. It provides metro style application with its menus and navigation. Nokia’s voice navigation application helps you to make your work easier.
Nokia Maps:
It has a more of metro UI’s application and it is the first one to provide Microsoft’s Bing Map solution. The Nokia Maps comes with three different map view options. They are map, satellite and public transport.
Nokia Music:
This helps you to tune music and videos, and to search the existing music from your previous collection. You can also apparently stream and mix music.
Application highlights:
App highlights provides specific applications like YouTube, Netflix, Yelp, Facebook, Abode Reader etc which is already listed in this Nokia Lumia. These applications will not be available in all the WP7 devices, because of which they need to download it from the other sources. Since Nokia has these applications already stored in it, this becomes a good feature.
Camera:
Camera is the most important feature many people look for when they think about a Windows phone. Nokia provides much importance to camera by its positioning with Carl Zeiss branded optical system. The WP7 adds the more importance to it with its mandatory two step camera button which gives a feel of nice and clicky. The camera provides the application with the shooting scenes, white balance, exposure offset, ISO, metering mode, contrast, saturation, focus and resolution.
Nokia lumia 800 camera combines an 8 MP CMOS sensor that shoots the image of size3264 x 2448(4:3) or 3552 x 1998(16:9). This feature is not observed in any of the other device. The Nokia Lumia 800 shoots HD video up to 720p30 at 14.0 Mbps H.264 baselines.
Display:
The Lumia 800 uses WVGA (800*480) 3.7” Super AMOLED display. The WP7 take the advantage of AMOLED’s light emitting nature to display as much black as possible unless you change the theme colour. Lumia 800 provides the brightness of 196.1 Nits. Another feature of Lumia 800 is that there is a curved Corning Gorilla display.
Cellular:
Cellular with the Nokia Lumia 800 is supplied by the MSM8255’s onboard baseband. Lumia 800 takes a microSIM. There are mainly two Lumia 800 variants each with different WCDMA bands. They are the two devices with the tri band WCDMA.
Wi-Fi:
The Wi-Fi and the Bluetooth on Nokia Lumia800 is provided by a Broadcom BCM4329 combo chip, which is similar to the other Smartphone devices. The Lumia 800 provides a single spatial stream on the 2.4 GHz band. It supports a Wi-Fi transfer rate of about 19.6 Mbps. The WP7.5 includes the ability to connect to Wi-Fi Apps that don’t broadcast their SSID.
Speakerphone:
This is regarding the sound level of the Lumia 800. Since the speaker is placed at the bottom there is not enough loud sound emerging from the phone. The sound level is not good while placing the Nokia Drive or placing calls. This Smartphone has the multiple microphone system for common mode noise rejection; i.e. Lumia 800 will reject a noise common between the two microphone systems.
GPS:
The Lumia 800 uses the GPS system onboard MSM8255. It also gets the GPS lock with much speed even in the tough environment. You can get the GPS lock within 5 minutes in map application and Nokia Drive.
Conclusion:
The Nokia Lumia 800 is now really a best windows phone hardware available in the market. This is an extraordinary Nokia WP7 device with the notable features like the 1.4 GHz MSM8*55 SoC, 8 MP camera, 512 MB of RAM and many more.
The annoyance with the Lumia 800 is that it lays flat which might invite scratches. The microUSB door has a raised region to demark where to press and you could break this door after few times of inserting and removing. Lumia 800 has the few places where it stumbles. Another disadvantage is that the charging and the battery situation, and it are very hard to judge the goodness of the battery life. There is a lack of USB or the external storage, upon which the Nokia has to work to make it better.
The operating system of WP7.5 device is much better than the other devices. The Nokia Lumia 800 is much well suited for the normal users with its GPS navigation application like Nokia Drive and map application. But for the Symbian and Maemo users this becomes a huge issue to deal with Nokia Lumia 800. This Smartphone will give a strong competition for the Samsung Focus S. If the Nokia resolves its problem with the battery and few other things, there is no doubt that the Nokia Lumia 800 will be the best ever Smartphone you have seen.
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