**The Official Nokia Lumia 800 Thread***

sarge78 said:
So, it should be about £350 then?
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I personally expect around/under 400 but high discounts in volume so it sells better through network stores/p4u/cpw et al. They could go better though and suck it up, depends how far they are willing to go to buy mind and marketshare which they badly need after such a long gap. Nokia have age and experience on their side (plus their marketing/channel teams are dynamite) so I'm expecting a launch like the SGS2 rather than the BB9900 when it comes to price and volume.
 
Wish it was a 4" screen tbh, 3.7 just seems a tad small by today's standards.

Nothing really new from the event though, phone looks nice but undecided wether to purchase or not.
 
Maybe I was being a bit flippant earlier, but it's not like previous WP7 phones were bad looking. Mango was announced a long time ago and reviewed plenty already if people weren't interested in WP7 phones before why would they be now? Or is it just because Nokia are doing one and bringing their brand name to it?
 
bam0 said:
Maybe I was being a bit flippant earlier, but it's not like previous WP7 phones were bad looking. Mango was announced a long time ago and reviewed plenty already if people weren't interested in WP7 phones before why would they be now? Or is it just because Nokia are doing one and bringing their brand name to it?
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Marketing.
 
bam0 said:
Maybe I was being a bit flippant earlier, but it's not like previous WP7 phones were bad looking. Mango was announced a long time ago and reviewed plenty already if people weren't interested in WP7 phones before why would they be now? Or is it just because Nokia are doing one and bringing their brand name to it?
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I've been waiting for wp7 to mature tbh, I used it briefly back in February and liked it, I've been waiting for Nokia phones to be released because the current batch of phones don't really take my fancy tbh.
 
Robbo said:
Marketing.
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Seems like a miscalculation then on MS' part. I mean WP7 has been out for a while now but it came into a market that was getting pretty well filled by Apple and Android, if they were going to do heavy marketing it should have been then. They'll probably get something of a lift from this arrangement with Nokia but unless they can find a way to encourage a move from a non WP7 Nokia phone to a WP7 one you're fighting against the fact that people in that situation will have been exposed to Android and Apple phones by the sheer mass of numbers who have them.
 
I think that MS / Nokia need to develop a similar marketing strategy to Apple, and sell the 'Experience' rather than the Spec (which is where android fall down). Ask android users and they can tell more about the spec of the handset they are using than an iOS user (generally speaking).

Most buyers are sold on iOS as they can see, in simple terms, how they can achieve most everyday tasks (emails / text / pictures / socail networking etc). THIS is what MS / Nokia are up against, but i believe that Nokia can pull it off.
 
I think it looks great, and quite tempted to get this over the Galaxy Nexus.

Don't know if it's quite enough though.
 
maun said:
Wish it was a 4" screen tbh, 3.7 just seems a tad small by today's standards.

Nothing really new from the event though, phone looks nice but undecided wether to purchase or not.
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Well it would have been 4" had it kept the resolution, chopping off the 50ish pixels on the long side relative to the N9 means the screen has gone down slightly (that's my assessment of it anyway). Still, 4" is the perfect size for me too.

bam0 said:
Maybe I was being a bit flippant earlier, but it's not like previous WP7 phones were bad looking. Mango was announced a long time ago and reviewed plenty already if people weren't interested in WP7 phones before why would they be now? Or is it just because Nokia are doing one and bringing their brand name to it?
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I don't think that it was the majority not interested, more people not knowing about it. Most Android sales are probably to people that go in to buy a "HTC" or a smartphone in their price range. Get some marketing out (and get the sales teams to actually sell them) and they will sell a lot. MS, HTC and Nokia are doing a big marketing push in now/in the near future to get that knowledge out there.

The lack of a front facing camera is a bit of an omission.
 
bam0 said:
Seems like a miscalculation then on MS' part. I mean WP7 has been out for a while now but it came into a market that was getting pretty well filled by Apple and Android, if they were going to do heavy marketing it should have been then. They'll probably get something of a lift from this arrangement with Nokia but unless they can find a way to encourage a move from a non WP7 Nokia phone to a WP7 one you're fighting against the fact that people in that situation will have been exposed to Android and Apple phones by the sheer mass of numbers who have them.
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I think part of the reason is to get the kinks out of the software (and any missing features in) as well as give the marketplace a chance to grow to a reasonable size before wasting lots of money promoting it. It already has a 6ish percent marketshare after a year and is predicted to have at least 12% of the market by the end of next year.
 
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