The Official Nokia Lumia 800 Thread*

McPhee · 26 Oct 2011 at 22:19

tripitaka said:
Think this might be replacing my ageing iPhone 3G. 32GB would have been nice, and I could do with Spotify doing a WinPho7 app (unbelievably they DO have one for the old Windows mobile).

Spotify is "imminent".

As an alternative, how about Zune Pass? I jumped ship from Spotify when I got my HTC Trophy and haven't looked back. The interface is just... better. It's album/artist-based while I've always found Spotify's focus to be very much on playlists.

McPhee · 26 Oct 2011 at 22:23

Belloni said:
I've never had a WM7 phone, this looks nice ... i'm close to getting an iPhone 4S, currently got a blackberry with the girlfriend, but we both want a change, but now iphone as iMessage, yes we're sad! This does look very good though, how's the app store with Nokia?

If messaging is important to you then it's worth noting that Windows Phone has Live Messenger (aka MSN Messenger) and Facebook Chat built in to the phone. Puts iMessage and BBM to shane tbh.

Belloni · 26 Oct 2011 at 22:28

I guess so, the thing that is drawing me in is the free sat nav, my driving directional ability is shocking, and i always need to ask where to go, and i don't want to spend money on a separate sat nav. My blackberry doesn't have turn by turn just google ... oh decisions

Macro · 26 Oct 2011 at 22:44

3dcandy said:
possibly...it's a difficult choice....6% is still pretty pathetic though don't you think? I'm not knocking WP7 but for a paltry 6% share I'd be gunning for somebody's ass on a plate...

I may have missed some more details about which market the stat is measuring. Keep in mind WP7 only launched in the US, Most of europe and a couple of SE Asia countries. Places like Japan, Korea, India and a bunch of others have only recently been added and there's still more countries it's not available in than it is.

sarge78 · 26 Oct 2011 at 22:50

^ Microsoft had a 9% market share in Nov 2010, now it's fallen to 5.7% (US comscore figures) They're still in major decline.

Xenoxide said:
I'm an iPhone user, and have been since the first generation. I dislike Android as personally I consider it to be unpolished and unusable.

I do like Windows Phone but once you get past the UI it's more frustrating and unusable than Android. Try editing one of your contacts phone number... there's no cursor support!

The latest iOS and Android builds are much more complete.

Amp34 · 26 Oct 2011 at 22:55

satchef1 said:
If messaging is important to you then it's worth noting that Windows Phone has Live Messenger (aka MSN Messenger) and Facebook Chat built in to the phone. Puts iMessage and BBM to shane tbh.

And then of course there is whatsapp and kik which are infinitely better than BBM and iMessage as they are properly cross platform.

Christo · 26 Oct 2011 at 23:25

sarge78 said:
I do like Windows Phone but once you get past the UI it's more frustrating and unusable than Android. Try editing one of your contacts phone number... there's no cursor support!

There is..
WP7.5 is so easy to use, cant see how its frustrating (well from my point of view..)

manic111 · 26 Oct 2011 at 23:40

That hardware is absolutely beautiful. Really, really tempted to dump my SGSII for this...

DIABLO · 26 Oct 2011 at 23:53

manic111 said:
That hardware is absolutely beautiful. Really, really tempted to dump my SGSII for this...

It's a side move at best unless you're really into WM7 and only care about looks.

Meeko · 27 Oct 2011 at 00:24

sarge78 said:
...Try editing one of your contacts phone number... there's no cursor support!

Yes there is! Go to contact, edit mode, choose mobile no, hold on the input field for a second and you get a cursor to precision select where to place it. I think this applies to any text/number input field in WP7

McPhee · 27 Oct 2011 at 00:34

Amp34 said:
And then of course there is whatsapp and kik which are infinitely better than BBM and iMessage as they are properly cross platform.

I guess. Just tried Whatsapp, pretty cool. Out of 112 contacts it's managed to find 2 who actually use the app. I must say, the set-up process was slick though

I've been avoiding Whatsapp because I just assumed it'd be similar to Fring or IM+ (i.e. unreliable and buggy on almost every platform. Regular crashes and undelivered messages) but from the 5 minutes I've had with it I'm liking what I'm seeing

Sinny · 27 Oct 2011 at 00:55

£26 per month for 200 minutes, unlimited texts, 750mb data £50 phone cost.. Damn if I could afford it!!!

Hyburnate · 27 Oct 2011 at 00:59

Would I be able to use a blackberry contract on this phone?

Cause of the Blackberry Email

shaffaaf27 · 27 Oct 2011 at 02:59

sinny, where is that?

RSR · 27 Oct 2011 at 07:21

kona786 said:
Just to make the folks interested in the Nokia 800 Lumia aware the WVGA AMOLED screen uses a PenTile matrix.

It's also a much smaller screen than most other phones with AMOLED screens, so it has a greater dpi ratio. So things like text etc... will be clearer.

Who makes the Nokia screens ?

Journey · 27 Oct 2011 at 07:47

andyd said:
It's also a much smaller screen than most other phones with AMOLED screens, so it has a greater dpi ratio. So things like text etc... will be clearer.

Who makes the Nokia screens ?

It's the same size as the HTC Desire screen and you can see the difference in text quality between the SLCD and AMOLED screens on that, I had both and the SLCD was much better for reading small text in a web browser.

sunny007 · 27 Oct 2011 at 08:14

Hyburnate said:
Would I be able to use a blackberry contract on this phone?
Cause of the Blackberry Email

You can use bb on this phone ?

RSR · 27 Oct 2011 at 08:27

Journey said:
It's the same size as the HTC Desire screen and you can see the difference in text quality between the SLCD and AMOLED screens on that, I had both and the SLCD was much better for reading small text in a web browser.

I am still reserving judgement though till I have one in my hand.

EDIT: Interesting Nokia's AMOLEDs screens are made by LG.

Myshra · 27 Oct 2011 at 08:47

Hyburnate said:
Would I be able to use a blackberry contract on this phone?
Cause of the Blackberry Email

Depends on your provider - some allow you to change BIS for a bolt on internet package, you'd need to check with them though. For those after pricing I have the details of direct (not sure they are out yet but this is solid info):

Available through all our direct channels from 16 November, the Nokia Lumia 800 will be free to Orange customers who take a £36 per month,24 month contract. T-Mobile customers can get it free from £30 a month on 24 month contracts.

Edit: The 360 offer is apparently only for upgrades between 16th Nov to 30th, requires you to take a 18/24m deal, upgrade MUST be done via instore or online (note - they don't say via upgrades on 150 so you may be better off arguing the cost of your renewal down by a bigger margin than the xbox's worth)

Amp34 · 27 Oct 2011 at 09:01

DIABLO said:
It's a side move at best unless you're really into WM7 and only care about looks.

Why? Is this the whole hardware top trumps game again? Just because it doesn't need it doesn't mean it's worse...

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