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Nokia Lumia 800 review: New beginnings

2 December 2011 | Read the review | Post your comment
Nokia Lumia 800 review: New beginnings - read the full textIt 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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waited, and i think with mango, wp is "fully usable" (when first launched, no copy&paste, missed some other functions). in fact, i think, it's comparable with ios & android. i've an iphone and used a number of android handsets; se mini pro being the latest one i also carry now, i do miss the many features/functions on android, but i cant stand the bugs/lagginess/force-closes etc. on-screen keyboard were sub-par too (thats why i switched to se mini pro w/ a physical qwerty)...i guess wp is the middle ground between android & ios...more features/functions than ios but not yet at the android level..

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  • 2011-12-05 16:45
  • uEBd

> In reply to Alui @ 2011-12-05 13:10 from Am9Y - click to readWhy dont you just have a pin code for your phone and also one for you sim.

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  • 2011-12-05 13:25
  • i5BK

Just some questions:
How/ can you protect individual apps? If you lose your phone in an airport before a long flight, people that find it can enjoy free internet access, or looking at the pictures guess where you live and rob your house.
I just want to know if you can lock individual apps(internet browser, settings, market, gallery, etc), like on an Android phone.
I understand the the galley tile slide-shows your photos on the screen. Can you restrict some photos of being shown?

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  • 2011-12-05 13:10
  • Am9Y

windows phone security isnt good either.

someone pirated a sofware and put for free on the market,
microsoft even approve it. they nwo removed it and wipe the app from peopel that bought it

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  • 2011-12-05 12:58
  • Pv9c

I just want to point out that Windows Phone 7(and 7.5) does have native Divx and Xvid support. If it's in an mp4 or m4v container then it'll be fine.
It's the avi video container file format that it doesn't support. If you pop your xvid/divx video stream into one of the supported containers it plays just fine and there's no long conversion process to do that.

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  • 2011-12-05 12:05
  • 3JcB

As a person that used Android and has still got a warm spot for it i decided to take the plunge and get an Nokia Lumia 800 and i have to say i love it. The people hub is amazing and so simply to use there is no lag sorry Android i really got sick of it after a while and i have yet to see a force closer sign because something didnt work. The zune player is great actually i can stream as much music as i like for £8.99 a month also i can download it onto my phone and play it where ever i go. texting is great and email is great. The one downside is that games are very expensive. I have used facebook and twitter loads more because it is built in the system. yes it is not dual core and i cant add moving wallpapers and the like but to be honest i knew what i was geting before i bought it and i dont care. I dont want to see people when i call them so front facing means nothing to me. the OS is simple and fluid to use something that i have never been able to say of Android in all my years of using it. Also i believe the reviewer needs to get a clue Nokia have never stated that this was going to be the phone that saved it we all know they only had about 7 months how much do you think they were really going to do. What they have done is make a good start and the handset is desirable all the Android handsets i have had reviewers thought they were great because of their specs but they didnt look that nice case in point Htc desire was not a looker. I have had this phone and everyone has wanted to pick it up and play with it. Sorry but i cant fault it i wish i could but i cant it just works.

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  • 2011-12-05 12:05
  • i5BK

Bear in mind people... that this really is just a stop-gap until next year (haven't they already announced the Lumia 900 flag ship?)
I would wait...
Feb / March should see a new line up and definitely an improvement on this (if W7.5 is your bag...)
As it stands this is just to get their foot in the door...
Next year is make or break for them...
And they'll have a hell of a lot of competition..
;)

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  • 2011-12-05 11:47
  • GjjS

I thought I'd like this phone, but I cannot use a Phone thats limited to 16GB of storage.
I have about 1100 songs (8gb) on my Galaxy S II, got Maps of ENTIRE Europe (about 8gb) saved. I've got about 200-300 pictures, and probably 10-20 videos recorded @ 1080p. I'm no math genius but.. What will be left for Apps? App Data?
Nothing

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  • 2011-12-05 11:43
  • SnDQ

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2011-12-05 08:50 from wMHH - click to readi totally agree.. NOKIA is Symbian... they should make it better...

or just get ANDROID....

posted from HTC EVO 3D

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  • 2011-12-05 11:05
  • f0J7

to start off: my wm6.5 htc hd2 has full multi-tasking (though less ram for applications) and IE with full flash support. 3 years later MS do not show any evolution, but contrary. Shame on Nokia that their "savior" is so pathetic. LOL :-P

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  • 2011-12-05 10:43
  • Svec

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2011-12-05 08:35 from wMHH - click to readNokia is Symbian. Nokia with anything else is a different phone--only the brand name. Symbian should have been improved instead of going Windows. It's light and requires very little hardware-wise. With this Lumia, you're buying just another Windows phone, not a real Nokia.

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  • 2011-12-05 08:50
  • wMHH

Windows, even in desktops, are products of marketing hype. On desktops, they were pretty heavy on hardware (compared to macOS or Linux). They excelled in marketing which explains their success on desktops. On mobiles, well they met with limited success for the same reason--very heavy and slow. To save itself from drowning, Nokia just grabbed a lifesaver made of cement!!!

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  • 2011-12-05 08:35
  • wMHH

> In reply to machis @ 2011-12-05 05:17 from H4s% - click to readYes you are right, I am also planning to purchase Nokia Windows Phone.

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  • 2011-12-05 08:04
  • w47%

> In reply to tomakali @ 2011-12-03 14:19 from vGnb - click to readim working for microsoft... and i hate mango 7.5... bcoz... there no Improvements... over w7....but appolo having so much changes... it supports flash in broswer, mass storage mode,, but still no bluetooth file transfer... and come wit expandable storage

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  • 2011-12-05 07:14
  • QPVU

Without front camera and External memory slot, no use as far as my concern.

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  • 2011-12-05 05:42
  • uvt%

are you guys gonna buy this ?
i think its worth a try

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  • 2011-12-05 05:17
  • H4s%

> In reply to sks @ 2011-12-04 16:59 from vIgQ - click to readas someone stated below look how mess up the security of android right now, one reason the open file management of the OS, even myself i will not use android for any online/financial transaction,who knows what are lurking inside those Innocent file folders, hahaha, and for productive apps maybe you should rethink IOS and WP7, but for games ios and android, but i dont think android in the long run can acquire vast high quality game catalogue from IOS due to piracy,

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  • 2011-12-05 04:49
  • sxw2

Despite my N97 Mini being ... well, kinda crap, I still use it because Nokia's navigation software is actually quite good. Or at least, it was on Symbian.

Why on earth would they leave out routing options in Nokia Drive? I may as well use Bing Maps.

I will still be getting the Lumia 800 when my plan's up, as I've been loving WP7.5. But I was really hoping for a lot more from Nokia on the software front.

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  • 2011-12-05 04:00
  • PFeY

n9 have ALOT better camera, windows phone have horrible jpeg compression that ruins details and the colors, ltos of color noise

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  • 2011-12-04 23:19
  • Pv9c

> In reply to lol @ 2011-12-04 14:08 from 0CYB - click to readGreat,but this is Mango 7,5 and it is much better than wp7. just wait when wp8 update. this is the next big os. No doubt anymore. wp is almost jst a year old and this is damx good.

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  • 2011-12-04 23:10
  • s0Iw
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