Nokia Lumia 800: Features and Price

With Nokia Lumia 800, Nokia has introduced its first ever Windows OS Smartphone. It is currently available in India with a price tag of Rs. 24999/- . Recently Nokia has launched white colour in Nokia Lumia 800 and so you now get the options of four different colors – Cyan, Magenta, Black and White as well. In the present post we highlight the features of Nokia Lumia 800 such as its OS, UI, design, screen, camera, pricing and other related information so that you can have a clear picture of its usability and capabilities and specifications.

The Nokia Lumia 800 is the first Windows Phone OS smartphone release by Nokia after its tie-up with Microsoft. Nokia has used Windows Phone 7.5 Mango OS in Lumia 800. Many will appreciate the simplicity with which one can operate the Lumia 800 handset. It has an attractive and unique Metro user interface providing a tiled layout on the screen. It has a fast and responsive touch system to support a fantastic user experience. The Windows 7.5 Mango OS has an integrated Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin accounts for a better social experience, gives an easy Wi-Fi tethering and comes with Internet Explorer 9 as the default browser.

The Nokia Lumia 800 brings in a very slim and premium looking profile with dimensions of 116.5mm x 61.2mm x 12.1mm and is light weighted with 142g. Lumia 800 bears curved design aesthetics with a curved polycarbonate chassis which provides a unique and attractive look to the smartphone. This makes it light and is very hard to damage. Lumia 800 has a screen size of 3.7 inches (800 x 480 pixels) which is pretty decent for a great internet and multimedia experience.

It carries CPU of 1.4 GHz MSM8255 Snapdragon/Scorpion and has a 512 MB of RAM. Also Lumia 800 has 16-bit AMOLED ClearBlack display giving better contrast ratios and vivid colors in output. It has a fixed internal storage capacity of 16 GB which is quite good from any standards. It carries a BV-5JW 3.7V 1450mAh battery. You get a camera of 8 megapixels in Lumia 800 which delivers clear and vivid quality snaps. It has a prescribed camera button and the chrome key is superb.

All-in-all, Nokia Lumia 800 is a welcome step from the mobile manufacturing giant, Nokia. Windows OS based smartphone is relatively a new experience for the Indian audience as compared to the likes of Android or iPhone. The Live Tiles is one of the unique features you get in Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone. Its price tag is also competitive so we can expect Nokia Lumia 800 to give a good competition to its rivals.