Here it is folks, the new Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone, or as Nokia CEO Stephen Elop puts it, the first “real Windows Phone”. It’s not exactly been a secret these last few months, but now we’ve got the precise details on it. As expected, it adopts an almost identical shell to the doomed but wonderful Nokia N9, made out of machined polycarbonate, and sports a 3.7-inch Clear Black AMOLED screen, 1.4GHz processor and 16GB of internal storage.
Under the bonnet, it’s running Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”, while the 8MP Carl Zeiss lens camera sports a f2.2 aperture. As for exclusive software? The Nokia Lumia 800 comes with Nokia Drive pre-installed, with voice turn by turn navigation for free – you can download maps in advance or over 3G while you drive, and has 69 million points of interest noted down.
Nokia Music also come installed out of the box. The Finns are bigging up a new feature called “Mix Radio” which provides you with playlists of genres to stream for free, or save for offline playback. We’ll see how that works in practive – we think Spotify for Windows Phone will oust it from your live tile homescreen pretty promptly when it launches.
We’ll have a hands-on very soon, and report our findings then. Certainly we’re hoping to see Nokia Maps make its way on to an already accomplished and easy to use OS.
As for timing? Nokia says the new Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone will go on sale in the UK in black, cyan and magenta on 16 November. Vodafone, Three, T-Mobile and Orange have all confirmed they will be selling it. Stay tuned for more as it breaks.
(via Nokia Conversations)
