Nokia Lumia 800 - when the first pancake is not lumpy

At one time, Nokia was one of the first brands that launched smartphones on the Windows Phone operating system. The starting model of the company on this system was the Nokia Lumia 800, and it should be noted that the device turned out to be a very interesting and new trend in the market. The further fate of the brand was less successful, and it was the fault of a number of erroneous actions, but it all started promising. Review of Nokia Lumiya 800 will tell about the first model and its features.

Specifications

The peculiarity of the Windows Phone system is that the device does not require serious characteristics in order for the device to work stably and quickly. In fact, Windows is a platform for those people who work more with their mobile device, rather than having fun. Among the really interesting features - high-quality offline navigator, as well as full support for Office. All this works not even on the most powerful hardware. Characteristics of the Nokia Lumia 800 are shown in the table.

The above parameters make it clear that the device does not hit the stuffing and should not do it, but the interest Amoled technology, it is still considered the best on the market. The second interesting feature is the camera. 8 megapixels for the 2011 release is more than a high parameter.

Nokia Lumia 800

Design

Today, Nokia's smartphones are beginning to appear on the shelves again, and their design is somewhat reminiscent of old devices. At the time of the release, the device sometimes looked more interesting than the models of competitors. The main material used thin and reliable plasticwhich perfectly lay in hand. What is nice about this performance is that even with the appearance of scratches, the colors and texture did not change, as it happened with other plastic devices.

On a note! Initially, all phones had a matte hue, and only in later versions, gloss began to appear. By the way, such a decision, according to reviews, is worse than the matte version, since it is more branded.

The front of the phone is closed Gorilla Glasswhich protects the screen from scratches. The display itself looks like it is inserted into the case, and if you look closely at its surface, you can see that it is slightly bent. The device has three onscreen touch buttons that are located just below the display. Their task is navigation, and in fact it is the control buttons. Above the display is a small speaker. Event indicator is not provided here, also no front camera.

On the right side there are three buttons - volume, power, photo. The latter allows you to quickly access the camera, even when the phone is locked. This is quite convenient. At the top there is a headphone jack, as well as a plug, under which the SIM card and power connector opens. At the bottom of the second speaker. The back side has a metal insert on which the camera is located. Above double flash. Metal insert - This is the only element that quickly scratches, and it is noticeable.

Display

The display in Nokia Lumiya 800 is made by Amoled technology and has a resolution of 480 * 854 pixels. Its diagonal is 3.7 inches.

On a note! An interesting fact is that Windows is an operating system that does not know how to adjust to the display resolution, all software has to be rewritten. The first Windows firmware was sharpened specifically for a resolution of 480 * 854 pixels, and this is the answer to the question of why the device got a diagonal smaller than the Nokia N9, because by and large Nokia Lumia 800 was copied from this device. The N9 diagonal was 3.9 inches. The difference of 0.2 inches left a small strip, which became the location of the touch control buttons.

According to its characteristics and real possibilities, the screen can be called one of the best on the market for its time.. Good viewing angles, a special reflective layer to improve readability in the bright time of day, in addition, this layer better conveys black color. The color rendition, brightness - all at a very high level. The device was equipped with a really gorgeous display, and this is another advantage that made customers choose this device on Windows, and not a Samsung or HTC device with the same OS.

Performance

The Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone was equipped with a Qualcomm MSM 8255 chipset. An interesting fact is that at one time Windows worked exclusively on processors from this manufacturer.Nokia at one time had serious disagreements with Qualcomm, but was able to agree, which was the beginning of a long cooperation.

By itself, the chipset is single-core, and its clock frequency is 1.4 GHz. For a device on Windows, this is more than enough. 512 megabytes RAM also completes the picture, and Any task for the device is completely solvable.

Important! Despite the high speed of work, you need to clearly understand that we are not talking about multitasking. In fact, when performing various actions, the smartphone stops the task, and not just minimizes it. This means that the application has to be restarted later. In some cases, this is not critical, but the route in the navigator needs to be redone, and this is not very convenient if the user is driving.

The main memory of the device is 16 gigabytes, there is no slot for its expansion. This is because Microsoft has actively promoted your cloud storage. Each user of Nokia Lumia 800 and any other device on Windows received a virtual flash drive with 25 gigabytes. The downside was that without the Internet, the information on it was becoming inaccessible.

Model battery is not removable.Its capacity is very small - 1450 mAh. With standard phone loads lasts about two days of work. This is a good result for Nokia, as subsequent models have become less productive when Wi-Fi is connected. This unit has no such problem.

Navigation

A separate point of the review should highlight the navigation capabilities of the Nokia Lumia 800 phone, since they are really interesting and were better than those of Android devices. The Nokia Navigator application allows you to download maps of a city or an entire country to your device, and then, without being connected to the Internet, use GPS to create routes for traveling or moving around the city. In addition, when connecting to the Internet, it was possible to lay routes on public transport, walking, as well as upload information about traffic jams and impose a metro map on the city map. Today it does not seem to be anything special, since all services are able to do this, but in 2011 Nokia’s software in this matter was the most perfect, fast and accurate. One more pleasant moment - the phone supported out of the box voice support in Russian.

Camera

Above it was said that in the Nokia Lumiya 800, an 8-megapixel camera is of particular interest. In addition, the device has a dual diode flash and autofocus. Camera matrix created by Carl Zeisswhich does not need a separate presentation, and still the participation of this brand in the creation of the camera says a lot about quality.

The device has many settings and shooting modes. Fully automatic mode makes a very high-quality images at any time of the day. On the manual settings, everything will depend on the user's skills. The only competitors of Nokia with a similar operating system at the time of the release of the Lumia 800 offered consumers devices with a much worse camera, so the photo capabilities were another plus in the device's collection. Video smartphone can shoot in HD format with 30 frames per second. The microphone has the function of noise reduction, and the camera itself is able to focus on the face. The quality of the commercials is also at a decent level.

Conclusion

The price of the device at the time of release was 21 thousand rubles. Such a price tag says that the device, if not a flagship, is close to it. In general, the smartphone is very pleasant for work, has an excellent screen, has a convenient navigation system, makes great photos.This is an interesting device for buying to those people who primarily work or want a phone with a good camera and for calls.

Minus model - the lack of multitasking, as well as the inconvenience of working with the OS. In the initial stages, Windows was very much like iOS, where hard binding to the native application was required to transfer data from a PC to a device. Here the situation is completely similar. Without installed on computer applications Zune It is impossible to reset anything from the phone to the PC and back. For those who previously used Android, this approach might seem very inconvenient.

Nokia Lumia 800