Nokia Lumia 800 Full Review

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UPDATE: We have updated our software to ensure that the device responds to that available for communication to consumers, so take a look at our updated results of the full star.

The Nokia 800 is the first snow to spring from the Microsoft Windows Mobile / Nokia tie-up announced in February, and we already have in your hands a sample check it out.

Lumia The Nokia 800 shares of its exterior design, with far less hype and Nokia N9, a smartphone based on MeeGo, although the screen size is reduced by 3.9 "(854 x 480 pixels) 3.7" (800 × 480 pixels) to meet the specifications of the list of Windows Phone.

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However, the ARM Cortex-A8 CPU 1 GHz, 1.4 GHz Snapdragon MSM8255 / Scorpion, which will definitely help increase the snap Mango Windows Phone.

The Nokia 800 Lumia, although the more expensive Windows Phone Nokia offers two (the other is the budget Nokia Lumia 710) shares of the Nokia N9 AMOLED ClearBlack 16-bit, while the Nokia 710 ClearBlack Lumia has a TFT screen of 24 bits.

Despite this, even if the color depth of the deepest snow is theoretically the Nokia 710, AMOLED displays are seen better than the old TFT technology is more vivid colors and better contrast ratio.

Moving away from comparisons Nokia 800 Snow is also to compete with the likes of HTC and HTC Titan Radar Mango Windows phones. If we compare the size of the screen there is the Nokia 800 Lumia feel a little 'down with the HTC Titan radar and enter the Fray 3.8 "and 4.7" screens respectively, although all competitors have the same 800 × 480 pixels for resolution.

Apparently, the iPhone has managed to be a success in a small 3.5 inch screen, but the trend toward bigger screens is increasing all the time, and I must say that we are friends for more than four inches in Internet experience better, and the media.

This means that the pixel density of 800 Lumia is a bit sharper, but on our side by side comparisons, we noticed very little difference between the three, and even the display text 800 Lumia with some clarity less.

When it comes to internal memory for HTC Titan 800 and the snow are the same with a solid 16 GB of built-in memory, the Nokia 710 and Radar Snow HTC weighs in at a piece of 8GB.

Based on the information of the manufacturer's products will soon become clear that two of the snow, the Nokia 800 is intended to compete with the HTC Titan, and the Nokia 710 with the Radar Snow HTC.

Dimensionally than the HTC Titan (131.5 mm x 70.7 mm x 9.9 mm and 160g), we notice that the snow Nokia 800 (116.5 mm x 61.2 mm x 12.1 mm and 142g), sliced ​​very thin and light weight yet relaxed.

The physical appearance of the Nokia 800 Lumia is a dream to observe and handle, with its smooth curves fitting to hand with and without the protective case provided for in the purchase package.

The first impression is mixed with the phone. If you are used to maintain the current harvest ultra-thin phones, making the rounds of phone shops today, you can not help feeling a little snow is 800 'on the big, even compared to the iPhone 4S makes about 10 % more often.

But that does not mean that it is not an attractive unit, with its large 3.7-inch OLED screen pushed on one side of the chassis and a cool curved polycarbonate shell gives your phone a premium feel very real.

Nokia has worked hard unibody here, so you get the battery and with a top-mounted flaps to cover the charging port and SIM card slot - interestingly enough, we see the MicroSim here, which seems to be a fashion for the next wave of smart phones.

It 'a little' strange system, and second, that some people will find a little 'hard to get used to - but does not intend to borrow some shine.

One area that we see consumers get annoyed is on the rear panel - As you can see, we tried the demo shown was scratched, and the same has already begun to happen in our model review.

Lumia Nokia 800 is quite affordable, costing as little as nothing in Orange or Vodafone £ 26 contract with The Carphone Warehouse against the HTC Titan start at £ 31 h £ 36 with Vodafone and Orange h.

Interface

The main difference between Nokia and other phones Nokia Series Lumia is that it uses the operating system Microsoft Windows Phone. The system itself is nothing new, of course, the release of its latest incarnation (WP 7.5) as the HTC Titan radar earlier this year.

An important point for and against some WP7 is that it is completely different to the iPhone, Android, Symbian and MeeGo as the notion of network application is nowhere to be seen.

Instead of the more standard home screen, or "home screen" in the case of Windows Phone 7.5, the Nokia 800 uses Lumia "Live Tiles", assembling a network of 2 x 4 (although the tiles calendar the photos are full screen width) tiles on the screen, scrolling the screen as the tiles you want to add.

Adding tiles to the splash screen is as simple as pressing left to the application list, press and hold an application and select "Pin to start" to remove one tile that requires a long press on the floor of the page Start, and then pressing the pin with a line through it.

Move the tiles around so easy, it requires a long press, then drag to the desired position.

At first we were not sure about the elimination of large tile base, find a little heavy and misuse of screen space, but in a few days our opinion has changed. The main advantage is speed of use. You do not need to look more closely at your phone to use as pressing the chances of losing are very small.

We will have more benefits for the blocks of the system, such as Live applications will be able to show dedicated to the information instead of an icon - for example, BA App turns QR-code, when you are about to embark on a flight can be used instead of a boarding pass.

The other section of the home screen is a list of applications, which is pretty standard and outdated in some ways a little, since it is only an alphabetical list of applications, application or groups in the case of Office and Games.

In his defense of this design software is the list, again, easy to navigate, knowing exactly where an application will sit on the list as in the start menu of Windows PC. This is facilitated by the flexible search button on the left side of the list with an automatic filter the list based on the text input.

All this means that the folders are long gone, but after a while 'you will notice that in this form, do not need them - even when you turn the phone application, we would like the opportunity to order them in small groups. Ability to search by letter is not enough - we want to customize the same way, users can group your contacts and add them to the Start menu.

WP7 is a step back, the top status bar is not interactive than we are accustomed to with other operating systems.

To switch between Bluetooth, WiFi and flight mode on / off, you should go to the configuration, which was very frustrating until I found an application on the market called Shortcuts connectivity to bring this function to the Home screen of tiles .

Another frustration is that the status bar often appears only once, there is no information about the link or the remaining power to swipe down on top of the screen to see these items.

Microsoft considers this to clean up the evidence, but because you know that the signal is a prerequisite for many applications, we would at least be able to keep it there all the time - as well as too many do not support the hold-down method.

On a more positive turn, means the repeated use of familiar icons throughout the user interface for specific functions that you know what a button does a glance without having to read it. In this way, the interface feels intuitively rather than learned.

Another feature of Symbian users have become accustomed over the years is the use of profiles to quickly switch between the different scenarios in their daily lives, such as Normal, Silent, Meeting, Outdoor, Pager, Offline. Unfortunately, these all disappeared except for the wireless features and offline can now set the phone to vibrate mode.

Although the profiles have been for many years its use has increased more recently, with the invention of the place and time applications based on the profile of automatic switching and this is not actually achieve.

Another thing, we have become accustomed to was repeatedly hit the back button to close Internet Explorer and other applications as there is no close button / Exit. The current WP7 encoding means that applications are closed with the button again, but only from a specific screen that must be traveled before the application can close / finish.

Even for a long time, pressing the Back button to open the Task Manager does not allow to close open applications, but only allows switching applications. Having said this, but we have not noticed any reduction in the rate of six applications to display the Task Manager.

This is corroborated by the fact that only a very select set of applications on WP7 units can operate in the background, and the rest is suspended (disabled) when not on top - we were very impressed with the Lumia speed of 800 throughout the test.

A major problem is taken into account: sliding your finger on the touch screen sometimes inexplicably registered as a valve, opening a soft cloth or zoom into the text. We thought it would be fixed with software update, but in vain.

If you want to know more about the new Microsoft Mobile operating system, so check the Windows Mobile 7.5 Mango again.

Messages

The Nokia Lumia supports standard SMS, MMS and e-mail with some differences.

During the first phone in place invites you to create email accounts + options, which allows the user to add Windows Live (Hotmail, Xbox Live, Messenger, calendar and other), Outlook (Exchange and Office 360 ), Nokia Mail (powered by Yahoo!), Yahoo! Mail, Google (Mail and Calendar), Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other email accounts (POP and IMAP), and to provide advanced configuration to use your hand accounts.

One interesting thing we found was your LinkedIn account is automatically added if it is linked to your Windows Live account. Another thing to note is that during the initial configuration of the phone you are prompted for a Windows Live account and Nokia. Windows Live account that you use at that time can not be removed from the phone.

When all your account is set-up, there are several ways to get social. The first is the messaging application, which merges with SMS, MMS, Windows Messenger and Facebook IM, even if they are grouped so that you have to scroll from side to side to change the SMS / MMS and Facebook.

We were also surprised to see that Nokia contacts are not imported chat with Facebook contacts, as they may be associated with Windows Live accounts and Nokia have already been added.

Text input is clean and easy with his keys large enough fingers on average around without a lot of bad press and a full bar auto suggestions between the keyboard and the input field.

The words are automatically selected based on the information to add, which is a nice touch, and can play a word that has the opportunity to add to the dictionary or a long press to display a cursor to select text elements.

However, the press always takes forever when you try to use only one element to interact with the text - this is miles slower than the competition.

The keyboard is excellent in the Nokia 800, but Lumia, with fast write speeds easily accessible - although not as intuitive as Apple or Android options out there, where we have observed on two or three errors per message and guess less accurate than our chocolate keyboard mashing fingers trying to convey.

Finally, they were surprised to see that, although Microsoft Communicator has spread to all Nokia Symbian Anna does not appear in the new Nokia 800 Lumia.

Contacts and Call

Contacts

September-800 and Nokia snow creates a cloud-based "People" (keyboards), based on a list of Windows Live, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google and other accounts set-up information about the different services are combined to create a single combined list.

This is mainly based on the same names are used for different services, with the remaining duplicates can easily connect, open the Person (Contact) from the list and clicking on the button and select another person (contact) in contact with them.

This is making things more personal, and we love the suggestions of people easy way to link can be added by one touch.

Besides that, people (contacts) to be transferred from your old Bluetooth phone in a few seconds via pre-installed app Transferring contacts to be merged with cloud information previously downloaded.

The only drawback of this system is that we could not find a way to hide some contacts and others show the same service.You can set all contacts to show all your friends tie, then close the rest of the population Facebook or Twitter, you do not want to see, but this can lead to erratic coordinates in our tests.

A great way to accomplish this is to group / categorize the contacts in the various services and to show or hide contacts via groups / categories they are in.

Frustration that can occur when the union of people is that if a particular field is slightly different between the different units will be duplicated for each service.

Once everything is set up the list of wanted persons can slide vertically through the soft icon search (the magnifying glass in a circle) or playing a quick browse of the indicators of the letter that comes with a Quick Start Guide AZ with all the letters begin uninhabited gray.

The transition to the new swipe to the left showing the last posts of their own people the services you have set-up (like Twitter and Facebook), a single touch responds to a message / conversation screen.

Another swipe from left to tile transitions on a list of recent books and interact with people, the third and final swipe at people, back to the original list.

Call

The call is an area where things seem a bit awkward that you have to play the "telephone" tile that opens up a story about the phone's screen is equivalent to a call log. At the bottom of the screen, the bar is soft, from left to right: access to voice mail, access to the dialing screen, people access and search functionality in the history of the phone screen.

Once on the dialing screen, it all remains too simple, and the letters on the keyboard that shows there is no way to make use of them in terms reveal smart dialing contacts. In this area we came to love the Live Search / game window above the dial pad on Symbian devices.

Call the quality of the Nokia 800 is an excellent snow, in part thanks to its polycarbonate housing means that large pieces of metal to bounce radio signals. This is the reason for the high speed and accuracy of GPS Maps section is discussed below.

We used a SIM card from Orange for the test, and found that the signal has been well maintained, with the sign of fast switching between 3G Orange and T-Mobile on the Nokia 800 Lumia.

Internet

When it comes to the Internet, the Nokia 800 Snow is one of the fastest mobile Internet experience, we have met, the response to flash pages load less than a second, and weight-tech radar site less than 3 seconds when connected to a WiFi hotspot can c.1.5Mbps (best run).

It is not faster than the Safari browser or option on Samsung S2 Galaxy, but is easily good enough to be a decent experience for web browsing on the go.

We tested all three devices together side by side in a 3G and Wi-Fi, and three trials, 800 only once managed to load a site Lumia faster than the two devices, which was the mobile version of the BBC website.

For Web browsing heavier, we always recommend something from stables iOS or Android (with a similar processor. Dual-core technology seems to be a boon here).

The problem we mentioned earlier with the touch screen is unpredictable is more problematic here - you try to scroll the text and it will start to zoom in and out, even if no taps are recorded. Nokia need to sort this and FAST.

Although it is an icon of Internet Explorer most people log on with an Internet search, which is where the search button at the bottom right (magnifying glass) and the browser of the local application of sense.

A tap on the Search button and search Bing soft pop, but when you look closer is much more than standard web page Bing. At the bottom of the screen in the icon bar of candy are three or four, depending on whether you have authorized the search request to use your location information, which are, from left to right:

Local Scout: Click on the icon of the buildings and the application starts separate location scout, showing local areas, based on food, entertainment and shops, and usually comes with good results and relevant, even in the United States kingdom.

Music recognition: Press the music note icon and the phone listening to music in the background, identifies and provides a link to an album that contains the Marketplace. Again, the implementation is excellent and will probably have people like Shazam worried.

QR Code and Microsoft Tag Scanner: Tap the eye and the camera turns on and if you put a QR code label or Microsoft in the center of the grid, read and respond.

Search Audio: click the microphone icon, and then turns on the microphone and say something to put in the search box and web search results will show if it had been typed and press Enter. And 'nothing compared to Siri Apple - but it's still OK, if you want the map, tap the word to your phone.

That said, a major limitation is that the Adobe Flash Player is not supported by the Nokia 800 Snow, offering a message "Sorry Adobe Flash Player is not available in the device's operating system or browser from Adobe."

We were informed by Nokia that is the result of catching up with the version of Adobe's Internet Explorer web browser, and the support of nine new ones will be provided soon - although we will wait to see if it is really the case, as We know that Microsoft is not so hot on the left is used to update the mobile browser.

The debate on the Flash video on mobile devices is all the rage, and now Adobe has announced the scrapping of the system in favor of HTML 5, we expect the possibility of more. However, the fact is that 800 Lumia still can not make the appropriate Internet content - that marked the bottom of the iPhone for this constant, as shown in Galaxy S2 Portable Video Flash can look amazing no impact on the resources system.

Camera

One of the most important changes in the Nokia is that the new Nokia Windows Phones, the lack of front camera, which puts them in place to begin than the HTC Titan and HTC WP7 radar and other devices.

This move was a surprise that Nokia long before the cameras in front of the full Nokia N9 same way you have in your corner.

This is exacerbated by the Microsoft acquisition of Skype, providing a stronger link video calls.

Nokia's answer to the lack of front facing camera is that the production lead time for the original Nokia WP7 devices meant that they must be focused on the functionality of the intended user base, using the video chat and make a very small part of the market. How is expanding, these features are sure to come back at some point.

The rear view camera on the Nokia 800 Lumia sport the same specifications as the HTC Titan with an f/2.2 lens 8Mpix camera and dual LED flash that can go up to 720p HD video recording.

This is a step ahead of Nokia Symbian phones, because there is touch-based method to concentrate and shoot like the one offered for the iPhone allows better control of the image focus.

The camera comes with standard settings for smooth control of the scenes (default: auto) white balance (default: auto), the exposure value (default: 0), ISO (default: auto) effects ( default: Normal), contrast (default: Normal), saturation (default: Normal), focus mode (default: (Macro) and resolution (default: 8MP 4:3) and a new way measurement (default: center weighted), which controls the camera takes care of exposure based on light conditions through photography.

Nice touch to the Nokia Application Room 800 of the snow is that you can go directly to the camera and the photos and video captured, tap the arrow icon in the soft or hard to swipe WP7 button bar, back bar to browse the hard camera key. This integration of this applies to the next generation of phones.

Once in the viewer, there are options for sharing on Facebook, using it as wallpaper, delete, add to your favorites or self-correcting. Having played with self-correction, it does a good job, with the only regret is not to eliminate red eye, so you will need a third party application to do so.

Also, when you choose to share on Facebook, face detection auto kicked, if you touch the icon to download the image tag of the screen and the appointment of anyone to code before downloading.

UPDATE: This was taken with the default settings

TAP and FOCUS CAPTURE - CLOSING: This was taken with a tap to focus and capture a subject in the near field.

TAP & FOCUS CAPTURE - at a distance: E 'was touching to focus and capture a distant subject.

Zoom max: maximum zoom gives good resolution and color.

Red eyes: night mode with flash allows good color, but there is no flash red eyes.

Fireworks: The night mode without flash provides good color and contrast of the display of fireworks.

Video

When it comes to recording video on the Nokia 800 Lumia we were quite disappointed when it is not possible to change the zoom while recording, which seems crazy.

To make matters worse, he continued to press the zoom button is made of a radical change between the six levels, which seems a very clumsy.

YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq7lXDEw_AA

The video quality in daylight gives depth of color and sound, but the speed of response to changes in brightness and focal length is very poor. Although the image quality improves as expected when you go from VGA to 720p, the response speed is low.

In low light, the Nokia 800 snow hard to concentrate even more. Dual-LED flash can be turned on permanently, while filming, so the settings of the fire, and the color to get a quality closer to the light of day.

Media

Music

Playing music on the Nokia 800 is a standard Nokia Lumia through headphones, but reading the thin speaker is disappointing compared to previous models like the Nokia N8.

Nice touch is that the music player to create an overlay bar that slides down on all applications when you press the volume keys are pressed to offer play / pause fast forward and rewind functionality when it is pressed, where he is on the phone.

When it comes to choosing what to listen for Lumia Nokia 800, Nokia Music, music and video standards group.

Nokia Music opens to display the number of tracks stored on the phone. A quick opens an alphabetical list or by artist, album, song, genre or playlist.

Touching your choice from the list displayed differently, depending on the features of filter is used. Genre, artist, album and start playing cards for instant has the right to reproduce the hand symbol, or the album art is printed, but it opens in the lower-level selection screen if the text has taken advantage of which is a nice touch, it lacks the Symbian music player.

Swipe to the left of the main screen, the Nokia Music Mix Radio provides access to a streaming service is transmitted to a data connection, WiFi is recommended, because most of the mobile data contracts are not infinite.

The good news is that the lists are updated every week and a variety of genres to choose from and when the full release notes of production that can be downloaded to your device to listen online.

However, we were promised we could cache these lists out of signal range, but despite the updated software, we found no such functionality on offer.

And together, we have mixed feelings as Radio Mix. Of course, we would like playlists based on genre to pop in the background, but for some people, they will have to sit hours of songs, they do not like more than a month to listen.

In addition, we found that when the screen scrolls incorrectly read the taps, it would open another playlist. It 'easy to duck behind, but then you find you can not skip tracks more than your share is "used".

Another slide show MP3 Store offers the possibility to purchase music and transitions to a final shift to a list of local concerts, which is nice if you want to see a living artist.

Turning to music, and video, this application is a grouping of standard option of Windows Mobile to beam music, videos, podcasts, radio and the elements Marketplace. On this screen you can flick to the left, the transition from playback history, new media, applications (which lists the Nokia Music), and return to the home screen.

Exploit the music opens an interface similar to that presented in the Nokia Music for Zune other than Smart DJ feature is available to find similar artists and creates a list of similar music. It is easy to use and runs open quickly, with the aforementioned impressive sound quality.

Tapping Podcasts swipeable opens a screen that displays a list of audio or video podcast and make the album and lists of music artists with a slap on the image on the left to begin to read and write the name of the opening of a list of all the podcasts of this feed.

Leveraging an open radio standard FM radio requires headset to work as a radio antenna and not play if the speaker phone. The FM radio is simple and is compatible only with the favorites of the season.

Finally, by tapping the market opens up the market that provides access to purchase additional music for his personal collection of Microsoft shop.

Photos

The Nokia 800 uses Snow Pictures (Gallery) application that displays images from the camera roll (which shows pictures and video) and album (for viewing of images from the camera roll, and a personal SkyDrive and Facebook photos).

It also provides a view sorted by date and by a view that displays your favorite photos. Finally, the left hand two bed transitions to a new screen What's messages shows the last image of all the accounts set up the phone.

Video

Video playback on the Nokia 800 Lumia is accessible by the same group as the music, showing a list of all videos with the possibility of falling to the list of TV shows, music videos, movies and home videos (captured in the device).

Media to select the user interface works the same way as the user interface of music, because they are part of the same application.

Reproduction is limited to the horizontal orientation, and the phone will be a pleasant experience, due to the high quality of the screen provides an excellent contrast ratio and a simple user interface with a transparent overlay control slide the bottom of the screen for a delay of a few seconds.

There is also an option Fit to screen that preserves the aspect ratio, but will expand the image to fit the screen whist crop, if necessary.

The only limitation on the playback quality of the speakers mentioned above, if you can be bothered monkeying around with headphones.

Battery and Connection

Battery

The Nokia 800 snow we got this review, it took days before displaying the low battery warning. It took a little 'more, when the updated software, which should solve the problem completely, but in practice it is much worse than other phones on the market.

We used a mix of radio a lot, and sometimes have enjoyed the session movie - but in this case, the battery power was too high, about four hours of video deleting the aggregate to a critical level.

When comparing the specifications of the competition is interesting with the Nokia 800 Lumia reach 780 minutes talk time 265hrs standby GSM mobile phone and over 410 minutes and 460hrs HTC Titan.

The overall waiting time can be up to 1450mAh Battery Nokia Lumia 800 compared to the HTC Titan offer 1600mAh.

Lumia Charger Nokia 800 is performed through its unique micro-USB connector allows you to load via the AC adapter or PC USB, keep it simple. A nice touch is the offset hinge toggle mechanism to cover the micro-USB does open the door much easier than previous devices.

Press the raised area next to the headphone jack and the other end of the cover is detached. No more trying to join hands on a small ridge.

To support the battery management is an alternative to the phone settings on the power-saving mode automatically when the battery drops below a set figure, turn off some services to non-automatic e-mail retrieval and applications in the background.

Log in

As usual the Lumia Nokia 800 comes with a USB cable with micro-USB cable for charging and physical connection for synchronization and data transfer.

In addition to connectivity Nokia 800 Lumia drive supports Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and WiFi 802.11b/g/n the usual WEP, WPA, WPA2 (Enterprise and Personnel) methods available.

Snow for the first time, the Nokia 800 is connected to a standard PC, the automatic installation of drivers is followed by a request to install the Microsoft Zune, which is Microsoft's answer to iTunes allows you to synchronize access to music and video easily between PC and phone.

We are still very disappointed by the lack of options to drag and drop interface for the Zune team - we just want Chuck's songs and movies on your device through a standard Windows Explorer without having to spend years in synchronized but Microsoft is having none of it.

Of course, you can drag and drop files to the Zune application, the icon of a phone in a small corner, but if you do not fancy faffing third-party applications, this is the only way you can manage - in the same way as iTunes.

So if you want to plop a video device, or simply throw a few obscure songs from a folder, you must select the relevant factors in the Zune player and wait for years (especially if the video) to make it through. Although the system says that accepts MP4 codecs were clearly wrong and could be good without a lot of conversion.

However, these same files instantly playable on Galaxy S2 - why Nokia (and, in all fairness, Microsoft) to be so complicated that we do not know.

One thing we like is the ability to wirelessly synchronize: if your phone and PC are connected (and connected to the same network) all the items you have marked the sync automatically while you sleep - If you don 't shut down the computer at night, ie.

Maps and applications

Maps

When it comes to maps and satellite navigation, Nokia has been at the forefront for some time. Unfortunately, the Nokia 800 Lumia planned for this review has limited functionality in this area is based on the version of software, although we were told is not the case for public dissemination.

However, even with the update that could not access the service maps, so let's check this out and bring our results in the very near future.

Nokia 800 on our level Lumia Bing Google Maps comes preloaded with limited functionality disc navigation application Nokia.

The discriminator between Windows Phone Nokia products and offers from other manufacturers is that only Nokia product with a player with his free turn-by-turn voice navigation on the device with downloadable card. Nokia Maps apps on the other side must be released by the Market Place for all devices WP7.

Driving the App highlighted a number of limitations with respect to the latest version of Nokia Maps, Symbian, and Anna Belle devices. The first is that you can not set the house.

Add to that destination setting can only be achieved through research of the text, which, however good it is, and is very good, is still a significant limitation with respect to on-line favorites, selecting a point on the map and select the information contact position.

Accepting these limitations, the speed and accuracy of the location, to find our location within seconds each time. In navigation mode, we also notice the lack of audio files, including the option "the street" which is developed on Symbian, which uses text to speech to include street names for navigation guidance.

Besides Nokia Drive and future of the program is a standard Nokia Maps WP7 card program. Open this app shows your current location using maps downloaded, rather than on data from the device.

The soft bottom bar provides access to local scouts, navigation (without voice), my place and research center. Although the interface is very clear the application can not resist the offer of Nokia Maps, once released and probably will become very redundant Windows phones Nokia.

Applications

Although re-installed the application list is somewhat limited, the quality of applications available through the market is impressive. Compared to other app stores, the quantity is not everything, because it often leads to a decline in quality.

That said, we will run through pre-installed programs in alphabetical order, as shown in the device from the list of applications.

The first list is the alarm operation is simple application, tap the button bar over a symbol to the soft bottom of the screen to raise the alarm time, repeat, sound, and the name of the input fields and then click on ' disk icon to save the soft button bars.

The input field, tap the game offers a Monday to Sunday, multiple selection list only thing missing is a beginning and an end, but this is something that can be achieved by the calendar instead of the app.

Once the alarm is set to move the cursor alarm is displayed next to it to enable / disable and a long press opens an edit screen where it can be removed.

App is one of the highlights of the app just seems to be Nokia Nokia WP7 proposals on the Marketplace. In a sense, this application does not need, beyond the standard even if the market shaking app based on the "surprise me" feature is great fun.

The calculator is simple and easy to use with large buttons and an even larger screen with the standard operators and a single memory.

Day view calendar opens in the default list view and sliding side calendar of activities. All entries are color-coded as a basis for a cloud service, will be saved.

Cloud services are based on what you configure in an e-mail accounts and settings discussed above. The views are the same icons in a soft button bar, or (from left to right): the date, a new event / activity and the day / month toggle.

Create a new entry seems to be no different timetables phone with another subject, location, when long, reminder, occurs, the State, the participants, notes and a private switch.

Hopefully the version of Nokia Maps present a relationship between the location and application cards as seen in Symbian Anna - more than they expect to see many Gmail calendars are also available, as only one of the options is bad for now.

Games is the link between WP7 and Xbox Live. Once Windows Live account associated with your Xbox Live account has been added to your phone opens the application in the collection of games on the top screen and the suggestion of first refusal below.

A quick step to the left shows the Xbox Live ID account and avatar, even smear the transition to the friends and messages, applications and games to turn the spotlight, and return to his collection.

As mentioned at the Nokia World WP7 console games and some are integrated to the extent that you can transfer your game console between the phone and take a snapshot of a label Microsoft detailing its progress as Kinectimals.

+ The use of procedures is another application that feels like to be in the configuration instead of taking place in the list of applications, as it is on the device instead of using a functional application.

Office provides access to mobile versions of OneNote, Word, Excel and PowerPoint can work with documents either the camera or on Microsoft cloud services such as SkyDrive, and Office SharePoint 365th

Although these applications are limited to the functioning of the entire PC variants that can do more than enough for mobile users. Things like the formulas in Excel are supported with the help and guidance during the subscription.

One thing we found interesting is that when you tap the more options to create a new document is limited to Word and Excel, but you can open pre-loaded OneNote and PowerPoint and save as that new documents.

In the application list recently is We Care, which is less app and privacy statement more than Nokia. Unless this is going to be used longer term, should be moved about the display settings, or removed completely. Fortunately, a long press does not give the option to remove.

If you decide you need more than the pre-installed which will probably be the case, a quick trip to the Marketplace application provides a single point for third-party applications.

At the opening of the application you are presented with a list of key categories, including: applications, games and music can add to your mobile service provider.

Since we used the Orange SIM card, we had an extra "Orange Selects the item at the top of what I think Orange might be better experience.

From there you can either select a category or drag the left side to scroll through three screens default category, or you can search from any of these screens to find what you want.

Verdict

Snow The Nokia 800 is a very interesting device weighs beautiful, and when the contract price is free, it's even better. Now we have revised our gratitude score changes to software upgrades, and we are pleased to announce some major improvements.

We liked

Size, shape and weight of 800 Nokia offers a quality feel and Lumia is a unique form in comparison to many other phones on the market.

It seems intuitive GUI and an impressive speed of response, which provides a feeling of continuity between applications.

The Internet Explorer browser preinstalled 9 is a ultra-zippy, although not the fastest around - even if we are impressed by the amount of upgrades from Microsoft and Nokia are working together did.

The use and combination of different sources of cloud applications for contacts, calendar and social well-executed, and is actually one of the easiest to use, when it should be connected to a contact.

The games have the integration of Xbox Live is the perfect game was the ability to move between the console and the phone.

We liked

No automatic transition profiles and the profile of the provisions of Symbian ^ 3 and the new devices - although this is a problem on many smartphones today.

The disappointment of the speaker phone is based on previous Nokia devices with its poor sound quality, certainly not the best on the market, especially in noisy environments.

Battery performance is poor compared to other recent Nokia devices - none of the Finnish anti-aircraft battery that we used to be able to trust.

The video is not recent, standards of Nokia with the zoom while recording light and the poor and the response to concentrate even worse in low light.

The lack of options Radio Mix download still galls, and the problem of touch screen, but intermittent, rankle when it interferes with what you are trying to do.

Verdict

Even if we had any doubts during the first familiarize them with the transition WP7 Nokia Symbian environment is much less painful than expected. In less than 48 hours we went to the desire to return to the old phones do not want to let go of this.

Once again, the tiles screen initially felt a bit 'hard and a waste of space on the background screen for the GUI style soon became apparent, so that we understand that it is a simple and intuitive.

Start the icons are large to minimize the risk of incorrect selection of the icon. Telephone keypad to display only what you really need to call. Alphabetical list of Apps is the easiest way to find applications as we all know AZ.

We noted several problems with the device again, and although many have been corrected with a software update, a few stayed. The biggest obstacle to such a bad video capture, and the lack of zoom while shooting.

The result of our time with the Nokia 800 Lumia has left us wanting more. The big question we must ask is: Would you buy Nokia 800 with Mango Lumia WP installed, or will you wait and see what the next Nokia devices and Nokia release WP8 affected units next year?

But - we can not see the phone as just a list of specifications. It is the best Windows Phone device out there, but there is room for improvement. We said the same thing with the last harvest of WP devices, and while we are happy to wait a little longer, we hope that we begin to see some great phones Microsoft trampled in the near future.