The Nokia Lumia 800 is a great phenomenon. The feel of the device is very good. With the enclosed silicone sleeve to harm this really just. I want to feel the phone, wipe over the curved glass. All this makes a lot of fun. The glass is so incredibly smooth that one blowing over it with ease. The size is perfect. Although not actually smaller than my Galaxy S, but a bit narrow. The display measures 3.7 inches with less than the Samsung (and also called, felt, 3/4 of the entire Android-range) - but at the same resolution of 800x480. This results in a higher pixel density. The device is relatively heavy with 142g for my taste. The emphasis is balanced, but could be a little deeper. But if you have become accustomed to the weight, it should not slip out of your hands.
The touch screen responds well, directly and precisely. They hardly make a mistake. That's just one benefit when writing with the keyboard. The keystroke is acknowledged with a key tone, and switch keys (Shift and Co.) play a different tone. So you can hear even if you type correctly. The predictive text input is very good and you can choose from a range of suggested words, or record by a short tap on the written word, this by then clicking on the suggestion bar in the dictionary. This is intuitive and effective. Alternatively, you can change the selection by drag and tap the Copy icon to be able to use it elsewhere.
Windows Phone is on the Nokia Lumia 800 really fast. While Android on my Samsung Galaxy S jerky here and there, Windows Phone is already a step further. Sure amplified the 1.4 Ghz Prozesser still positive impression. Even booting is done quickly with just under 20 seconds. Just as Android users, I'm used to much longer waits. By this speed the modern design of Windows Phone is more advantage.
Metro interface, the tile layout is called the strong typographic structure. That is so wonderfully refreshing to these 4x5 icon grid of iOS and Android competition. Moreover, every move is that triggers animated user, it wipes and works, the key tones plocken that it is a real pleasure. In all applications with menu structure is scrolled sideways. In this way, the various screens of a surface are traversed. This works well as long as the item is aptly named because the large typeface not always on the screen fits (a side effect of the design). The typeface of the menus always takes a lot of space, but the content comes to my mind is still not too short.
In the following I would like to highlight some positive and negative points.
Negatives:
Negative I have to currently evaluate the battery performance. That the Nokia Lumia 800 apparently has a battery bug, seem to be no imagination. Because not in vain tried with Nokia firmware updates (end of March / beginning of April comes back one) to get the error while battery consumption under control. But until then the battery after 10 to 14h, in the case of switched data connections via 3G empty. Not always, but for no apparent reason may be the case that good after two or three days again. If you switch on, however, Edge, it also creates loose two days.
Another disadvantage of the missing mass storage mode is when you connect the device to the computer. I can not just transfer music and images between your device and computer. Not even on the known MTP protocol, for example, that use MP3 player. I have to use Zune, a kind of iTunes, with the Microsoft builds a small closed cosmos to Windows Phone. The software has some flaws in service and scope, but the synchronization can also be done at least wirelessly with your phone (if it depends on the power supply and is registered in the same Wi-Fi).
The volume setting is a joke. There is no separate volume control for the ringer and applications. How to make the music quietly, because you can hear through headphones, and then missed calls because the ringing tone through the speakers is now too low.
The radiolocation can not be adjusted. I can not define whether the mobile phone to be located via GPS or via mobile phone now. That's a bit stupid, because I do not always need GPS. An approximate and therefore battery gentler locating enough for me in most cases. However, not will build the GPS connection with the desired location every app. Too much anxiety so you should not have here.
Positives:
The speed of the system is to be emphasized here. Boats, animation, launch programs - all quickly, smartly and smoothly.
The keyboard and the AutoCorrect is very good. Firstly, the different acoustic feedback (depending on key type), as well as the special sound when a completed AutoCorrect make writing easy, fast and enjoyable. Especially the acoustic signal that was just corrected a word that helps, because you would otherwise see very quickly that the system has intervened in the typed lines. The AutoCorrect has interfered my feeling always at the right moment. I know a different behavior even from my iPod Touch. Since I have always been annoyed that the suggested word so did not fit. Keyboard Extensions like Android I do not miss.
The entire surface is stylish and animated. It's simply a pleasure to use the phone. Surely you can see it tired, that's when iOS animations but equally. I love it.
The limited possibilities to adapt the interface to their wishes (no themes, no skins, only color choice possible) is in my view a plus. It reduces the system to the essentials. Users are less distracted.
The voice control works well. Let 'Send SMS to xy "dictate SMS read, and" Send "(or" repeat ") say. Except for activating the voice function no finger use is necessary. Also search can thus quite well.
In the Bing search, which is called a finger tap on the search button, a music recognition is built. This works very well. On Shazam you can therefore do without.
The People Hub aggregates on request all accounts of Windows Live, Facebook, Twitter or Google. The Social Network updates the friends you have so at a glance, can look at the photos posted and can list the conversations. The presentation will combines the company and brought in a chronological sequence.
The Live Tiles on the home are something like the widgets in Android. Fast and targeted information from various apps at a glance. But not every live tile is also useful.
Try Before Buy. As far as I know, is the duty on the paid games. So you can download a demo version and unlock wish to use the full extent. Many applications offer demo versions, you should not anyway be free.
For the Nokia Lumia 800 you need a micro-SIM. This gets you to demand from his provider. The USB port is hidden behind a small flap. This can easily break if you do not handle it carefully. The battery can not be changed. The 16GB of memory is not expandable, but should be sufficient for most. The colors on the screen are strong, black is black. As a display with ClearBlack AMOLED technology is used.
The keys do not rattle me and have a good pressure point. The hardware camera button allows on from standby to shoot photos. Simply press and hold the button. Then you can still take some influence on the camera settings. Photos can then finger-tapping on the screen (long tap to focus) or made by pressing the camera button. This also offers an auto focus (press lightly to focus, then trigger). For photos in the dark, there is a photo light, but rather meager illuminates. The quality of the 8 megapixel images is good, but nothing special.
The sync with my Google account was quickly and works since then without problems. I sync next to the contacts and mails Google Calendar. Here I had to follow a brief guide from Microsoft to synchronize more than one calendar. That worked but painless. On Windows Live services so you are not necessarily dependent.
The Market Place is still growing. Feels like most good apps are not available for free. But there are of course of free apps that are good. Games with Xbox Live seals are relatively expensive, especially when compared to iOS or partially ad-supported Android games. But indie games there, which are usually cheaper or even free. The apps can be installed on Zune, are downloaded directly to the phone in the Market Place, or you can send from the browser a download link via email.
Conclusion:
The Nokia Lumia 800 is great fun. But that is of course the operating system. It looks great, is fast, offers all the important features and reduced in many (mostly also on the right) points to the essentials. Many small details, such as the operation when writing or copying and pasting, make the system particularly. It affords some blunders in principle functions such as volume control or when erasing images, here I can not delete several at once namely. Also missing some apps, but this is likely to be important for migrating from Android or iOS mainly. Finally, remains in total but a good phone with a good operating system, which can be so unequivocally recommend. Especially for newcomers to the smartphone market.
