New Zealand will eventually see smartphones that industry giants Nokia and Microsoft both want to benefit from Apple's dominance in the iPhone market.
In March 8, Lumia 800 and its sister, Luma 710, will be cracked in the country, offering them in various colors from Telecom and Vodafone for $899 and $549 respectively.
Lumia sold at 2 degrees 800.
The Herald managed to get a black Lumia 800, a lovely device.
The Lumia 800 looks so similar to the Nokia Lumia I tested a few months ago that it's hard to tell if they're closed or adjacent to each other.
They are the same size, using quality 8-
A megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and fast 2. 2 aperture (
Photo geek attention)
This requires very good still photos, and decent high-
HD video with a resolution of 720 p and 30 frames per second.
The case for both phones uses solid polycarbonate material as well as a curved AMOLED touch screen with scratches
Glass resistant to Corning Gorilla.
Both screens are very clear outdoors, and the digital sensor that tracks the touch of the finger is accurate and sensitive.
However, there are some physical differences.
The size of the Lumia 800 is slightly smaller.
7 "480 by 800 screen, give up 0.
Bottom 2 "and 54 pixels to make room for the three Windows Phone touch buttons embedded in the glass
Go home, search.
The Lumia 800 also has a special camera button on the side.
Even if Lumia is locked, this will start the camera in about five seconds so you don't miss the chance to take a picture.
However, I did find myself accidentally pressing the camera shutter button a lot to start the phone, not the power button, and missed the handy double-finger tap on the camera screen to wake up the phone.
Inside the fuselage, the Lumia 800 is a little faster. 4GHz single-Core processor
VLC is related to the old 1 GHz variant
512 mb ram instead of 1 GB.
On top of that, the long list of features is almost the same, with 16 gb of storage, accelerometer for motion sensing, compass, FM stereo radio, GPS for location, Bluetooth, and more.
Lumia does not have close-range communication or NFC functionality with the Lumia 800, but it has little real-
So this is not a big omission.
Unfortunately, you need to use a micro SIM card on the Lumia 800, just as you do on the Lumia and Apple devices.
If other devices require a SIM card of normal size, this may make it difficult for them to share with them.
Open Lumia 800 and Windows Phone 7 with a Metro interface with animated tiles that is different from the one opened
Source-based MeeGo one on wine.
New Windows Phone 7 and 7 have been used.
In the past, I was familiar with the operating system.
However, the way Windows Phone 7 works is completely different from competitors Apple iOS and Android, and it takes some time to adapt to immigrants from other smartphones.
That said, Microsoft has worked hard to make Windows Phone 7 easy to use, and as soon as you figure out how to scroll the screen horizontally and up and down, I bet most people will feel at home soon with the Lumia 800.
My biggest complaint with Metro is that before the Lumia 800 lets you in, it may take several attempts to move the swipe of the lock screen up.
I also noticed that it is not possible to see the Windows keys at the bottom of the screen in the dark as they are not backlit.
On top of that, it's easy and natural to drive your phone with one or more fingers.
The use of the Lumia 800 as a mobile phone is quite good.
The list of Dialler and contacts is easy to handle and you can import Google Gmail contacts as well as Outlook contacts.
Threaded SMS applications make it easy to keep text conversations and add MMS pictures.
However, you can't send a video MMS.
There is also no equivalent to Apple's iMessage sending messages over the Internet to bypass the telecom company's SMS cost.
No Facetime either-
Just like the video chat feature on the Lumia 800 because it doesn't have a pre-function with any other Windows Phonefacing cameras.
The call quality on Vodafone's network is very good, and the Lumia 800 supports important bands in New Zealand and the region-
The 3g at 850, 900, 1900 and 2100 MHz means that mobile phones can work on Telecom XT and Vodafone in towns and villages.
As a smartphone, the Lumia 800 does a great job in Web browsing and email.
If you are an Apple Mac user who has been reading this review, thank you, but you can stop now.
The Lumia 800 is not for you as it requires Microsoft Zune on Windows to sync music and transcoding videos.
Windows Phone won't lock other providers like Google
The bundled Gmail client can-
But integration with Microsoft cloud services such as Skydrive for storage, Office 356 (Office), and Hotmail (Hotmail) is the highlight of it.
Business users will love the bundled Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel to get the documentation done quickly on foot;
There is also a PowerPoint app, but you can only view files with it and not edit them.
Microsoft's offering Windows Phone to Xbox Live games is a smart move, and Microsoft already has a lot of good games.
However, Microsoft insists on not selling some games in certain areas, for example, I can't install a trial version of Angry Birds and shards with my Windows Live ID.
This makes me understand.
The important Microsoft market, or the service you buy the app.
Microsoft says the number is growing by about 3,000 apps a week and will soon have 60,000 apps available.
Even so, the Market is much smaller than the Android Market and Apple's App Store, which have more than tens of millions of applications.
You won't find all social media or even camera apps (
For example, Nokia's Symbian phone has some good phones)
You are used to other platforms on the market.
Nokia is also allowed to tap into Windows Phone software.
With the Lumia 800, you get a very good drive and map app for Nokia, but I do want to know why the two apps are not merged into one;
In addition, Microsoft's Bing Maps may be an optional installation that has already installed Nokia Maps.
Bing is the default search engine. it doesn't matter;
And Microsoft's TellMe voice recognition feature can be used to search, but it's not Siri.
I don't have the Lumia 800 long enough to make a clear judgment on battery life, but it seems to be available for at least one day.
This includes a lot of use on Wi
Fi, 3g, phone and SMS so I don't expect the Lumia 800 to be required from mini-
The USB port is too frequent.
Lumia 800 (
Lumias 710 and 900 in USA/Canada)
Save "microsheet "?
Microsoft boss Paul Muckleston said at the Lumia series Conference that sales of Windows Phone devices did not meet expectations, and Nokia has equipment manufacturing and marketing expertise in this regard.
If the price of the phone stays low, both Nokia and Microsoft have a sense of urgency, and this partnership may work.
In fact, it takes too long to release an updated version of the device and operating system, while Apple and Google make sure there are some new and exciting things that regularly raise the bar for competitors.
There is absolutely no problem with the Lumia 800: try it and you will like it.
However, the world is not stagnant, and Nokia and Microsoft are facing fierce competition.
What Nokia and Microsoft need is to release hardware with fast, dual functionality
Unique products from the core processor and Apple's Siri series to catch up with competitors. Multi-
Task assignment is one such thing that Microsoft at all companies should be able to incorporate it into Windows Phone.
The Nokia Lumia 800 is a very nice phone, like the Lumia.
This is not a world.
In any area, however, this is what the Lumia 800 needs to stand out in a crowded market.
Nokia Lumia 800 $899 (
Vodafone Telecom)