Windows Phone, especially with its newest update, is a damn fine mobile operating system, but also one lacking a truly killer phone. We were holding out hope that Nokia's first Windows Phone smartphone would be the one to get, and it just might be--the Lumia 800 is the first Windows Phone that's as eye-catching as the OS inside. Nokia also announced the 800's little brother, the 710, which is no slouch either.
Nokia's long been known for great (if bulky) hardware and just the worst software (see our review of the Nokia N8 if you want to witness our frustration with it), and Microsoft's awesome Windows Phone software has been lacking a really great, non-plasticky, non-weird handset. It's the perfect pairing! And at last night's Nokia World, the Finnish company finally showed off the long-rumored handsets: the flagship Lumia 800 and cheaper Lumia 710.
The Lumia 800 (we know Nokia loves numbers, but still, that name) is based on the N9, a big, flat, gorgeous slab of aluminum. It'll have a 3.7-inch screen, which is slightly smaller than average for Windows Phones but certainly still usable, 16GB of non-expandable storage, and a fancy-pants camera that could actually give the iPhone 4S some competition. It's an 8MP job with Carl Zeiss optics, rated at f2.2. No clues on which U.S. carrier will get it, nor on a release date--it's only been announced so far for Europe, which will get it on November 16th for
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