Nokia lumia 800 with AMOLED touchscreen

The Nokia Lumia 800 is easily the most stunning smartphone. At 142g the Nokia Lumia 800 feels reassuringly heavy – like it actually is worth something. It is an incredibly bright screen which works well in both indoors and outdoors. Below the screen you will find three touch sensitive Windows Phone 7 buttons – the back, home and search keys.

Windows Phone 7.5 OS (Mango), Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset, 512MB of RAM and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n. It has come with non-painted polycarbonate unibody, curved screen, GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free lifetime voice-guided navigation. It features built-in accelerometer, proximity sensor and standard 3.5 mm audio jack; FM Radio with RDS, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and EDR. It has impressively deep and coherent SNS integration throughout the interface. Moving on, beneath the sexy piece of plastic lies a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC with a single core 1.4 GHz Scorpion ARM Cortex-A8 processor and Adreno 205 GPU 3D hardware accelerator. Powering the Lumia 800 is a single none removable 1450mAh Li-Ion battery. Nokia has quoted a 2G talktime of up to 13 hours.

It features Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support, Quad-band 3G with 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.7 Mbps HSUPA support. It has 3.7" 16M-color AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of 480 x 800 pixel resolution and scratch resistant Gorilla glass display with anti-glare polarizer. It contains 8 megapixel autofocus camera with dual LED flash, 720p@27fps video recording and fast f/2.2 lens,

The 3.5mm headphone jack resides on the top of the device, alongside the micro USB port and micro SIM slot, both of which are protected by doors. On the back you will find the 8 Megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics and a dual LED flash. The flash is sufficiently bright, and as an added bonus can be used as a fill light when using the camera to film. The camera supports both 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, as well as 720p video recording.

Finally, The Lumia 800 is the best Windows Phone on the market, but that does not mean it is the best smartphone or even the iPhone 4S killer that everyone had hoped for.  In my general experience the Lumia 800’s power efficiency is rather good for a smartphone. I found I was able to go through an entire day on a single charge, which is a lot more than say about my Samsung Galaxy S II.

In India, Nokia lumia 800 price is Rs. 17,799 from Sulekha mobiles.