If I was MS, I would have a rep for the Nokia 800 knocking on every carriers door, every day, until they are on shelves everywhere in the US. I would also have this device featured prominently in US Ads.
Business-ready models worth watching in this leaner mobile device market will be the new Nokia Lumia 800.
Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced today that the Nokia Lumia 800 will be available in white, beginning later this month.
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"Since we began selling it late last year, the Nokia Lumia 800 has received rave reviews around the world, " said Ilari Nurmi, Vice President of Product Marketing, Nokia.
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The Nokia Lumia 800 includes a camera with Carl Zeiss optics, high-definition video, 16GB of internal user memory and 25GB of free SkyDrive storage allowing users to store images and music.
Turns out that two phones will be released by that date (The Nokia Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710), with a combination of ten territories in Europe and the Far East.
Be in no doubt that even with off the shelf parts and reworking an existing design, to do the Nokia Lumia 800 in just over six months from announcement to availability is impressive.
Nokia's Lumia 800 is a sophisticated and capable smartphone that melds its hardware beautifully with the Windows Phone OS. Whether it's the best phone for you right now depends on certain factors.
There have been other manufacturers that have supplied a case in the retail packaging such as Nokia with the Lumia 800, and it does give a feeling that you have bought something special.
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Even though Nokia has said that the Lumia 800 and Lumia 900 continued to perform well, serious sales and consumer demand evaporated.
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The Lumia 800 bears striking similarities to the Nokia N9, released earlier this year, which ran on the open-sourced Meego operating system.
Nokia launched its first Lumia phone, the 800, in October 2011.
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Such is the importance of software on mobile devices these days, that for the Lumia 800 and future Windows devices from Nokia to regain some semblance of dominance, other competing device makers like HTC and Samsung need to start shifting more phones that run on Windows.
During Mr Elop's presentation, the company showed a live video from one of Nokia's factories in Finland - with a Lumia 800 going fresh from the production line into its blue box, ready for shipment.
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The company noted that it improved its cash position in the quarter by about 800 million Euros, 650 million of that from Nokia Siemens Networks, to 4.36 billion.
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If anything, the Lumia 800's hardware risks being left behind as Nokia develops apps and platforms based on NFC, front-facing cameras and other (unknown) features that are likely being prepared for Windows 8 Apollo.
Nokia's first Windows Phone smartphones, the Lumia 710 and 800, made their debut, but, as expected, sales were not enough to prevent a fall in Microsoft's smartphone market share.
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However, Nokia proved its ability to execute and deliver on time with its new Lumia 710 and 800 handsets.
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Also, within the Nokia Lumia ecosystem, the higher-end Lumia 920 upstaged the mid-end Lumia 800 as the most popular Windows Phone globally.
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Last quarter, Nokia shipped its first batch of Windows Phone-based smartphones, the Lumia 710 and 800, in Europe and select emerging markets.
Nokia pulled off the strong early UK showing largely via the unusual hardware design of the Lumia 800.
After trying out both the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820, it's a relief to see Nokia's phone footprint shrink so that it's closer to 2011's Lumia 800.
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Nokia has unveiled its first two smartphones running on the Windows Phone operating system, the Lumia 800, and Lumia 710, in its race to re-capture marketshare from competing device makers like HTC and Apple.
Apart from Lumia 920 and 820 variants, Nokia has been pushing at the same time the sales of Lumias 510, 610, 710, 800 and 900 with campaigns and discounts.
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