Lumia 800 and Lumia 710, Nokia's first Windows phone

The first Windows Phone from Nokia finally born at the Nokia World event being held in London. Named Lumia 800 and Lumia 700, the handset uses the Windows Phone operating system 7.5 or Mango. Nokia and Microsoft alliance is expected to rival the might of the iPhone and Android in the smartphone market.


Nokia Lumia 800 to the initial weapon to realize this ambition. "We believe the world is ready for something new. I am excited to introduce you to the Nokia Lumia 800. Our first phone built on the Windows Phone platform," said Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, when introducing Lumia 800.


Nokia Lumia 800 is high end handsets and will be priced in the range of 420 euros. The specifications such as 3.7-inch AMOLED screen, 1.4 GHz processor, 512MB RAM, HD video playback and 16GB of internal memory. While at a resolution of 8 megapixel camera, complete with flash.


Elop said the distinction between 'smartphone' and other 'feature phones' was becoming blurred - and that the company's focus would be on providing connected devices to consumers in these markets.


The handsets were unveiled alongside new online services from Nokia - such as a 'cloud' storage service allowing users to store 25GB of data such as pictures and music on Nokia servers, rather than within the phone itself.

While the Lumia 800 may be the more eye-catching of the two Windows Phones Nokia announced today, but the Lumia 710 could arguably be more important in the market. It’s the first sign of Nokia flexing its economy of scale prowess, leveraging its production skills to produce cheaper phones. Considering Windows Phones to-date have all pretty much offered fundamentally the same package at roughly the same price, the Lumia 710 not only represents a more affordable phone today, but heralds a wallet-pleasing low cost Lumia range tomorrow.

That’s the future: what of the 710 today? The screen may be smaller than that of the 800 but the handset altogether is slightly bulkier, the visual effect of that slightly compensated by the two-tone casing color scheme. The plastics are solid but lack the matte finish of the 800, and the ClearBlack display isn’t as punchy to our eyes. Still, Windows Phone moves slickly – the CPU is the same 1.4GHz single-core Snapdragon as in the 800 – and you get the same custom Nokia apps, Drive for turn-by-turn navigation and Music for access to the Nokia Mix playlists.


On the back is a 5-megapixel camera with a single LED flash, down from the 800′s 8-megapixels and dual-LED. We didn’t have a chance to test it out, so image quality assessment will have to wait until review units are available. Video capture is limited to 720p HD, however.

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