I managed to get my hands on the Lumia 800 during the Nokia Developer Conference 2011 in Bangalore and tried it out for some time. Here are some of my initial impressions:1. Beautiful Display: The Lumia 800 sports a large 3.7-in AMOLED display with a resolution of 800x480 pixels. The specs sound pretty good but they don't do justice to how the display looks like in real life. In the little time that I had the device, the display looked like it could stand tall among the best. Colors (especially blacks) looked very rich and made the tile-based Windows Phone UI look even prettier. The only issue was that the display was very glossy which means that it would be a fingerprint magnet.
2. Great Build & Looks:
The Lumia 800 felt like one of the best phones I had ever handled. The
phone has a polycarbonate body which was unlike anything I have seen on
any other phone. The phone's body felt really solid and very smooth to
the touch, similar to the aluminum casing on the Nokia N8 and the HTC Legend without compromising on slimness or weight.3. Windows Phone: The Lumia 800 comes with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango and if you've seen how it looks and handles earlier, there's not much new here. One great addition though is that the always-excellent free Nokia Maps comes pre-installed on the Lumia which means that you don't need to use the default Bing Maps.
4. Touchscreen: The one issue that mostly hounded Nokia's earlier Symbian phones was that touch accuracy was inconsistent. Fortunately, with the Lumia 800 this problem seems to have been dealt with well. Scrolling through the various menus and screens was smooth and the keyboard was also accurate.
The Nokia Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 are expected to hit Indian markets by mid-December. Expect a more in-depth review by then.
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