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Nokia announces the Lumia 800, the 'first real Windows Phone'

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Re: Nokia announces the Lumia 800, the 'first real Windows Phone'

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Post by jsnell »

bhoflack wrote: post #6

This phone looks ugly compared to their leaked prototypes.

In nature the N9 is easily the best looking and feeling phone I've seen, including all iPhone models. It's not obvious from the pictures whether the case changed in any way from the N9 to the 800, but at least it doesn't look like anything major.

Re: Nokia announces the Lumia 800, the 'first real Windows Phone'

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Post by TallTalesOrTrue »

guruz wrote: post #9
potatolicious wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect it's the other way around. MSFT bet the company on WP7, clearly has spent oodles of time and effort on it, but all of the launch devices were snoozefests - some were outright, lazy ripoffs of the OEMs' existing Android phones. There was nothing unique, compelling, or, well, anything about these phones. Most were even exceptionally crappy with the exception of the Samsung. It's clear that none of the OEMs we…

I might get downvoted for this sarcasm, but: That thing looks like a lazy ripoff of the Nokia N9. But oh well. They're both beautiful :-) Disclaimer: I used to work for Nokia.

Probably was necessary to keep the beautiful hardware intact to change the guts completely in less than a year. Look at iPhone 4S. Almost no visual changes in exterior in a year and a half and the OS didn't change that much either... why change the looks of something that is already so beautiful.

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rdl wrote: post #5

Wow. Part of me wants this to suck, just so there are only iPhone and Android to worry about ever developing for, but this actually looks good enough to consider. I looked at WP through BizSpark a little, and it looks easier to develop for than iOS or Android, at least for corporate apps. It's possible RIM will lose out in the "corporate owned/managed" market to WP, especially if they can build in equivalent or bette…

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Post by yread »

timthorn wrote: post #13
yread wrote: post #10

Wow there's gonna be Nokia Windows Phones for 60 euros

No, I don't think so - that's for a phone in the Asha (non-WP7) range. Cheapest WP is the Lumia 710 at 270 Euros.

uh ok. I got confused as he mentioned the retail price between talking about marketing of WP7...

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Post by iamichi »

rdl wrote: post #5

Wow. Part of me wants this to suck, just so there are only iPhone and Android to worry about ever developing for, but this actually looks good enough to consider. I looked at WP through BizSpark a little, and it looks easier to develop for than iOS or Android, at least for corporate apps. It's possible RIM will lose out in the "corporate owned/managed" market to WP, especially if they can build in equivalent or bette…

I just finished my first Mango app and it was a overall nicer experience than Android. Overall on par with iOS for me, if a bit easier.

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Post by navs »

I love the look of WP7 and this phone looks decent!

I don't generally use apps, preferring webapps on the mobile browser. How does WP7's browser compare to Android or iOS? I've heard some say its good, others saying its terrible. Its hard to get an unbiased answer after years of thrashing desktop IE.

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