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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 cavalcade »

just spent 2 weeks developing an MVP app for a photo sharing startup. passed to the store last night. :) Dev tools are smooth but the biggest issue is the lack of mature open source libraries (Oauth was buggy and i cant find a Tumblr, Blogger cross posting lib)

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

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Post by obeattie »

vegai wrote: post #21

Is anyone doing high quality non-smart phones anymore? I'm looking for something that's small, sturdy with long battery life. Preferably with good music playing. I suppose Sony Ericssons's non-android phones are pretty good in that space, are there any others?

Well… Nokia kinda is. Check out the S40 Asha phones Nokia released today. (Though maybe they class as smartphones too?)

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

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Post by vegai »

obeattie wrote: post #24
vegai wrote: post #21

Is anyone doing high quality non-smart phones anymore? I'm looking for something that's small, sturdy with long battery life. Preferably with good music playing. I suppose Sony Ericssons's non-android phones are pretty good in that space, are there any others?

Well… Nokia kinda is. Check out the S40 Asha phones Nokia released today. (Though maybe they class as smartphones too?)

Yeah, I guess... I really don't regard Symbian as a viable platform, though

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

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Post by JBiserkov »

navs wrote: post #19

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.

As far as I know pre-Mango IE was ~ 7, while the Mango one is branded as 9, so a huge leap, which might account for some of the difference in opinions.

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

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Post by thomasz »

navs wrote: post #19

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.

Although IE has been updated to 9 with Mangoo which is a decent browser, i would expect the same problems Opara gets with cutting edge stuff: You are very lucky if the app got tested for IE. I never encountered serious problems though, even with IE7.

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

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Post by juhanaj »

vegai wrote: post #26
obeattie wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well… Nokia kinda is. Check out the S40 Asha phones Nokia released today. (Though maybe they class as smartphones too?)

Yeah, I guess... I really don't regard Symbian as a viable platform, though

Nokia's non-smartphones don't have Symbian. They have S40.

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

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Post by fungi »

TallTalesOrTrue wrote: post #7

The 800 basically looks like N9 with Windows Phone OS on it. Hope the OS has met its match in this hardware. The pictures sure look stunning.

http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n9/speci...

http://www.nokia.co.uk/gb-en/products/phone/lumia800/specifi...

aside from the n9 case design its pretty boring spec and feature wise... but hey its got windows and kids around here are in to that.

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