Nokia Lumia 800 (codenamed 'Sea Ray') is a
Windows Phone-OS powered
smartphone, first unveiled on 26 October 2011 at the Nokia World 2011 event.
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It was Nokia's first mobile phone to run the Windows Phone OS and
marked the company's shift of focus in favor of Windows Phone for its
premium priced phones.
Lumia 800 shares its design with the previously released Meego-based
Nokia N9.
The outward differences are one added physical button dedicated to the
camera on the right side of the phone, and a dual LED flash moved
directly above the Carl Zeiss camera lens.
[5] Despite a similar exterior, the Lumia 800 has a different interior than N9. Lumia 800's chipset comes from
Qualcomm, whereby N9 is based on a
Texas Instruments chipset and
CPU.
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Like the N9, it has a convex curved
Gorilla Glass AMOLED PenTile
screen with a ClearBlack antiglare filter. The screen diagonal is 3.7
inches (800 x 480 pixels) compared with 3.9 inches (854 x 480 pixels)
for N9, to conform with the Windows Phone specifications list, which
includes three capacitive softkeys placed under the glass. A
trough-colored unibody shell is made from
polycarbonate plastic.
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Nokia outsourced the production of its Qualcomm-based Lumia 800 to
Compal Electronics.
According to Nokia, this was due to time constraints and Compal's
experience with the chipset. Future models, starting from Lumia 710,
would be built in a Nokia factory, according to the same source.
[6] Devices for the European and Northern American markets are configured, tested and packed by Nokia's factory in
Salo, Finland.
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On January 9, 2012,
Nokia Lumia 900 was announced as a parallel model with a
gyroscope[9],
LTE
support, a larger display, front-facing camera for video conferencing,
and its main (back) camera improved for focus and color balance
Software
The Lumia 800 device comes with four
Nokia-exclusive applications not included by the default Windows Phone OS: Nokia Drive, a free turn-by-turn navigation system;
Nokia Maps;
Nokia Music, a free streaming music service and music store; and App
Highlights, a service suggesting software based on location and
operator. In addition to these applications and services,
Microsoft
themselves have added Office 365, in which the user can edit documents,
create spreadsheets, open PowerPoint presentations, and even make
OneNote files. The files created can be stored on Microsoft's
SkyDrive cloud service, on the phone itself, and other areas.
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The Lumia 800, despite the joint cooperation of Nokia and Microsoft,
lacks some standard functionality presented by default on Mango,
including Internet Sharing, which prevents the use of the device for
tethering.
Nokia Collection
In addition to factory-installed Nokia-exclusive
Windows Phone applications, the Windows Phone Marketplace contains a Nokia Collection section.
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As of April 2012 it contains the following additional applications:
Nokia Transport, a location-aware public transport schedule and
navigation application; Creative Studio, a photo editing application;
TuneIn Radio, a local and global radio streaming application; CNN, a
news reader and video viewer for the Cable News Network; and WRC Live,
an application to follow live timing and media from the FIA WRC series.
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Diagnostic Tool
Just like the Lumia 900, the 800 has the diagnostic tool.
It can be obtained by pressing ##634# on the dial keypad, which
should initiate the download after the last # is pressed. The diagnostic
tool should appear on the app list under Diagnostics.
On this diagnostic tool a user can run tests on the following:
Accelerometer, ALS, audio loopback, camera, battery status, DTMF,
gyroscope, hardware buttons, headset detection, LCD white, lights, life
timer, magnetometer, power source, proximity, speaker, touch and
vibration. It's also possible to perform all the tests in one run.
Note: This app does not harm the phone, it's just a hidden app
Nokia forgot to mention in the owner's guide. The app can be
uninstalled if a user chooses to do so.
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Series Name
The series name Lumia is the plural form of the word Lumi, which is Finnish, means 'snow'.
Release
The Lumia 800 device was presented along with
Lumia 710 by Nokia's CEO
Stephen Elop at the Nokia World conference in
London October 2011. In the presentation referred to their devices as 'the first real Windows Phones'.
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The London launch was promoted with a massive sound and light show. Nokia and Canadian-based DJ
deadmau5 illuminated the banks of the River Thames and the
Millbank Tower with a state-of-the-art music and laser show. According to
The Daily Telegraph,
"The 118 metre building was turned into a canvas for a state-of-the-art
light show during which the London skyscraper seemed to buckle and
twist"