Nokia 8800 Arte
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Nokia 8800 Arte sapphire (O2) Carphone Warehouse £465.61 |
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Nokia 8800 Arte sapphire (O2) Carphone Warehouse £377.74 |
Pros
Stainless steel and glass, Quality build, 3G, 3.2 megapixel camera, OLED screen, Kruder and Dorfmeister ringtones.
Cons
Expensive, Heavy, No memory card slot.
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SUMMARY:
A luxury fashion phone. Excellent build quality, average features and a luxury price tag. Feels good, looks good and does all the basics well.Nokia 8800 Arte Review
The Nokia 8800 Arte is a luxury fashion phone. Stainless steel and glass (with "anti-fingerprint coating") and a super smooth slide ("state of the art ball bearings and unique spring mechanism").
The 8800 Arte is the latest of the luxury 8800 Nokia series. Nokia say "the art of seduction begins with knowing your essence". Good advice.
Nokia 8800 Arte vs 8800 Sapphire Arte: The Nokia 8800 Arte is black. The 8800 Sapphire Arte version is brown and has soft brown leather on the front and back of the phone.
The Sapphire Arte's navigation key is a sapphire gemstone. Yes, a real Sapphire Gemstone - "caress the beautiful sapphire gemstone navigation key" says a Nokia video.
May 2008 approximate prices: 8800 Arte - £699 SIM free, 8800 Sapphire Arte is £854.95.
Not satisfied with the luxurious 8800 Sapphire. Get luxury metal-plated phones - Nokia 8800 Diamond Edition, Platinum Edition or Gold Edition. These are customised versions by GoldStriker.
Buy 24ct gold, 18ct rose gold, or a platinum plated Nokia 8800 Arte. You can buy the whole phone from them, or simply order the gold/platinum plated housing from them. You can also put in custom requests. Add several hundred pounds on to the SIM free price - EG £1079 for the 8800 Platinum Edition. Here's a photo of the Gold Edition.
GoldStriker do other handsets. How about a tasty Nokia N95 8GB White Gold Diamond Edition - yours for a cool £12,000. Motorola KZR Leopard Diamond Edition - a steal at £14,995. The Leopard Edition has 18 carat white gold and 325 diamonds.
Design
Luxury handset, quality build. The 8800 is heavy - 150g, average width and it's quite thin - 14.6 mm. The slider is smooth.
Bottom: microUSB Connector, microphone.
Top: On / off button.
Right: Speaker, battery cover release.
Left: Battery cover release.
Back: Camera lens.
Front: Earpiece, navigation keys. Slide open to reveal keypad.
Keypad: Decent size keys, easy to press.
No memory card slot: 1 GB phone memory, but no memory card slot.
Features
3.2 MP Camera
3.2 MP camera with auto-focus. There's no flash, so no low-light photos. Usual settings - white balance, quality settings, effects, timer, sequence mode, 8x digital zoom. There's 640 x 480 (VGA) video capture at 15 fps.
3G
3G and EDGE. Download music files, videos and other files from the Web using 3G - quite quick. There's 1 GB phone memory, but no memory card slot. You could fit approx. 180 songs into memory.
Music Player
Playlists, equalizer, stereo widening, shuffle, repeat. A bluetooth headset is included in the box.
Kruder and Dorfmeister Video Ringtones
Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister exclusive ringtones with visuals by Fritz Fitske. They are Austrian DJs who like to remix songs. They have their own record label - G-Stone Records.
OLED Display
OLED displays are the future. Thinner, lighter, brighter and better viewing angle (170 degrees) than LCDs. OLEDs are also flexible and they consume less power.
Other Features
All the usual PIM applications - calendar, calculator, to-do, notes. Voice commands, media player, Bluetooth, Web browser, SMS, MMS, Email.
Summary
The Nokia 8800 Arte sure is a luxury fashion phone. Excellent build quality, average features and a luxury price tag. If you want something that feels good, looks good and all you need are basic phone features, the Nokia 8800 Arte is well worth the look.
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Nokia 8800 Arte sapphire (O2) Carphone Warehouse £465.61 |
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Nokia 8800 Arte sapphire (O2) Carphone Warehouse £377.74 |
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