Style Attired in Steel

To open the phone one needs to set a thumb against a special relief spot with a pattern consisting of shallow apertures for the thumb not to slide off.

The phone is equipped with semi-automatic mechanism. Unlike Nokia 8910/8910i where user has to press two side buttons to make the telephone “shoot out” on its own in Nokia 8800 user is to drive the sliding part half way and the rest of the trip it'll do on its own due to a special spring. On the other hand the reverse process is also semi-automatic while Nokia 8910/8910i is to be closed manually which sometimes takes pains – at least it is difficult (if possible at all) to fulfil such operation with the help of only one hand for the spring is to be led up for the next “shot”.

A bit disappointing was the fact that there is no sound accompaniment on slider opening/closing. The majority of modern sliders are able to emit various kinds of warbles while being either opened or closed. However this action in Nokia 8800 is accompanied with such an expressive natural sound that artificial effects could seem redundant in the situation at hand. As usual phone opening/closing corresponds to receiving/ending the call.

As it was mentioned above Nokia 8800 is almost completely made of solid steel (with the exception of the scratchproof screen and the upper rear part concealing the build in antenna. If that part were made of steel the phone would fail to maintain a stable connection with the base station). The screen is really scratchproof – we tried our best to leave at least the smallest trace using a sharp penknife and all imagination we had but in vain. The effect is really amazing.

Now a few words more about the screen. It supports 262.000 colours. This is the first “non- smartphone ” from Nokia with such ability. The resolution of TFT-matrix is 208x208 pixels, the same as in Nokia 6230i. The display became even more staunch to direct sunrays: you do not need to seek the right angle to see something.

That is how the display looks in the sun:

One of the problems of all image phones with smooth mirror-like surfaces is fingerprints left on it. Nokia 8800 is not an exception.

If one takes phone in hand naturally than a clearly seen fingerprint left by forefinger remains on the rear of the deck.

The main menu of Nokia 8800 is very much alike with that of Nokia 6230i both in appearance and in contents so we'll dwell on the peculiarities.

In Messages maximum size of MMS is increased to 300kb like in Nokia 6230i that means that user can send full-size photos, videotracks a.o . information if the carrier supports MMS of such size.