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Windows Phone 7.5 is the OS that runs the show, and that means the Lumia 800's interface consists of the Start screen and the app screen. Navigation is just fine with Windows Phone's relatively larger live tiles, but composing e-mail messages and reading content online is easier with a 4-inch screen. The screen size could be larger overall, but some people will prefer the more petite size. With Gorilla Glass incorporated into the final product, you're looking at a smooth, vibrant, and touchable screen that shows off black blacks and saturated color. Unfortunately, direct sunlight also makes finger smears stand out.

It doesn't hurt that Nokia has applied its ClearBlack display, a polarizing filter that helps improve visibility in direct sunlight, and indeed, it did as promised. Its WVGA resolution (800x480 pixels) on 3.7 inches of AMOLED material just pops. (It actually feels pretty awesome.)ДЄlso awesome is the look of the screen itself. The screen material itself is curved and slightly bubbles out (about 2.5mm), which gives you a smooth, almost spherical feel as you swipe left and right across the screen. For starters, it's fitted into the Lumia's body to form a pretty tight seal. Let's move on to one of my favorite parts of this phone: the screen. Thanks, in part, to its uniform shape, the handset doesn't take up too much room in closer-fitting pockets. It measures 4.59 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide by 0.47 inch thick. The material, whose properties include resisting heat damage and denting, feels solid and durable in the hand, if a little bit slippery. It has a tabletop head and tail and rounded sides. Worked from a solid piece of colored polycarbonate (a specific type of plastic), the smooth magenta, cyan, or black Lumia 800 reminds me of a fat stick of chewing gum (I reviewed it in black). The Lumia 800, like the Meego-based Nokia N9 it's modeled on, is one interesting-looking phone. Just one more note: the unit I reviewed is a prototype device running near-final software. version that Nokia told CNET it's preparing to announce will look and act much like this flagship smartphone.

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However, with some software tweaks and a hardware update, the U.S. (420 euros), I don't expect this unlocked version for European markets to sell well in the U.S. Yet the camera is disappointing, there's no front-facing camera, no tethering, and people will either love or hate the risky design. Nokia has also added some interesting apps inside.

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It also has an 8-megapixel camera with an f/2.2 Carl Zeiss Tessar lens and dual-LED flash, and support for 720p HD video capture. The Lumia runs Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, and has a 3.7-inch AMOLED screen, a 1.4GHz single-core processor, and 16GB internal memory. With Nokia's fate intertwined with Windows Phone, and consumers and operators still lukewarm on the OS, it's hardly a stretch to suggest that the weight of a company is riding on the Nokia Lumia 800's polycarbonate shoulders.ДЄnd what interesting shoulders they are.

Less than a year ago, the cell phone maker all but chucked its homegrown Symbian OS to get onboard with Windows Phone, a chancy move considering phones running Microsoft's platform aren't exactly selling like hotcakes. The importance of the high-end Nokia Lumia 800-the more elite of Nokia's first-ever two Windows phones-can't be overstated (the other is the Nokia Lumia 710).

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