Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte Review

This stylish, though slightly heavy phone introduced this month by Nokia gives me feeling of a heap of garbage packed in a stylish metal box. The Nokia 8800 offers nothing advanced other than its price tag ($1600/1100 Euro), which seems quite foolish for a phone with such a basic configuration dating back to the Nokia 6600 era.



However you may get tempted to buy it only if style & luxury are your main priorities. Otherwise this phone has technically nothing special to offer, if compared with its price.

Lets have a look at its specifications. The body of Nokia 8800 carbon Arte is composed of carbon fibre, stainless steel, polished glass and titanium which gives it an elegant,stylish & luxurious look. The OLED Display screen is protected with Scratch-resistant glass.



It comes with a 2.0 inches OLED display of 16M colors having a resolution of 240 X 320 pixels. The built-in memory size is 4GB which cannot be extended further since Nokia has not provided any additional card slot in 8800 Carbon Arte.

It is lacking the quad-band network support which is a common feature under this price tag. Not only this, the camera support is also not impressive. The Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte features a very mid-segment type 3.15 megapixel autofocus, VGA camera having a frame rate of 15fps which means that recording high-definition videos with this handset would still be a dream.

It comes with a standard Li-Ion battery of 1000mAh which gives you stand-by time of up to 300h & talk-time of up to 3h.

Other Basic Specifications:

• Dimensions: 109 x 45.6 x 14.6 mm, 65 cc
• Weight: 150 g
• Carbon fibre and titanium body
• Browser: wap2.0/xHTML
• GPRS/EDGE/HSCSD/3G/Bluetooth/USB enabled
• Living & Downloadable wallpapers
• Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3, video ringtones
• MP3/AAC/eAAC player
• Java MIDP 2.1
• Voice memo
• T9
• Calculator
• Built-in handsfree
• Durable stainless steel covers
• Turn-to-mute