Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 unveiled with Windows Phone 7.5, turn-by-turn, free music – Everything you need to know

October 26, 2011 By Jeffrey Van Camp

Our complete coverage of Nokia's Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 Windows Phone 7.5 handsets, unveiled at Nokia World 2011 in London. Specs and details on the phones, new Symbian phones, and Nokia's exclusive WP7 apps for driving, public transit, ESPN sports, and music.

At 9 a.m. U.K. time this morning, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop kicked off Nokia World 2011 by unveiling six new phones including its first two Windows Phone 7.5 handsets: the Lumia 800 and the cheaper Lumia 710. Unfortunately for those of us in the States, they won’t be coming to the U.S. until sometime in 2012.

Below is a breakdown of each device and some of Nokia’s additions to the Windows Phone platform. These devices are already shipping to France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the U.K. for a November launch. Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan will get them before the end of the year. Those of us in the U.S., well, we may get it next year.

Nokia Lumia 800

The Finnish phonemaker’s flagship Windows Phone is an evolution of the N9 design, which Elop explained has been one of Nokia’s most successful launches in some parts of the world (Russia) despite its MeeGo operating system. The Lumia 800 is the “first real Windows Phone,” claims Elop, who said it embodies the intent and aspirations of Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform like no other.

Specs:

Screen: 3.7-inch AMOLED ClearBlack curved display
Thickness: 12.1mm
Processor: 1.4GHz processor
Storage: 16GB internal storage, 25GB of free SkyDrive storage
RAM: 512MB
Camera: 8MP, Carl Zeiss lens
Battery life: 8.5 hour talk time, 7 hour video playback time
Charging: Micro USB
Colors: Cyan, black, magenta
Price: 420 euros

Nokia Lumia 710

The Lumia 710 will be sold as a cheaper alternative to the Lumia 800. It’s main feature is its swappable back covers and differing color selection from the 800. Its battery life, camera, and screen are somewhat weaker, though internally it seems to run the same processor, and comes with a microSD card slot, unlike the 800.

Specs:

Screen: 3.7-inch
Thickness: 12.5mm
Processor: 1.4GHz processor
Storage: 8GB internal storage, 25GB of free SkyDrive storage, microSD
RAM: 512MB
Camera: 5MP, Carl Zeiss lens
Battery life: 7.6 hour talk time, 6 hour video playback time
Charging: Micro USB
Colors: Black, white (with WP7 tile-colored swappable backplates)
Price: 270 euros

New Symbian devices

During the keynote, Nokia also announced the Nokia Asha 200, 201, 300, and 303. These devices are intended for developing markets, and run on Nokia Series 40, which now has Angry Birds. All of them have QWERTY and Web browsers that compress webpages up to 90 percent to save bandwidth. The higher end Asha 300 comes with dual-SIM capability, capacitive touch, 3G, and a 1GHz processor.

Nokia’s exclusive Windows Phone apps

All of these apps are free and are exclusive to Nokia’s Windows Phone devices.

Nokia Drive: Nokia is bringing turn-by-turn driving directions to Windows Phone. It should work mostly like Google’s Android offering, but will use Nokia’s Navteq maps engine.

Nokia Public Transport: This app was not shown but was announced. It will support 430 cities worldwide and will have public transit info available. In 45 cities, up-to-the-minute bus and subway routes will be available.

ESPN Hub: Get scores, updates, and watch clips of your favorite sports teams. The ESPN app will let you pin your favorite sport or team right to the home page to get updates on its progress at all times.

Nokia Music: This wasn’t fully explained, but Nokia showed off Mix Radio, a new feature that is an “effortless, easy-to-use way to discover, acquire, and experience new music.” Basically, you can choose between prepackaged mixes made by Nokia and instantly start listening without having to sign up or do anything, much like a radio. Better, you can download mixes for offline listening. With the ability to create your own mixes by typing in an artist name, the service is beginning to sound a lot like Pandora. There will be no charge and no signup page. It will supposedly just work, for free.

Nokia Live View: This will be an augmented reality app for Nokia phones, but no details were released.

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Belgo at 8:10am 3rd December 2011 The worrying thing is that Nokia have had a long time to come up with something fresh and this is what they can do?? Nokia should be blamed. These guys used to make amazing phones and now they just seem to be happy to be following the pack, albeit quite a few steps behind everyone. Poor showing
Kit Keigwin at 2:37am 27th October 2011 As an urban commuter living in Paris, I can't wait to see how the Public Transport thing works. As it is, on my Android I have to go back and forth between two apps, Google Maps and RATP (Paris' official transit app).Even if Nokia Public Transport doesn't include Velib info (it would be crazy not too) it would still guarantee HUGE interest in Ile-de France, which BTW, with daily use of 4 million passengers has the largest, most used public transit system IN THE WORLD.
prats_usa at 2:54pm 26th October 2011 Now Nokia gets a new life with Window Phone, and Nokia phones are never too expensive, and Camera lens among the best. Hope this turns out to be good for Nokia
The_Master at 5:27am 26th October 2011 Nokia was popular mobile phone manufacture, and most of my surfing on the internet for mobile phones applications, I didn't find that much applications made for windows phone, which means, its not that popular, now, Nokia will have all the defects of Windows phone to its mobile phones, GOOD BYE Nokia. People always want to surf, chat, and use their mobile as safe as possible, and from ALL Windows versions (Desktop OS), you can find tons of viruses and Trojans, you think Windows phone will be safe, personally, I DON'T think so. now R.I.P Symbian, you was great OS, but its time to WINDOWS PHONE to take your place.I DON'T LIKE IT, WINDOWS PHONE IS DEATH WISH.
1. prats_usa at 2:58pm 26th October 2011 Symbian was good 4 years ago, since Apple raised the standard & Symbian could not get anything better it had to die. I believe you are a Mac user, since you think Windows is virus. You need to learn to handle technology, or virus is capable of coming in any thing. Most importantly the worst part about Apple's Mac is Make it Shiny, Charge 3 times the price of comparable products, Make Billions on idiots!
  1. The_Master at 11:17pm 26th October 2011 @PRATHAM: just take few minutes to find sales statistics Nokia Symbian vs Windows Phone, even everyone is knowing that windows phone DOESN'T have a chance, you will see, people may be excited to purchase the new Nokia Windows phone, but after a while, they will notice the difference,P.S. am not a MSC USER, am windows user.
    prats_usa at 11:41am 31st October 2011 the marketing of windows phone is not so good thus not in the public eye. Windows phone is one of the most stable os in the world today and it is powerful and has quality. Symbian died because of the transition of other os. apps were bad, touchscreen was unresponsive at times, slow processor. it did not appeal to the public. and most importantly because of that their shares were going down so they had to do something. and windows phone is the right choice