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Nokia 8800 Gold Arte

Nokia 8800 Gold Arte is a very expensive cell golden phone for the elite offering outstanding looks, excellent built quality and much more.

Overview:
The Nokia 8800 Gold Arte is not a phone for technology geeks but for people whose ambition is to look well and be really visible. The phone has 18 carat gold-plated body, nice design and a few interesting features. However, for its price you can get a much more packed phone if your intention is to use the phone as a supplement for your office work.

Nokia 8800 Gold Arte pros:
+ 18 carat gold-plated body
+ Genuine white leather padding
+ Good battery life
+ 2″ 16M-color OLED display of QVGA resolution
+ 3 megapixel autofocus camera
+ 3G support
+ Turn-to-mute

Nokia 8800 Gold Arte cons:
- No office document viewer
- No memory expansion
- No lens cover for the camera
- No video calls
- Quite expensive
- Below-par camera performance
- No Smart dialing
- No radio

The design:
Nokia 8800 Gold Arte measures 109 x 45.6 x 14.6 mm and weighs 150 g mainly due to its gold body. Along with the phone you get a headset and a desktop charger also painted gold to make you stand out even more. The front of the cell phone features the 2” OLED display and below it the four main controls along with the D-pad. The right side of the phone features the loudspeaker grill. The top of Nokia 8800 Gold Arte houses the power key, whereas the bottom of the cell features the mouthpiece along with the microUSB port. At the back you will find the megapixel camera lens. The Nokia 8800 Gold Arte makes a very good impression as it attracts looks and feels very solid and durable.

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Performance:
Nokia 8800 Gold Arte features only a 2-inch display showing 16M color in QVGA resolution. The screen is quite fingerprint-proof and has good contrast, yet it also has rather poor legibility in direct sunlight. There are five ringing profiles predefined and you can change them by (shortly) pressing the power button at the top of the phone. The menus work quite fast in the Nokia 8800 Gold Arte  and the phone features the Flight Mode, but unlike in SonyEricsson cell phones (such as Sony Ericsson W508, or Sony Ericsson T707) Nokia 8800 Gold Arte can work in flight mode without the SIM card. The phonebook in Nokia 8800 Gold Arte can store up to 2000 contacts with multiple fields.

Multimedia:
The music player in Nokia 8800 Gold Arte is just sufficient to listen to some music. Clearly, the phone is not a multimedia giant, as it is supposed to look better than perform. There is only handful of file types recognized and there is no radio. The video player works with MP4 and 3GP files only and had few options.
The built-in digital camera has no lens cover and the 3 megapixel images seem a bit too small already. Moreover, there is no dedicated camera key and no flash which makes taking photos uncomfortable and in low lighting condition simply impossible.
As usual, the phone comes with a calendar, notes application, alarm clock, calculator (standard and scientific), voice recording application.

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Menus / ease of use:
Nokia 8800 Gold Arte has a few different looks of the main menu so you can adjust it to your needs. A nice feature here is the fact that you can freely arrange the icons in the main menu. However, the submenus are a mess. It is sometimes hard to find the desired options so the only way to get it is to use and memories it. As usual you can group contacts and assign different ringtones or images to them.
Selected Nokia 8800 Gold Arte features and specifications:
Display and 3D

  • Size: 2.0″
  • Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
  • Up to 16 million colours
  • OLED technology

Keys and input method

  • Numeric keypad
  • User configurable right soft keys
  • Voice commands
  • “Tap twice” on the front to light up the display and show the clock

Connectors

  • MicroUSB connector, USB 2.0 Full Speed

Memory

  • 4 GB internal memory

Power

  • BL-4U 1000 mAh Li-Ion standard battery
  • Talk time (maximum): GSM 3 h 20 min, WCDMA 2 h 45 min
  • Standby time (maximum): GSM 300 h, WCDMA 300 h

Communication and navigation

  • Operating frequency
  • Tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900, EGSM 900
  • Automatic switching between GSM bands
  • Flight mode

Data network

  • WCDMA 2100, maximum speed PS 128/384 kbps (UL/DL), CS 12.2 kbps

Local connectivity and synchronisation

  • Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
  • Support for PC synchronisation with Nokia PC Suite

Messaging

  • SMS with support for concatenated SMS for long messages
  • SMS storage
  • Speed dialling for SMS sending
  • List of recently used numbers in message editor
  • Multiple SMS deletion
  • Text-to-speech message reader
  • MMS version 1.21.14, message size up to 300 kb
  • Automatic resizing of images for MMS
  • Nokia Xpress audio messaging
  • Number screening for messaging
  • Instant messaging with Presence-enhanced contacts

E-mail

  • Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP
  • Support for email attachments
  • Support for email with filtering
  • IMAP IDLE support
  • OMA email notification support

Web browsing

  • Supported mark-up languages: HTML, XHTML, WML
  • Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP 2.0
  • TCP/IP support
  • XHTML browser over HTTP/TCP/IP

Music and audio playback

  • Digital music player
  • Music playback file formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA
  • Ring tones: polyphonic (25 built-in tones)
  • Stereo audio streaming supports A2DP BT (advanced audio distribution profile for Bluetooth)

Voice and audio recording

  • Voice commands
  • Voice dialling
  • Audio recording formats: AMR-NB, AAC/eAAC+, stored in .3gp and .mpg file formats
  • Digital stereo microphone
  • Text-to-speech

Personalisation: profiles, themes, ring tones

  • Customizable profiles
  • Ring tones: mp3, aac, 64-tone polyphonic (25 built-in tones)
  • Video ring tones (7 built-in tones)
  • Themes:
- animated wallpapers
- animated colour screensavers
- colour schemes
- ring tones
- icons
- pre-installed themes
- changeable colour themes
- user defined themes
  • Exclusive video ring tones composed by Kruder and Dorfmeister

Software

  • Software platform and user interface
  • Series 40
  • Active standby
  • Voice commands
  • FOTA (Firmware update Over The Air)

Sales package contents

  • Nokia 8800 Gold Arte
  • Nokia Battery (BL-4U)
  • Nokia Travel Charger (AC-6)
  • Nokia Connectivity Cable (CA-101)
  • Nokia Bluetooth Headset (BH-803)
  • Nokia Desk Stand (DT-19)
  • Nokia Carrying Case (CP-212)
  • CD-ROM with Nokia PC Suite software (version 6.83)
  • Nokia 8800 Gold Arte story booklet
  • User guide

Other recently reviewed cell phones:

Sony Ericsson W508, BlackBerry Bold 9000, Sony Ericsson T707

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