Mobile Phone UK Review: Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte

Review: Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte

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Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte – True Beauty

The Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte is one very elegant and classy slide design mobile phone. The outer casing comprises a sleek fusion of metal and glass with its Sapphire 5-way navigation key, which really does give this phone its sophisticated personality. The 8800 Sapphire Arte is highly complemented by its 2.0 inch OLED QVGA screen that displays 320 x 240 pixels with up to 16M colours making the screen very clear, bright and colourful. The Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte features a Tap-for-Time element, so with just one tap the clock instantly will be displayed. Another convenient feature is the ability to mute incoming calls or alarms by simply turning the phone face down. The phone also features a voice command element allowing the user to use their voice to control the handset. Stylish and elegant wallpapers are featured to match the ambience of this truly chic looking mobile phone. The dimensions of the Sapphire Arte are 109mm x 45.6mm x 14.6mm and weighs 150g making it a nice size phone to fit in your hand and not too heavy either. Nokia state that you can use up to 3hrs 20mins GSM talk and up to 300hrs of stand-by time on a single full charge.

Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte – Music Player & Camera

The Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte comes equipped with a 3.2 mega-pixel camera with an 8x digital zoom and auto-focus function ability, making it a fantastic camera to operate. The phone features a landscape camcorder and video player that supports JPEG, GIF, BMP and PNG imaging formats with the allowance of video playback and streaming in QCIF formats. The user will take great photos anytime anywhere with this fantastic camera/video phone.

The built in music/media player gives the user access to listen to their favourite music whilst on the go. The music player supports all the popular music formats such as MP3, AAC, eAAC, MIDI, AMR and WMA audio formats. The Nokia Sapphire supports 64 polyphonic MIDI ring-tones with addition of 3D stereo ring-tones, True tones and exclusive video ring-tones. The built in internal memory of the Sapphire Arte is a healthy 1GB allowing a large amount of storage for all your music and downloads.

The Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte - Internet & Connectivity

The Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte has an XHTML browser allowing the user to gain access to the World Wide Web which is fantastic for those who are always on the move and like to keep up with all latest news and information. The Nokia Sapphire presents Flash content by using a Macromedia Flash Lite 2. 1. 1 player and OMA digital DRM. The Sapphire covers Tri-band networking such as EGSM 900, GSM 1800, 1900 and WCDMA 2100 allowing for world wide roaming and will switch automatically between the bands. Connecting to compatible devices is so straight forward, it can be done with the micro USB port or the Bluetooth 2.0 wireless technology. The user can always make great use of the HSCSD network as it allows high speed data transfers as well as using the EDGE facility.

The Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte – Messaging & Applications

The Nokia Sapphire Arte comes equipped with all the usual standard messaging services that are expected from a mobile phone now days like SMS, MMS(multimedia messaging) and emailing. This will keep those in touch even whilst away from the office. With the addition of Xpress audio messaging function, this allows the user to record a quick personal voice clip and send it to other compatible users. There is also a high text-to-speech feature which we must not forget to mention. The email facility supports IMAP4, POP3 and SMTP protocols and will allow MME and attachments consisting of jpg, 3GP and MP3 formats.

The Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte comes equipped with a selection of preinstalled Java MIDP 2.0 games to keep the user highly entertained and also the capability to download more if desired to suit the users gaming taste. The Nokia Sapphire Arte comes with an array of entertainment functions as well as the usual day-to-day tools like calendar, world clock, translator and calculator to name just a few.

The Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte presents a very elegant and chic phone for those who are fashion conscious and appreciate beauty. The Nokia Sapphire also offers an extensive variety of features and functions to keep the user entertained and amused.

This mobile phone is a little gem waiting to be discovered.............

Specification: Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte

• 3.2 Mega-pixel camera with 8 x digital zoom, Autofocus & Photo editor
• QCIF Video recorder, 3GPP, H264 & H263 Video player & 3GPP, H26 & H263 Video streaming
• Landscape mode for videos & Video editor
• Living wallpaper themes
• 2 inch display with 16 million colour screen (OLED QVGA) 320 x 240 pixels
• Music player with MP3, AAC, eAAC+, MIDI, AMR & WMA formats
• MIDI, 3D stereo & 64 Voice Polyphonic ringtones
• Kruder & Dorfmeister Video ringtones
• Fritz Fitzke Visual Video ringtones
• Various Audio themes
• Voice Commands & Voice Recorder
• SMS, MMS, Instant messaging & Email (POP3, IMAP4 & SMTP) messaging & Email with attachments
• Nokia Xpress sound messaging
• Predictive text
• Built in games include 3D Soccer, High roller Casino & 3D Golf with Java™ games & downloadable games
• Built in organiser includes Calendar, To do list, Converter, Translator & Alarm clock
• Built in handsfree speaker phone
• Flight mode
• Navigation key using a Sapphire gem stone
• Ambient light sensor monitor
• Tap 4 time & turn face down to silent controls
• 1 Gigabyte of memory
• Bluetooth, Micro USB, GPRS, Data Synchronization & 3G Connectivity
• EDGE technology
• Tri band 1900, 1800, 900 GSM & WCDMA 2100 networks
• XHTML Web browser
• Talk time 3 hours
• Standby 300 hours
• Size 14.6 x 45.6 x 109mm
• Weight 150 grams

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Consumer Reviews: Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte

Simply fantastic.A masterpiece depicting a convergence of technology, craftsmanship and beauty.I rate the nokia 8800 sapphire Arte * * * * (4 stars)

I WANT ONE!! 

Gordon, maybe you just got a bad one, my Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte never freezes!

Don't buy it 

The Nokia 8800 is just a fashion icon, mine keeps freezing, load of rubbish. Id rate it no stars if the website let me!!

I WANT ONE!! 

Brill peice of kit the Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte, although the battery will only last me a day, but i am on the phone alot:-)

The Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte looks really nice. Not sure why they put 1 GB of memory, would of thought it would not be much more in csot to bump it upto 8 GB or something. Still think the Nokia 8800 is sexy though.