Diaries of a Nokia Fan Boy

Alright, so Nokia 8800 is a series of phones which I would love to have but for their lacking of a smartphone OS, never will. Or at least that was the case up until now. Out comes the Nokia 8800 Erdos – the newest addition to 8800 line which includes the Sirocco, Arte, Sapphire Arte, Carbon Arte, and Golden Arte.

Up until this point, these phones have been functionally simplistic, outdated even, but designed with elegance and grace. This gave them a very high price and made them rather exclusive. Well I’ve always likened the phones with, for example, the Smart car – something interesting to look at, but I would never own one. And for me, the breaking point has always been the lack of a smartphone operating system since I need to connect to MS Exchange.

The 8800 line so far has seen little in the way of redesign – physically and functionally. But the Nokia 8800 Erdos comes with a completely new design and improved functionality:

• Symbian S60 (looks like 5th ed)
• 2.4″, 16M color, OLED, QVGA display
• Touch area on display
• GSM/WCDMA + WLAN
• Bluetooth 2.0 (with A2DP)
• AGPS
• 5MP AF camera with Carl Zeiss optics + LED flash
• VGA @ 15fps video
• 8GB internal memory
• Slide and lift T9 keypad

While the overall specs are not that big of an improvement, the biggest, most important improvement is the operating system. Not only does this open the handset to a wider market, but it improves overall user experience. This is also the first 8800, or Nokia for that matter, to feature a touch area on the display (different from touch-screen), which could signal the introduction of gestures. The phone, like other 8800’s before, features a T9 keypad, however this one slides up when the phone opens, making it easier to type, and if the OS really is S60 5th, then it will be the first to match that keyboard type with the OS.

Anyway, enough out of me, take a look at the sleek and sexy design of the 8800 Erdos in the video below:

-Nokia FanBoy

via: CellPassion (read)