I feel that Nokia should stick with N9's hardware. 3.9" screen is a very nice size IMO.

Yeah, looking at the pictures and videos I am really impressed too.

It makes no sense for Nokia to fall back on lower quality hardware for their WP7 handsets after releasing the N9. Cross fingers, hope it's as good as N9 or even better! Planning to buy one if it can be unlocked easily to sideload apps haha

Price is 420 euros. So I think it's about RM1.8k?

N9 retailed for $650 but in Malaysia it is only retailed at RM1.8k. Is it possible for Lumia 800 to be lower than RM1.8k since it's going to be retailed at about $585? Hopefully so

Nokia users tend to be less hardcore, that's why you'll seldom find them here.

I have a feeling that this phone will sell really really well in Europe, Nokia branding + aggressive marketing campaign by Nokia.

They all practically just put WP7 inside of N9 and yet in the video make it seem like the design is exclusively for WP7 lol

India also is a more important market to Nokia than Malaysia. So sad.

If you noticed, Nokia will not release N9 in important market areas. Like the U.S, they do not have the N9, because Nokia wants to push Windows Phone kao kao in those important markets. They only reserve N9 to not-so-important markets... like Malaysia

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Added on November 19, 2011, 9:27 pmLumia 800 released in HK for around 4400HKD, that works out to be about RM1800. Pretty sure that's the price we'll see in Malaysia if they ever release it here.

This post has been edited by xcen: Nov 19 2011, 09:27 PM

If you don't mind to get it from Singapore, you can wait till around December. During the 800 launch I'm pretty sure (but not 100%) that it is announced Singapore will get the phone by end of this year.

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Added on November 21, 2011, 10:05 amActually if you think about it, RM1800 for such a good build quality is considered cheap already. You have to understand that what makes a phone cheap or expensive is the build quality, the specifications such as dual-core chips etc don't cost the manufacturers a lot of money. That's why you'll see that most Android phones do not compete with the Iphone4 in terms of build quality, because it's too expensive for them. They just put more powerful chips to compete, which cost less.

The 800's build quality is really superb with its price, considering that the build quality is just as good as Iphone4. If Nokia can put dual core inside, they will definitely do it at the same price, but problem is WP7.5 still doesn't support dual core. Need to wait at least until middle next year I believe, but most probably WP8 will come with Windows 8, around Q3/4 next year.

This post has been edited by xcen: Nov 21 2011, 10:05 AM

Seeing that the battery life of this Nokia is not too hot.. dunno Samsung Focus S or this is better... hmm...

You went to London to compete?

Omg!

Is it officially confirmed the price for Lumia 800 and 710 are RM1650 and RM999 respectively? Are there any official or reliable source to back this claim?

Hmm I was expecting Lumia 800 to be around RM1800 but it seems that Nokia decided to make it much cheaper here in Malaysia.

Certain exclusive apps I heard. I think ESPN is one of them? Or was it CNN?

I'm using Gmail to store all my contacts (coz my Hotmail is screwed up with a lot of inaccurate infos created by my friends and also I added a lot of people I don't really know in WLM). I can confirm everything syncs nicely and perfectly, whatever you do on your phone will reflect nicely back into your gmail account.

Using Gmail with the native email client on WP7 is a bliss too, so no worries there. The amazing thing is I switch on push notifications for 4 emails accounts + around 10 apps for my battery life will always last me the entire day with about 2 hours of heavy web browsing. Using Samsung Omnia 7, which is a 1st generation phone which is supposedly less battery-efficient compared to the new generation WP7 like Nokia Lumia.

Don't know if I used the terms right, basically I was talking about the push email that came with WP7.

Indeed, only Blackberries have 'true' push technology. But that doesn't mean that Microsoft's push system is bad, in fact it is very close to Blackberries in terms of speed and battery life. Though maybe it could work a little bit more on its reliability (sometimes gotta wait for 2nd email before the 1st email is pushed).

All Android and iPhones use Microsoft's push technology.

Difference is also when your friends see your Lumia 800 they will drool

Which part of Lumia 800 is not fluid? Through my experience all of the native apps included are 100% smooth and fluid. It's just 3rd party apps sometimes not as smooth as I expect it to be.