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Nokia fans and Windows Phone enthusiasts living in the UK can purchase the Lumia 800 for quite some time now. Until recently, the smartphone was only available on contract from various carriers in the country, including Three, Vodafone and Orange. This is about to change, as major retailer Clove has just announced the smartphone arrived in stock and will start shipping the unlocked Black Lumia 800 to all customers who order it today. “We will be shipping outstanding Lumia orders today and have stock available for anyone that would like to place an order.”
Clove UK sells the unlocked Nokia Lumia 800 for £443 (670 USD or 515 EUR), but customers are not required to sign up for any long term contract. Nokia Lumia 800 is the first product launched by the Microsoft-Nokia joint venture, and compbines the expertise in mobile phone software and hardware technology of both companies. The device is powered by the latest mobile platform coming from Microsoft, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, which is complemented by several Nokia applications, including Nokia Drive and Nokia Music. Hardware-wise, Nokia Lumia 800 is equipped with a 1.4 GHz single core Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon processor and an Adreno 205 graphics processing unit. On the inside, the smartphone packs 16GB of internal memory and 512 MB of RAM; obviously, there’s no microSD card slot for memory expansion. However, owners will be able to make use of no less than 25GB of free Dropbox cloud storage. The device comes with a 3.7-inch AMOLED curved touchscreen, which is based on Nokia’s ClearBlack technology and boasts 480 x 800 pixels resolution and support for 16 million colors. Another strong point of the handset is the enhanced 8-megapixel rear camera that features Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, dual-LED flash and HD (720p) video recording capabilities. Unfortunately, the Lumia 800 doesn’t have a secondary camera for video calls.
