LoveMyLumia – Day One and the Drop Test
Posted by Dani in News, Nokia, Phone Review, Windows Phone 7
So these are my very first thoughts on my Nokia Lumia 800, the first windows phone 7 to be produced from the Nokia Microsoft partnership.
I went to Nokia House to collect my new phone, unboxed it and promptly knocked the review model from a great height to the floor. Luckily and very importantly, there was absolutely zero damage to the phone and secondly, it was not my new Lumia phone that I was holding quite securely in my hand. I do apologise to Nokia for that.
The Lumia is an absolutely gorgeous device. The screen, body and the operating system comes together nicely.
Firstly, you need to set up a windows live account on starting up the phone. It does not ask you to set up WIFI first so if you have no internet bundle you will be going nowhere very fast, so choose the skip option. Once you have set up your windows live account it will start synching your email and contacts immediately along with setting up your twitter account which is very smooth and easy. Windows live states that it downloads new content every 30 minutes. I am unsure if it has real push email for Hotmail. This I will investigate as I am notorious for NOT reading phone manuals. I next set up my social connections, Facebook, foursquare, domain accounts and Gmail. There is a hub (or tile) with all my recent social activity alongside a very nice ‘Me’ tile which has my image. You have default tiles which you can interchange by adding your favourites and the tile colours can be changed. I am going through a ‘lime-green’ phase at the moment – having gone through a ‘pink’ phase at Nokia World.
You can set-up your Xbox avatar. I do not have an XBox but found it fun setting up an avatar anyways, choosing outfits, eyes, face etc 
. But there are Xbox games that you can play without having a console so that is a good thing to take advantage of.
Nokia Music needed an update to be able to play offline. This needs to be done manually by going to the Marketplace and doing a search for Nokia. I very much hope that automatic updates will be coming and that it will inform us of such. Nokia Music gives you a nice little help guide on how it works. Basically press and hold and select make available offline. In particular, I like the option that once a mix is downloaded for play offline, you only have to press and hold, for it to refresh itself with the newest music tracks.
Marketplace produces the odd error but there appears to be no reason for this. I had an error getting Amazon Kindle and Media Console but I was able to download and install them via the Windows Phone Connector for Mac.
The Calendar definitely needs improvement so that you can actually see where you have diary appointments. This is very difficult to see with the grey on black background and the font is so very tiny. There is space at the bottom of the monthly view screen and I would like to see the space implemented to show a day’s appointments.
The battery has given me more than a day on my usual usage.
I am loving the hub-system though I am not enthralled with the listing of the menu as it’s getting longer by the minute as I add applications and games.
That is it for now in day one of LoveMyLumia. My next piece will bring together my initial top 10 apps downloaded.
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