Nokia 8800 Erdos – Traditional Yet Innovative
Nokia enjoys world wide popularity and many people, when asked if they have a brand preference when purchasing a mobile phone will respond “Nokia”, without any hesitation.
This week GSM Arena published a picture showing off the slick new design of the Nokia 8800 Erdos. Its body is made of a single piece of “bullet silver”, although according to GSM Arena this is just fancy marketing talk for regular old stainless steel – but either way it sure does make a very impressive first impression.
A very interesting feature of the Erdos is it’s screen; when on it appears to be no more than scratch resistant glass, but when the phone is switched off it goes completely silver, giving the entire mobile handset the appearance of a solid silver bar, albeit a slim one.
It will be the very first Nokia to be classed as a smartphone running Symbian OS S60, as well inbuilt GPS and wi-fi. With a whole 8GB of storage space the lacking of an SD card input does not generally cause any concern, and it is safe to say that Nokia has once again out done itself and proved why it is a leader in the mobile technology field.
The inbuilt camera is 5 mega pixels, which may not sound like much when compared to some of today’s more impressive digital cameras, but it is certainly a great improvement on past models and supposing your shot is adequately lit there will be little to no graining in the resulting image. You also have the option of single or dual flash, making the camera far more suitable for night time shots than its predecessors.
Although there is no solid release date yet it will be available at some point during October 2009.
