The Nokia 8801 has been floating around for a few months now, but we just received one in today’s FedEx dump-off so we thought we’d say a few words. This is a slick little phone, made of stainless steel and gumption. Not very many features—strangely enough, it’s very reminiscent of the RAZR on the design front, if not partially on the UI—and it screams “Sell me to rich people.”
This slider opens with a strange clunk that seems out of place on a phone. While most sliders snap open, the 8801 slides up and settles in, all cozy like. The heft of this phone is considerable. It’s not a big boy, but it’s pretty heavy.
The rest of the package is kind of tame. The packaging is pretty cool—all black with a fat manual, sexy little earpiece, and handy carrying sack, but we don’t buy phones for the sack.
It also has Bluetooth, FM radio, SVGA camera, and music playback. It should be appearing on T-Mobile shelves very, very soon and when it does, we can all pretend it might knock the RAZR out of its place in the limelight.
As a luxury phone, the Nokia 8801 delivers. I wouldn’t be surprised if people started etching them with fancy designs, etc. and dipping them in gold and diamond dust.
Nokia 8801[Phonescoop]
