Nokia unveils its premium handset '8800 Sapphire Arte'

NI Wire

New Delhi

Fri, 21 Mar 2008: 

The new Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte, a fully featured 3G mobile phone in a metallic stretch body with a single Sapphire gem stone as the center-key, leaves a luxurious sense to the fashion freak. The premium range mobile phone from the leading handset provider is all set to create its impression here in Indian market.<>

The stylish bronze coloured metallic finish with all modern features is to steal the cause of style conscious people in its quality and craftsmanship.

This one is a bit more advanced in the highly acclaimed Nokia 8800 series a built-in 3.2 Megapixel digital camera with auto-focus feature, 1GB of internal memory space, and 3G network support.

To its elegant look the mobile phone comes with a leather pouch with a linen-lining and a separate matching desk stand to woo the first grade consumer. A smooth and slide mechanism along with a 'tap-for-time' and 'turn-to-mute' features makes a refined statement. By this a double tap on the steel surface below the display make appear an analogue clock - indicating time, while incoming calls can be silenced by simply turning over the phone, up-side down.

Features of Elegance – Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte

Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte measuring 109mm x 45mm x 14.6mm (4.3″ x 1.8″ x .57″) and weighing just 150g facilitated with the following features to prove its smartness.

Display: 2.0″ QVGA 240×320 pixels, OLED display with up to 16 million colours. Its 16M OLED colour offers a sharpest screen display and in addition a light sensor to adjust screen brightness automatically.

Camera: Equipped with an inbuilt 3.2 mega pixel camera with 2048 x 1536 pixels resolutions, 8x digital zoom, Auto-Focus, the device is well capable of capturing quality pictures.

Video: With support 3GPP, H.263, H.264 Video Files, the cell phone enables users to use it as a video recorder, video player, video calling, and video streaming.

Memory: This phone comes with enough of 1GB user memory. It can store enough call records.

Connectivity: Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte in access with tri-band GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900MHz and WCDMA 2100MHz supports Bluetooth connectivity but no infrared or Wi-Fi (WLAN). It offers microUSB and computer synchronization support.

Multimedia: 8800 Sapphire Arte is equipped with mp3 and polyphonic ringtones. The MP3 player supports AAC, eAAC+, MP3, MIDI, AMR, WMA Music Files with playlist and shuffle option. The large memory of 1GB memory further comes handy for music lovers to store more and more of their favourite music tracks.

E-mail, Messaging: You can easily connect to your loved or friends through SMS, MMS and Email. It supports POP3 / IMAP4 / SMTP and with high quality Internet Browsing / WAP 2.0 (xHTML).

Other useful features include Java MIDP 2.0, Voice memo, T9, Calendar, Calculator, Built-in handsfree, speaker phone with a ‘Lithium Ion 1000 mAh’ battery with a life of 3 hrs Talk and a Standby time of up to 300 hours (12.5 days).

The new Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte sports a premium price tag of Rs. 62, 829.