The Nokia Lumia 800 is now available over at Telus.
From the telus specs, looks like this will not work on WIND/Mobilicity.
Pricing:
$529.99 - no term
$479.99 - 1 year
$429.99 - 2 years
$49.99 - 3 years (so called promotional pricing as you will need a min $50 monthly plan)
Black, Cyan, and Magenta are the available colours over at TELUS. I would imagine that sometime in the future, the glossy white one could become available.
As some of you might know, MWC happens every year around this time where pretty much all the big mobile phones vendors (except Apple) gets together in Barcelona and have a great nerd off.
This year, I was looking forward to it as I personally am looking to replace my HTC Surround (still like it a lot) with likely a Nokia Lumia 800 or 900.
Nokia
We already know when the 800 is launching in Canada. We found out that Rogers is going to release the 900 sometime *soon* in CES 2012 in January but there was no date, nothing.
Well, looks like we can now narrow it down the a month. April is the month and over at the Rogers website you can also sign up for launch information.
The promotional blurp also states "When you pre-order a Lumia 900, Nokia and Rogers have a surprise for you. Hint: there's a hero rising out of the darkness" Likely this thing (the video is a Video of the Lumia 800 but you get the idea).
It's either this or Christian Bale deliveries your phone to you personally and then follow by punching you in the face. (The second option does sound interesting for some reason)
Lumia 610
Also new and it is unlikely to see here in Canada is the Lumia 610
This is significant as this is the first "Tango" phone which runs on lower spec hardware which means that it is going to be unleash in emerging markets
The Tango spec supports 800Mhz CPU + 256MB RAM in case you are interested
Given the low low price of the 710 right now, I don't think we'll be seeing this phone in Canada anytime soon
HTC
- HTC has announced that the HTC Titan II will be expanding to markets outside the United States. This LTE device will likely finally see the light in Canada sometime. No timeframe is given
- HTC has also announced that they will make a bigger splash in the WP handset when Windows Phone "Apollo" is released (Windows Phone 8.0)
Samsung
- I personally think Samsung is gone off the bonkers lately with the releases of the Samsung Note (Android in case you are wondering) - 5.3 inches!!!!
- no news on Samsung WP75 coming to Canada.
$49.99 with data plan looks to be a pretty great price considering the 3 year price for the original launch prices HTC Surround + LG Optimus 7 was $99.99 and $149.99
Rest of the prices are complete BS.
Probably will have official numbers from Telus this coming Friday.
$399 outright
$99 on WINDtab+ (basically means that your monthly fee must be >= $40 for you to get $300 off the outright price).
$249 on regular WINDTab ($150 off the regular price for other monthly plans)
Even at $249 it looks like a good price as you can unlimited talk&text + unlimited data for a very reasonable price of $35/month or just $25/month with unlimited talk&text.
Some specs:
3G bands: UMTS 1700/1900/2100;
GSM Bands: 850/900/1800/1900
1Ghz Processor
Cameras - 5MP main camera, front facing camera VGA resolution (640x480)
*UPDATE* - Looks like Videotron is about to unleash the HTC Radar as well, no pricing just yet
*UPDATE 2* - If you are pondering going to WIND, MobileSyrup has obtain information on WIND monthly plan changes
Looks like there are some increases in WindTab and WindTab+ but rates are changing so you might want to weight your options. This new pricing is launching on March 1
By now, some of you might have heard of something called #smokedbywindowsphone.
For those of you who don't know what it is, it is a Microsoft Campaign that started small at this year's CES by @BenThePCGuy (who works for Microsoft of course).
The challenge is that his claim is that the Windows Phone can do things faster than your smartphone could on everyday tasks like tweeting, posting stuff on facebook, etc. If he cannot beat you with his HTC Titan, he will give the challenger $100 US for winning. The cost of losing to him? Say on camera that your phone was smoked by a windows phone.
Of course the chances of him coming up to Canada for any Windows Phone launch is very remote, but it is very fun to see these videos.
In a recent trip to california Microsoft store, his record was a stunning 37-0 (I think he was like 30-3 at CES - narrowly losing to couple of iPhone 4s and a Galaxy S II or something like that).
Also, Wpcentral has reported that this #SmokedbyWindowsPhone campaign has spread to Hong Kong where they are offering people $1000HKD (around $125 Cdn) should they beat WP7 and so far they have an 32-0 record.
Just for fun I took my HTC Surround up against my friend's Samsung Galaxy S and smoked it good with simply taking a picture and posting on facebook.
What was really surprising was that just for fun I tried opening a website (cached cleared of course) against the brand spanking new Galaxy Nexus. And was I surprised to see that on opening 10 different websites (full sites, not the mobile site), even my HTC Surround took 7 out of 10 websites opening away from the Galaxy Nexus.
So there you have it, try using your year old WP7 (Mango updated of course) to have some fun with your friends!
