Nokia 810 4G Windows Phone (T-Mobile)

Great Phone November 24, 2012

Reviewer:  Rana "wanderlust" 

A new breathe of fresh air. After using using various phones of Blackberry, iPhone and Android for the last 5 or 6 years I never imagined that I will go for another OS. Not too long ago whenever I travelled overseas I met and heard people praising their Nokias. I used to be an Apple fan but lately was somewhat becoming disappointed. So I was ready to try something new. As Nokia for Windows Phone 8 was announced I started waiting for Nokia eagerly. To my disappointment my phone carrier t-mobile didn't get Lumia 920 and as I didn't want to leave it so I took the only Lumia they offered. So I got Lumia 810 which proved to be a good thing. This phone does not have have a floating lens camera otherwise I don't miss anything compared to 920. I love it's size, looks and the fact that I can expand it's memory to 64 GB. I am very happy with Windows Phone 8 too. I can find enough apps for my use. To be able use Windows Office on this phone is a big plus for me. Hopefully I won't have to switch to another OS again.

A clear and beautiful working device December 1, 2012

Reviewer:  Althea V. Watts "althea watts"  (baltimore md.) -

The phone is amazing. I at first wanted the Lumia 920 but since it didn't come to T-mobile I had to settle for the HTC 8x or The lumia 810. I went to the T-mobile store to hold and see both of the devices in person.

I was surprised how beautiful the phone looks in person. I couldn't stop looking at it and i held the htc 8x. I like how light it was but that was it the design is that of a flagship phone but it doesn't have expandable memory and that was a huge deal breaker for me. So i choose the Lumia 810 over the 8x. The Lumia 810 accepts sd cards up to 64 GB and it's amazing to store all your music and pictures on. The only con of the phone is that it has internal 8 GB memory so you have to keep all that room for your apps and pictures and music for your SD card. So before you buy the phone, GET A SD CARD with the phone.

I could care less about weight. I also don't care about thickness either. You phone is built with quality and there are much more thicker phones out there then this one. If you think the phone is ugly then i recommend going to see an eye doctor or getting glasses. My friends rave all the time about how beautiful the phone is over and over. I've had some people get interested and even want to SWITCH FROM THEIR ANDROIDS. Seriously my friends ask me to see the phone all the time and play with because of the beautiful and intriguing new start screen on Windows phone 8.

That brings me to another point which is the operating system of Windows phone 8. It's not Android or iphone, no it's something new and in my opinion much more steady and fluent. The tiles are live of course and you can easily pin contacts, groups and twitter profiles if you want while seeing them update from new tweets, pictures, text messages, and missed calls. The tiles comes in three sizes and that can be seen from the pictures of the phone. small, square and rectangle. This can allow you to place much more in your viewing area. The phone doesn't freezes and there is no lag. Xbox music is great and it's easy to order around your music collection. If you have an SD Card installed then your can multi select music to save to you phone or SD Card. You can also delete music if you want. The music you have in the cloud storage is something different since it's not on your phone so it won't take up space on your sd card or phone unless you choose to download them from the cloud to your phone or SD Card. Messaging is great as the keyboard has emoticon dedicated keyboard with categories of faces, objects, food, weather and other whackey things if your that kind of texter but if the person your texting has a simple phone from back before smartphones were invented (flip phones, slide phones) then they won't show up on their phone.

Apps is the main point of deal breakers for windows phone itself. So i'm going to be blunt. Windows phone has a fast growing app selection and of course it's not as much as IOS or Android but it is growing and has over 100,000 apps and that was in September so it's much more now. There are many third party apps to replace the ones you had on your previous phones. For instagram fans there is "metro.am" and a popular one "instacam". If you are a app junkie then GET A NOKIA LUMIA. Nokia gets the best apps for windows phone first and are always exclusive to Nokia windows phones. If you get an HTC 8x then you won't get popular games and app for a while because Nokia has an exclusivity on them. If you aren't an app person then you can get an HTC or Nokia but i recommend a Nokia because of the build quality.

You drop this phone it definitely won't break. Believe me since i have dropped this phone face first on the ground, bus and floor of my house. The phone comes out of those still beautiful with no scratches on the screen but maybe on the back but unlike other Lumia's remember this phone has a removable battery so if you want to get a new back you can or just get a case which are available but the phone is much more beautiful without a case.

You have Microsoft Office on the phone. And this phone has sensitive touch! Like the Lumia 920! You can go into the settings to display and touch to switch on high sensitive touch.I was amazed when i could use my phone while wearing gloves and heck i even tried a pencil and it worked. So you won't have worry about having cold hands while using the phone since you can switch on sensitive touch.

The camera for me is great. I'm not a photographer but the settings on the camera are few but simple. The Front facing camera takes good pictures when your in a well lit place. The camera take well sharp pictures but since it's a midrange phone the camera won't obviously beat the iphone 5, GS3, or the Lumia 920 so don't expect the best pictures in the world but don't expect terrible pictures.

The battery on the phone is amazing. Its at 1800mah but if you don't know what that means i'll say it simply. It's long lasting and can get you through the day. My old phone which was a HTC HD7 had a terrible battery and this phone battery is much more then decent and is impressive. The phone has a amazing stand by time. I kept the phone of the charging after i was done using it for the whole day and so i had at 38% and off the charger for 10 hours. I went to sleep and woke up at and that time it had been off the charger for the night until i woke up and it had 35% with 17 HOURS off the charger with the estimated battery life of 12 more hours if i left it on stand by. This was when it was updating email, facebook, twitter and a news app i keep running in the background to update. Don't listen to anyone who says this has a bad battery. With heavy use of music alone playing the phone will not go below 95% for over an hour. The battery life is just great. I'm glad to have actually picked this phone. The phone charges very fast too. I leave it on the charging and it takes only under 2 hours to charge back up. The phone has wireless charging only available from cases of tmobile but i don't use that since it'll take longer to charge your wireless. If your a person on the go stick to the USB cord that comes with the phone because you won't be disappointed.

If you are experiences battery drain then go to settings and change the background task that you don't use and can drain battery. You also can turn off bluetooth and all the other crap that you don't really use. Remember a app you close is still running in the background but since the phone has a good battery you'll be fine. The phone has NFC which i don't even need or use but like any phone you can turn that off to increase your battery.

In conclusion the phone is great for a midrange device and in terms of performance and apps Nokia has worked hard in bringing a nice device to T-mobile. In terms of looks the design is beautiful, simple and elegant. Of course it's not as good looking as the Lumia 920 and the HTC 8x but IT IS NOT UGLY. If anyone says that to you please be sure to check their mental health and the condition of their eye sight. In all seriousness it's a much better looking phone in person and pictures on this website don't do it justice. Go to a T-mobile store and look at it and you will be surprised how nice looking it is.

Better than expected November 27, 2012

Reviewer:  Z. Koh 

I'm on T-Mobile and so I don't really have much of a choice when it comes to Windows Phone, but in the end I found myself being endeared to this phone. I initially had some concerns about how boring and square-ish it looked, but having owned it for almost 2 weeks now, I actually think this phone has the nicest form when compared to the Lumia 820 and Lumia 822.

Good things (about the Phone):
1) Doesn't feel cheap, feels very solid and premium in your hand. And probably the thing that endears me to this phone the most.
2) Way faster than my old WP7 phone.
3) Hardware buttons positioning are highly accessible and logical.
4) Removable and exchangeable cover (but I have yet to see any information about where the Cyan color cover can be bought)
5) MicroSDHC card support - expandable storage
6) Large battery = very good battery life
7) Very clear and sharp display
8) Large screen, but still comfortable to hold in the hand and fits easily into your pocket.
9) Nokia exclusive apps
10) Rather significantly cheaper than the HTX 8X, yet still very much an outstanding and top-notched phone despite the lower price point.

Negatives:
1) Night shots (or shots in areas with dim lights) with this phone produces rather disappointing pictures. Can't say I wasn't expecting it, but still....

Ugly but effective January 18, 2013

Reviewer:  Rick R. 

I have read some serious bad reviews about this phone. You want to know how to grade a phone? Get it unlocked by your carrier (tmobile) and carry it around the world to Djibouti Africa. Use one of their sim cards and you will quickly come to realize how good (or bad) your phone is. I had a Samasung Galaxy S2. The cell reception is bad enough in this country as is, but I literally, in six months time NEVER received a call, because I never had signal (especially in my office).

A couple co-workers owned nokia phones and a few times their phone would ring while they were in my office. I would look at my phone and ZERO signal - from a $500 phone. It was sickening, their candy bar phone with 3 bars rings, my $500 "Smart" phone had ZERO

Enter Nokia Lumia 810. I am sitting in my office now looking at 2 to 3 bars signal strength, heck I even made a call from my office! While the phone is not the prettiest phone on the market, what it lacks in looks it MORE than makes up for in performance. Windows Phone all the way!

Get this phone - you will not regret it!

Switching from Android and VERY IMPRESSED! January 7, 2013

Reviewer:  Timothy Day  (Philadephia, Pa) -

Very glad to be back on a Nokia product after a few years away in Motorola/HTC Android country. The build quality, camera, antennae, and battery life are excellent. The app selection is excellent as I have yet to find something I can't do on WP8 that I could do in Android. Flickr, FB, Twitter, maps, music, Amazon, eBay are all here. The OS and SDK pay a lot of attention to typography, so there is an excellent consistency between the OS and the applications. All are a lot better looking than their Android equivalents. I watched some excellent interviews with Joe Belfiore (OS designer) and Marko Ahtisaari (Lumia designer) and was convinced that they were creating something really nice. I am very glad I took the plunge.

Pros:
WP8 is excellent
Build quality is top knotch

Cons:
I miss being able to press-hold on a letter to select a number on the keyboard.