Unlocked Nokia Lumia 800 available from Amazon

By George Wong on 12/06/2011, filed in Home > CellPhones

Unlocked Nokia Lumia 800 available from Amazon If you’re living in the US and don’t want to wait until next year to get your hands on a Nokia Windows Phone device, you’re in luck. You can now pick up the phone thanks to Amazon. The online retailer is now listing the Nokia Lumia 800 for sale. It will be compatible with AT&T’s HSPA network (T-Mobile’s 1,700MHz frequency isn’t supported), and will feature 16GB of internal storage.

The phone is slated to arrive in the US in early 2012, so if you’re the impatient sort of person who doesn’t mind buying a phone off-contract, head over to Amazon to pick up the Lumia 800 today. The phone will set you back $659.99. If you’re on the fence about purchasing the phone, be sure to read our Nokia Lumia 800 review.

Amazon: Amazon.com is an American multinational e-commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. The company also produces its own consumer electronics, notably the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, and is a major provider of cloud computing services with its Amazon AWS service.

Microsoft: Microsoft is the company behind software like Windows, Microsoft Office and hardware like the Xbox and Kinect. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. MS-DOS was the product that propelled Microsoft towards success, but it is Windows and Office that made it what it is today. Microsoft is currently engaged in a number of projects, including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox, Office and the Azure cloud computing platform. the large majority of desktop computers run on Windows.

Nokia: Nokia is a Finnish communications company that was the largest phone vendor (per unit) between 1988 to 2012. The company's history go back to 1871 but the Nokia that we know today (the Nokia corporation) was founded in 1967 by the merger of three Finnish companies. It is then that Nokia worked on networking equipment and was ultimately involved in the launch of the first cellular network in 1981 (Mobira Oy). Nokia because a key developer of GSM, the standard that we all know today. Although Nokia still produces a range of phones that includes entry-level handsets and Symbian smartphones, the company is counting on the Windows Phone OS to regain the share that it once had. The current flagship Windows Phone device from Nokia is the Lumia 920.

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