![]() ![]() It's natural and pleasant to the touch, with great ergonomics and weight balance - the diametric opposite of the cold and impersonal appearance of most modern technology. What you see and feel in your hand is a seamless piece of soft-touch plastic, curved on all sides and gently tapering toward flattened-out top and bottom surfaces, fronted by a curved screen. The Lumia 800 / N9 design ethos is all about effortless simplicity for the user, but it's backed by a stupefying amount of calculation, modeling, and testing behind the scenes. Three years after its introduction, that MBP design is still going strong and Nokia should have to make no apologies for sticking with a similarly splendid piece of engineering. I'd usually be first to protest if a company decides to recycle a design quite so flagrantly, but in this case, it's more a matter of why wouldn't you? My lasting impression of the N9's case was that it was akin to Apple's unibody MacBook Pro - so tantalizingly close to perfection as to make you wonder where future upgrades could possibly come from. Except for the addition of a dedicated camera key, the relocation of the dual-LED flash, and the introduction of capacitive Windows Phone keys up front, this is the N9. Photographing the Lumia 800 is an exercise in deja vu. ![]()
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