Everything Else & the Conclusion:
What else is there to say? The Nokia 8800 does not have a memory slot; and comes with only approximately 48MB of usable memory. This is more than enough for photographs, and many text messages/calendar events/notes, but not for use as an MP3 player.
The phone also has a horrible camera; at 0.5 Megapixels, I don't even want to post demonstration shots. The picture quality is really quite awful. So is the video recording quality. The audio recording capabilities of the device are actually quite impressive, but a quiet environment is still necessary. The phone is not 3G, and is not quadband. The Nokia 6230i was released before this phone, and has better features, including T9 word completion and a 1.3 Megapixel camera.
But all of this is quite secondary. This is not a swiss army knife type of phone. It only works as a very basic organizer; and there are only two things that it truly excels at: Being a portable telephone; and looking excruciatingly gorgeous. (if you need the other information, you could either mail me and I might add it after awhile, or read this mobile-review review. Note that the voice quality issue mentioned in that review is not present in my model; the voice quality is excellent, and the speakerphone works well.)
As a side note; don't expect this phone to get cheaper. Historically, Nokia has not reduced prices on 8000-series phones appreciably. It is prudent to wait for a month or two after the phone has been released in your home market but after that, expect prices to be mostly stable even until the phone transitions into an old model. The aggregate drop from the initial selling price should be no more than 20%.
The bottom line: if all you want is a pretty mobile phone, get this. Now.
Look here for a list of suggested improvements/irritating things about the phone.
