The new phone comes with impressive looks

Jan 13, 2009 08:56 GMT  ·  By

Recently, Nokia has unveiled its new 8800 Gold Arte, the latest handset to be added to the Nokia 8800 Arte product lineup. The rather exquisite features of the new handset include stainless steel parts with 18 carat gold plating, to which premium-quality leather was added. Moreover, the phone also comes with a slide mechanism with precision ball-bearings.

The entire range benefits from exclusively designed soundtracks and living wallpapers. The Nokia 8800 Gold Arte handset is also reported to sport the tap-for-time feature. Basically, users are enabled to tap two times the leather surface below the display so that a clock would appear on the screen. Another interesting feature of the phone is its turn-to-mute silencing mechanism, which comes as a hallmark of the range. Customers can discretely silence incoming calls by simply turning the handset over, with the screen side down.

On the other hand, the new Nokia 8800 Gold Arte is not all about looks and exquisite features, but it also packs capabilities we are used to see in a modern mobile phone. Thus, the specification list of the handset shows that it sports a 3.2-megapixel camera with auto focus, while also coming with 3G capabilities.

The device comes with a stunning OLED display and packs 4GB of internal storage memory. In addition, the Nokia 8800 Gold Arte has a unique all-in-one micro USB, which is meant to create a seamless design experience. The company's anti-fingerprint coating included with the handset is meant to reduce smudges on both metal and glass.

According to the news on the Web, the newly unveiled Nokia 8800 Gold Arte will be made available for purchase on selected markets in the Southeast Asia Pacific. The phone is expected to hit the shelves in the second quarter of the year.