Initially I was impressed, it's faster of course. It does have headset support and space for two MMC/SD cards, OS 2007 seemed to have some very nice improvments too, all was promising till I started to use it.

It wasn't long before I installed OGG support. It's installed but I don't have OGG support. On the 770 installing OGG support meant OGG support was installed, the 800's version of OGG support means that specific applications written to use the ''OGG support" are the only ones that can play OGG. The 770 did not come with OGG support either, however you could easily install it and it would be fully supported on the device, this meant the file manager recognised the OGG files and the media player would play them. For some insane reasons, the lack of OGG support seems to be hardcoded in both of these apps now. Do Nokia have something against users using a superior free audio codec?

Next, the video support. On the 770 it was perfect, some of the same files that the 770 would play now crash the 800, that's right, a video causes the entire device to restart. This is a joke.

I have no desire to do a proper review of this device now after having being so dissapointed with it. When you buy an upgrade you expect it to be an upgrade not a downgrade.

I realise that these proplems are software issues but will they ever be fixed?

To summarise, the hardware is better than the 770 but the 2007 edition operating system is awful if you plan on playing OGG or watching videos.



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