Sirocco is currently the most expensive Nokia model on the market. It has a sapphire protecting glass and glossy steel panels; among its standard accessories are a leather case, two batteries, a earphone, a Bluetooth handsfree, and a cleaning cloth. Apparently, future owners of Nokia 8800 Sirocco will be happening to rarely run one into another if ever: the reason? Nokia 8800 Sirocco costs a good deal of money.

Two color versions of Nokia 8800 Sirocco

Key features

• luxurious design
• body made of glossy steel
• display protected by a sapphire glass
• fine TFT display with 262K colors
• special ringtones and themes
• 2-megapixel camera
• EDGE
• Bluetooth
• extensive, high-quality accessories in the retail package

Main disadvantages

• high price
• no memory card slot
• EDGE and GPRS of Class 8
• no system connector
• few innovations as to the forerunner Nokia 8800

Nokia 8800 Sirocco

Rich managers in gleaming limousines, celebrities, businessmen, directors and all kinds of important social figures need toys, and, out of principal, these are usually supposed to be expensive. Nokia is one of the mobile manufacturers that has been constantly meeting such requirements for plenty of years now, launching one model after another within the so called 8-line. You surely remember the 8910 model as well as the following improved one 8910i; two years later Nokia 8800 hit the market. Today we’ve got a new jewel - Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition.

Like a bottle of exquisite wine

The new Nokia 8800 Sirocco is wrapped up just like a highly expensive bottle of wine: in a black box made of solid cardboard, whose top is held by a silver clip with the polished number 8800 and the words Sirocco Edition. In the first level of the box I found a flint-paper brochure assuring the new owner how bright their idea of buying Nokia 8800 Sirocco has been. Along with the handset the package includes a great amount of high-class accessories.

An exclusive phone needs an exclusive packaging

Size modifications in Nokia 8800 Sirocco as to the classical 8800 model are insignificant. Sirocco is just by a millimeter thicker. The resulting measures are: 107 x 45 x 17.5 mm. Due to the mass of the used materials, however, the phone weighs 138 grams.

The phone in palm

Size comparison with a credit card

When closed, the phone has a rather minimalist design, much like its forerunner. The keypad is invisible; surfaces are even and glossy. Holding the steel-covered Nokia 8800 Sirocco in palm is a pleasant experience, but constant cleaning is simply inevitable. If you ignore this duty, you would get ashamed rather than be admired as fingerprints appear immediately and could hardly remain unnoticed. That is why, the manufacturer has enclosed a dark-brown clothe, which you should always keep with you.

Glossy steel-made panels remind mirrors

Fingerprints stick firmly to the panels • cleaning clothe