Nokia 8600 Luna: Classy, Costly and Crippled June 8, 2007
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Chasing that luxury pound, Nokia’s latest slinky slider, the 8600 Luna, has just landed in the UK. What’s different about this one is that it’s made from opaque glass and stainless steel.
It is certainly a looker and will no doubt garner lots ‘oohs’, followed closely by some ‘aahs’ when they hear about the £45 per month contract from Carphone Warehouse. Without said contract, it will cost you a cool £600. Ouch.
Still, the company has said they are selling out already. Features of this quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone include a 230x320 pixel display, MP3 and MPEG 4 video support, 128MB of internal memory, Bluetooth, micro-USB and a 2MP camera.
There’s no Wi-Fi though, no FM radio and, from what I see on the spec sheet, no support for memory cards – which makes the MPEG-4 video support fairly redundant. Expensive and limited – what an attractive combination. See a much better photo after the jump. -Martin Lynch
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"Expensive and limited".. so what?
people who desire this phone do not care for functions, all they want is a phone that succesfully makes and takes call..
No WiFi...why would anyone buying a phone like this want WiFi? And what would be the advantage of including it on a luxury Series 40 device.
"Expensive and limited"...exactly, I'll get one of these for each of my Bentleys. All 12, 000 of them. Get it if you want, but there's so much more in design and functionality out there for less of your hard earned Queen's.
?f l want to buy this mobilphone(8600 luna)how much money l have to pay?
How can you have a slim phone with all the fancy features normally associated with these bricks they are churning out atm?! You can't have your cake and eat it.
Sorry guys this is a top phone- people only criticise it because they can't afford it...