Stores sell out as Fins brave –27 °C weather to buy Nokia Lumia 800s

February 2, 2012 | By Surur

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It is day 2 of the launch of the Nokia Lumia 800 in its home territory, Finland, and esphoneblog reports that sales are going very well, despite the country being in the grip of an amazing cold snap which saw –27 °C (-16 °F) weather.

Yesterday we reported people queuing for 8 hours to buy the phone at midnight openings, and today Elisa Shopit has said some of its 60 stores have sold out of the phone, with the Black model being particularly sought after by corporate-type folk.

Esphoneblog reports that in their own phone store the phone seems to be selling much faster than the launch of the Nokia N8, another Nokia best seller. Hopefully we will see the numbers reflected in some other metrics soon.

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Tagged finland, nokia lumia 800, sales, windows phone 7.5

http://davepermen.net davepermen

congrats to nokia. my only fear is, my lumia battery does not like cold temperatures. it shuts down the phone and does not want to charge when it’s cold. with cold, i’m talking <0°C. so i guess MY lumia would not even start once if i would be there currently..

Anonymous

Really I would get it replaced asap

http://davepermen.net davepermen

i am doing so quite soon. now that i’ve found a pattern that signs to be a hardware issue (battery seems to have 3 parts, jumping from part 1 to part 2 leads to a crash when it’s cold. it always dies at around 2/3rd remaining charge).

but first i had to test out if it’s some bug that needs fixing, or is actually a broken phone.

now that i know, i’ll do that.

but in general, batteries like the one in the lumia are known to perform better the higher the temperature. so it’s not a good day to release it

Anonymous

Take the fight to Apple (not just Google Android)! Fins, lead the way!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Sergey-Durnov/100000964100298 Sergey Durnov

Lumia 800 is fail. It looks super cool, but I decided not to buy it, because I’m completely not sure it will be working ok. Multiple issues – camera, low quality AMOLED, awful sound, battery – I don’t want to deal with it. Funny, but lumia 710 is almost flawless.
Anonymous

i would join them if i was there

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