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Enviable Heritage
The Nokia 8855 is Nokia’s latest design improvement to the highly sought after 8850. With its sleek black and silver exterior, clean lines and smooth matt finish, one cannot help but liken it to a black stallion or Porsche.

This sexy black number feels good too. The chasis is made from an aluminium magnesium alloy with metallic graphite coloured finishing. The centre frame and the keys are chrome-coated. The end result of this complex material composition is a device that’s amazing to touch.

Small on technology
The Nokia 8855 falls short in terms of technology. It’s merely a WAP enabled dual-band phone. It has no GPRS or HSCSD support for high-speed connections! Like the 5210, surfing with your WAP browser is going to be painfully slow.

Given that the 8310 already has GPRS, it comes as a surprise that such a premium phone lacks this technology.

The focus is very blatantly on style. The Nokia 8250 sold well on this basis, but will the 8855 be as well-received when consumers these days are more sophisticated?

Powerful messaging
The SMS function now caters for multiple recipients, SMS chat and concatenated SMS for those long messages. Targetted at the Asian market, the 8855 supports Chinese SMS input.

The frills
Although the 8855 doesn’t make any technological leaps, it does have a few neat features. The screen switches to an analog watch when not in use. The white backlight is a nice touch and it blinks according to the rhythm of your selected ringtone. The Nokia profiles when switched on have their own unique animated logos.

Other industry standard features include T9, calendar and voice dialing. It has a talktime of 3-4 hours and a standby time of 4-10 days.

- First published on IT AsiaOne, Specials

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