Apps and App Store, Browser

The Windows Phone Market place offers 25k+ applications, which is solid when compared with anything other than iOS and Android. The apps are generally of high quality, but users will observe fewer free apps than they might hope for. Microsoft does offer gratuitous trials for near paid applications, though, and there are a great bargain of very high quality apps and games available. You lot can too shop for and remotely install apps from the Marketplace website.

Nokia has included a few of its ain applications on the Lumia 800, including Nokia Drive for plough-past-turn navigation and Nokia Maps, which is destined to replace Bing maps in the future.

Other applications that should be mentioned include the Office Mobile suite that ties in with Microsoft's SkyDrive and Office 365 services. Nokia fifty-fifty includes a Contacts Transfer app to help users become their contacts from their erstwhile phone to their new phone using Bluetooth. On top of that, Windows Telephone allows users to uninstall carrier and manufacturer applications at will, which is a thoughtful improver.

Browser

While I haven't been a huge fan of Microsoft's Cyberspace Explorer browser for Windows Phone in the past, I take to acknowledge that the Nokia Lumia 800 seems to run the browser better than the competition does. I'grand actually liking the browser this time around, every bit it's very fast and smooth in all respects.

I still would rather have a WebKit-based browser, simply there's not a heck of a lot to complain near here apart from the lack of Adobe Wink support - or even support for Microsoft'southward own Silverlight platform.