Nokia 8600 Luna

8600 Luna Nokia picture The family of luxurious Nokia handsets gets bigger. Prepare for steel, glass and an exorbitant price. Near flawless performance when it comes to the mundane must-have features, and embarrassingly mediocre functionality. But then again, an 8-series Nokia would get away with just about anything. "An obsession to every detail marked each step in the development process of the Nokia 8600 Luna. We took painstaking effort to ensure that the experience delivered by every surface - from the smoothness of glass against the face to the warmth of stainless steel in the palm to the superior tactile feedback of the keypad - would surpass any and all expectations," said Heikki Norta, Senior Vice President, Mobile Phones, Nokia. "Even the name holds special significance. Much like the Nokia 8600 Luna that we named in her honor, Luna, the goddess of moonlight, was often represented by the Romans as a mysteriously captivating beauty encircled in a soft, radiant light." One notable improvement on the 8600 Luna is the display - it has a 240x320 pixel panel in 16 million colours. On the back is a pretty standard 2 megapixel camera, and the 8600 Luna has an MP3 player. It's a quad-band GSM phone with GPRS and EDGE data, plus Bluetooth support. Most people will want this phone for its looks though, and the smoked glass sliding panel is particularly sexy. Nokia 8600 Luna Themes Free Nokia Themes download Nokia 8600 Luna Software Free Nokia Software download Nokia 8600 Luna Games Free Nokia Games download The camera offers a maximum resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels. When the camera turns on, the soft key shortcuts turn around to landscape mode. The Luna is held horizontally when taking pictures. There's a Zoom feature on the menu, but all you get is a detail in lower resolution. Other than a few white balance presets, there are six color effects available (normal, false colours, greyscale, sepia, negative, and solarise). The shutter sound is always there, even Silent mode won't turn it off. Video is captured in 176 x 144 or 128 x 96 resolution, only usable in mail or MMS. Picture quality is below average, too much noise and too pale colors. The camera fails when it comes to shooting text, and taking a quality picture is a tough job overall. The 8600 Luna does pack Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) support for wireless streaming music to compatible headphones or speakers. We paired the Luna with the comfortable behind-the-head MOTOROKR S9 headphones and the audio was surprisingly loud and energetic. This great performance just compounds the fact that the music player is wasted without expandable memory. Still, if you quickly get bored with the same old songs, you can turn to the built-in FM radio. The aerial is integrated into the supplied earphones so you will have to plug these in to get it working. Radio reception can fluctuate, but once you lock into the strong signal, it sounds pretty good. So, the Nokia 8600 Luna has a very capable music player that’s restricted because of the absence of a memory card slot. We’re not sure why Nokia couldn’t find space on the Luna’s chunky frame for a microSD card, but right now the Luna is a mobile music leper. If you went on design, first impression and handling alone, you would stump up the cash for the 8600 Luna without batting an eyelid. And if you can live with its feature faux pas, then the 8600 Luna is a stunning premium phone we can all afford.

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