Nokia 8801

The sleek-looking Nokia 8801 slider has a hefty price: $900. It includes the following features:

* tri-band radio
* SVGA camera
* FM radio
* integrated music player (AAC and MP3)
* Bluetooth
* 64MB
* 256 TFT display
* ringtones composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Via Om Malik.

Infosync reviews the Nokia 8801, and finds it an elegant handset but with poor battery life and a staggering price tag. About the phone's camera: "The 8801’s SVGA camera is a bit of a disappointment, delivering colorful but murky snapshots, even considering its so-so resolution. The camera comes with a mixed bag of features, including a night mode, a 10-second self timer, 4X digital zoom and resolutions ranging from 800 x 600 to 120 x 144; missing from the list, however, is an LED flash. The camera also doubles as a video recorder, shooting QCIF-format clips up to an hour in length (depending on how much phone memory is available). Our video clips looked juttery and muddy – which is to say, standard for a phone video recorder. "