Matthew Panzarino, The Next Web, on Nokia Lumia 800:

If you’ve been a mobile phone user for more than a decade, then you remember a time when Nokia made the best cell phones in the world. The landscape was smaller then, with Motorola and Nokia dominating most of the 1990′s.

Now, with its sidelining of the custom-built MeeGo OS, Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft to create the Lumia 800 in an effort to defibrillate its flatlining smartphone business.

In the process, Nokia has created something that is somehow greater than the sum of its parts, a feat that I have only seen matched by one other smartphone recently, the iPhone.

By reading the review alone, I was honestly tempted to give this phone, this OS a try. The hardware engineering and design looks very good, something very rare these days in the smartphone market.

Nonetheless, if I had to choose a phone apart from the iPhone, I’d go for Nokia’s WP7 smartphones.