Nokia lifts the lid on the white Lumia 800

Nokia you tease. Why not throw another gorgeous Lumia in our faces? Wish granted, with the white Lumia 800, an ivory dream phone scheduled for release in February.

The white Lumia 800 builds on the success of the latest range of Windows Phones which “received rave reviews around the world,” according to Ilari Nurmi, Vice President of Product Marketing, Nokia.

Nothing new, save for a lick of paint

The white Lumia 800 is exactly the same as the previous model, save for its white iPhone 4 styling. It contains the same user friendly Windows Phone 7.5 OS with “head-turning design and the best social and Internet performance,” a 1.4Ghz CPU, 16GB internal memory, 3.7-inch display, HD video playback and the leading-class 8MP camera.

White is the fourth colour to be introduced to the Lumia 800 range. The excessively simple design of the phone is complimented by the minimalist colour, with the appearance of the Windows Live Tiles now dazzling in the stark, black AMOLED screen free of aesthetic distractions. Nokia doesn’t mess around, this is no dipped-in-paint product, the Lumia 800 follows suite with its polycarbonate heritage and is inked through to the bone.

Achieving a white colour of this crispness is Nokia’s hidden secret. Designers of the white Lumia 800 say that the phone’s colour scheme “evolved” from the N9 series, with inspiration drawing from the CMYK colours of printing presses. Knowingly, the designers worked through “100’s of variants” to land on the china-white design of the Lumia 800.

White is stark, it strips away the phone to its barest functions emphasising form and UI first. Come February, the White Lumia 800 will hit stores. Will this colour carry over to the Lumia 900, only time and product success will tell.

UPDATE: looks like Nokia slipped up and revealed an image of the Lumia 900. No specs are known, outside of the micro-USB port and a front-facing camera.