Nokia's 8600 Luna Fashion Phone

Earlier this week at a press event in New York, we had the chance to check out some of Nokia's latest releases, including their new flagship fashion phone, the 8600 Luna. While the Luna has reasonable specs like quad-band GSM/EDGE support, a 2 megapixel camera, and a 16 million color QVGA display, the draw for most consumers will likely be the design.


The Luna is the first device that we are aware of that uses glass as a design element for something other than covering a display. In this case, The Luna has a smoked glass sliding cover that secures the phone's keypad when it is not in use. The glass also allows the slowly pulsating keypad backlight, the 8600 Luna's "heartbeat", to be seen when the phone is idling.

For me personally, I thought the Luna looked much better in the official Nokia press photos that it did in person. The phone just came across as being so dark in general. None of the design features were easy to see in the admittedly poor lighting at the event. The design just looked far too stealthy for a fashion phone. To me, fashion phones need a bit of flash to them to be effective. They need to be noticed.

While the Nokia 8600 Luna is pretty, it just doesn't come across as super model beautiful to me. Considering its 700EUR/US$945 price tag, I think it should. It is currently available in the UK, but should be available in the USA in the next month or so.

Source: Mobileburn.com