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Unboxing The Dark Knight Rises Nokia Lumia 800 And Seeing The Dark Knight Rises Prologue

Got to get priorities right here. The Nokia Lumia 800 is the first Nokia Windows phone, complete with Nokia Music Mix (being pumped out from some guy in a basement in Birmingham), free Nokia satnav, and lots of cool funky stuff. Sadly it's all tied into Microsoft, so you can't remove the horrible standard Bing search engine, the console friendly stuff is all XBox only and it looks like you need a Windows Live account to get it to do anything, something I'd stayed away from ever since Google pulled me away from Microsoft by being… better. This may give me a chance to see if they've improved.

Also, unlike the Nokia N85 which I have now, there's no wifi tethering on Windows phones. Not yet. Apparently, according to a Nokia blogger at the event I attended, an update coming in early 2012 should have that. Which is a good thing.

But what it does have is all the whizzy iPhone touchscreenness on a nice user friendly, happy clappy Nokia, And this one has an official Dark Knight Rises image stencilled into the phone. Which, I have to say, is rather nice. Only forty of these available apparently, I'd expect to see one or two on eBay soon though.

That's my problem. I love my Nokia. I'm wary of Microsoft. This feels like an unholy alliance. But it also seems like a very nice phone. I'm still allowed to play with it a bit more, so I'll find out more, I'm sure.

Oh the Dark Knight Rises prologue? I was getting to that Basically Aidan off of Queer As Folk/Carcetti off of The Wire taking some kind of snitch into safety with a bunch of captured rebels (against something) working for Bane, all tied with hoods on. Yes, so you know exactly who will be under one of those hoods, it's not rocket science. Combine that with a Moonraker style airplane hijacking, with slightly more realistic physics that sees the planes wings blown off, and it's all jolly exciting fun, with a grounding in reality, and the IMAX format shows that off especially well with the early shots of the plane flying across Scotland.

If only you could understand what Bane was saying. The really annoying part of this prologue, is that Bane is the teacher from Charlie Brown but everyone can understand exactly what hes saying behind the mask. Aside from the audience. Are the other characters telepathic? Can they see subtitles we can't? And why aren't they constantly asking "can you say that again?" "What?" "You want what?" If they don't fix this, it will get really annoying.

Weirdly, you understand him more when he's got a bag over his head. Oh, what a give away…

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