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Review summary: Mobile phone or piece of jewellery?

Pros: Beautiful, crisp screen; Feels like it costs a bomb

Cons: Costs a bomb; Small, hard-to-use buttons; Rubbish camera resolution; No card slot

Verdict: Navigating your way around the options is a little fiddly, thanks to a tiny directional pad, an even smaller central select key and number buttons that are too close together. But at least everything's logically laid out in the traditional Nokia manner

Review summary: The Sirocco Gold is more like a concept phone for the Upper class consumer.

Pros: Smooth slider, Looks good

Cons: Bottom 3 keys are a problem, Fingerprint magnet, No USB port

Pros: Excellent build quality, user interface, design

Cons: Price, no new or outstanding features, no memory storage slot, heavy, poorly designed keypad and controls

Verdict: The 8800 Sirocco Gold is a flashy mobile phone that will appeal to the fashion conscious consumer thanks to its 18-carat gold plated finish. Under its flashy exterior, though, is a handset with minimal features.

Review summary: Not to be confused with the RaceTrack series, the Nokia 8800 Monaco takes the fashionable slider and re-christens it with "various appealing colors and encrusted with dazzling jewels."..

Verdict: Another day, another special edition Nokia 8800. You've got to hand it to the Finnish phone-maker, though: they really know how to milk a single product for all its worth. Not to be confused with the RaceTrack series, the Nokia 8800 Monaco takes the ...

Review summary: Nokia's glamorous 8800 fashion phone received an update in the form of the Sirocco Edition. Now sporting a 2.0 megapixel camera and refreshed design, Sam brings us a detailed review of this stainless steel masterpiece.

Pros: Exclusive design, excellent build, FM radio, timed profile support

Cons: Over-priced, outdated UI, lack of memory card slot

Verdict: The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition is a fashion phone with a premium price tag.