Nokia said that the Lumia 800 is expected to be available countrywide on Vodacom from 7 February 2012 on a Vodacom Business Call contract, with 100MB data per month for 24 months, at R279 per month. Vodacom said that the recommended retail price of the Nokia Lumia 800 will be R6,999.

This announcements comes after long wait since Nokia first announced its much-anticipated range of Windows Phone 7 devices during Nokia World in October 2011 "Lumia" the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Lumia 710. but Nokia Lumia 710 and it will only be launching locally in Q2 2012 which is the cheaper one will be more affordable to South Africans.

Nokia Lumia 800, which has a 1.4GHz Qualcomm processor, 3.7-inch AMOLED display running at a resolution of 480×800, 16GB of internal storage and 512MB RAM.