[5] The Nokia 8800 was first introduced on 7 April 2005[6] and was commercially available in the United Kingdom in October 2005 on the O2 mobile phone network.

The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition (88 redesigned fascia and in "gold" and "queen black", was released in 2006.

This version of the phone has a 2-megapixel camera and slightly updated keypad layout.

The phone chassis was slightly modified to include the upgraded 700mAH BP-6X battery.

It features a 2.0 inch scratch resistant OLED screen, a 3.15 MP camera with autofocus, and comes in four different models: As with previous editions, it continues the trend of having ringtones composed by popular electronic artists, with the ringtones being composed by Austrian downtempo duo Kruder & Dorfmeister.