Clove UK has announced a price drop for the Nokia Lumia 800 in UK.

The handset, which was released in November 2011, price dropped by Â£40 to Â£265 excluding VAT and Â£318 with VAT tax included.

Clove notes while the fairly popular 16 GB handset will not be getting the Windows Phone 8 update, it will still benefit from the Windows Phone 7.8 update presumably later this year.

The handset of course comes with the excellent Nokia Drive app, which will also be included with Windows Phone 8, Nokia Music, which is a completely free streaming music app, numerous free and low Nokia exclusive apps and will receive many apps which will offer alternatives to the Windows Phone 8 features, such as data counters, still to come, making the handset a pretty good deal if you do not mind not having the (expensive) latest greatest.

See more on the deal here.