Nokia N8 Mobile Phone Review
Nokia N8 Smartphone
Nokia introduced the Nokia N8, the latest smartphone that intuitively connects to people, places and services that matter most. The Nokia N8 enables people to create compelling content, connect to their favourite social networks and enjoy the latest on-demand Web TV programs and Ovi Store apps.
12mb Camera
The Nokia N8 introduces a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and a large sensor that rivals those found in compact digital cameras. People can also make HD-quality videos and edit them with an intuitive built-in editing suite.
Unrivaled entertainment system
The Nokia N8 offers a true home theater experience with HD quality film and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound. You can plug the device to your home theatre system with an HDMI cable.
The Nokia N8 enables access to local and global Web TV services that deliver TV programs, news and entertainment from channels such as CNN, National Geographic, E! Entertainment and Paramount directly on the homescreen.
Social media
People can update their status, share location and photos, and view live feeds from Facebook and Twitter in a single app directly on the home screen. Calendar events from social networks can also be transferred to the device calendar.
Software
The Nokia N8 comes with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation, taking you where you want to be and showing you what want to see in over 70 countries worldwide.
Memory
The Nokia N8 has 16GB of in-built storage space, expandable up to 48GB with a Micro SD card. Large files can be easily transferred to a memory stick with the USB On-the-Go.
Symbian 3 advancements
Multi-touch and customizable home screens
Symbian^3 introduces several major advances, including support for gestures such as multi touch, flick scrolling and pinch-zoom. The Nokia N8 also offers three customizable home screens which can be loaded with apps and widgets.
The new 2D and 3D graphics architecture takes full advantage of the Nokia N8’s hardware acceleration to deliver a faster and more responsive user interface.
The Nokia N8 marks the global device debut of the new Symbian^3 software, featuring several major advancements:
• Usability enhancements across the user interface, including single tap, multi-touch and support for gestures such as “pinch-to-zoom.”
•Three personalized home screens on the Nokia N8, easily maneuvered through by a simple flick.
•Faster and more responsive user interface with new 2D and 3D graphics architecture that takes full advantage of hardware acceleration
•More efficient memory management allows more applications to run in parallel for a faster, more complete and efficient multi-tasking experience.
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More Features:
HD quality imaging and cinematic sound
•Shoot and edit photos and video with supreme clarity of a 12 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics
•Dolby Digital Plus Surround Sound and HDMI connection to a home entertainment system
Personalization capabilities for a truly individual experience
•Personal touches come to life on three fully customizable home screens
•Instant access to Ovi Store’s apps, games and other cool content
•Web TV delivers local and global TV favorites right to the home screen
A seamless and fully integrated social network experience
•Get live updates from Facebook, Twitter, and RenRen pushed right to your home screen, with feeds visible at a single glance
•Connect from anywhere on your phone—your home screen, contacts, or map
•Enrich your social network experience with content from your phone including pictures, location and more
Free navigation, forever
•Free worldwide satellite car and walk navigation from Ovi Maps in over 70 countries
•Built in premium guides from Lonely Plan and Via Michelin for tips on travel, restaurants, weather, and hotels
Operating times:
•Talk time (GSM/WCDMA) –12/5 h 50min
•Standby (GSM/WCDMA) –390/400 h
•Video record –3 h 20 min
•Music playback –50 h
•Video playback –7 h
•Video playback with HDMI –6 h
•Web TV –3 h 20 min
Technical Profile:
System: WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 and
GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
OS: Symbian^3
Form Factor: Touch screen monoblock
Dimensions: 113.5 x 59.12 x 12.9 mm (L x W x H)
Weight: 135g
Display: 3.5 inch widescreen (640 x 360 pixels)
capacitive touch
Battery: 1200mAh BL-4D
Media Storage/Memory: 16GB mass memory + micro SD card
slot, 135MB internal memory, support
up to 32GB memory cards. RAM256
ROM512
Video Playback: Video recording, Performance: encoding
25fps, decoding 30fps, File Formats:
H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, H.263, Real Video
10, ON2 VP6, Flash video
Music Playback: FM radio, FM transmitter, MP3 player,
Supported codecs: MP3,AAC,eAAC,
eAAC+,WMA,AMR-WB, DRM support, DRM:
OMA DRM 2.0
Main Camera:
• Lens: Carl Zeiss optics
• Image capture: 12 megapixels
• Video capture: HD 720p
• Aperture: F2.8
• Focal length: 5.4
• Flash: Xenon flash
Connectivity:
• Nokia Adapter Cable for HDMI CA-156
• WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n
• BT2.1 with support for stereo
headsets
• Positioning with GPS, A-GPS, WLAN
and Cell-ID
• Micro-USB 2.0 high speed for file
transfers and charging
• USB On-the-Go
•Nokia AV connector 3.5 mm for audio
input/output and TV out
Available colors:
•Dark Grey •Silver White •Green •Blue •Orange
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dhruba on Fri, 11th Jun 2010 9:54 am
The phone is mind blowing………
The post is awesome……………thanks man & thanks admin.
hannnnnn on Mon, 5th Jul 2010 9:10 pm
should i get n900 or this 1?????
Poon on Tue, 13th Jul 2010 3:26 am
Is the battery good enough to support phone of this calibre ?
Bhawana singh on Wed, 11th Aug 2010 9:19 am
It is simply wow!!! I am interested in purchasing it in black colour.Pls book it for me and ship the same when launched in India.
Arpit Agawal on Tue, 31st Aug 2010 12:13 am
The features of this phone is good enough but i want to know about its controls means is the phone is easy to operate
& i have a problem in choosing the colour from its collection
rohit on Wed, 1st Sep 2010 11:52 am
i m confused btwn n 900 n n 8??? should i wait or go for n 900????
irfan on Thu, 2nd Sep 2010 10:25 am
WOw… mind blowing phone i am dying to buy it…..
Its a 12 mega pixel and i phone type.
wonderful phone
- on Tue, 14th Sep 2010 8:59 am
what to take n8 or sam. gax. s I9000
Abhi on Wed, 15th Sep 2010 4:54 am
Nice Phone…What is the price in INDIA??
harry on Fri, 17th Sep 2010 5:13 am
i bought this 3 days ago from ontario,it is very cool
i suggest u all to buy this
this is mind blowing and very similar to i phone
its in black grey colour very gracefull phone
it makes u crazy
very beautiful phone
chao!
Steve on Fri, 24th Sep 2010 10:02 am
Hmmm… so Harry was able to buy this phone when it has not even been released for sale in Europe yet, much less North America ??? Interesting !
In any case, this phone shows much promise, and seeing as Nokia remains extremely popular in most parts of the world despite its remarkable drop in sales and waning consumer interest, the N8 should do much to restore some of that interest especially if Symbian 3 lives up to expectations ! I for one am quite ready to abandon SE in favour of this phone as I am more interested in the hardware, since I already know of Symbian’s usability. Version 3 adding the ‘necessary’ features of a touch interface should only make it more worthwhile to use.
John on Sun, 24th Oct 2010 4:24 am
Another excellent video from Nokia N8. Quality 10/10. Director 10/10.
This is shooted N8 and it is so fun!
http://vimeo.com/15874124
Lucky on Sun, 24th Oct 2010 5:01 am
hmm sounds good…………..
Gaurav Kapoor on Tue, 26th Oct 2010 12:14 am
Hi All
Please consider the following feedback before buying N8:
>Average virtual keyboards
>Unintuitive UI
>Unimpressive internet experience
>Confusing connection management
>Poor social network integration
Rest all fine
pyan jb on Sun, 31st Oct 2010 1:56 pm
newbie for n8.. and its great!!
Akiko Guidera on Sun, 31st Oct 2010 4:58 pm
I’d be inclined to comply with you here. Which is not something I typically do! I love reading a post that will make people think. Also, thanks for allowing me to comment!
Cpsathar on Tue, 2nd Nov 2010 11:12 am
It is dead after 1 day. I lost 24000 rupees.
Prathamesh on Tue, 2nd Nov 2010 10:36 pm
i got n8 on 14 oct and i am irritated of the cell because it suddenly gets restarted.
kamlesh on Thu, 11th Nov 2010 11:04 am
I purchased n8 in chandigarh. it suddenly went off after a week. returned the same to dealer – even he could not understan whats wrong with it. trying to get refund/replacement but dont know when i will get !!!
Realy upset over my decision. …
Cyndy on Tue, 7th Dec 2010 1:45 am
What i can’t send MMS and internet brower?anyone can tell me the answer???
Daisy on Mon, 13th Dec 2010 9:46 am
I bought this phone and after 4 days it wont turn on. had it repaired, it took 2 weeks for me to get it back. after getting it back, the same thing happened , i had it repaired three times now , same problem wont turn on. this phone is so disgusting….it’s giving me a headache and i lost 23,699 pesos…Hey people, think before buying this phone…
phonecard on Sun, 19th Dec 2010 5:49 am
What do you expect from nokia? the coming 4th gen iphone, new blackberries and android devices, are also just high end phones since all of them, more or less, has the same functions unless they will add a feature that will revolutionize the smart phone technology. find a more creative title for your blog.
Subair, Dubai on Fri, 14th Jan 2011 9:39 am
I purchased N8 on 5th Jan and its head phone is not working properly. Video is excellent and stills are not in a satisfactory level.
Zest on Wed, 19th Jan 2011 9:46 am
Hi there,
If you own a Nokia 5800 or any phone of the sort, do not upgrade to the N8. It is a disappointment. The battery life talking time is awful, if you use 3G or Wi-fi as much as I do, then even worse. The battery saving feature takes you down to edge (Choose battery consumption or internet speed).
When talking on the phone, make sure your cheek is away far from the screen because if it touches it the communication is cut. Yes, you can deactivate the screen every time you receive a call WT..?
The video quality is good and the camera is impressive if you are not too particular about the wideness angle of your shot. Displaying your pictures on a tv using the HDMI cable adapter is like I have never seen coming from a phone!
The email application is a nightmare configuring a POP mail and you need to try many types of settings before getting to the right one. I haven’t figured yet how to delete emails from my mail server – which did exist in my N 5800.
Overall, I was waiting for this phone for a long time, once launched I jumped to the opportunity. Not only Nokia cheated me since they were supposed to put the charge on 9 months installment which they have not (they are very polite when you talk to them on the phone but they would not solve the problem), but this phone is a mistake buying at this point of time since they are trying on us Symbian ^3 .
My Nokia N8 is my 2nd mistake after my Dopod 900. If you get the chance to test it before buying just do it. That would save you lot’s of money or just wait until Symbian ^3 is more… how should I put it … mature.
Cheers.
Kavitha on Wed, 2nd Feb 2011 3:00 am
I brought N8 on Jan 14th 2011, I was very happy when i brought and started using it, 2nd day it started problem.. when i get a call / or when i do a call.. loud speaker is on automatically.. I went and gave it to Nokia care.. they said they reset the phone n it shuldnt repeat now.. but still it is same problem n more over i cant connect to WLAN, Im really fedup with this mobile.. Im a very big fan on Nokia.. still i feel like a i did a mistake by taking this model..
Kavitha
Celulares El Salvador on Thu, 10th Feb 2011 11:32 am
The N8 is a great phone, I love the quality of materials and of course his wonderful camera. a feature that I like is that it can read USB memory and FM transmitter.
But I’m not too sure about the good performance of the new Symbian OS, this phone I think it would be better with android.
Anyways I think I will wait for the E7
ryca on Tue, 15th Feb 2011 7:41 pm
N8 is fantastic with the 12MP but i have several problem where it cant turn on….i am very upset…. i sent it to the shop to fix it…they fixed the software…then same problem again cant turn on ..they change a new battery…same problem again…this time they change the motherboard..after a week…same problem appear again….please reconsider when you want to buy this model..maybe it is not stable yet….
saleem on Thu, 24th Feb 2011 12:36 pm
N8 camera quality is awesome.. its rox
BENJU NONGTHOMBAM on Wed, 16th Mar 2011 3:09 am
I brought my NOKIA N8 on 9th Jan 2011 @Rs 24500/- from Imphal CNN Mobile with great hopes and enthusiasm.But to my dismay my N8 started frustating me with the frequent hang and restart problem from day 7 onwards. By now it must have restarted by itself more than thousand times. So fed up with the phone at times I almost smash my phone, but controling my temper i took the phone to the shop and seek for a replacemen as it was well within warranty period promised by NOkia( well promises are promises)but bluntly refused saying that nokia care imphal can only decide on replacement. So i went to Nokia Care imphal and ask for replacement. They too refused saying it has to be sent to the company and the company only will decide the replacement or swap and the whole process will take 30 days.They provide me a job sheet customer copy bearing job sheet no 805504886/110305/32 dated 05/Mar/2011 and instruct me to come after 30 days.Few days after i contact nokia care head office stating my issue and request them to swap my phone instead of letting me wait for one month to get my phone rectified. But again refused saying i have to wait for 30 days. Just imagine 30 days without phone, well finally i give up hope and bought a new dual sim chinese phone worth 2000.This is much more better than the frustating NOKIA N8 which cost me Rs24500/. So folks if at all you wish to buy this N8 , take my word you are are going to waste your Rs.25000/. Let Nokia care take one year or so to get my phone repaired, they still have one year warranty period at their hand. Horrible phone , i repent now for buying this phone.