Nokia N8 is the latest Nokia flagship device and one of their best smartphones to date. This mobile phone has a lot of excitement surrounding it, which makes it all the more attractive. Nokia N8 has a slim and slick design that is a pleasure to hold.
The phone is made out of aluminium, which gives it a top quality finish and a top quality high-end look and the glass touchscreen covers most of the front of the phone, and the front has a single button.
N8 is Nokia’s first ever mobile phone to run on Symbian^3 OS and the new operating system is a much better improvement than previous versions of Symbian on touchscreens. The N8 has AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors display and the screen’s touch response is good, better than other Nokia touchscreens.
The main 12 megapixel camera is fantastic! The camera have Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and can shoot HD video, that you can edit using the ‘built-in editing suite.’ But the most important addition to the camera is the biggest sensor that one can find in a mobile phone, which is even bigger than those found in many digital cameras. This sensor, when combined with the high-end optics will provide top-notch pictures and also enable the camera to function perfectly in low-light conditions. The N8 lives up to its title as the best camera phone on the market at the moment.
Other specifications include a whopping memory capacity – a 16GB of built-in storage, which if not ample enough for your have loads of music, can further expand to 48GB using microSD cards. N8 also has GPS with free Ovi Maps navigation, FM radio and FM transmitter, front facing video call camera, microSD card slot, 3G and WiFi. There is another cool feature, which is USB on-the-go support, this allows the phone to read USB memory sticks, and works as said.
Battery life’s performance is also very good. The N8 is Nokia’s first smartphone to include Qt – so it must be a dream come true for programmers. N8 has it all, a Quad Band GSM, 5 Band UMTS/HSDPA, and uPnP.
Overall the N8 is Nokia’s best touchscreen smartphone to date, and is also the best camera phone to date, it looks great and functions well. And one word to describe Nokia N8-Amazing!
* 2G: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
* 3G: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
* 113.5 x 59.1 x 12.9 mm, 135 g
* Ringtones: MP3 Ringtones, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB
* AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
* Screen size: 360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches, Multi-touch input method
* Scratch resistant Gorilla glass display
* Internal 16 GB storage, 256MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
* Card slot: microSD, up to 32GB
* Data: GPRS-Class 33, EDGE-Class 33
* WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, UPnP technology
* Bluetooth, v3.0 with A2DP
* USB: microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go support
* 12 MP camera, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Xenon flash, 1/1.83” sensor size, ND filter, geo-tagging, face detection, video 720p@25fps, secondary camera -VGA for videocall
* OS: Symbian^3 OS
* CPU: ARM 11 680 MHz processor, 3D Graphics HW accelerator
* Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
* Colors: Dark Grey, Silver White, Green, Blue, Orange
* GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps 3.0
* Java: Yes, MIDP 2.1
* TV-out (720p video) via HDMI with Dolby Digital Plus
* Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM transmitter
