Nokia N8 Review

What you’ll love about the Nokia N8

For camera and video enthusiasts, as well as Nokia fanboys, the Nokia N8 is an outstanding piece of kit. The following is just a small list of what you can expect to find on Nokia’s latest and greatest:

1-Take professional quality photos with the best camera of any phone – ever!

2-12 megapixel camera, xenon flash, auto-focus, Carl Zeiss optics, mechanical shutter, and an unrivalled amount of settings let you take photos that are better than your average digital camera

3-Shoot HD videos through the same 12 megapixel camera

4-Imagine capturing video of your kid’s first school play, or just a night on the town, in glorious widescreen 720p HD that looks flawless on your HDTV – just by pointing your N8 at the scene and pressing record.

5-Your videos are also recorded with superb sound quality thanks to the N8′s ability to tune out wind noise and control recording levels in harsh audio environments

6-And don’t worry about capturing your mates’ shenanigans in a dark club – the N8 has settings for low light, white balance an dcolour tone, ensuring you capture the best video wherever you are

7-Secondary front-facing camera lets you make video calls

8-Playback true HD-quality films on an HDTV at 720p resolution, thanks to the N8′s huge memory (16GB internal + up to 32GB from a MicroSD card) and its HDMI output

9-Listen to your movies in superb Dolby 5.1 surround sound

10-Watch WebTV or YouTube videos on the N8′s stunning 3.5″ touchscreen, which, with its 16 million colours and use of Nokia’s brand new Clear Black Display technology, shows deeper blacks and greater contrast than any other phone on the market

11-Listen to your tunes in style with the Ovi Music player, Ovi Music Unlimited service, and excellent quality sound

12-Superb gaming phone thanks to its built-in graphics processor.

In a word

The N8 is a valiant effort from Nokia and definitely its best high-end smartphone to date. However, Symbian^3 is a big letdown and, while the N8 will satisfy multimedia and Nokia fans, it could struggle to attract business users against competition from the Blackberry, Iphone, and to a lesser extent, Android devices.

Specifications

Dimensions

Size: 113.5 x 59 x 12.9 mm

Weight (with battery): 135 g

Display and user interface

Screen size: 3.5"

Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels) AMOLED

16.7 million colours

Capacitive touch screen

Colours

·  Anodized aluminium casing, available in:

Silver white   ,    Dark grey  ,  Orange   ,    Blue    ,    Green

Colour availability varies by country

Camera

12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics

Large 1/1.83" optical format image sensor

Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy-to-use touchscreen parameters

Xenon flash with automatic red-eye removal

Data Network

GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 33

HSDPA Cat9, maximum speed up to 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA Cat5 2.0 Mbps

WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n

TCP/IP support

Memory

Internal memory: 16 GB

MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 32 GB

Software platform & user interface

Symbian ^3 for Nokia

Java MIDP 2.1

Qt 4.6.2, Web Runtime 7.2

 HTML 4.1

Browsing and internet

Full web browsing of real web pages

Web browsing with touch control

Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS

Music features

Flick scroll to browse the albums in your music collection

Audio codecs: .MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, E-AC-3, AC-3

Bit rate up tp 320 kbps

DRM support WM DRM, OMA DRM 2.0