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Nokia N8 - user opinions and reviews

Nokia N8
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  • Released 2010, October
    135g, 12.9mm thickness
    Symbian^3, up to Nokia Belle Refresh
    16GB storage, microSDHC
  • 1.4% 40,540,752 hits
  • 1050 Become a fan
  • 3.5"
    360x640 pixels
  • 12MP
    720p
  • 256MB RAM
  • 1200mAh
    Li-Ion
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  • Wheez
  • 9G0
  • 04 Sep 2010

error.11043, 04 Sep 2010yes, it have 50h music play, but if you are offline, ilove n8, i'm waiting for it, but t... moreWhat makes you worry about it?

While it looks the same as previous Symbians, it's a whole new OS, basically. Havn't really heard any bad words about it (S^3) so far, only good. Naturally though it hasn't been officially released yet, but there are plenty of prototype reviews with unfinished software, and I can't point any much if any flaws from the videos about it.

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    • Wheez
    • 9G0
    • 04 Sep 2010

    [deleted post]Without any further explanation you are nothing but trolling. I'd simply report you, but I thought maybe you should just explain yourself and you might make sense.

    There are people here who say Nokia is best and all that crap (while I maybe do agree, but it's an opinion at best), but that certainly doesn't make Nokia to suck big time.

    So either tell us why does Nokia suck or gtfo.

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      • error.11043
      • nsA
      • 04 Sep 2010

      Anonymous, 03 Sep 2010N8 has 1200 mah battery. thats average! Look. it has 50 hours of musc play and 12 hrs of ta... moreyes, it have 50h music play, but if you are offline,


      ilove n8, i'm waiting for it, but the n8 os make me worry

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        • viceme
        • 4{7
        • 04 Sep 2010

        if u compare this n8 phone with iphone 4 the winner is nokia n8

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          • Ali Raza
          • nCg
          • 04 Sep 2010

          waiting for the big day....in dubai......

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            • Anonymous
            • qKW
            • 04 Sep 2010

            Anonymous, 04 Sep 2010FYI Qt is an API/platform that also gives the phone manufacturer (or to be more specific, w... morevery well said. posed more. i agree with you. well explained regarding your comments about nokia. everything is true. NOKIA IS THE BEST!

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              • KnightNL
              • pqy
              • 04 Sep 2010

              Hope we'll get this state of the art phone in Romania by the end of the month. I'm already looking to buy it.

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                • Wheez
                • 9G0
                • 04 Sep 2010

                [deleted post]This has nothing to do with the Nokia N8 apart from both being Nokias, so I don't think that belongs here.

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                  • pate-a
                  • utu
                  • 04 Sep 2010

                  in nokia n8 can we get inbuilt oxford dictionary or ABC

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                    • Anonymous
                    • t7U
                    • 04 Sep 2010

                    >What do any of these Hardware manufacturers contribute to Android?

                    UI customization, 3rd party integrated apps that are in the phone as you pull it out of the box.

                    And most important of all, staggered hw release cycles.

                    The mobile hw release cycle is now c. 6 months. Nokia's platform is from start to finish 24 months, with a 12mo refresh.

                    Let's compare that with the ecosystem of Android.

                    year1
                    Q1 Nokia releases new hw
                    Q1 company X comes out with the latest hw
                    Q2 company Y makes a refresh
                    Q3 company Z comes out with the latest hw
                    Q4 company P comes out with a refresh or new hw
                    --
                    year 2
                    Q1: nokia does a refresh of the hardware
                    Q1: company X does a refresh
                    Q2. company Q comes out with a fresh hw
                    Q3: company R comes out with refresh
                    Q4: company s comes out with a new hardware

                    Are you starting to see the pattern?

                    Nokias innovation loop is cut into half or perhaps even to 1/4th by the Android ecostystem.

                    Everytime Nokia comes out with the phone, there's a faster, more capable hw from a competing Android company in the market and a refresh coming out really fast.

                    It's like the PC market in the 90s, when processing power, sw requirements and hardware use grew at a rapdi exponential less than 18mo doubling rate.

                    All the slow integrators were left in the dust back then.

                    Only the fastests survived.

                    If Nokia can somehow manage to compete against staggered release cycles of Moto, HTC, Samsung, LG, SE, Huawei, etc, then great.

                    But as an old guy who has sometimes worn the biz strategy hat, I see the likelihood of this happening as quite low.

                    Great if it happens. We all benefit. So I'm hoping for it, but I'm not betting my hopes on it.

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                      • Cedd
                      • t7U
                      • 04 Sep 2010

                      I invite you to add me on Facebook so I can publicly debate you on the merits of Nokia's prowess in smartphones and converged devices. These aren't opinions Rev is spitting. Not even close.

                      - Nokia has the best supply chain in the business. This is undisputed.
                      - Nokia has the best carrier support in the business. This is undisputed.
                      - Nokia has the most manufacturing capacity in the business. This is undisputed.
                      - Nokia has the two most customizable OSes in Symbian and MeeGo/Maemo. The Qt UI toolkit will amaze, but even Symbian^1 was variable. Look at the Samsung i8910 HD, Sony Ericsson Satio, and Nokia N97's UIs, all the same OS but totally different in UI. Android takes alot of work just to add Sense, MotoBlur, and other UI layers.
                      - Nokia has the best multitasking OSes on the market. This is undisputed. Both Symbian and MeeGo/Maemo are full on, real time multitasking OSes with unlimited API access to background apps. No other full real time multitasking OSes exist on the mobile scene. Only WebOS comes close. WinMo was as well, but wasn't as stable under heavy loads.
                      - Nokia is WORLD RECOGNIZED as the brand with the best call quality and signal antennae. They own the patents. Do you really want to argue call quality against Nokia? They invented the GSM/3G antenna game. But go ahead and try.
                      - Nokia devices are the most durable. They last longer, have high resale rates, and are usually made for durability over style in recent years. I haven't seen tank built phones like the N90, E90, and N8 on any other brand. HTC is close, but not quite there.
                      - Nokia makes more cameras than any other company, and has more digital cameras in use than all the film and non-phone digital cameras ever made COMBINED. They use high end optics and optimized processing algorithms licensed from Kodak and others to get the best picture quality across its lineup. Now who do you say makes better cameras? Don't say it loud, or I'll have you laughed off Engadget. EVERYONE knows Nokia rules cameras.
                      - Nokia's MeeGo OS is the only OS that is entirely made of open source components. Productized versions may have closed replacement apps, but the OS is of a full Linux stack, and features common open toolkit support. MeeGo ships with Xterminal available out of the box. Root is acquired just like on a desktop, without any "jailbreaking" involved. Want to compare Android?
                      - We already know Nokia has 42% of the smartphone game on lock. Android has 19%. iOS and RIM have 14% and 18%. Take that how you will. Nokia has always, currently, and likely always will run smartphones. Period. No argument suffices.
                      - If you've used the N900's MicroB browser, you'd know. Full Flash works, unlike on Android devices. Its no difference than my desktop. There's also Firefox and Chrome for the N900, among other options. So the N900 is the king of the web for pocketables. Who do you care to pit against it?

                      I think the N900's UI is best in mobile as well for productivity, but THAT is MY opinion. So I'll take that. The rest are NOT opinion unless you're Steve Jobs.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • t7U
                        • 04 Sep 2010

                        Nokia currently has,
                        -the most efficient logistics in the industry => great price / feature ratio
                        -the most customizable OS with Symbian/S^3 and Maemo/MeeGo
                        -the best multitasking (I wouldn't even say Android & iOS solutions are real multitasking)
                        -the best call quality (some people are actually buying phones you know ;)
                        -the most durable phones, they are built like tanks compared to everything else
                        -the best camera technology (N8 is so much ahead of everything else it is just ridiculous)
                        -the most open OS (Maemo/MeeGo)
                        -bigger marketshare than the next two manufacturers combined both in smartphones and overall (Q2/2010)
                        -best mobile browser on N900
                        -etc..

                        The only two things they currently are lacking is a really good UI and easy way to program 3rd party software to their huge platform base. Both the S^3 to S^4 and MeeGo are designed to fix exactly this.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • t7U
                          • 04 Sep 2010

                          Software, software, software, software.

                          Developers, developers, developers, developers.

                          Ecosystem, ecostystem, ecostystem, ecosystem.

                          We can debate OS merits till we are blue in the face, but 99% of customers couldn't care less.

                          They are buying into a set UI features, services, software and trend.

                          Meego has currently burgeoning UI features, untested UX, almost zero 3rd party major sw (pls don't mention all the geek LInux-stuff or Qt-software that's yet to be ported) and none of the trend. And Ovi? Many nice ideas and even good featurs *on paper*, but the implementation leave a very sour taste in my mouth.

                          If it can fix the developer uptake, offer really competent services, come up with a good solid software market (with most important apps in there, doesn' thave to be 250K) and become trendy, then it has a chance.

                          But only if the handsets are cool, have good hw features, perform well and are decently priced.

                          Considering MeeGo is Nokia's highest priced top-end "mobile computer with qwerty" platform (Symbian is for smartPHONES), then I find the likelihood of this happening quite slim.

                          Perhaps, but only perhaps.

                          When was the last time that Nokia delivered a truly lustworthy handset release? It's been a while since N95...

                          I am not holding my breath.

                          And looking at the onslaught of more than a half a dozen major handset makers in the Android camp, it doesn't look like the competition is either.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • t7U
                            • 04 Sep 2010

                            FYI

                            Qt is an API/platform that also gives the phone manufacturer (or to be more specific, whoever produces the actual "firmware" of it the device) possibility to replace the underlying OS and system facility implementations, even the whole architecture in much easier fashion than any other existing, modern phone API. This is a direct result of Qt being developed to be platform-independent from the start.

                            One path analysts are consistently ignoring is Qt on Android. Bringing all of the Qt platform functionality (and almost all applications) to Android is mostly a legal/contractual, not technical hassle.

                            Analysts seem to also miss the fact that there are two systems that are absolutely central to future strategy of Nokia: they're Qt (enabling application portability, but also portable in itself) and Symbian (efficient, mass-market, low-overhead (both device price and hardware) OS capable of supporting Qt). Third one that is actually struggling more than these two is actually the Services, that should give the company edge when combined with these two.

                            MeeGo is not as central in this strategy as many seem to think - but it offers Nokia flexibility in applying the strengths of Qt and hardware development. Services are yet to get successful, but I must say a pre-beta internal test version of Ovi Maps I saw couple days ago left quite a positive impression on me. It showed true next generation understanding of navigation, mapping and location services, and I haven't heard other manufacturers advertising anything quite like it.

                            And by the way, the application ran on an existing mass-market handset that has sold millions, and could be expected to be freely available for, at minimum, tens of millions of already sold handsets not so far in the future.

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                              • oladinfinity
                              • fqG
                              • 04 Sep 2010

                              the new nokia n8 is da bomb and i wish to get one as soon as it is released because its specification spells the word 'SUPERB'

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                                • Judith
                                • kUW
                                • 04 Sep 2010

                                Hopefully nokia N8 will have more cool game like itoy or n-gage, and is there anyone know if this n8 have or haven't animated background like galaxy s? I like it very much but i just dont like samsung phone.

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                                  • Judith
                                  • kUW
                                  • 04 Sep 2010

                                  Anonymous, 04 Sep 2010guys samsung has a new model released this september SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB with 7"11 inches ... moreTake your samsung away from this room,we love nokia and always be. Go nokia go N8...

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                                    • samarth
                                    • 2@1
                                    • 04 Sep 2010

                                    over all a good fone no doubt 12mp is the heart of ths fone n usb on the go, fm transmitter etc etc huh cool w8n 4 the release gonna buy it 4 sure if its btwn 25000-30000rupees in India...... else i hv no option left except n900 the beast........ ppl plz compare the overall stats thn comment nt jst one or 2 specific features..... gr8 fone

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                                      • sea-breeze
                                      • NhR
                                      • 04 Sep 2010

                                      Again price in the USA = 550$+50$ for the warranty=600$
                                      price in europe= 490 Euro with warranty
                                      price in middle east UAE exactly = 2200AED (derham) with warranty

                                      So the expected price globally with warranty is between

                                      380euro ~ 490euro ..., Thats the pre-order price , it should go down when launches at stores


                                      Bye ..., Launch Date 14-9-2010

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • Kec
                                        • 04 Sep 2010

                                        some small things nokia still not care about

                                        can we take screen snap without the help from third party
                                        the slide to unlock physical button should not be that design, it should e design like button
                                        when will nokia upgrade their real player code
                                        does symbian runon higher screen resolution?


                                        Some suggestions
                                        nokia should come up with nokia exclusive world class games for their customers
                                        symbian is weak in games department so far
                                        nokia should team up with yahoo to bring us yahoo standalone apps like yahoo flickr, yahoo messenger, , i want official app

                                        and qt is used by google earth and vlc, but we still cant see the nokia version ofthese great apps, apple doesnot makle any effort with google, but google give apple google earth fpor iphpone. How come?

                                        I also need to see online tv streaming app like livestation, tvuplayer, slingplayer

                                        can somenokia fans help me to persuade the devlopers to make app for nokia?

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