Nokia N8 - user opinions and reviews
- Anonymous
- t7U
Nokia E5 hands-on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt5wVmCWrnY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbWkZkui9Bg&feature=player_embedded
Nokia C6 video review:
http://mynokiablog.com/2010/07/23/video-nokia-c6-video-review/
- Anonymous
- t7U
I truly hope that Nokia reads the signs and come up with great devices that can be upgraded to either Symbion ^4 or MeeGo. Most Importantly, Nokia needs to let the coustomer feel stable again. For sure, its not pushing people to purchase a device that cant be upgraded with the new OS coming ou few months later. but there is a flagship, a real star from Nokia that gets highly underestimated! Its the N900. This device is fabulous and deserves all the support Nokia can provide. this really is special compared to ALL other devices! Its above any other phone, just on reasons I dont catch, everybody claims it a device for some special fellows… still, I think that should be the way of Nokia in the future. However, suddently Maemo 5 is old and everybody looks for MeeGo. And after MeeGo will have release, Nokia will again change the OS within one year?? Guys, please start become more wise and responsible! I trust the Maemo Community and they will make MeeGo running on the N900 but the credit will be on the Linux community but not Nokia… time to change
My vision on “N8″; The first time i saw a picture of the “N8″(April 2010) i just wanted to have this new Nokia device. It’s interesting to read “Realphoney”’s post above, comparing the “N8″ with Samasung’s “i8910HD”, because this is excactly the device i had in mind when i mailed Nokia back in 2009 about what i was missing in the N97 (and why i didn’t bought it) mentioning a amoled screen, 8mp camera+Xenon and HD video capabilities. Reading the “N8″ specs i had the feeling that someone at Nokia read my mail very well.
Then there’s also “Muugo” posting he’s still using his N95 due to the way of Nokia’s marketing announcing new devices 6 months in advance making us “waiting for the next one”… wich is absolutely my case :-)
In addition to the “i8910″-specs Nokia added some great features to the “N8″ such as HDMI-out, 12mp camera (C.Z.),Dolby Digital Plus and WiFi-n. and of course it’s brand new Symbian^3 OS, like it or not but i do! (there’s more but those are the most important to me).
The jump from my trusty N95 to the “N8″ will be enormous and i’m unpatiently waiting to put my hands on it. Last unofficial rumors saying release will be end August, i prefer to wait for a perfectly finished “N8″ just a little longer than having it right now full of bugs.
Despite some negative pre-reviews (most popular will be the one by Eldar Murtazin) i think the “N8″ is the first step back in the right direction for Nokia in the High-End market. The “N8″ just has the look for succes, you just gotta love it and i’m convinced that many will do, just like many will love it’s reasonable price setting, a lot of value for your money is not an unimportant factor in times of economic crisis.
Upgrade to Symbian^4 is a popular demand by Nokia “N8″-fans including myself but the silence by Nokia on this matter is telling me that there will be no such thing i guess. Do we need more RAM inside? Compared to the newest high end devices from competitors it lookes like YES, but we’ll only know that for sure once we’ll have the “N8″ in our hands to use it. I hope that they know what they are doing putting 256mb RAM inside, will this be sufficiant to run several apps simultaneously without “freezing” the “N8″? Nokia says it will be no problem due to the new “Symbian^3″ OS memory management capabilities. I hope so, or will Nokia surprise all with more internal memory when released?
One thing for sure, i will wait for the “N8″ to be released. As soon as a “blue”-version hits the stores i’ll be there to go and get it !!!
- Anonymous
- t7U
Here’s an excerpt of the post on Nokia Q2 results/50 mil S^3 devices, I’m working on:
…according to conservative estimates, Nokia expects to ship 50 million Symbian^3 handsets over the life of the platform. At first glance it sounds like really great news. Both for Nokia. And developers. Writing an app for a platform of 50 mil devices sounds like a very attractive opportunity. But only at first glance.
At the current pace, it will take at least a year for Nokia to sell 50 million Symbian^3 handsets. First, this seems to squash any lingering hopes I had that Nokia will wise up and will start offering OS upgrades (S^3–>S^4, and beyond), so their top of the line phones do not feel obsolete 6-7 months after release. The stuff their biggest smartphone competitors has been doing now for more then a year.
But what’s worse, this 50 million S^3 handset goal means that at about this time next year, Nokia will be actively promoting 5 different smartphone platforms: S60 FP3 for non-touchscreen handsets, S^1 S60 5th ed. for cheap touchscreen smartphones, S^3 for higher end devices, newly launched top of the line Symbian^4 smartphones and Meego mobile computers. It looks like a fragmentation nightmare both for Nokia and developers to support.
Am I missing something here?
I think the most user-noticeable difference is that Symbian^4 will use QT even for the built-in apps (contacts, homescreen, etc.). Third-party apps will use QT on both Symbian^3 and ^4 so those should look the same on both OSes.
For those who do not know, QT is a better “way” to make apps, and will also be used on MeeGo (so MeeGo apps can in theory be ported to Symbian^3 and ^4 with minimal effort).
- Symbian^3 has S60 AVKON backward compatibility, which means it runs all the apps that already exists for devices like 5800, 5230 and N97. Symbian^4 is not compatible with AVKON.
- Symbian^3, while being backward compatible, is also forward compatible – it has Qt, so it run all the apps that Symbian^4 also runs (at least that’s the idea).
- Symbian^3 already has a lot improvements like: speed, networks handling, 3D graphics acceleration across the board, better memory management and more.
- Adam
- ibH
Nokia future application http://www.nokia.com/makemyapp
plus application from iphone and android with QT come to your nokia phone woo hoo thats too much who cares
- Anonymous
- t7y
Anonymous, 25 Jul 2010this phone need fastest cpu 1 ghz and above..... with 680 nothing happen .... nokia c5 has 600... moreyou talk a lot, yet think "a little"..
best smiley for you: *facepalm*
- Anonymous
- t7y
Anonymous, 25 Jul 2010The last decent phone Nokia brought out was the N95. Forget the iphone, the N95 ushered in a w... moreoutdated? are you sure? S.U.R.E??
sorry, your phone will not transform into n8. read the specs again and see how your phone is crushed spec-by-spec.
- Anonymous
- IaH
only n8...
- Anonymous
- t7y
Anonymous, 26 Jul 2010nokia N8 or Samsung Beam? Samsung Beam relsed july 17, 2010 singapore. The first smartphone... moren8..
- Anonymous
- t7U
another N8 video demo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8kV6vLdAK0&feature=player_embedded
have you seen the Nokia Kinetic Concept Design?
http://thenokiablog.com/2010/07/18/nokia-kinetic-design/
The phone responds to notifications through movement. An electromagnet in the base of the phone allows weight to be shifted which causes the phone to stand up when receiving a call, for example.
To dismiss a call, the user can simply give the phone a gentle tap, causing it to fall back down again and return to standby mode. There’s no word on whether this design will make it to real life, but it’s an interesting concept that could be very useful. Standing up on its own is a much cooler notification than vibrate. We also won’t need to buy an additional phone stand accessory if it can do it by itself.
Video: Ovi Contacts & Social Networks Integration on Nokia N8
http://thenokiablog.com/2010/07/16/nokia-n8-ovi-social-networks/
This is how you remove the battery!
http://thenokiablog.com/2010/07/05/nokia-n8-how-to-replace-battery/
- shrikant
- vwu
kim, 26 Jul 2010does N8 support facebook apps. yes it's support facebook
- Anonymous
- uWy
Does N8 has autofocus function in video recording as the Sony Ericsson Vivaz has?
- Cedd
- t7U
Nokia is still market leader (has the biggest market share) not only in the mobile phones but in the Smartphones segment as well.
I am happy to see really reasonable innovation they are trying to integrate (not trying to invent new places to plug your antenna to). Although the technology is long time available by Linux terminal mode.
Well if this helps application development of MeeGo I'll be happy.
It looks like a good OS, and combined with the N series it should be a winner. The only thing it doesn't have is the wide app selection that Android and Apple have.
This is going to get very ugly. We can't have android, iOS, WM7 and Meego all happily living together with different app programming languages. Someone's gotta go or someone has to allow their competitors apps on their phones.
My guess? Android apps on Meego or vice versa
Nothing is stopping the developer developing for more than one of d platforms(if the needs arises). Smartphones maybe very popular right now but the feature phone market is still very large in the western markets which implies that Smartphones(old timers & new timers) still have so many untapped markets.
Choice and competition FTW!
Yeah that's what i wanna see for MeeGo.
Netbook, tablet and phone UX having example deep sync possibilities like example syncing all the music and setting over. Something that we are now seeing with some of the desktop linux distros.
- Cedd
- t7U
Wow see meego os in cars!;
see how Meego will be popular is! it will kill ios and android!
MeeGo becomes infotainment operating system of choice for BMW, GM, Hyundai and more
It's getting to the point where it's not terribly easy to keep track of all the in-car entertainment initiatives our wondrous connected future has in store, but here's two names you'll want to remember: GENIVI and MeeGo. The former is an industry alliance that now includes automakers GM, BMW, Hyundai and Peugeot Citroen alongside the likes of ARM, NVIDIA, Nokia and Intel, and MeeGo is the Linux-based OS that they've just decided will soon be powering our cars. Don't expect this to affect your daily drive anytime soon, but in the long run we wouldn't be surprised to hear that the Moblin-Maemo base underpins future revisions of Terminal Mode and OnStar
Meego is a Linux based platform that will support a vast range of devices including netbooks, tablets, phones, and more. It was created last February by Intel and Nokia with the merge of their Moblin and Maemo platforms. The first Meego-powered Nokia device is expected later this year.
“We selected MeeGo as the open source basis for our platform because it is technically innovative and can provide the cross architecture build support we require for our references,” said Graham Smethurst, President of GENIVI. “Working with MeeGo we expect to establish a solution that effectively merges IVI needs with those of the other MeeGo target device categories.”
The announcement shows a lot of potential and I’m anxious to see how it will be implemented. An example I can imagine is planning a trip on your computer or phone, then syncing with your car IVI for drive navigation. Once you find a parking spot around your destination, you can use the phone to navigate you the rest of the way.
http://thenokiablog.com/2010/07/23/meego-genivi-alliance/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/meego-becomes-infotainment-operating-system-of-choice-for-bmw-g/
- Anish
- vGq
kim, 26 Jul 2010does N8 support facebook apps. @Kim Yes it does
- kim
- TRJ
does N8 support facebook apps.
- Nuwan
- tev
Anonymous, 26 Jul 2010nokia N8 or Samsung Beam?
Samsung Beam relsed july 17, 2010 singapore. The first smartphone... moreDear friends who're waving between Symbian and Android,
Symbian is the most popular mobile OS so far and there is no doubt about it... Few years back Symbian was the one and only (significant) Smart OS but now there are plenty of them... (Even apple calls their OS as Smart OS though I really doubt it...)
Windows mobile, Android both can be considered as competitively smart OSs compared to Symbian OS.. (I mean Symbian S60 V3 and S60 V5) However you may want to check out the statistics... (Users by millions)
Year 2007
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Symbian OS: 77.7
Windows mobile: 14.7
Android: 0
Year 2009
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Symbian OS: 80.9
Windows mobile: 15.0
Android: 5.8
As you can see, Android is getting more and more popular and it's true... I will say, there are two reasons for that...
1) People want a change from Symbian interface (Not because it has so many problems.. Just because people want a change once in a while)
2) Symbian didn't introduce its modern version (that's Symbian 3) on time and so many people fed up of waiting for it.. (Symbian 1 was introduced on 2008 and we had to wait 2 more years for the next version... But Android updated to the next version within a year..)
However, still, Symbian is the No 01 Smart mobile OS on planet.. and it's not only me saying it.. Millions of people who're using Symbian, they are the evidence for my statement.. Please search google what is the biggest market share in the world... Regarding OS, it's Symbian... (always was... and always will be...!) and regarding the mobile brand it's Nokia... (always was... always will be...!)
Note: I know I can't really say 'always will be' (Sorry for that.. But there is no single sign of a drop in the Mobile market of Nokia...)
I personally think, above 2 reasons I mentioned will be obsoleted when Symbian 3 released... So I'm pretty sure, Nokia N8 will be a market hit for Nokia and Symbian OS will secure it's place as the most beloved and trusted smart mobile OS so far..
So, after 2011, the statistics will be something like below...
Year 2011
=========
Symbian OS: 108.2
Windows mobile: 11.1
Android: 12.4
I know this is just a prediction... We have to wait and see..
(Note: I didn't include i-phone OS in to this list... Because I personally don't consider Apple OS as a smart OS.. Logically it is not..)
- Anonymous
- uSS
Considering N8 price tag and all the feature (especially camera), it will probably sell quite well. It probably won't get the mindshare from iphone and android, but in september/october we should get annoucement about MeeGo and symbian^4. N9, smartphone with atom processor, nokia tablet ?
I hear that Nokia only plans on one MeeGo device per year and if that is true then here is another poor decission by OPK and team. If he thinks N8 will be equal in user experience to iphone then again he is out of touch with the market completely. It would take an all out effort in Nokia to get MeeGo to catch up and race by iPhone & Android, which does not seem to be part of his plans.
I want to hear about "previews" until an actual production unit comes out because "early N8 previews were not positive" only puts bad tastes in disbelievers' mouths before it actually is released. Nokia, although, should have put a tighter leash on this device, before the public courts doom it before they finally release it.
- Anonymous
- uSS
History
The previous phone from the Nseries was the N97 with touchscreen which was criticized for its earlier firmware issues. Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's Executive Vice President for Markets, said in an interview that software quality control will be better than for the N97.[5]
The N8 will be the first device by Nokia with the Symbian^3 operating system. Symbian^3 was scheduled for the second quarter of 2010 but was pushed back to the third quarter.[6]
The previous Nokia phone with a focus on photography is the N86 8MP, which has an 8 Megapixel sensor and has been available since June 2009.[7]
The N8 will be the second Nokia to have a capacitive touchscreen, following the X6, but the first with multi-touch.
History
The previous phone from the Nseries was the N97 with touchscreen which was criticized for its earlier firmware issues. Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's Executive Vice President for Markets, said in an interview that software quality control will be better than for the N97.[5]
The N8 will be the first device by Nokia with the Symbian^3 operating system. Symbian^3 was scheduled for the second quarter of 2010 but was pushed back to the third quarter.[6]
The previous Nokia phone with a focus on photography is the N86 8MP, which has an 8 Megapixel sensor and has been available since June 2009.[7]
The N8 will be the second Nokia to have a capacitive touchscreen, following the X6, but the first with multi-touch.
- Anonymous
- uSS
Keys and input methods
* Physical keys (Menu key, Power key, Lock key, volume keys, Camera key)
* Finger touch support for text input and UI control
* On-screen alphanumeric keypad and full keyboard
* Possibility to use capacitive stylus
* Handwriting recognition for Chinese
Hardware
* 680 MHz ARM11 processor
* Broadcom BCM2727 Dedicated 3D Graphics HW Accelerator with OpenGL-ES 2.0 support
* 16 GB internal memory
* MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 32 GB
* 256 MB SDRAM
Connectivity
* Bluetooth 3.0
* HDMI mini C connector
* 2 mm charging connector
* Micro USB connector and charging
* High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)
o USB On-the-Go[10]
* 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
* FM radio
* Short range FM transmitter
[edit] Operating Frequency
* Quadband GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
* Pentaband WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100
* Automatic switching between WCDMA & GSM bands
* Flight mode
- Anonymous
- uSS
Nokia's new N8 smartphone still has yet to get an official launch date. Now a Twitter tip has revealed that this new smartphone will be coming to T-Mo UK at some point in the near future. According to SlashGear, the N8 is likely to hit at some point around late August.
The N8 has a 12 MP camera, 3.5" touchscreen, accelerometer, compass, proximity sensor, b/g/n WiFi and HDMI. Odds are, it will run on the MeeGo OS as opposed to Symbian.
http://www.i4u.com/article36733.html
Is this true?
Nokia's new N8 smartphone still has yet to get an official launch date. Now a Twitter tip has revealed that this new smartphone will be coming to T-Mo UK at some point in the near future. According to SlashGear, the N8 is likely to hit at some point around late August.
The N8 has a 12 MP camera, 3.5" touchscreen, accelerometer, compass, proximity sensor, b/g/n WiFi and HDMI. Odds are, it will run on the MeeGo OS as opposed to Symbian.
http://www.i4u.com/article36733.html
Is this true?
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