Nokia N8 - user opinions and reviews
- Anonymous
- tjF
YJ, 23 Jul 2010With me, more homescreen to set more Apps shortcut icon, no for a lager number widgets. You mu... moreThere is nothing wrong for you to want more home screen.
My point is. Not everyone are like you must have so many home screens.
For what reason? Just because other OS have many, we also want many?
I am satisfied with just three home screens.
Other features in this phone is more important to me than having more home screen.
I believe a lot of people will agree with me too.
- Will
- qFL
YJ, 23 Jul 2010With me, more homescreen to set more Apps shortcut icon, no for a lager number widgets. You mu... moreIn each widget you can fit 4 shortcuts. So I still don't see the need for more home screens.
- YJ
- wvJ
modysd, 23 Jul 2010nokia n8-01 will have it http:// - i32.tinypic.com/2hre920.gif "New home screen&quo... moreWow! So awesome! I viewed. A new selection for user, this complete my hope in N8. But this picture is unofficial from Nokia. But N8-01 run Symbian^3 and 100% will FOTA this change for N8.
- YJ
- wvJ
Anonymous, 23 Jul 2010But many of us also think that one to three home screens are enough. :) This make the UI le... moreWith me, more homescreen to set more Apps shortcut icon, no for a lager number widgets. You must compare Symbian^3 in N8 with iOS, Bada, Android. Why the iPhone users, Wave users and Android OS users need 7 or more homescreen? And why we, Symbian^3 users in the future no need more HS?
- qwerty
- qFL
No one answered my question on why you would want so many widgets and what for?!?!
3 home screens = 18 widgets
7 home screens = 42 widgets
Why would you want 42 widgets!
If the widgets where larger in size then I can see 7 home screens like how HTC Sense has it. Some widgets take up the entire home screen.
Not to mention having that many home screens would slow you device down. When I watch the demos it seems that even they don't fill the 3 home screens up with widgets.
So, What 42 widgets are you going to put on your 7 home screens?
- modysd
- fuc
YJ, 23 Jul 2010I dont think so. More home screen to make UI more perfectly, support for my works. I think ver... morenokia n8-01 will have it
http:// - i32.tinypic.com/2hre920.gif
"New home screen"
so the software is there but will nokia put it in the nokia n8-00!!??
- Anonymous
- tjF
YJ, 23 Jul 2010I dont think so. More home screen to make UI more perfectly, support for my works. I think ver... moreBut many of us also think that one to three home screens are enough. :)
This make the UI less complicated.
Is purely personal preferences.
- YJ
- wvE
amit_rulz, 23 Jul 2010i dont understand why u guys want 5,6,7 home screens!""£$%??? 3 home screen... moreI dont think so. More home screen to make UI more perfectly, support for my works. I think very many people love N8 had opinion same me.
- amit_rulz
- tE%
nick chan, 23 Jul 2010does it mean it can browse video files from external usb drive, and play it thru my HDTV ?yes definately u can....connect ur storage device and watch movies via HDMI port...
- amit_rulz
- tE%
i dont understand why u guys want 5,6,7 home screens!""£$%???
3 home screens are not enough or wat??? some guys say "they want 2 place different icons on different screens"£$$% ....why??
u have kinetic scrolling in menu all over which is speedy enough to access, so i dont think we need more than 3 home screens.
- nick chan
- QgQ
does it mean it can browse video files from external usb drive, and play it thru my HDTV ?
- Anonymous
- 0Yv
Android and iOS apps can be ported to QT
http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Porting_Mobile_Applications_to_Qt#How_to_Proceed_with_Porting
- Anonymous
- 0Yv
Symbian = Windows in the mobile world. Like it or hate it, that is a fact.
- philippines
- t7x
N8's rate is slowly gong up.. haha.. samsung haters.. take that!!
- deep space bar
- q}@
Engineer Man, 23 Jul 2010Because Linux distros bring outstanding software advancements to every layer of the platform. ... morego get one
i highly suggest plus cross platform with Qt and iphone and android apps are able to be ported to symbian3 - multitouch support
maemo 5 - keyboard and touchscreen eg. milestone ;)
i'm looking forward cause opera mobile is a start and it's solid
so that's a good start on Qt apps
- Engineer Man
- n5Q
Because Linux distros bring outstanding software advancements to every layer of the platform. It is capable of so much more with all the talent on tap & meamo certainly stands out over IOS.
Virtually it stands out from the crowd which gives it unique attributes that make some amazing GUI's, touch based interface, Amazing 3d effects you won't see on any other Unix based Platform.
Can't wait to see what the final Meegoo looks like, maybe it'll have some relation to Meamo, learn a few things, bring new things as always over any other mobile os. One thing is for sure, it'll stand out, it'll be powerful & nothing else will run as well either hopefully.
- Engineer Man
- n5Q
I know but Meego although now in later conceptual design stages it doesn't look that good compared to earlier design stages where there were some really innovative ideas that stand out.
But right now Meego looks suprisingly bland & has changed a lot & still looks aweful. People liked the original concept of Meego because it had that Linux difference to the other OS's, themwise, icons, touch based GUI was nice.
But now it look like they have morphed it into some copycat style apple IOS similarity. We don't like that. We need great Linux ideas that make it stand out from the crowd which are unique, awesome & like meamo.
The draw a circle to Zoom is one of those touch gestures that makes it different. Innovative, simple, more useful like meamo which also included Android touch gestures.
Sadly more apps need to be created for meamo to catch on. I'd buy a phone such as the N900 with Meamo but it's really aimed at the specific developer & there aren't many apps taking off & if, ...very very slowly indeed. Otherwise Linux is the future over!
say no more
- tj
- 0Tc
SidewindeR, 22 Jul 2010Symbian is no for the spoon-fed masses. Symbian is actually more complicated and powerful than... morei agree with you about choosing functionality and features over eye candy, but these days the user experience is just as (and maybe even more) important for most customers. and unfortunately nokia's recent touchscreen releases have been full of bugs and problems (namely the failure that was the n97), which i suppose has driven users away. i don't know too much about the technical side of operating systems and what not, but i would imagine that as symbian wasn't initially designed and developed for touchscreen phones, it simply cannot compete with other os that were designed for touchscreen. nokia have probably done the smart thing to keep symbian for the low and mid range devices, and meego for the high end phones meant to compete with the likes of android and ios.
- Real Phoney
- LxI
Symbian ^1, (Symbian ^2), Symbian ^3, Symbian ^4. Which one would you develop for?
Symbian Series 90 - Nokia 7710 - Platform DEAD
Symbian ^1 S60 5th - A few devices - Developers Needed - Poor Quality Devices - Platform DEAD
Symbian ^2 - No devices by Nokia - Developers Needed - We'll wait and see
Symbian ^3 - Nokia N8 - Developers Needed - With Symbian ^4 around the corner - We'll wait and see.
Nokia 5800 cannot even run Suymbian ^1 so don't even expect to get anything close to Symbian ^3. I think even if the homescreen was ported it would actually cause the phone to slow down alot.
Nokia 5800, Nokia N97, Nokia 5230, Nokia 5233, Nokia 5235, Nokia 5530, Nokia X6 (all versions), and Nokia C6 all have the same downfall (They were made by Nokia). Well besides the obvious, they all have the same crappy - ARM 11 434 MHz processor.
After the Nokia 5800 was launched alot of people complained about the Slow OS which was said to be caused by the inability of the processor to run such a simple interface (No multiple homescreens, No widgets etc). So someone please tell me why on earth and with whose reasoning was this same ARM 11 434 MHz processor allowed into more phones.
When will Nokia wake up and realise that The Samsung i8910 Omnia Hd has stuff that are comparable to the Nokia N8.
For example -
Nokia N8 - AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Samsung Omnia - AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Nokia N8 - 360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches
Samsung Omnia - 360 x 640 pixels, (3.7 inches)
Nokia N8 - Scratch resistant Gorilla glass display
Samsung Omnia - Scratch Resistant surface
Nokia N8 - 16 GB storage, 256MB RAM, 512 MB ROM, microSD, up to 32GB
Samsung Omnia - 8 GB/16 GB storage, 256 MB RAM, microSD, up to 32GB
Nokia N8 - 1/1.83'' sensor size, ND filter, geo-tagging, face and smile detection
Samsung Omnia - Geo-tagging, face, smile and blink detection, image stabilization, wide dynamic range, ISO 1600
Nokia N8 - Video Recording 720p@25fps
Samsung Omnia - HD 720p@24fps, D1 (720x480 pixels)@30fps, QVGA time-lapse and slow-mo video recording
Nokia N8 - Digital compass
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player
- DivX/XviD/MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
Samsung Omnia - Digital compass
- AVI(DiVX/XviD)/WMV/RV/MP4/3GP
- MP3/WMA/WAV/RA/AAC/M4A music player
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
Nokia N8 - Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh (BL-4D)
Samsung Omnia - Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Nokia N8 - ARM 11 680 MHz processor, 3D Graphics HW accelerator.
Samsung Omnia - ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics
The Samsung i8910 Omnia HD also has Virtual 5.1 channel Dolby surround
So I think rather than buying a (sure to be overpriced) Nokia N8 I'll hold on for a Symbian ^3 upgrade (or port ) for the Samsung i8910 Omnia HD. It sure is capable of running it.
You can go here for a full comparison http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=3252&idPhone2=2691
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