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November 2018 edition
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Nokia N8 - user opinions and reviews

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Nokia N8
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  • Released 2010, October
    135g, 12.9mm thickness
    Symbian^3, up to Nokia Belle Refresh
    16GB storage, microSD card slot
  • 0.6% 39,781,973 hits
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  • 3.5"
    360x640 pixels
  • 12MP
    720p
  • 256MB RAM
  • 1200mAh
    Li-Ion
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  • Niraj
  • KFQ
  • 05 Jul 2010

lanrefront, 05 Jul 2010Gsm Arena list DivX and Xvid as features of N8 while Eldar Murtzain of Mobile Review say N8 do... moreAfaik N8 has divx and Mkv support.. Dont know about xvid

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  • KFQ
  • 05 Jul 2010

Blue_pacyfic, 05 Jul 2010This is undoubtfully an amazing device, just wanted to know as the battery is inside the phon... morePress and hold power button for 8 sec, When phone freezes.

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  • PEd
  • 05 Jul 2010

himynameissam, 05 Jul 2010if its true that they actually sold 21.5 million phones in the last quarter then it's only bec... moreThe simple fact is that Apple cannot sell iphone at that price.... mainly because Steve needs big profits and also because Apple has to pay other manufacturers for using their technology and parts...

Nokia on the other hand can and do sell the 5800 incredibily cheap and it can outperform any other phone at that price by miles....

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  • 05 Jul 2010

himynameissam, 05 Jul 2010if its true that they actually sold 21.5 million phones in the last quarter then it's only bec... moreThe simple fact is that Apple cannot sell iphone at that price.... mainly because Steve needs big profits and also because Apple has to pay other manufacturers for using their technology and parts...

Nokia on the other hand can and do sell the 5800 incredibily cheap and it can outperform any other phone at that price by miles....

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  • Engineer Man
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  • 05 Jul 2010

After seeing some of the videos. It leaves mixed questions. Some of the videos show the firmware looking pretty quick while other leave a lot answered for. The especially Low C: drive Phone memory of 135mb still isn't much to play with, unless there are more than several high memory intensive apps running. Virtual mem if it's there won't really help, although it may against stopping memory leaks as such but virtual memory is like a desktop pc's mechanical hard disk memory swap file which is much slower.

This isn't the case for nokia. If S^3 does integrate a swap file, a virtual mem pool I don't know how much it will be. But it's questionable as to how well it will work from stopping memory leaks, & memory full errors, beta stage firmware will tend to have these memory leaks bugs anyway.

Like I said though. Some of the newer videos leave a lot to be answered for with performance. It needs to be very fast & smooth with no lag really the UI. memory needs to be more even tho S^3 is low on resources & efficient it's still not enough & it could have done with more RAM I suppose. As long as issues like these are sorted out it's absolutely quick & stable, with no Memory full issues, no bugs in the OS, then this phone will surprise me.

However I am still considering the features the Android OS brings over Symbian. But don't forget they both have their pros & cons. Be careful making decisions on the main advantages that each OS brings on their function, feature table. Then choose which hardware has the most ability to handle it well. That's how I look at it. Since User interaction is key there just might be something different about the way you use, operate, navigate your previous phones.

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  • pY5
  • 05 Jul 2010

thinking of buying a n8 got an old n96 at moment as you will know it very slow is n8 ant better any help please im sick of looking

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  • Mfx
  • 05 Jul 2010

AMANITA, 05 Jul 2010 N8 12mp is unbeatable,no doubt ! N8 has 16gb onboard memory,it can b expandable upto 32 gb ... moreFlashlite 4? Your kidding right? Thats called dodgy flash support!!!!!!!!

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  • Mfx
  • 05 Jul 2010

Anonymous, 05 Jul 2010wave is like a big pad. the keys sucks. it is a brick. n8 will be the biggest break for nokia.Yes its shaping up to be Nokia's best phone ever. But the truth is that typical Nokia, it will probably end up being another price of Symbian run rubbish! Have you not seen the videos to the phone? The phone's response rate is like being at the dentist....painfull!

Painfull phone, well done Nokia for sticking with Symbian. High expectations with the same old crap OS. Nothing will ever change if Nokia keep this snail.

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  • v0X
  • 05 Jul 2010

goodluck for opening the battery cover -as this phone is totally prone to hang ups, stuck on a blank screen, you know-the usual problem of s60 5th! Bwahahaha!

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  • s8a
  • 05 Jul 2010

there was a melodiouz singer yesterday, where is he,I need a song.

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  • t7U
  • 05 Jul 2010

i like the xenon very much. im from philippines!

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  • t7U
  • 05 Jul 2010

wave is like a big pad. the keys sucks. it is a brick. n8 will be the biggest break for nokia.

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  • t7U
  • 05 Jul 2010

many comments and votes. its not even released yet!

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  • t7U
  • 05 Jul 2010

samsung wave. that sucks@

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  • t7U
  • 05 Jul 2010

samsung wave sucks. the only advantage of wave over n8 is the 1ghz and the sa screen

anyway n8 processor can catch up with that bec it has a powerful gpu and enough cpu and ram

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  • 05 Jul 2010

Nikki, 05 Jul 2010any one know any app similar to skyfire ?? pls replyopera mini or opera mobile are both great browsers. the difference between the two is that opera mobile is designed specifically for mobiles, but the mini works fine too. just go to www.opera.com and follow the download links. i find opera faster than skyfire, but one big disadvantage of opera is that unlike skyfire, it can't read flash.

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  • Nikki
  • uZ9
  • 05 Jul 2010

any one know any app similar to skyfire ?? pls reply

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  • PBR
  • 05 Jul 2010

Anonymous, 05 Jul 2010Thanks for the explanation. So is that mean N8 can run around 7 apps at a time since it has... moreI've never said n97 can not run more than 3 apps simultaneously, it also due to the how much memories is used / needed by each application so it can run properly.

Also if N8 was true as it's been rumoured will have virtual memory - like N900 that has 750 mb of virtual mem, I agree that it can run 10 to 15 apps at the same time.

Cheers!

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  • AMANITA
  • s86
  • 05 Jul 2010

jenna123, 05 Jul 2010omg every1 i got the n8!!! its awesme urll shud get it its released in finland unofficially!! ... moreWOW !

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  • himynameissam
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  • 05 Jul 2010

if its true that they actually sold 21.5 million phones in the last quarter then it's only because they're so cheap. i mean, a nokia 5800 is about £100 now. if apple sold an iphone for £100, it would undoubtedly be the best selling phone of all time.

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