Nokia N8 - user opinions and reviews
- Deep space bar
- kDi
phones fan, 14 Jun 2010i have many doubts about the big and bright future of the symbian 3 especially after checking ... moreEngadget only likes apple devices and android they are too bias and it shows
- BEDO
- iEt
barry bodle, 14 Jun 2010i love this phone. it's so amazing. i will buy this after 10 years. im so excitedi hope after this period it will be released,,, we are all waiting for this shinning star.
- barry bodle
- nDT
i love this phone. it's so amazing. i will buy this after 10 years. im so excited
- Reyals
- naL
Just wondering what could be done with an N8 if there was a HyperX version of s^3... he achieved a lot of performance on a i8910 which runs S60. would be interesting to see what actually is possible with the N8...
since S^3 is open source this would be a possibility, and completely allowed.
- Engineer Man
- n5Q
S^3 is a milestone ahead of previous. A lot of work has been done to integrate what was the Symbian core OS & with the S60 UI & apps that have been built for Nokia. Also incooporated many contributions from many other companies both device manufactuer, service provider, network operators. The S^3 release is the first general availability of integrated code line since the foundation was formed.
A few of the nice key features that are in S^3 are the new Micro Kernel which can run on very low computation load application processors meaning that you can extend battery life for extensive periods of time with active use meaning that you can multitask actively in the OS on your mobile. Their is a Hardware Abstraction Layer. Some of the first bits are elment of a HAL in there which will provide Symbian Foundation a much larger range of technologies by which people can create mobile products & run the OS on platform.
The qt core library is included in S^3 their. This will enable devs to rw write applications & do some much more amazing things than previous symbian OS's. Lots of work have done to remove the no of inputs that you have to do for basic tasks or common tasks, it will be much easier to send a mail, much easier to go online, much easier to stay connected with multiple applications with very few inputs
Theres also some nice nice visual design features, transparencnies, transitional effects which will look brilliant Hardware accelerated. Symbian are releasing 40 million lines of source code worth $4.5 billion, totally open source & free to the market place for anyone to use. Open source code can be directly influenced by any dev to make any contribution, manufacturers, network operators, silicon & tech providers in the symbian ecosystem, will be able to produce amazing symbian products for consumers. Products that we have a role in defining. We help make it what it is.
It reduces their overall investments that they would as in individual companies ot teams would have to make in product creation, because they get to leverage the benefits of everybody elses work & all those other contributions that are added into the codebas on an ongoing basis. With that level of code access, you really can unleash the creativtity of every single developer that's out there for any type of application. I think we are going to see some great apps.
Symbian Foundation has already started to see great application, this will get even better now over time. It looks like the largest open source contribution that has ever been made. A dominant OS & platform in the smartphone segment of the mobile marketplace has now been completely opened up & has been given away to the dev public to further evolve, use. This looks like big possibilties.
- Jamm
- fj7
WOW . . . 50.000 Votes and the phone is still 2 months away ! ! ! This popularity tops anything this forum has ever seen ! ! ! If it goes on like this the N8 will give Apple a hiding :-) big time. We should have 100.000 votes before the year is over ! Well done Nokia. Your PR is working overtime. Good idea to release the teasing preview videos one by one . . .
- phones fan
- fwM
Engineer Man, 14 Jun 2010@ Ying Ok. Your right Ying I can't proclaim to make that statement just yet. Apple having p... morei have many doubts about the big and bright future of the symbian 3 especially after checking engadget review http://www.engadget.com/2010/0...-n8-preview/
- Engineer Man
- n5Q
@ Ying
Ok. Your right Ying I can't proclaim to make that statement just yet. Apple having poprietary SDK & 1500 API's allows devs to control more aspects of a previously limited & locked down OS. But I have a pretty good idea that when S^3, Meamo/ Meego will fully fo open source they will get plenty of dev support. The design of the micro kernel, the new HAL in the OS, C++, Qt, HTLM, webkits all this will be open to Symbian Foundation.
You can't actually see that yet because they haven't laid the foundations yet, S^3 for instance has a BIG & bright future & the show is only just getting started. Qt Apps that will be compatible across platforms making the possiblity for other Linux based platforms which Nokia may be a member of to port easily from S^3 to Meamo, Meego possibly. Symbian thus far have sold upwards of 350,000,000 devices.
Apples app store has consistently grown with attracting dev support for it's OS Python, perl scripting, because they only have one device the iphone, & there focus has been primarily on software segment. However soon the possiblities for S^3, Qt across a wide range of platforms will transform the kind of apps we can run on symbian, meamo/ meago maybe.
- Anis
- 3EV
minjo, 14 Jun 2010n8 has microUSB v2.0 & USB On-the-go support... from where did u get the 3.0 ???? He ment Bluetooth v 3.0
- minjo
- mJq
Azaad, 14 Jun 2010N8 has USB 3.0, will my PC (which is having USB 2.0)will be compatible to Nokia N8? Will I be ... moren8 has microUSB v2.0 & USB On-the-go support... from where did u get the 3.0 ????
- Azaad
- vwf
N8 has USB 3.0, will my PC (which is having USB 2.0)will be compatible to Nokia N8? Will I be able to transfer data smoothly???
- Motorola Taik
- PBR
Anonymous, 14 Jun 2010There were like around 400 votes is 4 hours to vote this phone down. The rating is not reli... moreWhile the phone is not out yet voting result is not a reliable parameter, so dont take it too far/ deep/ hard/ smart/ death
- Anonymous
- tjF
[deleted post]There were like around 400 votes is 4 hours to vote this phone down.
The rating is not reliable. We should look at the total number of votes. The more votes the more popular.
If it is not a threat, fans from other brands will not do their best to constantly vote this phone down.
Thus, don't judge this phone by the rating.
No matter what, i will get it.
- Anonymous
- v$x
about time nokia used capacitive, cant wait for this!
- nokia fan
- nDT
good phone,good batery life,nice photo,video looks perfect on my plasma tv
- Anonymous
- PU7
Anonymous, 14 Jun 2010Why are the Ratings going down rapidly???
Now its lower the 5800sNo way man!
What ever the rating, this phone is gonna rock.
It's a sure buy!
- joe
- PGk
will n8 support the old s60v5 apps
- Anonymous
- t7A
the vedios still laaaggsss, is that the final firmware used? it's quite disaapointing... huhu... I just want it to be par with the touch phone industry's average. I hope they made some final tweaking when it's launch. My hopes are high seeing a high end GPU is used. but i just don't know about the recent chinese demo videos, it just don't live up to it's hype.
- Anonymous
- srp
Anonymous, 14 Jun 2010Why are the Ratings going down rapidly???
Now its lower the 5800sbecause... some components from this phone is outdated....
this score is completely realistic now...
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