Nokia N8 - user opinions and reviews
- AnonD-3538
- 3GK
AnonD-2912, 04 Jan 2012
Dear Ray,
You've been giving so much useful information about N8 for a long time and I've... more Hello Nuwan,
Thanks for the feedback regarding 1080p video recording. I have Camera pro on my N8 and the maximum resolution for video recording is 1280 x 720 so that app can't record 1080p videos. I suppose that a MOD would be able to allow the N8 to record 1080p but as you've said, there is a lag because the N8's hardware isn't quite powerful enough.
So, technically it's possible but it's not practical. That's why Nokia haven't implemented it into the firmware.
Also, the N8's Broadcom BCM 2727 GPU was designed for 720p video recording only, so forcing it to record at 1080p could damage the GPU in the long run.
http://www.broadcom.com/products/Mobile-Multimedia/Mobile-Multimedia-Processors/BCM2727
All the best.
Ray.
- DEATHNOTE#
- PA8
some say gorrila glass so anti screcth but its not real
- AnonD-36735
- fuI
Ray Hipkiss, 04 Jan 2012
@ Foxy-gee
The default passcode is 12345.
All the best.
Ray.pls it was wrong
- AnonD-2912
- tet
Ray Hipkiss, 03 Jan 2012
@ jbpianist28
In what way is Belle better than Android? Does Belle allow the use of liv... more
Dear Ray,
Android has Live papers and Adobe Flash 11 support.. Yeah.. Honestly I'd love to have those two features in my Symbian belle mobile as well.. But due to some other reasons, I'd rather stick with N8 even without above two which are less important than what I'm looking for..
1) True call recording without any DETERIORATING OF QUALITY (So far, Only Nokia devices has that feature, Android of course can record phone calls but it's a virtual like recording; simply put, android 3rd party software can only record the sound comes out from the speaker of the phone.. If the sound is very low or if you're using a bluetooth headset.. You won't get any income record at all..! But symbian on the other hand records phone calls not by sound, but by the data it receives...! Quality is highest and if you hack your phone means you can record as much as phone calls as long as you like without any beep or anything...!)
2) Taking a call, starting to type an SMS in N8 only takes two or three taps on the screen while Android requires more taps.. (Simply put Symbian has the simplest call book as well as messaging facilities where we mostly require a phone for...!)
3) Battery life (I don't need to give you more details... Do I....?)
4) Now everybody's talking about fantastic user experience with beautiful effects while navigating in Android OS.. But I think those people have never tried Symbian Belle with Custom Theme Effects like 'JIN HAO effects' installed... Those are crazy effects.. I don't really understand how Symbian manage to control such simultaneous and quality effect with limited processing powers (both in process as well as GPU) it has... But I don't face any lag or anything due to fantastic theme effects I've got in my Belle delight 3.8 in my N8...
5) How about OVI Maps with MULTI TOUCH support,
a) Life time free Maps (You can download the maps separately from your PC for FREE)
b) Voice guided Navigation (including Street names too)
c) Even satellite maps available (better than Google maps) - If you want you can have google maps too but OVI maps is certainly better
d) Offline navigation (I don't think Android has even thought about such a thing since it's from google... Without online google is dead.. But not symbian...!)
6) People are always talking 'Android is so powerful' but apart from having dual core processors and more ram (which proves the opposite..!) how somebody can say it's powerful over Symbian?
Ex: When you can fight with a better weapon can you say you're powerful? You may say 'With the weapon I'm powerful but without it I'm nothing'. Likewise Android is powerful just because it has dual core processors and more ram. Without them it's not powerful.
Followings are facts not just matters:
1) Symbian can play NFS Shift with 256 MB RAM with 680 MHz processor while the same requires in Android 512 Ram with a 1 GHz processor
2) Most popular 12 MP cameras ever produced (Sony Ericsson Satio and Nokia N8) both belonged to Symbian and WHY IS THAT...? Android has never been able to handle more than 8 MP camera in a phone and why is that...? If Symbian is not that powerful, how come it could capture 12 MP photos of uncompressed sizes of around 12 MB and compress them within fraction of a second? (I'm not saying Android can't handle 12 MP camera.. If I say that it will be stupid... But I'm only saying if Android is to handle a 12 MP camera which has n8's camera quality, then it must have at least 1 GB of RAM and a dual core processor to do so...!)
So I think I've given enough facts to discuss here..
I'm not saying Symbian is better than Android.. It's a totally subjective matter... I'm only saying People's judgment over Symbian is not reasonable and if you think and see unbiased you'll see that..
By the way, Symbian still is the most popular OS.. (as a percentage of Smart users)
Can all of them be wrong with their decision....??
- Ray Hipkiss
- 3GK
AnonD-36735, 04 Jan 2012i went to restore settings on d phone n it told me to input privacy PWD(1-8) I Did not put any... more
@ Foxy-gee
The default passcode is 12345.
All the best.
Ray.
- nikhil
- t}k
i love my nokia n8.it is an awesome smart looking phone.the highlit of the phone is camera with 12 mp.till now i dint get any prob with my n8.so,guys all of u just preffer n8
- AnonD-2912
- tet
Ray Hipkiss, 03 Jan 2012
It's got nothing to do with how many mega pixels the camera supports. It's all about the ph... more
Dear Ray,
You've been giving so much useful information about N8 for a long time and I've read lots of your comments.. Particularly unbiased comments...
But this time I am unable to agree with what you said 'N8 GPU is not capable of recording 1080p videos since it's not that powerful'
I agree with you it's not a powerful GPU which N8 has, but still it can record 1080p videos 30 fps as well as 25 fps without any problem..
I'm saying this because I've done it using MODs as well as Camera Pro software.. You'll notice bit of a lag when recording but the recorded video doesn't have that lag at all..
Then why Nokia didn't want to implement this feature default?
For me reasons are obvious.
1) They were bit worried about the visible lag when recording (Probably due to less processing power of N8)
2) The size of 1080p 30 fps videos captured by N8 is HUGE... I mean really really huge... If I say, for a one minute recording the size of the file was around 300 MB...! Who wants such a massive recorded file...?? (Personally I don't want...!)
Please correct me if I'm wrong..
- wakan
- ni1
i've got the auto switch-off problem with N8 right after a week i own that. the problem starts since the set is in general mode and it acts like battery low, but the same amount of charge is stable when the phone is in offline mode!?
- AnonD-36735
- fuI
i went to restore settings on d phone n it told me to input privacy PWD(1-8) I Did not put any privacy pwd on it i dont no wat 2 do
pls help me
- AnonD-35870
- KIY
Its great with 12 megapixel camera having xenon flash.
Anodized Aluminium Body and Scratch less Gorilla glass.
But it has only 256 RAM and the front camera is also not so good.
So, when you use different apps at a time it slows down.
- AnonD-36735
- fuI
the phone is 16GB+23K/263K BUT i cant downlaond even a pic because it will say my phone has not no mamiry pls help me
- AnonD-13159
- U@9
Ray Hipkiss, 27 Dec 2011
@nagaraj03
No Sir, it is not possible to use the N8's Xenon flash as a video recording ... more@Ray
dear bro first f all Wish you a very happy new year..!! :)
Nw cming to d mattr...I left a question fr u n pg5...!
If u remembr ...you suggested me to hard reset m fone..! So i just wantd to knw tht by resetng will i also get back d wallpapers n videos thz were n m fone ??
Someone n dis forum gave me d link frm whre i cn download walpaps n videos..!! Bt wil it b safe f i do ? As i dnt want to brick my fone!! Plzz..advice as ur suggstns means a lot !!
- vic
- 9FN
Ray Hipkiss, 03 Jan 2012 @ jbpianist28 In what way is Belle better than Android? Does Belle allow the use of liv... morethats just a fancy, and it consumes a lot of battery try to read some android forums more and more users dont want to use it anymore, or they will just use it to impress others , after that they will turn it off to save battery. Is that a ”must” have feature?
- jazi
- 6Qb
hi
i was going to buy n8 but my friends told that it is having software problems..
so are my friends right about this??
should buy n8??
thx..
- Anonymous
- 9FN
Ray Hipkiss, 03 Jan 2012 @ jbpianist28 In what way is Belle better than Android? Does Belle allow the use of liv... morethats just a fancy, and it consumes a lot of battery try to read some android forums more and more users dont want to use it anymore, or they will just use it to impress others , after that they will turn it off to save battery. Is that a ”must” have feature?
- vic
- 9FM
Ray Hipkiss, 03 Jan 2012 @ jbpianist28 In what way is Belle better than Android? Does Belle allow the use of liv... moreyou mentioned the two battery drainer on android haha! many android users dont want to use it anymore.
- Maniac
- Sqj
Hope Belle releases in Feb 2012 as promised by Nokia...cant wait to get my hands on it....fast Nokia...this is is ur last chance to catch up with the droids and the iphone
- AnonD-17235
- pJ9
Here is a guide I created for those who want to Downgrade their Nokia N8;
http://www.nokiatek.com/?p=668
- joeish
- uvt
Vira_india, 03 Jan 2012I have installed belle 3.8 after a vacation,,,,,,but now i m facing a problem that,when i open... moremy friend also facing the same problem in c7 but in anna os so u reinstall the software on time
- AnonD-15911
- Kgt
Vira_india, 03 Jan 2012I have installed belle 3.8 after a vacation,,,,,,but now i m facing a problem that,when i open... moreYes I would upgrade well why not eh
All these new CFW ers are better than the last
Go here for all questions http://forum.dailymobile.se/index.php?PHPSESSID=f413ojmcrkkk83861tl4434v52&topic=57667.1965
Gaz
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