The Nokia N8 is the first Nokia’s Smartphone that runs on the Symbian^3 OS and released in 2010. It is a Smartphone with impressive design and excellent specifications. Nokia claimed that this is the best camera phone in the world since it has 12 megapixels camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash. As the best camera phone, Nokia N8 has all the specification for high quality photography. Its 12 MP has a closer quality of a digital camera that brings closer reality colors and higher detail.
Nokia N8 has an excellent build quality with its solid and sturdy body design covered with an aluminum case. In term of screen display, it has a 3.5-inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen with a Gorilla glass protective layer. It boasts a single core of ARM 11 680MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM. It also packs a 16 GB of flash memory, a microSD memory card slot up to 32 GB, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, and HDMI out, a front camera for video conferencing and a GPS that works with the Nokia’s Ovi Maps and navigation.
Powered by the latest edition of Symbian^3 OS, the Nokia N8 offers several major advances such as multi touch support, flick scrolling and pinch-zoom. This phone also offers multiple and user personalizing home screens that allows the installment of applications and widgets. The new 2D and 3D graphics architecture in the platform takes full advantage of the phone's hardware acceleration that provides a faster and more responsive user interface. Symbian^3 has also a better performance by giving greater memory management allowing more applications to run at once for a faster multi- tasking experience.
The Nokia N8 has an excellent speaker for both multimedia and voice calls so that the quality of the sounds is very amazing. If you are a music lover, this phone seems to be an excellent choice that fits with your personality. This device is able to play your favorite album up to 50 hours continuously without stopping. This phone is also a complement for your musical personality with a Stereo FM radio and is able to reach all FM radio channels in your town. This feature is also allowing user to obtain information and entertainment from its favorite radio station.
In conclusion, the speed of Nokia N8 is quite fast and acceptable. The Symbian ^3 are a good start for Nokia to compete with Android, iOS and even OS BlackBerry 7. While the software is not ground-breaking, it’s well optimized for touch and familiar to the large installed base of Nokia users. The hardware is excellent and the phone has an excellent build quality and all the expected specifications from a flagship Smartphone. [IS]
