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15 years ago
Nokia N8 smartphone
The N8 is the proverbial curate's egg. It offers very capable hardware with real benefits, particularly for imaging, and wraps it in a rough UI. Indeed, it retains much of the cruftiness of the Symbian S60 5th Edition interface, which feels clumsy and, in today's market, unnecessarily complicated.
16 years ago
Nokia N8
The Nokia N8 looks and, from what we know, is in a new class of its own when it comes to mobile media ability. With advanced features including a fantastic camera and video, WebTV and a browser with Flash support, this handset is bound to impress.
Pros:
- Fantastic 12mp camera
- Comfortably sized
- Excellent battery life
Cons:
- Bad screen in sunlight
- Symbian a touch outdated
15 years ago
Nokia N8
Thanks to the iPhone raising the bar for touch screen smartphones several years ago, the Nokia N8 faces some stiff competition. If you're currently a Nokia person, you'll likely enjoy the N8. It's a solid high-end Nokia with great voice, a fantastic camera and a vivid AMOLED capacitive display.
Pros:
- Exceptional camera
- responsive and vibrant touch screen
- good battery life
- Superb camera
- vibrant multi-touch display
- modern OS
- great battery life
- excellent call quality
- has 3G for all GSM networks
- lots of internal storage plus a microSD card slot
- can play Flash video
Cons:
- The OS is a solid rebirth of Symbian that's made for touch
- but there's nothing that pushes it ahead of iOS and Android
- OS is modern but not captivating
- phone sometimes lags
- browser is sometimes sluggish
- battery isn't user replaceable
- Ovi Maps navigation is weird in the US
15 years ago
Nokia N8 review
The Nokia N8 offers a hugely improved operating system as well as a superb camera and mapping facilities.
Pros:
- The Nokia N8 boasts the best camera we've seen on a phone
Cons:
- The Nokia N8 is not slow by any means
- but it can't compete with similar handsets
15 years ago
Nokia N8 review - best camera phone ever
If you are a Symbian or Nokia S60 fan, your day has come. The Nokia N8 is the best Symbian device to have ever been sold. It has a great hardware design, good software capabilities, and the most usable touch interface ever offered on Symbian, thanks to the phone's new Symbian^3 smartphone operating...
Pros:
- Best camera ever
- gorgeous hardware design
- good battery life
- great data speeds
Cons:
- Mediocre browser
- touchscreen issues
- UI feels slow at times
- weak text input options
15 years ago
Nokia N8 review: Nokia N8
The Nokia N8 excels as a camera phone, and the improvements of Symbian 3 make it one of the company's best smartphones to date. However, it still has its shortcomings and an expensive price tag, making it a hard sell for the North American market.
Pros:
- The Nokia N8 and Symbian 3 offer a better and more enhanced user experience than previous devices
- The N8 delivers excellent camera and video quality
- The smartphone has solid hardware and offers 3G support for both T-Mobile and AT&T
- You get free turn-by-turn navigation via Ovi Maps.
Cons:
- It's expensive
- User interface is much improved, but still trails the competition in ease of use
- The N8 can be sluggish
- You only get a QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode, and there's no user-replaceable battery.
15 years ago
Nokia N8 review
Nokia's latest serves up a fresh spin on an ageing formula, but ultimately fails to ace the new smartphone competition
15 years ago
If software is important to you, the Nokia N8 may fall behind the Apple iPhone 4, but otherwise it's worth adding to your list. It offers an outstanding specification, is particularly well made and offers excellent value for money.
Pros:
- Like or loath the Nokia N8's styling, there's no debating the quality on offer here
- It's constructed almost entirely from anodised aluminium, and is incredibly tough
- A glass screen adds to the quality, and it's a smartphone that can easily withstand daily knocks and drops, It's the 12-Megapixel...
Cons:
- The Nokia N8 may have an all new operating system, but like older touchscreen Nokias it's still clunky compared to offerings from Apple and Android
- That said, it's a lot faster than older handsets, and there are lots of new apps on offer from the Ovi Store
15 years ago
Nokia N8 review
A wonderfully built phone somewhat let down by the software
Pros:
- Solid build
- ace camera
Cons:
- Symbian still isn't competitive
15 years ago
Nokia N8 first look
First, the good news: the Nokia N8 is a powerfully featured multimedia touchscreen phone, with 16GB internal memory and support for a further 32GB using removable microSD card.
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