The Powerful Nokia N8 Delivers A Comprehensive Spec List

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Nokia has been far from consistent with its smartphone releases, but it appears that this has been for good reason. Their latest flagship smartphone is the Nokia N8, with a revised Symbian ^3, and some top-end hardware.

Let’s start with what Nokia seemed to think important enough to throw into their flagship: A 12 MP camera with Xenon flash, XviD and DivX support, HD video recording, Dolby mobile sound and a HDMI-port are just the cream on top.

It features a metal shell and an AMOLED screen, a dedicated GPU for enhanced performance, and a new UI, which offers new features and remains familiar with previous Nokia users. We have three homescreens now along with a large number of widgets.

As for the media features, the Nokia N8 has a 640x360 capacitive AMOLED capacitive touchscreen that shows up to 16M colours nicely, the contrast ratios are up the scale and everything looks crisp and lively, be they webpages or video playback. It goes fairly well outdoors in bright light as well, something that other displays suffer with more often than you’d think. The camera, with its 12 megapixels is something truly ...
... out of the ordinary. With Carl Zeiss optics and the Xenon flash users are able to take extraordinary shots. There are possible settings to alter your photos from different photo modes to exposure correction. The phone features a dedicated camera-button, which activates the camera app from the home screen and inside it triggers the autofocus. The video recording is very good; it has an effective noise reduction function helping the HD video become lively, clear, even if it is streamed to a big screen TV via DLNA. Music has its own media player widget complete with coverflow, and the music control buttons are easy and accurate to use. It boasts 16 GB of internal memory, giving you enough room to store all of your music files. It does play back video as well, and it is very good at it, with a wide range of supported formats.

Being a smartphone, the Nokia N8 of course offers a great internet browsing experience. 3G (via HSDPA) and Wi-Fi are on hand to allow a fast and reliable internet connection, with the full HTML browser even supporting flash content.

The Nokia N8 provides the full package, excelling at any task you throw at it. Multimedia functionality is where this handset truly stands out though, and thanks to a number of available colour variants, it offers a good level of aesthetic appeal.

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