The Nokia N8 is professional and sleek, featuring a gorgeously rich display, the AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours. The display is 3.5 inches and shows 360 x 640 pixels. Multi-touch input method is now the norm and in the Nokia N8 this is no exception. Proximity sensor for auto turn-off cares for your battery’s charge, and the accelerometer sensor automatically rotates the display for you as you turn the screen horizontally and back again. A scratch-resistant Gorilla glass display makes sure that the Nokia N8 keeps up Nokia’s reputation for amazingly hard-wearing mobile phone handsets.
Operating on either the GSM 850/900/1800/1900 2G Network or the HSDPA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 3G Network, in the data department the Nokia N8 offers Class 33 GPRS, Class 33 EDGE, 3G HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps and HSUPA, 2.0 Mbps; WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with UPnP technology, Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP, and a microUSB v2.0 with USB On-The-Go support.
Nokia N8 black, 100 minutes to any network and 500 texts.
Tariff Name: 100 mins (24m), Network Vodafone, 24 Month Contract, 100 Anytime Minutes, 500 Free Text Messages, Nokia N8 black, Phone Price 210, Total Cost After Discounts £450
Nokia N8 black, 100 minutes to any network and 500 texts.
Tariff Name: 100 mins (24m), Network Vodafone, 24 Month Contract, 100 Anytime Minutes, 500 Free Text Messages, Nokia N8 black, Phone Price 245, Total Cost After Discounts £485
Nokia N8 silver, Mix of 100 minutes to any network or 100 texts. 500MB mobile internet per month.
Tariff Name: Talk 100 £10 (24m), Network 3 Mobile, 24 Month Contract, 100 Anytime Minutes, 100 Free Text Messages, Nokia N8 silver, Phone Price 287, Total Cost After Discounts £527
The Nokia N8 weighs just 135g and measures in at 113.5 x 59.1 x 12.9mm and 86cc. Yet with these very lightweight physical measurements, the Nokia N8 delivers a 12MP camera taking snaps at an incredible 4000×3000 pixels. With Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, and Xenon flash, the N8’s camera adds value to a Nokia mobile phone handset like never before. ND filter, geo-tagging, face and even smile detection, and 720p @ 25 frames per second video plus VGA videocall camera make the Nokia B8’s camera more than just a happy snap tool – it’s an essential part of this communications device.
In terms of sound and alerts, vibration, MP3 and WAV are all supported for your choice of alert styles and tones.
The OS, Symbian^2, runs on the ARM 11 680 MHz processor with a 3D Graphics HW accelerator. SMS threaded view, MMS, Email, Push Email and IM are all in a day’s work for Nokia N8, whose Voice Command/Dial feature proves yet again Nokia’s abilities in top-quality productivity features.
The browser displays WAP 2.0/zHMTL, HTML and RSS feeds, and Java with MIDP 2.1 is fully supported. GPS with A-GPS support and Ovi Maps 3.0 ensure that you need never lose your way again with the Nokia N8.
Apps that come with the Nokia N8 include a digital compass, a document viewer handling Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF; a video/photo editor, T9, a media player handling MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ and DivX, XviD, MP4, H.264, H.263 and WMV.
Flash Lite v4.0 and T9, and Dolby Digital Plus via HDMI make the Nokia N8 a viable media phone.
Colours available include Dark Grey, Silver White, Green, Blue, and Orange. The anodised aluminium casing is slick and modern yet down-to-earth, housing the deceptively simple Nokia N8 smartphone. The standard battery, a Li-Ion 1200 mAh (BL-4D), give up to 400h standby time, and up to 12h 30 mins actual talk time, or 50h of music playback time.