Excellent voice quality. Strong battery life. Spectacular 12-megapixel camera.
User interface is abysmal.
The N8, Nokia's flagship phone, saddles solid hardware with an arcane, difficult-to-use operating system that makes it very frustrating to use. Buy it now...
Abstract: If a Clash of the Titans movie was to be made for the smartphone industry, it would certainly feature the and the . These are the current cream-of-the-crop handsets of the world's largest and second-largest cell phone manufacturers. The Nokia N8 and S...
Abstract: When I first got my hands on the Nokia N8 ($550 unlocked; price as of October 3) back in June, I was impressed with its hardware and multimedia features, but had the feeling that the software was stale and outdated. After spending more time with the N...
Unparalleled camera performanceAluminum shell combines beauty and brawnGorilla Glass-protected AMOLED display
Symbian user experience lags competitionStill too many system nags and promptsNo QWERTY keyboard in portrait mode
You know it, we know it, and Nokia sure as hell knows it. The Finnish mobile-making team shot itself in the foot with its N8 launch purely through a bungled execution on the software front. It's not unreasonable to believe that the hardware for this devic...
Abstract: Nokia N8 has been the center of attention for awhile. On February 2010, first strike of the device, followed by leaks, rumors, semi-accurate previews. After seven months later, comes the commercial release. And now, our sister site, SlashGear has just ...
If you want the best camera phone on the market bar none, then you have no choice. You have to buy the Nokia N8, as it’s camera is leagues ahead of every other phone, without question.Equally, its video recording features are suiperb, as are all the o...
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
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
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.
Anodized aluminum body easily makes this one of Nokia's sleekest designs. Ships with multimedia cables. Does a fantastic job at multimedia playback. Video chatready with a frontfacing VGA camera. MiniHDMI port pumps out video and Dolby Digital Plus audio.
Competitive with the Pros (iPhone, Android, Windows 7), but clearly won't convert the entrenched. Nonremovable battery = two steps back. Symbian^3 OS's lack of polish puts a hurt on quick navigation. Dual card bay (one for memory, one for sim) is a hassle
Great build quality, Awesome 12MP camera, Outstanding multimedia performance
Symbian^3 still looks dated, Internet browser could be smoother, Not too many apps available for the platform
The Nokia N8 is another one of those handsets that leaves us conflicted. It’s got some truly amazing elements: the camera, the video playback, the luscious build quality all make us want to forget everything average about it. That said, we can’t. Symbi...
