Thread: Nokia N8

It is immediately obvious that Nokia wants to initiate a new era with its flagship. The design is fundamentally different from all previous models from Finland. For the first time the manufacturer uses a unibody aluminum case that one knows only from reputable MacBooks and very few top smartphones like the HTC Legend. Result: The phone is a flatterer with excellent feel and finish. Only the protruding camera unit on the back has bothered us, because they will be happy times hanging on the edge of the pants pocket.

The display looks, the Nokia N8 is not so good. At 3.5 inches it is the same size as the iPhone 4, but the resolution is only 640x360 pixels. In everyday life, which is hardly on - but who uses his smartphone intensely, who is reading longer texts or plays like that will notice the difference. The virtual keyboard can not fully convince.




The camera of the Nokia N8 impresses in every aspect. No wonder Nokia is a 12-megapixel optics to the limits of technical possibilities more pixels there are currently hardly fit into a cell phone. When the music functions, the N8 is playing well in the front line. The new Cover Flow still looks better than the iPhone's 4 and the sound easily comparable with the Apple phone. Compared with the Gigahertz Boliden the competition, which run with the modern ARM Cortex architecture, the Nokia N8 significantly less power. The ARM11 chip clocked at 680 MHz only, but is nevertheless supported by a 3D graphics accelerator.