Nokia N8

Created on 20 July 2010

The Nokia N8 is a new breed of Nokia device. It’s a true mobile entertainment system and it has a brand-new OS to boot. Grabbing the headlines – along with the handset – is the Symbian^3 OS, and boy does the Nokia N8 show it off. On the device there’s a choice of three fully customisable homescreens, improved gestures, new cover flow for music, streamlined menus and support for HD recording. But it’s not just the OS that has us salivating over the Nokia N8.

 

Where do we start? There’s the 12-megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash, the ability to record high definition videos along with the ability to edit them on the move, the Dolby surround sound tech and the dedicated Web TV application.

Have we forgotten anything? Oh, how about the HDMI connector, 3.5-inch HD capacitive touchscreen, 16GB of built-in storage that’s expandable to 48GB with a microSD card, free walk and drive navigation, and that’s all just under the hood.

Not to be outdone by its innards, the Nokia N8’s case is carved from a single piece of anodised aluminium and looks glorious decked in one of five eye-catching colours.

Still want more? The Nokia N8 comes with access to the full range of Ovi services and it’s Nokia’s first smartphone to be integrated with Qt. We’re off for a lie-down after all that.