Nokia N8

We’ve come to take Nokia for granted in the low end or the business class but it seems it has lost the knack for killer phones, run out of royal blood. It’s up to the Nseries to fix it all up. The Nokia N8 may just turn out to be the right cure. With that kind of hardware, it’s a smartphone you’d be mad to ignore. For a change we are not talking netbook-grade processing power or loads of RAM. Nokia have instead given their flagship an industry-leading camera and stuff like HDMI port and USB-On-the-Go.The Finnish engineers often like to make a point about Symbian being the most resource-effective OS. We’ve seen it run reasonably fast indeed on even slower CPUs. This time though it’s Symbian ^3, so we’ll have to see it again to believe it.

Key features

* Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
* Penta-band 3G with 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA support
* Sleek anodized aluminum unibody
* 3.5" 16M-color AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
* 12 megapixel autofocus camera with xenon flash and 720p@25fps video recording
* Camera features: large 1/1.83” camera sensor,ND filter, geo-tagging, face detection
* Symbian^3 OS
* 680 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 256 MB RAM
* Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
* microHDMI port for 720p TV-out functionality
* GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free lifetime voice-guided navigation
* Digital compass
* 16GB on-board storage, expandable through the microSD card slot
* Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic
* DivX and XviD video support
* Built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor
* Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
* Stereo FM Radio with RDS, FM transmitter
* microUSB port with USB On-the-go support
* Flash and Java support for the web browser
* Stereo Bluetooth 3.0
* Nice audio reproduction quality
* Smart and voice dialing
* Scratch resistant Gorilla glass display

Disadvantages

- Symbian^3 is still behind Android and iOS usability standards
- No video light
- Battery life is not on par with best in the business
- Battery is not user-replaceable