The much hyped release of the new Nokia N8 smartphone is almost here. The main reason for the hype is the incorporation of the brand's new Symbian ^3 platform into the handset coupled with a huge variety of features and capabilities that will easily rival the likes of the iPhone and Blackberry.
At the forefront of the huge list of features offered by the N8 is a twelve megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and full 720p HDMI support for the recording and playback of home made videos. After recording and editing your movies via the handset's on board software editing suite, you will be able to playback your movies in the comfort of your home by using a non-standard cable connected to your television, but what makes it more special is the ability to output Dolby surround sound through the HDMI cable also.
A large capacity for music playback has been a feature Nokia have been highlighting a lot in its recent smartphone releases. The Nokia N8 will have an internal memory size of 16 gigabytes, plus the option to fit a micro SD card up to 32 gigabytes, meaning that a total of 50 hours of music playback time is achievable. Along with the expected GPRS and WLAN support comes support for b, g and n WiFi bands, the latter being a particularly fast method of internet connection.
The new Symbian ^3 operating system that is incorporated into the new Nokia N8 is the latest development of the world's most used mobile phone platform. New additions are an upgraded 2D and 3D graphics hardware support, plus improved support for multi-touch features such as flick scrolling and pinch zoom.
The feature you immediately notice on the Nokia N8 is the huge 3.5 screen. Containing 16.7 million colors and a display resolution of 640 x 360 pixels, it really makes it standout from the plethora of other similar mobile phones. The Nokia N8 will offer touch-screen as already stated, plus also an accelerometer, a compass and a proximity sensor coupled with an ambient light detector.
At the forefront of the huge list of features offered by the N8 is a twelve megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and full 720p HDMI support for the recording and playback of home made videos. After recording and editing your movies via the handset's on board software editing suite, you will be able to playback your movies in the comfort of your home by using a non-standard cable connected to your television, but what makes it more special is the ability to output Dolby surround sound through the HDMI cable also.
A large capacity for music playback has been a feature Nokia have been highlighting a lot in its recent smartphone releases. The Nokia N8 will have an internal memory size of 16 gigabytes, plus the option to fit a micro SD card up to 32 gigabytes, meaning that a total of 50 hours of music playback time is achievable. Along with the expected GPRS and WLAN support comes support for b, g and n WiFi bands, the latter being a particularly fast method of internet connection.
The new Symbian ^3 operating system that is incorporated into the new Nokia N8 is the latest development of the world's most used mobile phone platform. New additions are an upgraded 2D and 3D graphics hardware support, plus improved support for multi-touch features such as flick scrolling and pinch zoom.
The feature you immediately notice on the Nokia N8 is the huge 3.5 screen. Containing 16.7 million colors and a display resolution of 640 x 360 pixels, it really makes it standout from the plethora of other similar mobile phones. The Nokia N8 will offer touch-screen as already stated, plus also an accelerometer, a compass and a proximity sensor coupled with an ambient light detector.