Nokia N8 Sim Free Mobile Phone
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Featuring a large 12 MP sensor and Carl Zeiss optics you can capture great images.
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Shoot your masterpiece in HD
Film, edit and perfect your high-definition masterpieces, then share them with the world. Add music, images, text and transitions – all from the phone. With a large 12 MP sensor and Carl Zeiss optics you can capture great images. The Xenon flash allows you to take good pictures in low-light conditions as well.
Powered by Symbian^3
With Symbian^3 you can enjoy over 250 exciting new features such as HD video playback on your compatible wide-screen TV, organising your life online across three home screens. Multitask easily with the new visual task manager and switch between open apps with a single tap. All of this and more without sacrificing battery life.
Connect to your home theatre
The Nokia N8 features an HDMI connection so you can easily show off your images, videos and music on compatible televisions and projectors. All in stunning high-definition digital 720p resolution. It also features premium-quality *Dolby Digital Plus technology – compatible with home theatre systems – so movies will sound as good as they look.
* Dolby Digital Plus technology. Dolby is a registered trademark of Dolby Laboratories.
The Nokia N8 brings your friends together,
by pulling feeds and updates from Facebook
and Twitter to one handy application.
by pulling feeds and updates from Facebook
and Twitter to one handy application.
Integrated social networking
The Nokia N8 brings your friends together, by pulling feeds and updates from Facebook and Twitter to one handy application. Photos and videos can be shared the moment they're captured, Facebook events added to your calendar with just one click. Live updates are shown on your home screens, making it even easier to stay in touch.
Make it your own
Personalise your phone by adding your own widgets. Not one but three live home screens – make one for work, use one for fun, and have one with your favourite picture as the wallpaper. Swipe between the home screens with an easy gesture. Download more widgets from Ovi Store.Download thousands of opportunities
Turn your Nokia N8 into a tool for showing off, having fun and being creative. In Ovi Store you'll find thousands of different applications to constantly upgrade and improve your device. Download apps, games and videos. The possibilities to make your phone smarter, more useful and simply more fun are endless.
Voice-guided navigation wherever you are in the world.
National Geographic in your pocket
The Nokia N8 with On demand Web TV. Access your favourite TV channels like CNN and National Geographic and get them piped to your phone from the comfort of your bus seat. Visit Ovi Store to find even more Web TV channels.
Navigation. For free. Forever.
Voice-guided navigation wherever you are in the world. Absolutely free. Simply enter where you want to go and Ovi Maps with voice guidance will tell you how to get there, turn by turn. By car or on foot.
Fifty hours of music playback
You can browse smoothly through all your favourite albums and once again get thrilled by the album artwork. Re- experience your record collection for over 50 hours straight.
Make a good thing even better.
Enjoy superior audio quality for all your handsfree calls with the Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-608. Or go all out and make your flight a pleasure with the Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-905 with eight microphones for cancelling up to 99% of background noise.
I was extremely hesitant about buying an N8 before actually picking one up. I'd read the (not exactly gushing) reviews from certain gadget websites and those very nearly put me off. The professional reviews pretty much all said the same thing - great hardware weighed down by an out-of-date Operating System - and having been a Windows Mobile 6.1 user for 2 years, the last thing I wanted was another unwieldy OS. Well, the reviewers were part right, as (and not to put too fine a point on it), the hardware is simply superb; until you actually try one you cannot comprehend just what this machine is capable of. I'm not easily impressed, in fact it takes something quite special for me to rave about any tech, but the N8 really is quite special.
Without going too deeply into its more obvious capabilities, the N8 has less well-publicised inclusions like an FM transmitter for sending your music wirelessly to a radio, the ability to read your text and email messages to you out aloud, and a way to lock the phone from unauthorised use just by sending a pre-set text message to it. These things might be fairly standard on phones these days, but they were news to me. I'm also yet to experience any slowdown while using the phone, although I admittedly haven't pushed it too much.
What isn't so common is the HDMI-out port, which lets you send not only videos, but anything displayed on the N8's screen, to a compatible TV. For example, you can connect to the internet using the N8 and show the web browser full-size on your TV; connecting a keyboard either to the N8's host USB slot or via Bluetooth makes the browsing experience even more enjoyable. You can also use your TV as a glorified jukebox by using the N8's music player when connected via HDMI.
On the subject of the OS, it really isn't as bad as many professional reviewers have made out, in fact this version of Symbian is the most polished yet and has loads of little tweaks that elevate it above its predecessors. Granted, it could do with a bit of a make-over in places and a small number of areas aren't quite as finger-friendly as others, but unless you're a serious OS-snob, you should get on with it fine. The only caveat I would add here is that I had to factory reset the phone twice before I could get the music player widget to work properly. Not a problem but worth noting as it's an issue others seem to have had.
The N8 has three user-definable home screens, each being customisable with up to 6 widgets, although one gives you direct access to up to 20 of your contacts while another gives you quick links to 4 of your most used applications. I'd put the widgets somewhere between the virtually stagnant apps screens on the iPhone and the live tiles on Windows Phone 7 and prove to be a very good compromise.
As respects the screen, it may not have the resolution of that on the iPhone 4, but the difference isn't as noticeable as you might think; photographs are sharp, internet browsing is perfectly respectable, and the bundled Tron video looks superb. And being AMOLED, black really is black while other colours are gorgeously vivid. It isn't, however, one of the bigger screens available on a next-gen smartphone, but on the bright side this does serve to lessen its girth and make it less pocket-bulging.
The N8 comes with Adobe Reader and Quickoffice for viewing Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents; an editing version is also available but you have to buy that from the Ovi Store. Inputting text is straightforward and fairly painless, although the on-screen keyboard does take getting used to at first, but after a few days I found myself rarely making any mistakes with it.
As I said, I was hesitant about buying an N8 due to the almost universally average professional reviews, but most of the concerns they raised are either easily fixable or simply a case of personal preference. The N8 couples top-notch hardware with an OS that is user-friendly and easy to navigate, and with Nokia promising an update to Symbian 4, should only get better. My advice would be not to be put off by the negative press and give the N8 a try; it might surprise you.
UPDATE: I've had my phone in use for a few weeks now and in contrast to the negative reviews posted by some users (which, I fully admit, are probably accurate for them) it remains, for me at least, a little gem. Granted, the calendar is nowhere near as versatile as the one on WM6.1 (there's no option to set events for `every third Thursday in a month' for example) and the lack of a QWERTY keyboard in portrait mode is still an annoyance. Also, for some reason I can't get the Ovi Store to work properly on my PC but from the phone it seems to work fine - okay, so there aren't as many apps as there are for Android or iOS but there are some useful ones if you look and hopefully the situation will improve. Plus, unlike a certain other newbie smartphone, Angry Birds is available to buy ;-)
The bundled Ovi Suite application is also somewhat `agricultural' in its functionality; it's not that it's a terrible piece of software, nor is it that it doesn't work as billed, it's just that there are better management programs for other phones. I've found Windows media Player to be a better way of syncing music and photos to the N8 (once you've sussed out WMP's slightly awkward syncing options), leaving Ovi only useful for backing up contact and messaging items.
I haven't had any problems with the phone crashing, nor have I had issues with overheating - quite the contrary in fact as the metal exterior always feel cool to the touch. Maybe I've just had a good example, or maybe I've been lucky, but I'm really pleased with mine.
