Jun
09
2010
Reasons why I should wait for Nokia N8
Posted by Jade Bryan in N-Series, N8, Nokia, Symbian^3, tags: N8, Nokia
These recent days there are lots of tempting news and rumours. Some of them are enough to break the patience of the people who are waiting for Nokia N8. But well, I have lists of mine that I keep thinking when the time that nerdgasms enters my mind and try to eliminate my excitement for N8.
I like Nokia N8 so much and that’s:
- Because N8 is the first Nokia phone to have a 12 MP and also it is the successor for the N86 and N82.
With Xenon attached on N8, night shots would be never a problem anymore. We should not also forget on how Carl Zeiss added the superb optics flavour in N82 and that’s why it became legendary camera phone of Nokia. This is getting more exciting in the new N8 because of the reduced Xenon flash and a more promising Carl Zeiss optics. Now I will not worry for cropping the image and printing it to large materials.
- Because it will record and play HD videos. Aside from crisp photos, we will get also a video recording capabilities in HD!
- Because N8 has the biggest camera sensor from the field of camera phones and other compact cameras. An astonishing 1/1.8″ Sensor. It has also a 1.75µm pixel size which gives better performance in low light. The bigger and the larger in numbers means better. These are how the 12MP will be useful.
- Because it is Symbian^3 and you will actually notice that the home screen are similar to the Symbian^1 in
N97 and N97 mini. The cool stuff here is we will get 4 homescreen on the new N8. Plus adding more to excitement is the new UI on the phone. I saw the gallery and editing features and I was really amazed on the changes and the speed is noticeably have improved on N8.
- Because this is cool, the USB OTG! Another thing is the way that N8 can make our usb sticks and storage a slave. I don’t need to transfer my files on the computer before reaching the N8. I can also just add movies and songs directly to N8 from a USB drive.
- Because HD tvs and projectors are everywhere and I can finally stream or play high quality videos in the big screens.
- Because I always watch TV. I’m really an avid subscriber of National Geographic and CNN and I am really happy with the new features of N8. I can bring N8 anywhere and watch my favorite channels. Of course, this will be more exciting because of the OLED screen of Nokia N8.
- Because I can’t pick the right color for me until now. I can’t pick on what exact color to get on Nokia
N8 and this is a big problem yet fun! All colors are really attractive and the more I wait the more I rattle in choosing the right color for me. Anodized materials offers comfy feelings in my hands and giving more durability. But here’s a dark grey N8 gallery.
- Because of my gaming capabilities. My first Nseries devices was N81 and I bought it with the reason I love gaming. Ngage 2.0 was good but it will be better if it will be put in a device with a fast and powerful hardwares and N8 has the future. I really love watching tires rubbing to the concrete of highways.
- Because it is affordable. I mentioned lots of cool features of N8 and yet the price of N8 is really affordable! Who can imagine that all these features with a price tag of 370 Euro (before taxes and subsidies).
That’s the few things why I like N8 and love to wait for it. I hope some of you have the same sentiment on mine. lols.
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19 Responses to “Reasons why I should wait for Nokia N8”
thx 4 these’s reasons cause at last! am loosing my hype 4 buying the new iphone4.iphone4 is nothing compared to nokian8 specs! But i hope they support n8 with meaningful updates,variety of games just like how apple supports it iphone.
@khalid
Cool! N8 also will be playing divx/xvid files so wathching movies will be great.
what exactly gives you the confidence that Nokia will stand behind the software that runs on the N8, rather than making you buy N8.1 if you want a more stable, better featured OS?
@mike
Hi Mike. If I understand you correctly then here’s my answer, I think the OS can give me wide support in terms of compatibilities for computers, applications, customisations and it will be fast for sure.
no, i meant that Nokia will not add significant new features to S^3 or fix too many bugs in it. instead development focus would be on S^4 and devices running it. further that S^4 will not be available on the N8.
look what happened historically with S60v3.1 to S60v3.2, for example with E71 vs E72.
mike words are totally correct S^3 is nothing but correcting mistakes of S^1.. Anyway im not yet impressed with iphone 4 bla bla’s so N8 gonna be my next date:-)
Actually the Symbian^1 was not the big problem. It was the hardware of Nokia. Limiting the software capabilities. See the N8 now and Symbian^3, there’s no big changes on the UI for S^3 and I’m sure N97s users would notice that. But the thing here is that Nokia is solving the main drawbacks on the phone, the hardware.
Is the Quick Office application in the N8 a Document Editor or just a Viewer? ‘Coz I won’t wait for the N8 if it’s only a Viewer, despite all the other cool stuff!
@DIM
Based on the specs of N8 from Nokia site, there is an office document editor. I’m not sure if it is for Quick office app.
i disagree, i’ve had several symbian phones, most recently an E61 followed by an E71. i had nothing but problems. until Nokia realizes that customers need consistent improvement of software over the lifetime of the device, i won’t be spending more money with them.
just look at what apple and google/htc/samsung/etc are doing with ios and android.
one more point in hardware differences between E71 and E72.
the latter has a 3.5mm headphone jack, that technology was certainly available when the E71 was released. further, why doesn’t the E71 have usb-charging? yes, the CPU also saw a minor speed bump.
i develop software for a living, i see no technical reason why S60 sp2 can’t be made available on older devices. i imagine that Nokia has a HAL that the OS uses to simplify development across multiple platforms. it can’t be much harder than a recompile. it’s not like they test their updates anyway.
if you want more details about the issues i’ve come across, see http://unusability.soup.io/
Mmm..
It looks funtastic..
It’ll be my next target..
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@mike
thanks for that honest opinion of yours. like that we have some software genius here. I salute you
@agus It will be a funtastic for sure
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This is better: reasons to wait Symbian 4, is smooth and beautiful!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqeeQd-YNL0&feature=player_embedded
Sorry, is MeeGO, not symbian 4…
Symbian 4 can be installed on N8 later on, because it’s an Open-Sourse now.
Go to nokia blog and check it up. User can own customize it to install to N8 and older phone like N97, 5800 and so on.
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