The Nokia N8 is an upcoming Symbian^3 mobile phone from the Nseries with a 3.5-inch, 640x360 capacitive touchscreen. It is Nokia's first camera phone to have a 12 megapixel sensor. It will have a camera sensor size of 1/1.83″[3] and xenon flash.
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Manufacturer | Nokia |
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Slogan | What will you do with it? |
Series | Nseries |
Compatible networks | |
Availability by region | September 2010 |
Form factor | Monoblock |
Dimensions | 113.5 x 59 x 12.9 mm (4.47 x 2.32 x 0.51 in) |
Weight | 135 g (4.76 oz) |
Operating system | Symbian^3 |
CPU |
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Memory | 256 MB SDRAM[1] |
Storage | |
Removable storage | Hot swap microSD; up to 32 GB supported w/ microSDHC support |
Battery | BL-4D 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery (not removable) |
Display | 640 x 360 px (nHD), 3.5" capacitive, multi-touch display with Active-matrix OLED technology |
Rear camera | 12 Megapixels (main) with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash, 16:9 720p video, 25 FPS |
Front camera | VGA, for video calling |
Connectivity |
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Data inputs |
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Development status | Officially announced |
It is Nokia's first smartphone to run on the Symbian^3 operating system that will have single-tap interaction, addition of multiple home screens, and customization abilities. In addition, the display will have multi-touch capabilities with gesture support.
With regard to connectivity it has, among other features, HDMI out with Dolby Digital Plus sound and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n. The N8 will be the first ever device to support UMTS bands used by both T-Mobile USA and AT&T Mobility, with its Pentaband 3.5G radio.[4]
Due to ship in select markets during the third quarter of 2010 at a RRP of €370[2] ($499; £320) before subsidies and taxes.
History
The previous phone from the Nseries was the N97 with touchscreen which was criticized for its earlier firmware issues. Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's Executive Vice President for Markets, said in an interview that software quality control will be better than for the N97.[5]
The N8 will be the first device by Nokia with the Symbian^3 operating system. N8 was scheduled for the second quarter of 2010 but was pushed back to the third quarter.[6]
The previous Nokia phone with a focus on photography is the N86 8MP, which has an 8 Megapixel sensor and has been available since June 2009.[7]
The N8 will be the second Nokia to have a capacitive touchscreen, following the X6, but the first with multi-touch.
Design
Dimensions
- Size: 113.5 x 59 x 12.9 mm
- Weight (with battery): 135 g
- Volume: 86 cc
Keys and input methods
- Physical keys (Menu key, Power key, Lock key, volume keys, Camera key)
- Finger touch support for text input and UI control
- On-screen alphanumeric keypad and full keyboard
- Possibility to use capacitive stylus
- Handwriting recognition for Chinese
Appearance
- Anodized aluminium unibody shell
- Available in silver white, dark grey, orange, blue and green (colour availability varies by country).
Display and user interface
- Screen size: 3.5"
- Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels)
- 16.7 million colours
- Capacitive touchscreen with Active-matrix OLED technology
- Orientation sensor
- Digital Compass (Magnetometer)
- Proximity sensor
- Ambient light detector
Personalisation
- Up to three customisable home screens
- Widgets
- Themes
- Customisable profiles
- Ring tones: MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB
- Video ring tones
- Themed icons, wallpapers, screensavers, audio themes
- Changeable colour themes
Hardware
- 680 MHz ARM11 processor
- Broadcom BCM2727[8] Dedicated 3D Graphics HW Accelerator with OpenGL-ES 2.0 support
- 16 GB internal memory
- MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 32 GB
- 256 MB SDRAM
Power Management
The battery is, according to official information from Nokia, non-user-replaceable.[3][9] However, it seems that the battery can be replaced quite easily by removing two screws.[10]
- BL-4D 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery.
- Talk-time (maximum):
- Standby time (maximum):
- Video playback time (H.264 720p, 30 fps, maximum): 6 h (via HDMI to TV)
- Video recording time (H.264 720p, 25 fps, maximum): 3 h 20 mins
- Video call time (maximum): 160 mins
- Music playback time (offline mode, maximum): 50 h
Data Network
- GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 33
- HSDPA Cat9, maximum speed up to 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA Cat5 2.0 Mbps
- WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
- TCP/IP support
- Capability to serve as data modem
- Support for MS Outlook synchronization of contacts, calendar and notes
Connectivity
- Bluetooth 3.0
- HDMI mini C connector
- 2 mm charging connector
- Micro USB connector and charging
- High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)
- 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
- FM radio
- Short range FM transmitter
Operating Frequency
Software & applications
Software platform and user interface
The N8 will be the first device by Nokia with the Symbian^3 operating system. Symbian^3 was scheduled for the second quarter of 2010 but was pushed back to the third quarter.[6] Symbian^3 supports three home screens, each with up to six widgets that the user can customize. As with older versions of Symbian, multitasking is supported.[12] Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's Executive Vice President for Markets, said in an interview that quality control will be better than for the N97.[5]. There is a greater emphasis on the user interface and easier user-controls with Symbian^3 (such as consistency between menus, a commonly criticised factor of S^1 devices).
Contrary to rumours[13], future Nseries devices have a strong possibility to be coupled with Symbian platform, specifically, Symbian^4.[14] Other software that will work on this mobile phone will be:
- Java MIDP 2.1
- Qt (framework) 4.6.2, Web Runtime 7.2
- HTML 4.1
- Software updates Over the Air (FOTA) and over the internet
- Flash Lite 4.0[15] [unreliable source?][16] (Note: Flash Lite 4 has been made available via partner Calsoft)
- OMA DM 1.2, OMA Client provisioning 1.1
Applications
- Key built in applications: calendar, contacts, music player, photos, videos, video and photo editors,[17] office document editors, radio
- PC Applications: Nokia Ovi Suite, Nokia Ovi Player
- Online applications: Nokia Ovi Store, internet, messaging, Maps, Web TV, Mail, Chat
Personal Information Management (PIM)
- Detailed contact information
- Calendar
- To-do list
- Notes
- Recorder
- Calculator
- Clock
Communications
Email and messaging
- Easy-to-use email client with attachment support for images, videos, music and documents .doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf, .zip
- HTML support for email
- Unified email client for multiple protocols: Yahoo! mail, Gmail, Windows Live, Hotmail and other popular POP3/IMAP services, Mail For Exchange, IBM Lotus traveler
- Editing of key office documents
- Email web widget for home screen
- Chat instant messaging support: OVI Chat, Yahoo, AIM, Windows Live, Gtalk, MySpace*
- Unified MMS/SMS editor
- Conversational view for SMS
- Push email and expanded portal support available through Nokia Messaging for Email and Instant Messaging
Call management
- Contacts: advanced contacts database with support for multiple phone and e-mail details per entry with personal thumbnail pictures and video clips
- Smart dialling to find phone numbers quickly
- Speed dialling, voice dialling (speaker independent) and voice commands
- Logs of dialled, received and missed calls
- Conference calling
- Integrated handsfree speaker
- Video calling
Sharing & Internet
Browsing and internet
Full web browsing of real web pages
- Web browsing with touch control
- Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS
- Supported protocols: HTTP v1.1, WAP
- TCP/IP support
- Visual history, HTML and JavaScript support, Flash Lite 4.0 and Flash video support
- Nokia Mobile Search
- RSS reader
- Support for streaming video
- Unified home screen access to Facebook and Twitter through Ovi by Nokia Social client
- Social networking profiles visible in phone contacts
- Upload and view photos and video and see locations via Ovi by Nokia Social client
- Social networking events visible in phone calendar
Navigation
- Integrated GPS, with A-GPS functionality
- Ovi Maps with free car and pedestrian navigation
- Wi-Fi Positioning
- Compass and accelerometer for correct orientation of display
- Nokia Map Loader application via PC to upload maps to the device memory
Fotografie
Camera
- 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics
- Xenon flash
- Focal length: 28mm
- Aperture: F2.8
- Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy-to-use touchscreen parameters
- Camera sensor size: 1/1.83″[3]
- Still images file format: JPEG/Exif
- Smart Zoom up to 2x (digital) for still images
- Smart Zoom up to 3x (digital) for video
- Secondary camera for video calls (VGA, 640 x 480 pixels)
- Face recognition software
- Autofocus
Image capture
- Automatic location tagging of images and videos
- Images automatically taken in the correct orientation
- Pinch zoom in photos image viewer
- View photos by tag cloud, month, album, slide show
- Photo editor
- Online Share with connectivity to popular sharing services
Other
Video
Video cameras
- Main camera
- Secondary VGA camera for video calls
Video sharing and playback
- HD 720p Video playback on HD TV through HDMI cable
- Dolby Digital Plus surround sound when played with HDMI & a home theatre
- Support for download, streaming, and progressive download
- Video editing software
- Access to last-played video and easy resume
- Videos application: collection of stored videos
- On demand Web TV widgets to watch local & global internet streaming TV
- Support for Flash video
- YouTube browsing and streaming
- Web TV
- Video call and video sharing support (WCDMA network services)
- Video codecs and formats
- H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, Sorenson Spark VGA 15fps, Realvideo 10 QVGA 30fps, Matroska (.mkv)[3]
- Streaming: H.264, Flash Lite 4, Flash 10 compatibility for video, On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark
Music & audio
Music features
- Cover flow user interface to browse the albums in your music collection
- Comes with Music service on selected markets
- Nokia music player
- Ovi music store
- Music codecs: MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB
- Digital rights management support: Windows Media DRM and OMA DRM 2.0
- Short range FM transmitter
Radio
- Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz/76-90 MHz) with RDS
Development support
The Nokia Qt software development kit beta version for applications development was released on 27 April 2010.[18][19]
External links
References
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- ^ a b "Official Nokia N8 Press Release". Nokia Press. 2010-04-27.
- ^ a b c d e "Answers to Your Questions About the Nokia N8". The Nokia Blog. 2010-04-28. Cite error: The named reference "battery" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
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- ^ a b "Anssi Vanjoki talks frankly". Nokia Conversations. 2010-03-01.
- ^ a b "Nokia Delays Symbian^3; Investors Not Impressed". Engadget. 2010-04-22.
- ^ UK Mobile Phone Blog: Nokia N86 8MP Camera Review
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- ^ "Nokia picks MeeGo Linux, not Symbian, for flagship phones". Ars Technica. 2010-06-25.
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- ^ "Flash Lite 4 in Nokia Symbian^3 devices". Forum Nokia Wiki. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
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