Nokia N8 - The ultimate phone?

Not much ultimate about it in my eyes, screen res is unimpressive, Symbian OS, and a megapixel rating such as that is going to be very limted without a decent lense.
 
Gaijin said:
Not much ultimate about it in my eyes, screen res is unimpressive, Symbian OS, and a megapixel rating such as that is going to be very limted without a decent lense.
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Look at the link to the sample pictures taken with it
 
I like the look of it on paper but I've been burned with the last 2 or 3 Nokia's that I've owned (the N97 being the last). I've moved to Android now and I'm fully converted, I don't know that I'd ever go back to Nokia, mostly due to the poor and very slow OS.
 
Temi_D said:
The 680MHz ARM cpu isnt slow...also remember Symbian isn't a resource hog. Personally I'm looking forward to it. Been using my N95 too long. Tried Samsung onmia, LG viewty and renior, the google phone, N97 all kind of poor (X6 was pretty good). Also i like the symbian os

The main thing that gets me though is the picture/video quality
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Its supposed to record at 720p, it needs grunt. The CPU is also the older ARM architecture. Nokia has a history of releasing underpowered slow phones - this seems no exception.

With this OS, the phone would have sold like hotcakes if it didnt have to compete with better OS's like Android/iphone. Nokia have had years to create a competitive OS - and they still havent delivered, unbelievable and quite sad.
 
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Those images arent even / are barely 6mp, let alone 12. they are just interpolated. that camera is a load of nonsense tbh
 
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interpolated. have a fiddle with the images in photoshop and shrink them down, back up and compare them to the originals. there's not a lot in it, after a bit of artificial sharpening.

dont be disheartened, all small camera sensors and manufactures are guiltly of this. 12mp on a phone was always going to be....a little unrealistic. thats 20% more than my 400d :o

look at the girl holding the trainer for example. you can shrink that down to 75% with sharpen, back up to 100% with bilinier, copy it as a layer over the top of the original then compare the two...the 75% version is very close to the detail of the original. run a quick sharpen over it and its near identical. This tells you that the photo would probably have been near identical if the sensor was 9mb and not 12mb. its worse in some of the other images but you get the idea.

Mp's are almost without question irrelevant really.
 
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Christo said:
Its supposed to record at 720p, it needs grunt. The CPU is also the older ARM architecture. Nokia has a history of releasing underpowered slow phones - this seems no exception.
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It won't be the CPU encoding the video though. That'll be handled by a dedicated chip. This is the reason why even the N90 (released 2005 with a 220Mhz ARM9 CPU) was able to capture very smooth 480P video.
 
The N8 camera is pretty amazing, will it bring the N8 full on sales success though alone? It's the only "wow" factor of the handset but other handsets have 720p that are also very good such as the Sony Vivaz which a family member has and the videos are pretty amazing from it too.
 
Robboftw said:
It's hardware could be a bit better, and then -

Operating System: Symbian OS

Why, why why why. :(
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Skyfall said:
Needs Android.
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I thought you Android users would be happy to see another fully open source OS be dropped onto a major handset.

It can only be a good thing for the market.

OK the S3 interface isn't sending out any of the 'must have' waves but the fact is that a fully open OS is a great step in the right direction from another major player in the phone market.

I've only just got rid of my I8910 which shot some fantastic 720p video and with the size of the sensor on this thing it should be even better.

Lets just hope this is not another N97 (fatally flawed design) or N900 (support dropped like a bad habit) and this handset actually delivers upon its promising spec sheet.
 
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