A 12MP cameraphone has been turning up in leaked documents, photos and patents, but finally Russian site Mobile-Review has done us proud and snagged hands-on pics. Apart from that image sensor, it’s also sporting Symbian^3, the first to do so.
Mobile-Review reports (after a Google translation) that it takes decent photos, noting it “is a bit better than the Sony Ericsson Satio”, but there’s no ground-breaking features in that department. It can record video in 720p resolution, and it’s “pretty fast”, but only if you haven’t loaded it with heaps of tunes, videos and photos. Of course, the N8 is probably just at prototype stage, so things like the multitouch (which is a similar experience to using the X6 apparently) may well improve/change.
It figures there’s also a HDMI-output which will come in use for that HD video, but that’s the final hardware change deemed worthy enough to mention. Internally, that Symbian^3 OS gets a big “do not like”, and is “brushed, washed, but not polished”, but as I said before it could all change before the N8 sees the harsh strip lighting of shops. [Mobile-Review via Twitter]
Steve
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 9:55 AMFailed too bad with the N97 – this particular user got way too burnt and will not be looking back at Nokia in a hurry – especially if they keep using any version of Symbian that resembles S60 v5.. Time to move on guys, from a consumer who has used Nokias all his life, you just lost me, and plenty of others..
sol
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 11:59 AMsame thing steve, moved on nokia fail
Naito
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 6:29 PMYeah,the N97 was an epic fail. Simply put, the worst phone I have ever owned; buggy, slow, camera lens and screen problems, and the list goes on. Nokia just haven’t released a decent phone since the N95, in my opinion. I have been burnt too many times by Nokia, and will give them one more chance, but its definitely not going to be with a Symbian phone. I’ll just wait for MeeGo…
Whats with the design of Nokia phones at the moment; they are so ugly!
DoctorOwl
Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 1:31 PMI have the N95 8G. I can’t believe you called it a decent phone. It’s not very good.
robbo
Monday, August 30, 2010 at 5:03 AMSymbian is a heaping pile of dog droppings. Seriously I have the 5800 and it is really the worst pile of garbage OS I have ever come across. They would have been better porting windows 3.0 than try to update that unholy train wreck.