The Nokia N8 may be the coolest smartphone since the iPhone. Forget about web surfing and email. The N8 does much more. I am talking about a built-in camera with a 12MP sensor and Carl Zeiss optics, the ability to produce HD quality video and edit it, and Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation. Yes, it’ll do Facebook and Twitter too.
Picture and video buffs carrying the Nokia N8 won’t have to worry about being caught without a camera since the N8 brings such powerful still and video capabilities. An included editing suite means a computer is thing of the past and a Xenon flash ensures darkness won’t be an issue. Oh, did I mention the 12MP sensor and HD video capture ability.
The N8 also doubles as a portable HDTV and with Web TV content from CNN, E!, Paramount, National Geographic and local content from the Ovi Store. Not only watch HD content, but hear it in full 5.1 surround sound by connecting the N8 to a 5.1 home theater system via HDMI. Thanks to a collaboration with Dolby the Nokia N8 is the first smart-phone to incorporate Dolby® Digital Plus 5.1 surround sound technology.
The N8 is powered the fully open source Symbian^3 (S^3) platform. The S^3 platform offers major advances like multiple, personalized home screens, single tap and multi-touch gesture support, efficient memory management and fast multi-tasking. To learn more about Symbian visit www.symbian.org
Also, check out the sample video shot in 720p with the Nokia N8, which was made available by Nokia after the N8′s launch.
Nokia N8 Press Release
Nokia N8. Connect. Create. Entertain.
April 27, 2010
Espoo, Finland – The Nokia N8, Nokia’s latest smartphone, intuitively connects to the people, places and services that matter most. With the Nokia N8, people can create compelling content, connect to their favorite social networks and enjoy on-demand Web TV programs and Ovi Store apps. Available in select markets during the third quarter of 2010, the estimated retail price of the Nokia N8 is EUR 370, before applicable taxes or subsidies.
The Nokia N8 introduces a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and a large sensor that rivals those found in compact digital cameras. Additionally, the Nokia N8 offers the ability to make HD-quality videos and edit them with an intuitive built-in editing suite. Doubling as a portable entertainment center, people can enjoy HD-quality video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by plugging into their home theatre system. The Nokia N8 enables access to Web TV services that deliver programs, news and entertainment from channels like CNN, E! Entertainment, Paramount and National Geographic. Additional local Web TV content is also available from the Ovi Store.
Social networking is second nature to the Nokia N8. People can update their status, share location and photos, and view live feeds from Facebook and Twitter in a single app directly on the home screen. Calendar events from social networks can also be transferred to the device calendar.
The Nokia N8 comes with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation, guiding people to places and points of interest in more than 70 countries worldwide.
Symbian^3 in action
Powering the Nokia N8 is Symbian ^3, the latest edition of the world’s most used smartphone software, which introduces several major advances, including support for gestures such as multi touch, flick scrolling and pinch-zoom. The Nokia N8 also offers multiple, personalizable homescreens which can be loaded with apps and widgets. The new 2D and 3D graphics architecture in the platform takes full advantage of the Nokia N8′s hardware acceleration to deliver a faster and more responsive user interface. Symbian^3 also raises the bar in performance by delivering greater memory management allowing more applications to run in parallel for a faster multi-tasking experience.
Getting Qt for Developers
The Nokia N8 is Nokia’s first device to be integrated with Qt, a software development environment that simplifies the development and makes it possible to build applications once and deploy across Symbian and other software platforms. Nokia has also made the powerful and simple to use Nokia Qt SDK available, in its initial beta, to enable developers to start realizing the potential of Qt.
