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title: "Nokia N8 Unlocked GSM Touchscreen Phone Featuring GPS with Voice Navigation and 12 MP Camera (Silver/White)"
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# Global 3G 3.4" AMOLED 12 MP Camera Nokia N8 Unlocked GSM Touchscreen Phone Featuring GPS with Voice Navigation and 12 MP Camera (Silver/White)

**Brand:** nokia
**Price:** AR$12019
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 📸 Snap, Share, and Shine with the Nokia N8!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Nokia N8 Unlocked GSM Touchscreen Phone Featuring GPS with Voice Navigation and 12 MP Camera (Silver/White) by nokia
- **How much does it cost?** AR$12019 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/1084552-nokia-n8-unlocked-gsm-touchscreen-phone-featuring-gps-with-voice)

## Best For

- nokia enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted nokia brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Smart Navigation:** Built-in GPS with voice navigation ensures you never lose your way.
- • **Sleek and Stylish:** The elegant silver design makes a statement while fitting comfortably in your hand.
- • **Long-lasting Power:** Enjoy up to 5.8 hours of talk time and 16.7 days of standby—stay connected longer.
- • **Capture Every Moment:** With a stunning 12 MP camera and Carl Zeiss optics, your memories will be crystal clear.
- • **Stay Connected Anywhere:** Unlocked GSM compatibility means you can roam freely across networks.

## Overview

The Nokia N8 is an unlocked GSM smartphone featuring a vibrant 3.4-inch AMOLED touchscreen, a powerful 12 MP rear camera with Carl Zeiss optics, and robust 3G connectivity. With 16 GB of internal memory, expandable via microSD, and a suite of connectivity options including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0, this device is designed for the modern professional on the go. Its sleek silver design and long battery life make it a stylish and practical choice for anyone looking to stay connected.

## Description

Make the most of every moment, then play it all back in HD with the Nokia N8. This high-tech device offers video recording in HD, plus instant video editing, a 12 megapixel camera and the ability to upload video to share with your friends and family. The Nokia N8 also packs a 3.5” touchscreen, free* voice-guided navigation from Ovi Maps, apps from Ovi Store and an impressive design, making this the phone that has it all. Live in high definition. The Nokia N8 lets you shoot HD video in 720p resolution right on your phone, while preloaded editing software makes it easy to instantly edit your video. Built-in HDMI output allows you to use an HDMI cable (not included) to connect the device to your compatible TV or computer and play back your videos and other HD content on your device in breathtaking HD. Or upload your videos to your PC to share with friends and family. The Nokia N8 also features a best-in-class, 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics to capture high-quality images. Get what you want and get where you want to go. Ovi Store offers thousands of available apps, games, videos and more. Stay in touch with apps like Snaptu; experience the best in photo and video apps with Qik, Photo Twister and Snapfish; and get ready for other great apps coming soon, including Open Table, SalesForce, Pocket Movie and Accuweather. Plus, find the route to anywhere with preloaded Ovi Maps, complete with free* voice-guided navigation to get anywhere you need to go, 3D landmarks and a share location feature to let Facebook friends know where you are. Discover a new standard in mobile entertainment with a vibrant 3.5” OLED capacitive touchscreen display. Connect your device to your home theater system to take the HD experience even further with Multichannel 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound. With an eye-catching exterior to match the on-screen experience, the Nokia N8 always looks good. Connect in HD today with the Nokia N8.

Review: Great Phone, Amazing Camara and I dont miss any functionality. - Let me describe an event at work, .......during a meeting when 30+ people are present, someone's phone rings... It is a familiar and typical iphone ringtone. most of the people start fumbling their pockets or start looking at their(i)phone to check if its their phone ringing. iphone has become real common commodity.., believe it or not.. For those who really wants to be unique, especially from iphone users (as per my experience) and feel special about it, this is the phone for you. All right, sentiments apart... Here is my take on this phone. I bought this phone from desertcart shortly after its launch and using it ever since. Since so many users have posted very good and accurate reviews about Nokia N8 with Pros and Cons here, I am focusing mainly on user experience and some WOW factors that other phones can not/do not offer (for free). - Only smartphone that dose not mandate you to subscribe a smart phone data plan without loosing most of its functionality (or without rooting/jailbreaking etc.) savings of $35 a month since day one....I bought this one at full price but its free after a year of use just because of data plan savings. I still use low priced data plan and take full advantages of smartphone features like anywhere email, upload pic directly to facebook, local searches etc etc. - Internet on the go anywhere anytime (with data plan subscription, of-course). I just plug in my phone to my laptop using usb cable and my laptop is connected to internet. I can also use my phone as wifi hot spot and tether data to my ipad hassle free. saved few hundred dollars and bought only wifi version of ipad. saved hundreds more when no data plan needed for ipad. More savings.......and same great ipad experience!!!! - Great camera, takes amazing natural looking pictures unlike other smartphones which tend to over saturate colors to look them better on phone screen. I regularly use nokia n8 to take pictures at work and add it as a part of my presentation. Looks really hi quality even if projected on big screen. I did receive many complements from my (mostly iphone using) co-workers. - Free GPS with no data plan requirement added spoken direction with street names in more than 30 languages, online traffic updates and many other bells and whistles... Self explanatory....I never have to carry my gps while on the go, as true with any other smartphones. Where n8 beats every one is native voice guided navigation in multiple languages without using a data plan (and using it if you want to) I set my route in the phone and let it sit somewhere on dashboard. 95% of the time I could navigate just by listening to the voice guidance without looking at the tiny map screen on the phone. The voice guidance is very clear and spoken street names really makes the driving in unknown place a breeze as you are simply focusing on driving. My wife is so jealous just because of this feature. - HDMI out - I connect my phone to my lcd tv using the provided cable and play Need for Speed (free with phone). Can wirelessly connect to the Laptop !! DLNA sharing app lets me connect and stream my pics and vids from my phone wirelessly to my laptop, which i connect to my tv and share my pics as a slide show to friends at home while me sitting on couch holding the phone in my hand. Well, these are the features and experiences that makes me love this phone, the part I love the most is that these things come with it at a substantially lower price upfront and significant lower monthly cost, not to mention freedom of using it over any GSM network and not having sign a two year contract.!!!! Obviously, this phone has its shortcomings and trade offs, and many reviews here describe them accurately. For me, the cons are, - screen could have been larger, - clunky user interface - soon to be obsolete OS - speaker on the back of the phone right below the camera module, significantly reduces the sound volume if the phone is lying on bed speaker facing downwards. - App store experience could have been better. However, it has been more good experience than bad. Constantly attracting curious looks from people when they see me using this phone, and many of them drop their jaw when they hear that it has 12 MP camera. I dont mean to show iphone down by any means and I personally feel that iphone s user interface is much better. However I do not regret buying Nokia N8 at all. America is a country of freedom and this is the only device that gives me true freedom of choosing any service provider, choosing to opt for a smart phone data plan or not, not binding myself into two year contract and still able to enjoy a smartphone experience and not to forget freedom of using (free) GPS signals without paying for navigation service using the device you own.
Review: A great phone, with lot of features, which no other phone in has - I bought this phone from desertcart and I own a Nokia N900 too. I wish to compare these two, as Nokia N900 is one of the greatest phones from Nokia. 1) First let me go to internet browsing. Nokia N900 is the first phone to have full flash player and the major capability is it will play videos directly in the browser, for sites like youtube, facebook etc. Once facebook moved to latest flash player, N900 is not able to play the videos(eventhough there is a hack). Nokia N8, does not have full flash player, but it has flash lite. I was expecting that the youtube and facebook will not be able to play the videos directly in the browser. To my surprise, both the sites played the video in the site itself, thats really great. With respect to Nokia N900, every site determines it as a computer and hence will show the full page, instead of the mobile site, which is good, if the wifi or 3G is really good. With respect to Nokia N8, every site determines it as a mobile and hence will first display the mobile site, but if you re-route it to the full site, still it displays the sites like charm. Conclusion: with respect to internet browsing Nokia N8 does great. 2) Playing videos. Nokia N900 has a resolution of 800x480, hence the videos look very good. Nokia N8 has a resolution of 640x360, so I expected videos(good videos like HD videos) will look less attractive, but to my surprise, it looks great in Nokia N8. Nokia N900 can almost play any video format directly, like wmv, avi etc, including flv. I am not sure whether any other phone can do/compete with this. Nokia N8 on the other hand, has the ability to play any video format, but for avi and flv there is a little trick. When you copy an avi file, your PC may complain that this device is not capable to play it, but you can still use it as a storage and say yes to it. To my surprise, media player picks and plays well. For .flv files, after you copy, the media player is not going to pick it, as if it doesn't support it. If you go to file manager and click on this .flv file, media player picks it and plays well. I haven't tried .mkv file yet, as the mkv files that I have are all big and it is not allowing me to copy those. Conclusion: Playing videos is very good in Nokia N8. 3) Camera. Nokia N900 has 5MP camera and in this area, Nokia N8 stays way ahead with 12MP camera and xenon flash. Nokia N8 has xenon flash, which normal cameras use, still even normal cameras cannot take good pictures in dim night lighting. Similarly N8 photos come good, if taken in close shots in night. In daylight, photos come really good. The beauty with N8 is its photo and video editing softwares out of the box, which are really good. HD video recording in N8 is good, provided you don't show quick movements to turn the camera to a different angle and this is mainly due to the 25 frames per second video recording. Conclusion: Nokia N8 camera and its capabilities are one of the best. 4) GPS. Nokia N900 is pretty dumb in this area too, as it doesn't have voice guidance out of box. So lets directly jump to Nokia N8. Nokia N8 has one of the best GPS with voice guidance, one major disadvantage that I came across is, it needs 3G connection to work(I am not sure whether this is correct, what I am quoting is just my experience). Once it connects, it works good. I just found two minor issues, one is it informs you to take a turn just when you are few feet away to take the turn, whereas Garmin GPS informs you well ahead. Similar way when you arrive at your destination, it says you arrived at destination, it does not say, whether your destination is on the right or left, whereas Garmin GPS tells which side your destination is going to be. Conclusion: Nokia N8 GPS is definitely good. 5) Widgets. Nokia N900 stands out with respect to widgets and its definitely the best in the industry. You can place the widgets whereever you want, even one on top of the other. Widgets are really useful in N900. Nokia N8 on the other hand has fixed dimensions for widgets and you can't place it whereever you like. You need to place it in the designated places. The main drawback for this that I found is, in email widget, you don't get much required information from the widget, you still need to jump into the mail app to know what email came to you now. Still widgets look good in N8. Conclusion: Nokia N8 widgets are still good. 6) Chat and Voip. Nokia N900 stands out in this area too, as Skype worked with Nokia to have the skype integrated into the contacts. Like that, google, yahoo, even sametime all are integrated into the contacts itself. You just need to go to contacts to see who is online. You can call that contact through various options, like gsm call or voip call using skype or skype to skype call or skype to skype video call, same way for google, yahoo etc. It is very powerful, none of the mobile has it integrated like this. With respect to Nokia N8, I believe it is not out of box and I am not sure whether I need to install anything to get a similar experience. Skype has an app, but still video calling is not available and speaker phone capabilities are not available. Fring has video calling capabilities, but only between Fring to Fring. Conclusion: Nokia N8's capabilities in this area are still to be improved. 7) Social networks. Nokia N900 has beautiful widgets and integration to contact well. Nokia N8 is not less to this. It has widgets and integration to contact also well. Conclusion: Nokia N8's social network capabilities are good. 8) Bluetooth. Nokia N900 has the usual bluetooth version and it works good even with A2DP. Nokia N8 stands out in this, with latest bluetooth version 3.0. The transfers are really fast compared to the older version. The beauty comes with out of box drivers to support bluetooth devices like mouse, keyboard etc. Imagine, I paired my bluetooth keyboard and mouse to the phone and it reduced the time that I spent to do the typing, a lot. I don't have a monitor to connect using the HDMI port, if I have, then it becomes a complete system. Conclusion: This is one of the best in Nokia N8. 9) Battery life. Nokia N900, in line with all the other powerful smartphones, with all the widgets constantly checking the internet and all the chat softwares too constantly checking internet, it comes for 75% of the day and you need to charge it after that. Nokia N8, to my surprise even with all the above said things, it is able to withstand for atleast 2 days. Conclusion: Battery is really good in N8. 10) WebTV. Nokia N900 doesn't have this capability. Nokia N8: need to explore in this area. Conclusion: Need to explore in this area. 11) Micro USB capabilities. Nokia N900, not much to say. Nokia N8, can read your memory stick out of the box and will show it as a drive in the file manager. Conclusion: Micro USB in Nokia N8 is capable of more things. 12) Speakers. Nokia N900, has stereo speakers and it can produce loud sounds without any external speakers. Nokia N8, doesn't have stereo speakers, but to my surprise the sound is equally loud as N900, but I found only one problem in this area, as the speaker is in the camera compartment which directly comes in contact to the ground. If you keep the phone down on a desk, you will not be able to hear any sound, as the speaker is blocked by the desk. Similarly even the mic is on the same side, so if you talk over phone handsfree, by keeping the phone on the desk, both the parties are not going to hear properly. 13) FM transmitter and internet radio. Nokia N900 is outstanding in this area. If you find to get your popular radio stations URL from internet, you just need to grab the URL and give it to the media player, then N900 can stream your radio station live from internet either using wifi or 3G, which means even if you are in any part of the world, you will be able to hear your favourite radio station live. Using the build-in FM transmitter, you can transmit to your own car radio. Nokia N8 has the FM transmitter, which is equally good to N900. Even though N8 has internet radio concept, it is basically app based, which means whatever stations the app is providing, thats what you are going to hear. If you want to do the same things as above(like grabbing an url and feeding it to media player), I am not sure how to do it. Conclusion: FM transmitter is really good, but internet radio needs some improvement. I hope, I covered the review of some distinct features apart from the usual ones.

## Features

- Unlocked quad-band GSM cell phone compatible with 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies and US/International 3G compatibility via 850/900/1700/1900/2100 UMTS/HSDPA plus GPRS/EDGE capabilities
- 3G-enabled smartphone in silver with 3.4-inch AMOLED touchscreen and Symbian^3 operating system
- 12-MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics and 720p video capture; Wireless-N Wi-Fi; Bluetooth 3.0; 16 GB internal memory; microSD expansion; HDMI output
- Up to 5.8 hours of 3G talk time, up to 400 hours (16.7 days) of standby time; released in August, 2010
- What's in the Box: handset, rechargeable battery, compact travel charger, connectivity cable, adapter for HDMI, adapter for USB, wired stereo headset, quick start guide
- Unlocked cell phones are compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile as well as with GSM SIM cards (e.g. H20, Straight Talk, and select prepaid carriers). Unlocked cell phones will not work with CDMA Carriers like Sprint, Verizon, Boost or Virgin.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B003ZX7RNC |
| Additional Features | Quad-Band, dual-camera, smartphone, touchscreen |
| Aspect Ratio | 1.77:1 |
| Average Battery Life Talk Time | 5.8 Hours |
| Battery Average Life | 5.8 Hours |
| Battery Description | Lithium-Ion |
| Best Sellers Rank | #859,719 in Cell Phones & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories ) #14,176 in Cell Phones |
| Biometric Security Feature | Face Recognition |
| Brand | Nokia |
| Built-In Media | Adapter |
| Camera Description | Rear |
| Cellular Technology | 3G |
| Color | Silver |
| Compatible Devices | Unlocked GSM devices and specific prepaid carriers |
| Connectivity Technology | Wi-Fi |
| Connector Type | USB Type C |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 300 Reviews |
| Display Pixel Density | 355.5 Pixels Per Inch (PPI) |
| Display Resolution Maximum | 1280 Pixels |
| Display Type | AMOLED |
| Effective Video Resolution | 720 Pixels |
| Form Factor | Smartphone |
| Frame Rate | 30 fps |
| GPS Geotagging Functionality | True |
| Headphones Jack | 3.5 mm |
| Human-Interface Input | Touchscreen |
| Item Dimensions | 7.68 x 7.28 x 1.38 inches |
| Item Weight | 0.01 Ounces |
| Manufacturer | Nokia |
| Memory Storage Capacity | 16 GB |
| Model Name | N8 |
| Model Series | N8 |
| Model Year | 2010 |
| Number of Front Cameras | 1 |
| Number of Rear Facing Cameras | 1 |
| Operating System | nokia symbian |
| Optical Sensor Resolution | 12 MP |
| Phone Talk Time | 5.8 Hours |
| Rear Facing Camera Photo Sensor Resolution | 12 MP |
| Resolution | 1280 x 720 |
| SIM Card Slot Count | Single SIM |
| Screen Size | 3.4 Inches |
| Sim Card Size | Micro |
| Specific Uses For Product | Navigation, Location-based Services |
| UPC | 758478023013 758478022757 |
| Video Capture Resolution | 720p |
| Water Resistance Level | Water Resistant |
| Wireless Network Technology | GSM, UMTS, Wi-Fi |
| Wireless Provider | T-Mobile |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Nokia
- **Operating System:** nokia symbian
- **Memory Storage Capacity:** 16 GB
- **Screen Size:** 3.4 Inches
- **Resolution:** 1280 x 720
- **Model Name:** N8
- **Wireless Carrier:** T-Mobile
- **Cellular Technology:** 3G
- **Connectivity Technology:** Wi-Fi
- **Color:** Silver

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## Questions & Answers

**Q: Does AT&T detect it as a smartphone?**
A: The phone company detects things like if it's 2g, 3g, 4g etc N8 is a 3g phone. Phone companies don't pay attention to the software on your phone - as to whether it's a smart phone or not.However this is a smart phone. It's just not using the 2 popular (software) operation systems which are Windows and Android.

**Q: I currently have a t-mobile pay as you go sim. so it's just voice and text no data, will this phone work for me?**
A: Yes

**Q: Where is this phone made?**
A: I am not sure, but now 2 months after purchase I just had to buy me a new phone. It is not working right all I have on the phone is my pictures & contacts yet it is saying the memory is full I went through deleting everything because a text message came in and the phone said the memory is to low to open it. Even after deleting as much as I could that message is still on the phone. I brough this phone for the amazing picture reviews now I feel as though I spent $239 for just a camera because the phone has been nothing but trouble, I removed  my sim and went back to my old phone until my new phone arrives. I regret this purchase......

**Q: Do you make shipping to México?**
A: Yes

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Phone, Amazing Camara and I dont miss any functionality.
*by D***1 on June 9, 2012*

Let me describe an event at work, .......during a meeting when 30+ people are present, someone's phone rings... It is a familiar and typical iphone ringtone. most of the people start fumbling their pockets or start looking at their(i)phone to check if its their phone ringing. iphone has become real common commodity.., believe it or not.. For those who really wants to be unique, especially from iphone users (as per my experience) and feel special about it, this is the phone for you. All right, sentiments apart... Here is my take on this phone. I bought this phone from Amazon shortly after its launch and using it ever since. Since so many users have posted very good and accurate reviews about Nokia N8 with Pros and Cons here, I am focusing mainly on user experience and some WOW factors that other phones can not/do not offer (for free). - Only smartphone that dose not mandate you to subscribe a smart phone data plan without loosing most of its functionality (or without rooting/jailbreaking etc.) savings of $35 a month since day one....I bought this one at full price but its free after a year of use just because of data plan savings. I still use low priced data plan and take full advantages of smartphone features like anywhere email, upload pic directly to facebook, local searches etc etc. - Internet on the go anywhere anytime (with data plan subscription, of-course). I just plug in my phone to my laptop using usb cable and my laptop is connected to internet. I can also use my phone as wifi hot spot and tether data to my ipad hassle free. saved few hundred dollars and bought only wifi version of ipad. saved hundreds more when no data plan needed for ipad. More savings.......and same great ipad experience!!!! - Great camera, takes amazing natural looking pictures unlike other smartphones which tend to over saturate colors to look them better on phone screen. I regularly use nokia n8 to take pictures at work and add it as a part of my presentation. Looks really hi quality even if projected on big screen. I did receive many complements from my (mostly iphone using) co-workers. - Free GPS with no data plan requirement added spoken direction with street names in more than 30 languages, online traffic updates and many other bells and whistles... Self explanatory....I never have to carry my gps while on the go, as true with any other smartphones. Where n8 beats every one is native voice guided navigation in multiple languages without using a data plan (and using it if you want to) I set my route in the phone and let it sit somewhere on dashboard. 95% of the time I could navigate just by listening to the voice guidance without looking at the tiny map screen on the phone. The voice guidance is very clear and spoken street names really makes the driving in unknown place a breeze as you are simply focusing on driving. My wife is so jealous just because of this feature. - HDMI out - I connect my phone to my lcd tv using the provided cable and play Need for Speed (free with phone). Can wirelessly connect to the Laptop !! DLNA sharing app lets me connect and stream my pics and vids from my phone wirelessly to my laptop, which i connect to my tv and share my pics as a slide show to friends at home while me sitting on couch holding the phone in my hand. Well, these are the features and experiences that makes me love this phone, the part I love the most is that these things come with it at a substantially lower price upfront and significant lower monthly cost, not to mention freedom of using it over any GSM network and not having sign a two year contract.!!!! Obviously, this phone has its shortcomings and trade offs, and many reviews here describe them accurately. For me, the cons are, - screen could have been larger, - clunky user interface - soon to be obsolete OS - speaker on the back of the phone right below the camera module, significantly reduces the sound volume if the phone is lying on bed speaker facing downwards. - App store experience could have been better. However, it has been more good experience than bad. Constantly attracting curious looks from people when they see me using this phone, and many of them drop their jaw when they hear that it has 12 MP camera. I dont mean to show iphone down by any means and I personally feel that iphone s user interface is much better. However I do not regret buying Nokia N8 at all. America is a country of freedom and this is the only device that gives me true freedom of choosing any service provider, choosing to opt for a smart phone data plan or not, not binding myself into two year contract and still able to enjoy a smartphone experience and not to forget freedom of using (free) GPS signals without paying for navigation service using the device you own.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great phone, with lot of features, which no other phone in has
*by V***Y on January 3, 2011*

I bought this phone from Amazon and I own a Nokia N900 too. I wish to compare these two, as Nokia N900 is one of the greatest phones from Nokia. 1) First let me go to internet browsing. Nokia N900 is the first phone to have full flash player and the major capability is it will play videos directly in the browser, for sites like youtube, facebook etc. Once facebook moved to latest flash player, N900 is not able to play the videos(eventhough there is a hack). Nokia N8, does not have full flash player, but it has flash lite. I was expecting that the youtube and facebook will not be able to play the videos directly in the browser. To my surprise, both the sites played the video in the site itself, thats really great. With respect to Nokia N900, every site determines it as a computer and hence will show the full page, instead of the mobile site, which is good, if the wifi or 3G is really good. With respect to Nokia N8, every site determines it as a mobile and hence will first display the mobile site, but if you re-route it to the full site, still it displays the sites like charm. Conclusion: with respect to internet browsing Nokia N8 does great. 2) Playing videos. Nokia N900 has a resolution of 800x480, hence the videos look very good. Nokia N8 has a resolution of 640x360, so I expected videos(good videos like HD videos) will look less attractive, but to my surprise, it looks great in Nokia N8. Nokia N900 can almost play any video format directly, like wmv, avi etc, including flv. I am not sure whether any other phone can do/compete with this. Nokia N8 on the other hand, has the ability to play any video format, but for avi and flv there is a little trick. When you copy an avi file, your PC may complain that this device is not capable to play it, but you can still use it as a storage and say yes to it. To my surprise, media player picks and plays well. For .flv files, after you copy, the media player is not going to pick it, as if it doesn't support it. If you go to file manager and click on this .flv file, media player picks it and plays well. I haven't tried .mkv file yet, as the mkv files that I have are all big and it is not allowing me to copy those. Conclusion: Playing videos is very good in Nokia N8. 3) Camera. Nokia N900 has 5MP camera and in this area, Nokia N8 stays way ahead with 12MP camera and xenon flash. Nokia N8 has xenon flash, which normal cameras use, still even normal cameras cannot take good pictures in dim night lighting. Similarly N8 photos come good, if taken in close shots in night. In daylight, photos come really good. The beauty with N8 is its photo and video editing softwares out of the box, which are really good. HD video recording in N8 is good, provided you don't show quick movements to turn the camera to a different angle and this is mainly due to the 25 frames per second video recording. Conclusion: Nokia N8 camera and its capabilities are one of the best. 4) GPS. Nokia N900 is pretty dumb in this area too, as it doesn't have voice guidance out of box. So lets directly jump to Nokia N8. Nokia N8 has one of the best GPS with voice guidance, one major disadvantage that I came across is, it needs 3G connection to work(I am not sure whether this is correct, what I am quoting is just my experience). Once it connects, it works good. I just found two minor issues, one is it informs you to take a turn just when you are few feet away to take the turn, whereas Garmin GPS informs you well ahead. Similar way when you arrive at your destination, it says you arrived at destination, it does not say, whether your destination is on the right or left, whereas Garmin GPS tells which side your destination is going to be. Conclusion: Nokia N8 GPS is definitely good. 5) Widgets. Nokia N900 stands out with respect to widgets and its definitely the best in the industry. You can place the widgets whereever you want, even one on top of the other. Widgets are really useful in N900. Nokia N8 on the other hand has fixed dimensions for widgets and you can't place it whereever you like. You need to place it in the designated places. The main drawback for this that I found is, in email widget, you don't get much required information from the widget, you still need to jump into the mail app to know what email came to you now. Still widgets look good in N8. Conclusion: Nokia N8 widgets are still good. 6) Chat and Voip. Nokia N900 stands out in this area too, as Skype worked with Nokia to have the skype integrated into the contacts. Like that, google, yahoo, even sametime all are integrated into the contacts itself. You just need to go to contacts to see who is online. You can call that contact through various options, like gsm call or voip call using skype or skype to skype call or skype to skype video call, same way for google, yahoo etc. It is very powerful, none of the mobile has it integrated like this. With respect to Nokia N8, I believe it is not out of box and I am not sure whether I need to install anything to get a similar experience. Skype has an app, but still video calling is not available and speaker phone capabilities are not available. Fring has video calling capabilities, but only between Fring to Fring. Conclusion: Nokia N8's capabilities in this area are still to be improved. 7) Social networks. Nokia N900 has beautiful widgets and integration to contact well. Nokia N8 is not less to this. It has widgets and integration to contact also well. Conclusion: Nokia N8's social network capabilities are good. 8) Bluetooth. Nokia N900 has the usual bluetooth version and it works good even with A2DP. Nokia N8 stands out in this, with latest bluetooth version 3.0. The transfers are really fast compared to the older version. The beauty comes with out of box drivers to support bluetooth devices like mouse, keyboard etc. Imagine, I paired my bluetooth keyboard and mouse to the phone and it reduced the time that I spent to do the typing, a lot. I don't have a monitor to connect using the HDMI port, if I have, then it becomes a complete system. Conclusion: This is one of the best in Nokia N8. 9) Battery life. Nokia N900, in line with all the other powerful smartphones, with all the widgets constantly checking the internet and all the chat softwares too constantly checking internet, it comes for 75% of the day and you need to charge it after that. Nokia N8, to my surprise even with all the above said things, it is able to withstand for atleast 2 days. Conclusion: Battery is really good in N8. 10) WebTV. Nokia N900 doesn't have this capability. Nokia N8: need to explore in this area. Conclusion: Need to explore in this area. 11) Micro USB capabilities. Nokia N900, not much to say. Nokia N8, can read your memory stick out of the box and will show it as a drive in the file manager. Conclusion: Micro USB in Nokia N8 is capable of more things. 12) Speakers. Nokia N900, has stereo speakers and it can produce loud sounds without any external speakers. Nokia N8, doesn't have stereo speakers, but to my surprise the sound is equally loud as N900, but I found only one problem in this area, as the speaker is in the camera compartment which directly comes in contact to the ground. If you keep the phone down on a desk, you will not be able to hear any sound, as the speaker is blocked by the desk. Similarly even the mic is on the same side, so if you talk over phone handsfree, by keeping the phone on the desk, both the parties are not going to hear properly. 13) FM transmitter and internet radio. Nokia N900 is outstanding in this area. If you find to get your popular radio stations URL from internet, you just need to grab the URL and give it to the media player, then N900 can stream your radio station live from internet either using wifi or 3G, which means even if you are in any part of the world, you will be able to hear your favourite radio station live. Using the build-in FM transmitter, you can transmit to your own car radio. Nokia N8 has the FM transmitter, which is equally good to N900. Even though N8 has internet radio concept, it is basically app based, which means whatever stations the app is providing, thats what you are going to hear. If you want to do the same things as above(like grabbing an url and feeding it to media player), I am not sure how to do it. Conclusion: FM transmitter is really good, but internet radio needs some improvement. I hope, I covered the review of some distinct features apart from the usual ones.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not perfect but as close as you can get
*by A***. on June 23, 2011*

Suspend what you have heard about the Nokia N8 for this review, give it a chance. I am a college student and I have used many different phones. When I bought the Nokia N8 I was coming from the Samsung Captivate android phone. I like my smartphones to have many useful features that can combine the features of multiple devices into one. The Nokia N8 does that for me, it is my phone, camera, MP3 player (and wireless transmitter), video player, and GPS all in one. Now most smartphones have all of these functions, but the N8 excels in all of these areas. 1. As a phone it does it's job very well. The gorilla glass and aluminum case feel very solid and I am proud of the build quality. The operating system could use some work, yes, but for most people, including me, it is more than satisfactory. In terms of app's, it has all that I could want. The OVI store has everything that I need, games, video chat, swype, opera, etc. The multitasking system is epic, easily beats all the other operating systems in that respect. It is very useful when you are using an application or browsing the internet and you realize you need to make a call or send a text message, just minimize, complete your task, and return right where you left off. The features built into the phone meet or exceed other phones. It has HDMI out, USB (flash drive) support, 3.5 mm headphone jack, 16 gb internal memory and external SD card, etc. The battery life is amazing, I can literally go 4 days without charging, try that with an Android phone. 2. The 12 mp camera with zenon flash IS the BEST out there. A good camera is important to me, and I know pixel count is not everything, Nokia knew that too. The camera performs very well, easily replacing my point and shoot camera. The zenon flash beats an LED flash hands down anyday. The 720p video recording is more than satisfactory for me. The dedicated, two stage camera button is also very good. Connecting the phone to the computer is very easy allows for easy transfer of files and pictures. 3. One of the main reasons I cannot leave Nokia for another phone is because of the MP3 player with wireless transmission. Although it is not terribly strong, it replaces another device and comes in very handy. In addition to that, the bluetooth performs very well. 4. I have many movies that I have copied over the years on many 16 gb memory cards and in many formats. The N8 plays most all of them very well. It struggles with high bitrate DivX but at least it can play that format, most phones can't. I have never had a problem with micro SD cards or playing a video. 5. The final reason I can't leave the N8 is due to the lifetime OFFLINE navigation. Noone else includes that for free on their phones. I don't have a data plan with this phone (Wi-Fi is more than adequate) so the offline navigation is key. And it is not watered down at all, it has built in businesses and you can download updated maps for the US and elsewhere for free, forever. Easily replaces my car GPS. CONS: 1. Lack of physical QWERTY keyboard. 2. No PSX4DROID or higher quality games. 3. Battery not easily replacable. So all in all, this phone is a great deal. Where else are you going to be able to pay ~400 dollars and get a phone, camera, GPS, and MP3/4 player? Phone works great with AT&T and since I bought it unlocked I don't have to have a data plan (as long as AT&T continues to think I don't have a smartphone, hint hint, block data on your account). With the N9 coming out (which looks amazing too BTW), this phone is only going to get cheaper in price. In addition, there is a major software update coming out in August for this phone that will fix some of the minor issues with it. The phone will be supported for a while in the future as well. If you are on the fence, do it!

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