Nokia N8 Features, Review & Specifications

Introduction :

Nokia N8 will be available in India coming soon, price of N8 is approx  Rs. 25,000/- 

Features Review and Specifications are following:

Dimensions

·   Size: 113.5 x 59 x 12.9 mm

·   Weight (with battery): 135 g

·   Volume: 86 cc

·   Screen size: 3.5"

·   Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels) AMOLED

·   16.7 million colours

·   Capacitive touch screen

·   Orientation sensor (Accelerometer)

·   Compass (Magnetometer)

·   Proximity sensor

·   Ambient light detector

Colours

·   Anodized aluminium casing, available in:

o    Silver white

o    Dark grey

o    Orange

o    Blue

o    Green

·   Colour availability varies by country

Power Management

·   BL-4D 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery

·   Talk-time (maximum):

o    GSM 720 mins

o    WCDMA 350 mins

·   Standby time (maximum):

o    GSM 390 h

o    WCDMA 400 h

·   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

·   Internal memory: 16 GB music playback time (offline mode, maximum): 50 h

Memory

·   Internal memory: 16 GB

·   MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 32 GB

Operating Frequency

·   GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

·   WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100

·   Automatic switching between WCDMA & GSM bands

·   Flight mode

Data Network

·   GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 33

·   HSDPA Cat9, maximum speed up to 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA Cat5 2.0 Mbps

·   WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n

·   TCP/IP support

·   Capability to serve as data modem

·   Support for MS Outlook synchronisation of contacts, calendar and notes

Connectivity

·   Bluetooth 3.0

·   HDMI

·   2mm Charging connector

·   Micro USB connector and charging

·   High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)

o    USB On-the-Go

·   3.5 mm AV connector

o    FM Radio

o    FM Transmitter

Software platform & user interface

·   Symbian ^3 for Nokia

·   Java MIDP 2.1

·   Qt 4.6.2, Web Runtime 7.2

o    HTML 4.1

·   Software updates Over the Air (FOTA) & Over the internet (FOTI)

·   Flash Lite 4.0

·   OMA DM 1.2, OMA Client provisioning 1.1

Applications

·   Key applications: Calendar, Contacts, music player, internet, messaging, photos, Ovi Store, Maps, Videos, WebTV, Office document viewers, Video & photo editor, Mail, Radio

·   PC Applications: Nokia Ovi Suite, Nokia Ovi Player

·   Easy-to-use email client with attachment support for images, videos, music and documents .doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf, .zip

·   Unified push email client supporting multiple protocols: Yahoo!® Mail, Gmail™, Windows Live™, Hotmail and other popular POP/IMAP services, Mail for Exchange, IBM Lotus traveler

Browsing and internet

·   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 will support a majority of Flash Player 10.1 content

GPS and navigation

·   Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers

·   Ovi Maps with free car & pedestrian navigation

·   Wi-Fi Positioning

·   Compass and accelerometer for correct orientation of display

·   Use Nokia Ovi Suite to get the latest country maps for Ovi Maps on N8 for free

Camera

·   12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics

·   Large 1/1.183" optical format image sensor

·   Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy-to-use touchscreen parameters

·   Xenon flash with automatic red-eye removal

·   Face tracking/detection software

·   Autofocus

·   Focal length: 5.9 mm (equivalent to 28mm in 35mm film format)

·   F number/Aperture: F2.8

·   Still images file format: JPEG/EXIF

·   Zoom up to 2x (digital) for still images

·   Zoom up to 3x (digita) for video

·   Secondary camera for video calls (QVGA, 640 x 480 pixels), still image and video capture

·   Favourite settings feature

·   Still camera manual controls for white balance, scene mode, exposure compensation, colour tone, viewfinder framing grid, sharpness, contrast, flash control, light sensitivity (ISO), self-timer, face detection

Image capture

·   Automatic location tagging (Geotagging) 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

 Video cameras

·   Main camera

o    12 megapixel with Carl Zeiss optics

o    HD quality 720p resolution

o    Shoot 16:9 videos in HD

o    3x digital zoom

·   Video capture in 720p 25 fps with codecs H.264, MPEG-4

·   Ambient stereo audio recording in video (AAC 128kbps, 48 kHz sampling) plus new algorithms to reduce wind noise and control recording level in harsh environments

·   Settings for low light (reduced frame rate), white balance, colour tone

·   Secondary camera for video calls (QVGA, 640 x 480 pixels), still image and video capture

Video codecs & formats

·   H.264 (base profile, main profile, high profile), MPEG-4, VC-1, Sorenson Spark, Real video 10

·   Streaming: H.264, Flash Lite 4 (Flash 10 compatibility for video), On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark

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

·   Videos application: collection of stored videos

·   On demand WebTV widgets to watch local & global internet streaming TV

·   Support for Flash video

·   YouTube browsing and streaming

·   Video call support (WCDMA network services)

Music features

·   Flick scroll 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

·   Bit rate up tp 320 kbps

·   DRM support WM DRM, OMA DRM 2.0

·   FM transmitter

Radio

·   Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz/76-90 MHz)

 Gaming

·   Use the touch UI to play games

·   Dedicated processor for 2D/3D graphics acceleration. Support for OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenVG 1.1

·   Java games

·   Use the accelerometer to play games

Energy efficiency

·   Power Save mode, ambient light sensor, unplug charger reminder, Nokia Compact Travel Charger AC-15

Materials

·   Free of PVC, free of nickel on the product surface, free of brominated & chlorinated compounds and free of antimony trioxide as defined in Nokia Substance List

Packaging

·   Made of renewable, 100 % recyclable

Eco content and services

·   Reduced size printed user guide in the sales package, full user guide in the device memory and web
Maps for route optimization and pedestrian navigation

Recycling

·   Device is up to 80 % recyclable