Nokia N8 gets lots of stick in early reviews, we wonder why

03 October, 2010
The Nokia N8 started shipping this week and reviews of the Finnish company's latest flagship are spreading like wildfire. Checking out the first batch of those we noticed a certain trend, which we cannot...

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  • R
  • Romi
  • nxP
  • 04 Oct 2010

This is true speed of N8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bJ018LZjLc

    • ?
    • Anonymous
    • t7U
    • 04 Oct 2010

    I swear to myself Ill never visit eng*dget and gi*modo again!

    Gsmarena is the best. :))
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    keep up the good work guys :)

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      • pinoy
      • vj1
      • 04 Oct 2010

      here is a much balance review/comparison:

      http://bigphonefight.com/nokia-n8-vs-apple-iphone-4-–-review

        • ?
        • Anonymous
        • t7U
        • 04 Oct 2010

        Im eager to see gsmarena review what theyll say on n8 :)

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          • Anonymous
          • upf
          • 04 Oct 2010

          Coverflow comparison: N8 vs iPhone 4.
          forum.dailymobile.se/index.php?topic=31455.0
          N8 does it fast and better.

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            • Anonymous
            • t7U
            • 04 Oct 2010

            Thanks to Gsmarena. before i thought you were samsung sponsored. Sorry.

            I hope this is not a show up. ]

            Dont be cruel and be natural like what you said you're giving a chance to every phone :)

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              • richy
              • Sae
              • 04 Oct 2010

              Couldn't agree more!
              I saw gizmodos clip, and was really surprised...that's just nasty.

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                • Yaseen
                • fwH
                • 04 Oct 2010

                Jealousy makes you nasty!!! No matter how hard other manufacturers have tried and the great devices they have seen bringing out, they still cant topple nokia, even together, ive read all the reviews of it so far and they really dont give the N8 the credit it deserves, some of the criticisms were ridiculous, there are millions of us loyal nokia fans, and your unfair and bias reviews and criticisms will never persuade us, the only one who's review was fairly decent enough was techradar, but long live nokia, this will just make them bigger and grow stronger, android, I-phone and blackberry might be winning the battle for now, but i promise you nokia will win the War!!!

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                  • Mdfirerz
                  • vj1
                  • 04 Oct 2010

                  [deleted post]open your eyes dude, if were talking about global market, low to mid ranges was still dominated by nokia, and soon the hi ends with the introduction of s^4 and meego =p

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                    • dniiiiiis
                    • 0TF
                    • 04 Oct 2010

                    These people are out of their minds,, Iphone 4 has prooblems with reception which is the basic functionality of a phone and they compare it with nokia n8. It can't send music, photos, videos and they call it smatrphone :P :P
                    OK they can compare it to HTC that is actually a brand that is making efforts but NOKIA IS NUMBER 1 REMEMBER THAT!!! (Nokia is selling smartphones as much as HTC, Blackberry and Apple combined :P )

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                      • Anonymous
                      • 3LU
                      • 04 Oct 2010

                      [deleted post]nokia has the most popular os in the world
                      and probably the oldest one
                      it may look outdated, but under the hood its the most advanced

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                        • Yash Sethia
                        • 4rV
                        • 04 Oct 2010

                        I am waiting for this Cell Phone since the day it was announced way back in April.

                        Since the day it is shipped, i am tracking the reviews of each site and truly speaking I am waiting for final review from two site one of them is GSMArena as i believe in the unbiased opinion.

                        Since 30th Sept, i have read more than 100 reviews, compared more than 100 photos and watched nearly 20-30 videos on N8.

                        In one of the reviews on 30th Sept they said that Nokia battery died in 2 days. If Nokia started shipping of there product on 30th Sept and they are the ones who claim to get it first then how 2 Day battery test done???

                        There are many biased reviews going on around this Smartphone and compared to phones existing in market.

                        I agree with the comments of GSMArena and this device should get fair chance and comparison.

                        Nokia Fans out there.. go buy it. I myself like this phone and would buy it after GSMArena review and one more review.

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                          • Messenger
                          • mie
                          • 04 Oct 2010

                          This is not my comment, but this was posted as somewhere else and it was so good, and makes exactly my point also:

                          I really think this review suffers from the bias that Android and iPhone lovers just can't help in themselves.

                          You don't like Symbian^3 because you don't get it, and you don't get it because you've become dumbed down by iPhone and Android. Which is a shame.

                          You've also clearly rushed the review, not giving proper time to try out the features and see the real power behind the OS. Technically Symbian beats the pants off it's competitors, it's vastly more efficient (hence the great battery life) and multitasks incredibly. S^3 is not the old S60, it's a radical rebuild.

                          Most of those who actually use Symbian normally think it's incredible and find Android or iPhone like a baby's toy. Personally I need more from a device.

                          What's really a shame is how you feel obliged to put out a negative review re: the OS because it's unfashionable to like Symbian. You've given in to peer pressure, and that's just sad and lame.

                          But I'll remind you of something - with only the old version of Symbian, Nokia managed to increase sales globally by 35%+ last year, and increase smartphone market share too (still the largest by a long way). Meanwhile the oh-so-great iPhone continually lost market share.

                          I would advise people interested in the N8 to take into account multiple reviews from general tech sites like this one, and from Symbian-specific sites that actually know what they're talking about, e.g. AllAboutSymbian (not afraid to give a bad review if it's deserved but actually have a clue about the devices they're reviewing).

                          I actually do believe you are incapable of liking Symbian full stop, unless it became a clone of iPhone/Android, and that's just sad.

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                            • BrianAW
                            • ibg
                            • 04 Oct 2010

                            I think this article maybe will fill up with comments over 2000++..

                            Remember st3ve j0b blaming NOKIA N97 MINI when antennagate issues that was comment over 1000++ in 5days..

                            THIS CLEARY SHOWED NOKIA COMPANY GOT A BIG INFLUNCE TO ALL PEOPLE ON D WORLD..LOL

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                              • akash from nepal
                              • u10
                              • 04 Oct 2010

                              upcoming perfect handsets are motorola milestone 2,htc desire hd and windows phone 7,lg optimus one and chic,samsung i5510,nokia c6-01,c7,e7,n8 i go for x6 8gb from tomorrow at €225 because today it realease in 2011 at january one of those is mine say wow!

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                                • Mdfirerz
                                • vj1
                                • 04 Oct 2010

                                Anonymous, 04 Oct 2010perfect except for the ui? Hahahaha I would say UI is m... moreyes, but its not bad either, same thing with the other OS, none of them is perfect... maybe a lot of improvement is needed, which is not imposible as the s^3 is the first step towards it...

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • ibg
                                  • 04 Oct 2010

                                  Anonymous, 04 Oct 2010perfect except for the ui? Hahahaha I would say UI is m... moreIt seems you dont know has stuff called theme on this earth..

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                                    • Atif
                                    • PT7
                                    • 04 Oct 2010

                                    Somehow are the other Nokia can't seem to have courage to go away from this obsolete symbian. And this very attitude of theirs is going to sink their name. Why would anybody pay this much amount of money just to have a pathetically slow symbian based device. When you have superfast HTC Desire and samsung galaxy S readily available, would you be wise enough to go for symbian and that too at this much cost. Surely seems as if Nokia have lost their brains.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • pTx
                                      • 04 Oct 2010

                                      Mdfirerz, 04 Oct 2010if it has all those features then why not? except the UI, e... moreperfect except for the ui?
                                      Hahahaha

                                      I would say UI is more important then spec, id say it makes 60-70& of the phone.

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                                        • emmanuel
                                        • 0TY
                                        • 04 Oct 2010

                                        which phone out there have the connectivity n8 have from fm tran,hdmi,usb otg, worldwide gps even offnetwork,the paid bashers will not talk about these function because they are paid bashers