Nokia N8-01 (801?) leaks on video, looks smoking hot

03 September, 2011
The leaked smartphone runs on the Symbian OS and packs an edge-to-edge curved glass display.

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  • AnonD-1906
  • 01a
  • 05 Sep 2011

Reality check nokia fan boy!!!N9 is one of the best phone out there but its will have no support. Look at the ps2 vs xbox 1 ps2 wan this round because sony had more support than xbox(spec wise xbox1 was more powerful than ps2). That s the same thing here in the mobile war. like or not right now apple iphone has the best support from the developper community and a hate apple. But android cacheting up to this because of is open source based and a cummunity like xda-developper helps also.The point is if you want to suceed you have to have good support and good advertising. Thats what apple doing with there brainwashing ad and google is a ad corporation. Meego dont have that and symbian has support but not like ios/android and will be killed in 2016. The only logical choice for nokia was WP7. Wp7 will have support and ad and am a die hard android fan boy but i can understand that. i think a 3 way os battle will be good in the end for the customer. We dont have that on desktop 80% of the market share is run by Microsoft. Also don't forget all amoled screen came from samsung. Thats meen that all nokia/all htc/and other amoles screen are provided by samsung. Samsung amoled can not be better than than Samsung super amoled plus!!! And yes Samsung used plastic but in case you don t know plastic has the propriety to absorb chock better than metal. I am currently using a nexus 1 and its all aluminium you may think its better but plastic is better if you drop your phone alot.

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    • dany
    • p3x
    • 05 Sep 2011

    why do you even bother with all those sII fans? we know nokia is still the best (yes, is better than iPhone too). I'm not a big fan of symbian, but the latest that I've seen is really impressive, so just let the A fan and I fan talk; that's all they'll do :D (as for me ... I can't wait to get that "plastic" n9 :D)

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      • AnonD-1131
      • kJX
      • 04 Sep 2011

      Nokia is still number 1! You guys can present me stats and facts but I will refuse to believe them. For me, there is nobody better than Nokia. Those stats that suggest Symbian is losing marketshare were written by Android and Apple fanboys who poses as analysts and I wouldn't be surprised if Google paid them to write a bias analysis. They're all out to discredit Nokia while in fact, most of the features found on Android and iPhone were invented by Nokia. I can't wait for Android to start losing marketshare.

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        • Anonymous
        • U@k
        • 04 Sep 2011

        samsung fans dont understand that samsung is purely a hardware manufacturer.cant even come up with their original design..;p so all they can do is keep packing their phones with more and more ghz processors. How else would they differentiate with htc and moto and huawei and zte and micromax and god knows who else. There is no end to this 1.2, 1.4 ghz madness. i agree that for watching a video sgs2 is ahead of anything out there that has more to do with the screen than processor. But what a consumer needs to look at is what are his particular needs and is he satisfied by the overall package at a reasonable price or by paying for specs like dual core which are just that- specs!! Plz tell me anythin that a 30000 Rs galaxy s 2 can do that my one year old n8 (Rs.21000) cant do. Plz dont tell me shoot and play 1080p vid bcoz frankly speaking i cant see the difference between 1080p and 720p vids. Also video recording at 720p in n8 is in my opinion no way less than vids shot on gs2. Plus i have bought so many premium games on n8 like asphalt 6 and hawx and what not and still the cost is much below the "greatest smartphone ever". And dont even get me started on the camera on my n8 because there is not a samsung digicam that comes close let alone cameraphone. So the whole point is dont run behind the hardware but look at the functionality and value for money. And the point about dead os. Remember symbian is getting support till 2016. Yeah tht is still 5 years down the line.now i dont know about others who think their phone is future proof but i cant see myself using one phone for 6 years.longeg i have used one is 2 and a half years and then sell it. And remember in resale value no one beats nokia. S ican safely buy two more symbian phones use them and sell them before the support stops.and i dont know what kind of support is really needed by symbian now. It can already do everything that i need from phone os. Yeah maybe it cant be used to heat up my palms on a chilly day like the galaxy s2 but really samsung deserves some credit afterall!!

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          • v0X
          • 04 Sep 2011

          are you little kids fight over your toys again???

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            • AnonD-616
            • LbX
            • 04 Sep 2011

            AnonD-15310, 04 Sep 2011X10 doesn't lag when homescreens are filled with little /em... morehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qkXBMOyvtU
            android also copied nokia n900 browser

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              • shashwat
              • KFN
              • 04 Sep 2011

              AnonD-15310, 04 Sep 2011X10 doesn't lag when homescreens are filled with little /em... moreu old outdated person... u haven't seen 2.3.3 ANDROID In x10, it too fastest then ur asumption... u can full ur all heavy home screens wit heacy widgets but u cant face any lag problem.... THATS Y ANDROID IS IB TOP....!!!!

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                • Robert Green
                • svk
                • 04 Sep 2011

                Damn nice nokia phone. A really slaek one for my wife and children.
                For me too :-)

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                  • AnonD-695
                  • IW9
                  • 04 Sep 2011

                  AnonD-10946, 04 Sep 2011LOL Again, you like to post these opinions of yours and see... morechill dude y so serious

                  'So is this going to be your fanboy comments from now on? NOKIA IS the best at everything!!!! How so?! Youtube it buddy boy! Nokia beats Android in benchmarks! Google it yourself buddy boy! I've already seen videos of Symbian Belle and aside from the fact that Nokia copies Android's notification bar and iOS' icon nothing is different'

                  did i ever said that nokia was the best like a madman? maybe something like ' zomg nokia the best! android can **** it!

                  what proof do you want me to give. everything is just a click away. i not the kind to BS. the reason is that i need to rush cause i have this thing called a 'life'. and no, there is no app for that

                  everybody copies each other nowdays. no shits.

                  my point still stands, performance on symbian belle is better than some 1ghz android phones. i never talked about the UI or UX. ur just bringing on these things to provoke urself

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                    • AnonD-10946
                    • jAG
                    • 04 Sep 2011

                    AnonD-695, 04 Sep 2011what about games then? ie.g angry birds, nfs?ROFL and here comes the typical Nokia fanboy comment about games but you nokia fanboys fail to realize that Nokia devices run at nHD where as Android devices, especially 1GHz ones run at WVGA and have more pixels to render which is where GPU is impacted. Take the BCM2727 and render games at WVGA and it'll lag more than the Adreno 205.

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                      • AnonD-10946
                      • jAG
                      • 04 Sep 2011

                      AnonD-695, 04 Sep 2011'Sigh and here is adkane again here to be humiliated by me ... moreLOL Again, you like to post these opinions of yours and see them as facts without any proof or data to back it up.

                      yet when I refuted your claim on the N9 I was able to provide a video to showcase my point.

                      How is it common android user mindset to consider a user experience as encompassed by Hardware and Software? Show me a case where vanilla android fails to deliver? Especially when Symbian Belle is playing catch up to vanilla android not to mention Android with better UI such as the new TouchWiz 3.0 from Samsung that uses less resource?

                      Do you even know what polycarbonate is? Its the same plastic as used in the frame of the Galaxy S 2, the only difference is a special coating on the N9 which resist color fading.

                      So is this going to be your fanboy comments from now on? NOKIA IS the best at everything!!!! How so?! Youtube it buddy boy! Nokia beats Android in benchmarks! Google it yourself buddy boy! I've already seen videos of Symbian Belle and aside from the fact that Nokia copies Android's notification bar and iOS' icon nothing is different.

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                        • AnonD-695
                        • IW9
                        • 04 Sep 2011

                        [deleted post]'Also note how you Nokia Fanboys are always touting BT3.0 as such an awesome feature to have and how Android devices don't feel the need to have BT3.0 because we have wifi and DNLA, guess what? Nokia is starting to use DNLA again as well, why the need for DNLA if BT3.0 is such an awesome feature?'

                        thats like the pot calling the kettle black. android fans are pretty much doing the same thing

                          Guys, it's pointless to blame the most popular OS in the world because you are jealous!! Android is the future, and this is a FACT. You will see next year at MWX what kind of phones will Samsung and Motorola announce. You will be surprised NOkia fans. Nokia world is coming soon, and they will announce 2 WP smart phones with 8 GB and/or 16 GB internal memory. They could announce a Symbian smart phone as well. See last year what they did! They announced the super expensive E7, which does not even have Autofocus camera. :P

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                            • AnonD-695
                            • IW9
                            • 04 Sep 2011

                            AnonD-10946, 04 Sep 2011Thats because all the video recording capabilities isn't CP... morewhat about games then? ie.g angry birds, nfs?

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                              • AnonD-695
                              • IW9
                              • 04 Sep 2011

                              [deleted post]'Sigh and here is adkane again here to be humiliated by me like the other countless times I was able to refute your "Nokian Facts".'

                              clap, clap. want a cookie?

                              'Sorry but hardware is clearly an indication of performance.'

                              common android user mindset

                              'Hardware and software goes hand in hand to give the Complete User Experience.'

                              my point exactly, if the software is like crap, even the most top-notched hardware wont save it. i had a terrible experience with vista but after using 7 my pc was much better

                              'Show me where Symbian Belle puts a current 1GHz Android phone to shame'

                              youtube it buddy boy. my point is that even with and arm11 processor, it still performs better than most 1ghz phones.

                              'Also Nokia N9 uses plastic body, so what are you fanboys going to say now about Galaxy S 2 build?'

                              at least is made out from polycarbonate, which i assume is much better thab the plastic used for s II

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                                • AnonD-10946
                                • jAG
                                • 04 Sep 2011

                                AnonD-695, 04 Sep 2011but a 1ghz cpu won't be enough, you gonna need a 1080p comp... moreThats because all the video recording capabilities isn't CPU intensive but rather offloads the work on the GPU genius. GPU's are always more efficient when it comes to video encoding/decoding which again shows the limitation of the BCM2727. The CPU being an ARM 11 and clock speed has no limitations on recording.

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                                  • AnonD-695
                                  • IW9
                                  • 04 Sep 2011

                                  AnonD-20221, 04 Sep 2011680 Mhz is required to run Symbian smoothly.. But if you st... morebut a 1ghz cpu won't be enough, you gonna need a 1080p compatible gout to go along with it. Thats the reason why symbian^3 phones are able to record and playback in 720p despite having an outdated arm11 processor. The broadcom bcm 2727 gpu IMHO is one of the best single core gpu u can find in the market

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                                    • AnonD-15310
                                    • v{u
                                    • 04 Sep 2011

                                    AnonD-10946, 04 Sep 2011The reason why your X10 lags is due to Sony's horrible Rach... moreX10 doesn't lag when homescreens are filled with little /empty widgets. what i am sayin is ,compare to symbian Belle widgets(loads of big widgets on run), android 1ghz phones sucks when big widgets are full in homescreens. Just test it yourself.what i am proving is android suck even in 1ghz. they need more than dual core. coz apps run on nonlinux Java virtual machine ware.

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                                      • AnonD-14934
                                      • nt2
                                      • 04 Sep 2011

                                      if nokia want to.come back first they should make their own screen can match super AMOLED.plus and focus on one os that can lead them to the top. symbian is dead u cant.argue with that. ppl buy nokia because they dont have any idea bout android they dont know what they missed when they buy nokia . i went for.sgs2 because nokia adopted wp7 and its really a crap . lets admit it nokia ia bad they really should change everthiing called ovi .. Submited by an OLD nokia lover

                                        Guys, it's pointless to blame the most popular OS in the world because you are jealous!! Android is the future, and this is a FACT. You will see next year at MWX what kind of phones will Samsung and Motorola announce. You will be surprised NOkia fans. Nokia world is coming soon, and they will announce 2 WP smart phones with 8 GB and/or 16 GB internal memory. They could announce a Symbian smart phone as well. See last year what they did! They announced the super expensive E7. :P