Nokia N8

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• 02 Jun 2010

Answer Honestly Plea, 02 Jun 2010Hi Guys, I would like to know whether your NOKIA Smartph... moreA great thing introduced later from S60v5 devices is that if unfortunately anything goes wrong with device, it just restarts automatically and thats a quick boot up happens within seconds. Again this situation arises very rarely and mainly depend on how you use your device. Using more than 90% of total available RAM for countinous and considerably long period can cause heating of device and ultimately to auto restart it to free up RAM. (no more hanging and removal of battery anymore!)

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• 02 Jun 2010

Dev, 02 Jun 2010Let me correct you that CPU used in N8 (ARM 1176) has a def... moreThank you. May I have your opinion on the S^3 UI, which can use the Broadcom GPU. Just curious what you think.

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• 02 Jun 2010

Answer Honestly Plea, 02 Jun 2010Hi Guys, I would like to know whether your NOKIA Smartph... moreHi,

Any smartphone can hang, I see it all the time on different OS's.

For Nokia, there is a 8 second reset, that will hard reset the device without needing to remove the battery.

This will not be a problem in the N8.

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• 02 Jun 2010

[deleted post]Tom,

You are right when you say the NOKIA N8 will be a good device. You are also right that the CPU is old. But you never mention that this does not matter as much as you think. EVA knows what he or she is talking abour, but he or she still does not mention the fact that S^3 behaves very differently the Android, it uses the hardware very differently. My point was, and still is, that you cannot judge performance based on proc because of this.

Every time you respond, you just rehash your opinion, and you do not give numbers, or take into account differences in technology. S^3 is very different from Android. Accept that, and the fact that you cannot say the phone is less usable than the X10. That is a flat out lie, not matter how much you choose to ignore other points.

In essence, you already have said it yourself. The N8, purely based on spec and tech (who knows maybe it is terrible when it comes out) is a better gaming device, is a better multimedia device, has most likely better battery life, has free worldwide maps, HDMI, Dolby, BT 3.0, a hardware accelerated UI ( I CANNOT STRESS THIS OINT ENOUGH) a whole list of good stuff. A slow CPU though.

The X10 has a better processor, a bigger screen (with limited colors now) an OS with less features (untill 2.2 or 3.0), both the possibility it will get 2.2 and 3.0 (great), and a risk that it will not, (promises are promises, not facts) a marketplace with more apps (not much more though) will have trouble with demanding games, has a lesser camera (though better than other devices), no xenon flash and a UI skin that needs to be reworked occasionally, making the X10 lag the latest Android OS by at least a few months.

Anyway, for me the situation is different, as I get a new phone every year, for free, since I run pretty big bills. So for me even the fact that the N8 is much cheaper than the X10 is irrelevant. For others I might be a great selling point. In fact, the fact that you get so worked up over a phone that costs significantly less, and arguably has a broader set of specs, albeit with a slower cpu, is a great compliment to what Nokia have achieved here. Almost 2 million hits already, before the device is released. Serious discussion on a board like this.

And the best is still to come for the N8, I think. With EA creating games tailored for the N8 (its OS, its GPU, its CPU) this thing will run games better than the competition I think, the exception being the Galaxy S, and possibly the new Iphone. Both of those suck in the departments the N8 rocks at, like the camera and flash. (Can you believe the Galaxy S has no flash whatsoever)

This is the first device from Nokia for the mass market since the N95 that is really a big step forward. I own the N900, which has cortex A8 and I my mind is a much better (though heavier) device than anything else out there. So for purists, geeks, tech savvy people, the N900 is the way to go. It will be the first device to sport MeeGo, in a community build. Awesome stuff.

I think the N8 will sell like crazy. I am thinking 5800 numbers. 50 to 70 million. This is a wise move for Nokia, to bring out a mid range device, running aps in Qt, and S60 5th software, untill the Qt only devices come.

Vey smart move, also to stick with Symbian now. If Nokia would adopt android, it would be an instant worldwide dominating win for Google. Companies like SE would not be able to produce the vivaz, all mobile software would be American owned (nice country, but still a bad idea), manufacturers would be left building boxes. You can see clearly in the market that people want to use Android, but want to make it their own. That is going to be a fragmentation disaster, just as the Symbian world and MeeGo is getting rid of it .

Anywho, some more thoughts from me, lets see what happens.

I think the N8 will be the most succesful Nokia device since the 5800. If it nears that number, it will have sold as many as all Iphones ever combined. If it does that, it will sell more N8's than SE sells phones in a year. Just like the 5800.

Tom, let us remember to do some proper benchmark for the devices when both are out. I will even let you use Froyo, even though it might take a while before you can use it. Maybe never ;)

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• 02 Jun 2010

Eva, 02 Jun 2010Let me tell you my friend, I brought my first PC with 550Mh... morelisten eva you gave an answer to your own question even before asking it.your 550mhz computer worked fast enough while a 2ghz seemed slow!!notice anything awkward Eva?

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• mp%
• 02 Jun 2010

Hi Guys,

I would like to know whether your NOKIA Smartphone has ever hanged or not and only way to restart it is by VIA removing the battery and putting it back.

I have used Nokia's in past and they all have hanged.

And N8 doesn't seem to have option to remove battery easily though it has option to do that with screws.

So this is my question to all of those, claim NOKIA SMARTPHONE that has not hanged in past

And Please be Honest.

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• 02 Jun 2010

AMANITA, 02 Jun 2010nokia ll release n8 xpress music/music edition (32gb inbuil... moreNo need! Device already has dolby surround sound, a first in class,

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• 02 Jun 2010

Eva, 02 Jun 2010Let me tell you my friend, I brought my first PC with 550Mh... moreLet me correct you that CPU used in N8 (ARM 1176) has a default clock rate of 740Mhz and it can be overclocked to up to 1Ghz. (check specs of this CPU on ARM website and check forum Nokia libraries to confirm N8 using same family processor, I am too tired to search & post links again).
And you know Nokia using it with just 680Mhz means obviously its under clocked. If you are smart enough, you will get why. You can relate it to ARM1136 in Nokia 5800. Initially, it was underclocked to 387Mhz or something (not sure about figure but it was) and later it was brought to normal clock rate via firmware upgrades when kinetic scrolling was introduced.
Nokia are smart enough about balancing the hardware. I am sure that N8 is not an exception and 680Mhz will be like charm with GPU device has got.

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• 02 Jun 2010

Andy burgin, 02 Jun 2010The N8 might be the last Symbian mobile, if the N8 turns ou... moreThose who feel this phone is crap but you spend your time on this forum and taking the pain of writting long posts, I don't understand it.

I go to other forums but I don't go and start bashing people there or writting so long because I'm not interested in the phone.

If you don't like this phone I like it.

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• 02 Jun 2010

nokia ll release n8 xpress music/music edition (32gb inbuild)
i beg u nokia release n8 as soon as possible ! i am dying to get it :d

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• 02 Jun 2010

I am waiting for this phone ! Great thing about N8 is availability of various colours ! I ll buy it for sure but I am not able to decide abt colour choice :D,Help me NOKIA FANS ;)
thx NOKIA & ALL NOKIA FANS
NOKIA N8 IS GOING TO ROCK!

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• 02 Jun 2010

Eva, 02 Jun 2010Let me tell you my friend, I brought my first PC with 550Mh... moreEva,

Of all the companies and devices you list, which one is running an OS with a GUI that is fully hardware accelerated like S^3?

Honest question.

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• 02 Jun 2010

EVA, 02 Jun 2010Mark & Tom, Point 1. X10 processor is way better tha... moreHi Eva,

I have to disagree about your point of GPU, since S^3 GUI is fully hardware accelerated, you must concede that this strain is not to be beared by the CPU, in contrast to the X1O. Not just media and games are done by GPU, this is my main point.

This is straight from the Symbian site:

A new 2D and 3D graphics architecture paves the way for a faster and more engaging user interface by enabling hardware acceleration of all graphics operations.

All graphics operations also means all GUI work, which is an enormous strain in the case of nice effects, etc. All of this comes to the CPU in case of the X10.

I never argued that the N8 is better than the X10, or vice versa. I merely stated that you cannot dismiss the N8 based on the fact is has a lower spec CPU, since the OS functions very differently from Android (Which really is running in a VM, which is inherently inefficient:

"Source: Wikipedia: While Android applications are written in Java, there's no Java Virtual Machine in the platform and Java byte code is not executed. Java classes get recompiled into Dalvik executable and run on Dalvik virtual machine")

I have also provided the benchmarks for the N8 as it stands a few pages back.

In essence my point is, even though the CPU in the X10 is much stronger, it might not be faster than the N8, since it works differently and the GPU takes on tasks.

I feel the only way to compare this is to do real life performance tests, on games, gl benchmarks, etc. What we have seen so far is that the N8 far exceeds the 8910, with a much better processor (and a GPU) and a GUI that is not hardware accelerated.

Getting 60fps consistently, running games very quickly, means this setup runs fine.


I said you cannot base judgment on CPU alone, and I am right.

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• 02 Jun 2010

Eva, 02 Jun 2010Let me tell you my friend, I brought my first PC with 550Mh... moreApologies that was 2GB RAM

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• 02 Jun 2010

[deleted post]I just didnt read your all post. about GPU and CPU :D --- but CPU dont give much FPS for games :D especialy core number.. IT depends on game - if it doesnt support multicore you wont get better results - you get less results. BTW buying mid cpu and high end GPU you will get much more FPS then buying mid class GPU and high end CPU.

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• 02 Jun 2010

nomorese, 02 Jun 2010CPU is just fine, remember the good ol' N95, only 64MB of R... moreLet me tell you my friend, I brought my first PC with 550Mhz P3 and 64MB RAM and I thought it is fast. I used to run windows 98 on it and I thought its fast.

Now, I have CORE2 DUO 2.1GHz machine with 2GHz.

With all the AV and background services, it looks little slow to me though XP is loaded.

Now N8, with all the advanced features it has got, it should have been a little better processor. I don’t agree that Nokia did a good choice of choosing 680MHz processor.

Lets take a look at companies which have 1 Ghz processor in their mobile.

1. Toshiba has launched device with 1GhZ
2. SE X10
3. Samsung Wave
4. HTC Desire
5. Apple Ipad
6. Dell Streak
7. ACER Stream

I think all of the above companies who have launched their devices with 1Ghz processor are fools and should only use 680MHz processor as Nokia N8, their latest device uses 680MHz processor.

I think S3 is so nice OS that it doesn’t need high speed processor.

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• 02 Jun 2010

EVA, 02 Jun 2010Mark & Tom, Point 1. X10 processor is way better tha... moresmart smart... 2d and 3d . Desctop is 2d I gues.. Just try uninstaling gpu drivers from your PC and you will understand where is GPU used... You cant drag icon without laging not using GPU.. Search yes - page scrooling - NO. Yes FPS depends on GPU and CPU but mostly from GPU.

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• MB1
• 02 Jun 2010

One guy just wrote the longest post in gsm arena's history and that was not an attempt at spamming.
As for the whole x10 vs n8, the problem is that the n8 is not out yet. So everything any one says is based on opinions or facts that do not relate specifically to these two phones. The facts people spit out are based on other systems and for some reason they are applying it to this case. Cpu does matter, Gpu does matter and so does the OS. It can be possible to rewrite the symbian os and complement it with a 200Mhz cpu yet make it run as fast as android with 1.5Ghz or vice versa. The reason is because they are totally different. I have come to learn that having a fast cpu with big numbers is all good but it is not always clear cut.

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• mp%
• 02 Jun 2010

Anonymous, 02 Jun 2010just see videeo, when come opening picture from gallery, ju... moreWhen I said messaging, I did not mean that bloody Small SMS'e.

I meant emails, MMS and the way they are stored. As your Message memory gets full, opening an email takes and ages. and Its not only attributed to only STORAGE reading, it is related to how the message was stored.

Desktop search takes lots of resources where processor is always busy in Indexing data. I would like to read data from my mobile device, though it is a picture, video or email message.

When I open the picture gallery, mobile device will display thumbnails. Now these are sampled images which itself is a time consuming operation. try converting JPEG to lower quality and then you will realise what differnce processor speed make.

Try converting MP3 and then you will see what difference processor makes.

And try doing too many things on mobile, may be some browsing, 2-3 emails, one 2 messages, and see how device starts slowing down. My E72 just restarts on its own if I am browsing and new email message appears and I particularly hate it.

You see, processor is used in everything and I meant everything.

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• 02 Jun 2010

[deleted post]CPU is just fine, remember the good ol' N95, only 64MB of RAM and and half the processing power of the N8.
I think Nokia made a fair assessment whether to have an over-sized CPU or something more reasonable and battery-saving. Being a Nokia user I have a good feeling that the CPU and RAM size are quite adequate considering my good ol' N95 can run both the latest Ngage games and The latest Ovi maps without a problem.
Lets wait and see.

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