Nokia N8

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• Bong
• uCn
• 29 May 2010

Tom-Helge, 29 May 2010Hahaha, your trying pretty hard to make your self to look v... moreYou must be ignorant to the information around you. Recently, nokia just announced a firmware update for their 2007 flagship, namely N82 and N97. So, ya, they are really old phone. 3 years down the line but look, nokia still provide upgrades for phones which was adored by the majority.

Before the N82, I got a k850i and although it was terrible and a lot of us complained, SE only introduced a lame firmware which can't even solve the bugs in k850i.

From experience, I would definitely stick with nokia phones.

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• Anis
• 3EV
• 29 May 2010

Good morning Nokia N8 fans...

June is at the door, could it be the month which the beast will be releasd at !! who knows

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• igo
• tWg
• 29 May 2010

i owuld agree with him, you cant compare the x10 with this, x10 is way better, android vs symbian? ofcourse android and x10 really is a coll phone :D

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• phillie
• kaJ
• 29 May 2010

I purchased my last Nokia phone approximately 1.5 years past time for an upgrade. I this N8 will be it. I just want to make sure that the battery will last at least one day, with all the tweeting and Facebook updates that i do on a daily basis. If that will not be the case then it makes no sense.

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• brynn
• nF@
• 29 May 2010

Tom-Helge, 29 May 2010Hahaha, your trying pretty hard to make your self to look v... moreWhat do you need 1GHz of proccessing power for???
..its always better to have a graphics chip for gaming than raw cpu power ..and i am not dumb i was being skitty or taking the mick..

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• celladik
• PVh
• 29 May 2010

Tom-Helge, 29 May 2010Hahaha, your trying pretty hard to make your self to look v... moreSo youre saying that 3d hw accelerator has n0 use? BuT i saw in my old n82 with hw accelerator too. Just like the ones post n95 8gb and n97 on viewing 3d graphics

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• Tom-Helge
• Srd
• 29 May 2010

brynn, 29 May 2010Your unhappy because you had no willpower to wait for N8 so... moreHahaha, your trying pretty hard to make your self to look very dumb.

The phone i was really waiting for is this phone: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i8520_beam-3150.php

But because i got the money to buy a new phone 2 weeks ago, then i had to buy a new phone when i had the money.

And because both the Samsung I8520 Beam and Nokia N8 wasn't released, then i went for the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10.

And also, i haven't bought a Nokia phone since i had the Nokia 7110: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_7110-15.php

I have only had Ericsson / Sony Ericsson and Samsung mobiles after that. And all of the Ericsson / Sony Ericsson and Samsung mobiles i have bough in all those years have been rock solid phones.

And since i only buy Sony Ericsson and sometimes Samsung phones now, then i didn't want to wait on the N8. I wanted a much much better phone than that. And i don't want a camera phone, i want a fully multimedia phone with alot of CPU power.

So in my case, the Nokia N8 would be junk for me. So that's the reason i went for the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10.

And celladik. When it's about running something that require ALOT of CPU power, then try to run a 720p movie with 10k kbps in bitrate on the Nokia N8 and then run it on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10.

Who do you think will lose here?. I know who will lose badly here. And it's not the XPERIA X10, but the Nokia N8.

And not only that, but think about the future. It will come programs and games and other stuffs out after some times that needs more and more CPU power and that. So i rather have a phone that i can use for many many more years without worrying anything about the programs and games that will come out later that require more power out of the phones.

Sony Ericsson have said that the XPERIA X10 will have lifetime support to, so that alone is a good enough reason to have a phone like X10.

XPERIA X10 is a very powerfull phone and because the phone wont get outdated in the near future, then it's a nice thing to have lifetime support on a phone that will last for many years.

Now i'm not sure on how it is with the Nokia N8, but after what i know, most of the Nokia phones are getting forgotten after just 1 year and sometimes lesser time than that. So they wont get any more updates after that.

So will Nokia N8 have support for 1+ years then?. If not, then it will be a waste to buy this phone.

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• celladik
• PVh
• 29 May 2010

I can't wait for this phone. Grrrrrr its so temptating

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• celladik
• PVh
• 29 May 2010

marcus reinus PILIP, 29 May 2010hmmm! i was wondering how much would be the introductory pr... moreYes thats the trend in the philippines

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• celladik
• PVh
• 29 May 2010

Tom-Helge, 29 May 2010The HTC Desire have Android 2.1 and multi touch, and that's... moreHow bout running heavy application on both? Who do you think can perform well?

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• marcus reinus PILIP
• uSR
• 29 May 2010

hmmm! i was wondering how much would be the introductory price here in the philippines. nokia phones here usually comes out high-priced but dives down very fast like for example nokia n97 came out like more or less 30k philippines peso but as of today you have this phones for 20k++

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• brynn
• nF@
• 29 May 2010

Tom-Helge, 29 May 2010The HTC Desire have Android 2.1 and multi touch, and that's... moreYour unhappy because you had no willpower to wait for N8 so you bought an x10 instead,, thats not our fault its yours..Just sell x10 and wait to buy the smartfone you initially wanted,,,,,the N8..

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• jason
• Bw@
• 29 May 2010

Tom-Helge, 29 May 2010The HTC Desire have Android 2.1 and multi touch, and that's... moreStill anything is better than buying an x10 for sure ,update due 2011 more likely.

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• SID
• Y}y
• 29 May 2010

Respected Gsmarena Team . Nokia N8 has Document Editor . Please correct the specifications . It is posted on Nokia Uk website. Thanks

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• Anonymous
• wvT
• 29 May 2010

No stereo speakers???? Its gonna sound crap if u play music on it

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• Tom-Helge
• Srd
• 29 May 2010

celladik, 29 May 2010So what is x10 can do that htc can't do for example desire?The HTC Desire have Android 2.1 and multi touch, and that's the only 2 things that is better with the Desire over the X10.

X10 have bigger screen with higher resolution, it have a much much better screen when your outside in sun. XPERIA X10 have 5 times better camera than HTC Desire. Just look at the quality some of the users here can squeeze out of the XPERIA X10 camera here: http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=195111

The movie recording on the HTC Desire is a complete joke with 15 fps @ 480x800 resolution on the recording. Here XPERIA X10 have 30 fps @ 480x800 resolution with much much better quality.

XPERIA X10 have double the storage space in the phone memory over HTC Desire.

XPERIA X10 is a bit bigger than HTC Desire, but still it weight the same as the Desire, also 135g.

And this is why i'll take the XPERIA X10 any days over the HTC Desire.

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• celladik
• PVh
• 29 May 2010

Tom-Helge, 29 May 2010When you have a good camera phone like Nokia N8, you will f... moreSo what is x10 can do that htc can't do for example desire?

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• Anonymous
• PS6
• 29 May 2010

Saurabh, 28 May 2010flat strategy for buying nokia(my experience of >9 yrs).... moreagree with u, i'm waiting for n900 price drop to around 300pounds LOL.

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• Tom-Helge
• Srd
• 29 May 2010

phones fan, 29 May 2010you forgot this: amoled vs TFT 12 MP vs 8 MP xenon &... moreWhen you have a good camera phone like Nokia N8, you will for sure use the phone outside ALOT to take pictures. And because of that, then AMOLED is a BIIIG BIG disadvantage over normal TFT screens.

TFT screens anydays over AMOLED screens when it's about being outside in sun.

12 mpix vs 8 mpx. Don't fall for this and think that 12 mpix is better by default than 8 mpix. All that matters is that the phones have very good optics. And in this case Nokia N8 seems to be very good. Not because it have 12 mpix camera.

Xenon blitz helps when it's dark and nothing more. But believe me when i say it that the XPERIA X10 can still take insanly good pictures both when it's light and when it's dark outide. You just have to use the right settings. Just look here as an example: http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=195111

Multi touch was never one of the reasons for me to buy the iPod Touch. The reason i bought it was because it was a very easy mp3 player to use. And because you could get alot of programs on it when you jailbreaked it. And that was just really cool back when the iPod Touch was released for the first time.

And how much do you think i have been using multi touch on my iPod Touch since i bought it some years ago?. Almost never. Maybe some very few times.

Yeah the lack of multi touch made some X10 owners angry, but after they saw how the new one hand touch thing is going to work, then most of those was happy anyways. Just look here: http://www.xperiax10.net/2010/05/09/sony-ericsson-confirms-no-multitouch-for-x10-mini/

XPERIA X10 will get the same feature as the X10 Mini in that video clip in that link.

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• Tom-Helge
• Srd
• 29 May 2010

Please go away from , 29 May 2010Tom, I think, the whole comparison of X10 with N8 is not... moreOk, i'm gonna answer you to.

1. The price on the N8 will be more than 320 pound when it's released, that's for sure.

2. If the programs in the background that isn't used are in idle modus, then they wont use more battery. If they are loaded into the RAM, they will stay there and be idle until you goes back to the program. So the program you went from then will then go into idle modus.

As far as i have seen, i haven't got any longer battery life on my X10 by killing idle programs in the background. It's the brightness when it's on full that really kills the battery.

The reason why we get told to set the brightness on the XPERIA X10 to automatic is because there is a bug that drains the battery quite alot. This will be fixed in the upcoming firmware update in some few weeks. And this firmware will gives us double battery time.

And not only that, but look here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/19/googles-larry-page-says-theres-something-wrong-if-your-andro/

3. This comparsion is far from being in the same case as we are talkiing about. When it's about the CPU that are in the N8 vs the CPU that are in the XPERIA X10. I see what you mean, but you can't compare it that way. Because going from an Intel Atom CPU to an Intel Core I7 CPU is an extremely big / jump difference. And it's not that big difference between the CPU in the N8 to the 1 GHz Snapdragon CPU that are in the XPERIA X10.

4. Yes, there are some disadvantages with that, but in Android 2.2 you get a task manager with the OS where you can kill apps and that. Some programs have an option to exit the application in Android so it closes completely. But not all applications have that. And it's those who are sitting in the background and running.

5. When i say bulky, i mean like this phone: http://www.gsmarena.com/i_mate_ultimate_9502-pictures-2158.php

It means that the phone doesn't have straight lines or looks very clean or have round edges.

XPERIA X10 have a 4 inch screen that is just really amazing if you watch movies on the phone, or if you use it to surf the web or if you use the GPS. 4 inch over 3.5 inch there any days then. And if your into gaming on phones, then 4 inch -> 3.5 inch any days to. No questions about that.

I know 3.5 inch screens works okish for that to, but when you see the difference from 3.5 inch to 4 inch, you will never go back to 3.5 inch ever again then.

I know how big the difference is, since i have the iPod Touch to that i can compare to the side of my XPERIA X10.

I'm also gonna tell you this, but no, i don't hate the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10. Because first of all, i own it my self, and secondly, it's a lightning fast phone. And it's design is just pure awesome / sexy. The XPERIA X10 is really really powerfull. Nothing is lagging on it except for TimeScape and MediaScape some very few times.

And since you asked, yes i have also been in the XPERIA X10 opinions chat alot of times, so i already knows about that link.

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