Nokia N8 review: Director of photography
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- 13 Oct 2010
Hey look Alui's infatuation with the N8 continues! ha ha Here he is again spelling out the virtues of other phones while secretly lusting for an N8!
Nice review GSM. It has entrenched my desire to get the N8 ASAP! Bring it on. You see Alui, I am still deciding on which phone to get. I am not desperately trying to convince myself that my choice was the right one! :D
It was clearly spelt out in the review that the likelihood is that some of the biggest negatives on the N8 could easily be resolved with a firmware update, if not via installation of a third party app.
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- 13 Oct 2010
follower, 13 Oct 2010Oh come on... Android and MeeGo we can talk about, but iOS ... moreI know and I agree with you. I just wanted to tell the quy that comparing S 3 with WP7 does not make S 3 the best OS. For me the top of Os's is like this:
1. Android (2.2, 2.1);
2. iOS, but with jailbreak(it has multitasking for few "chosen" apps, the rest are frozen, maybe not such a bad idea).
3. Bada/Symbian;
4. Meego, Maemo(good but not enough phones and apps);
5. WP 6.5;
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100000000. WP7.
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- 13 Oct 2010
What about old symbian apps, do they work on symbian v3??
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- 13 Oct 2010
Alui, 13 Oct 2010@Xis
I agree with you. S^3 is better than WP7. But, hello,... moreOh come on... Android and MeeGo we can talk about, but iOS and Bada are missing way too many features.
iOS for example has terrible multitasking, no widgets, terrible notifications system etc. etc. Speed and simplicity alone do not make a good OS.
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Alui, 13 Oct 2010@Xis
I agree with you. S^3 is better than WP7. But, hello,... moreIOS is only eye candy so
features and functionallity it's garbage
the only OSs i can compaire it too is android and Maemo is on another level
cause they are all open source platforms
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Anonymous, 13 Oct 2010what my plan is. i will download hd movies from symtorrent ... moredamn right i'll be doing the same thing
my N8 will be happy with symtorrent on it :D
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- 13 Oct 2010
Xis, 13 Oct 2010Nokia N8 (Symbian^3) was impressive. But now when compared ... more@Xis
I agree with you. S^3 is better than WP7. But, hello, there are better Os's. Like iOS, Android, Bada, Maemo. Jubilating that S 3 is better than the worse phone OS, is quite funny:). Gosh, I wonder if the WP7 keyboard is as bad as the one on Symbian?
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- 13 Oct 2010
Nokia N8 (Symbian^3) was impressive. But now when compared to a brand new, high minimum requiring OS ie Windows Phone 7, symbian^3 is not just awesome it's super awesome. Symbian^4 in the pipeline.
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- 13 Oct 2010
Sorry to say but I saw some night pic which r blur that's really disappointing.Its sharpness much better then any other mobile camera phone but if ur pic come blur then whats the big deal with sharpness
I use n82 its the best Camera phone
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- 13 Oct 2010
Anonymous, 13 Oct 2010@Alui
"Let me tell you, I cannot put incoming calls... moreI do not lock my X6 with a swipe (one extra touch nevertheless), but with a 6 digit password. On SGS is one touch, the screen stays locked during and after the call. About the hardware: if for you the case is more important than the proccessor, memory, etc, be my guest, but allow me to want something more than a shell from a SMARTphone.
Better connectivity? You mean better wifi, blu tooth, usb standards? They are the same.
Some ppl look for advice before buying something, so they want to know all oppinions. But at the end it's their decision.
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- 13 Oct 2010
[deleted post]I seriously doubt most of the bashers have used Nokia phones. It is just the way some people handle the choices they have made.
You can get pretty aggressive responses when you try to argue with people that their particular choice wasn't the best. It is enforced by something called Choice-supportive bias.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias
I would say the reaction is especially strong with kids who get their first smartphones etc. :)
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- 13 Oct 2010
this is a fair review. thanks gsmarena. i have doubt in reading mobile-review's review especially what happen to them with nokia. you can sense by reading their reviews that they are trying to be fair but still come out very one sided unlike this one.
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- 13 Oct 2010
@Alui
"Let me tell you, I cannot put incoming calls on the speaker with one touch on my X6 is the screen is locked(I use this as a safety feature on all my phones), like you can on SGS"
It's one swipe followed by one touch on an X6. Your statement was that it couldn't do it at all.
"FYI "hardware" refer to the internal component of a device (processor, RAM, GPU, Screen) not the cover. Look in a dictionary!"
Actually the definition of hardware is any piece of an object you can physically touch. This is opposed to software which is intangible.
So... err... a case for example.
"...and as the review says on video shooting iPhone 4 is better. SGS can shoot HD videos at 30fps. Anyway, camera is not the most essential feature of a phone for me."
That's nice. I'm talking about a camera not a video recorder though.
"Play whit a phone 4 hours a day and let me know how your neck feels. Mine hearts."
Don't really care about that. I'm concerned with how the long the battery lasts with realistic use between charges. Two days of heavy use is better than barely one in this regard.
"Yes, but that MORE is not irreplaceable. If N8 had a detachable floppy disk unit, I'm sure the N8 fanboys would have said that is a feature worth to die for."
Err... no. The point was the N8 had better connectivity options as is. Which it does.
"Maybe I'm a SGS fanboy."
I don't think it's a maybe. The point is that most of the people reading this interview are not and don't really care about the SGS. If they did they would be, oh I don't know, reading a review or features about the SGS and not the N8.
So you're either trolling or have bought a phone you're not sure about and are trying to justify that by coming up with a lot of stuff that is, frankly, wrong.
Either way you've made your choice. Please have the courtesy to let us make ours.
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- 13 Oct 2010
I love how people grab the tiniest faults and try to make huge deal out of them. How many have checked that their phone could actually play over 2 gig media files. The android phones I have knowledge of certainly can't.
Here is an example of HTC Incredible:
http://androidforums.com/incredible-support-troubleshooting/76178-cant-get-videos-movies-over-2gb-play.html
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- 13 Oct 2010
n8lover, 13 Oct 2010SPB Shell is like touchwiz...many shortcuts but not proper ... more"every os has its compromises and unless you can make your own os dun critique others oses".
Kinda nut in a tree argument. So I should not criticize a product I BOUGHT because I did not make it?!!
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- 13 Oct 2010
Why are there so many people advertising Android os in a nokia n8 thread? This is weird...
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- 13 Oct 2010
Anonymous, 13 Oct 2010what my plan is. i will download hd movies from symtorrent ... moreToo much hustle don't you think? I do not know what the N8 video editor can, but I doubt it can cut large movie files. I use my SGS for watching movies when I travel for long distances, so no need to cut them.
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- 13 Oct 2010
n8lover, 13 Oct 2010SPB Shell is like touchwiz...many shortcuts but not proper ... moreNo, they are realtime updated widgets in SPB, look at media player, weather or agenda "widgets".
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- 13 Oct 2010
Wish it was available here in Tananarif
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- 13 Oct 2010
n8lover, 13 Oct 2010SPB Shell is like touchwiz...many shortcuts but not proper ... moreYou might have seen the lag on the Legend because on Android systems before Froyo, the apps stay resident in the memory. You need a dedicated task killer to clean them up. But once you have that, do not worry, no more lag. I do not know Legend but I expect the SGS to be faster in anything. Just look at specs: WiFi 802.11 n, best CPU and GPU, 512 MB RAM.