Nokia N8 review: Director of photography
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- Anonymous
- RBV
- 13 Oct 2010
Get back to work Damn Nokia. Enough of this bullshit
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- Anonymous
- RBV
- 13 Oct 2010
what crap.. N8 at best competes with Wave !! that too loses on all fronts except for camera ! DISAPPOINTING
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- Mark
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- 13 Oct 2010
Alui,
As the review points out, it's horse for courses. The SGS does not have a flash, has an inferior camera, worse hardware, worse battery life, poor GPS implementation, worse call quality and lacks the Nokia's connectivity options. On the other hand it has a better screen, nicer UI and more fleshed out app store.
Fine, you like the SGS. We get that. There's no need to keep justifying buying a product you seem to have some doubts about.
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- follower
- nmN
- 13 Oct 2010
Alui, 13 Oct 2010LOL, GSMArena mentioned Motorola and Sony-Ericsson phones a... moreActually Symbian is more "free" than Android. It is also fully open source, but unlike Android the development code is also available plus it is not tied to one appstore like Android.
Symbian is also the more customizable of the two. Android phones actually need to be rooted etc. to do serious customizations, do you call that open?
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- rafiii
- 5fA
- 13 Oct 2010
Fair review, thank you GSMArena :)
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- Alui
- Am9
- 13 Oct 2010
Anonymous, 13 Oct 2010so what if the browser sucks... you only need it to downlo... moreLooks like a lot of patching needs to be done:). The SPB shell on my X6 is better than S^3. I have 5 homescreens, while for the rest, at least it matches S^3.
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- Alui
- Am9
- 13 Oct 2010
Alui, 13 Oct 2010LOL, GSMArena mentioned Motorola and Sony-Ericsson phones a... moreStrange, my message was cut. I wanted to say that the only problem of SGS (Android before 2.2) is that you need a task killer, which you can get for free from the app market. About the camera, the pictures taken with a phone endup in a site like flickr or facebook, which do not need such a high resolution (5 MPix is the optimal res).
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- Anonymous
- niD
- 13 Oct 2010
Anonymous, 13 Oct 2010so what if the browser sucks...
you only need it to downlo... more"so what if the browser *censored*...
you only need it to download opera or some other 3rd party browser"
I dont get this, all nokia users say download opera, what i'v heard it doesn't have pinch zoom, right? Nokia users finally got pinch zoom which is awesome feature and then they dont use it? i dont get it
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- Alui
- Am9
- 13 Oct 2010
LOL, GSMArena mentioned Motorola and Sony-Ericsson phones as "top competition" for N8. They did not mention (the cheaper) SGS with 16GB internal memory and Superamoled, total software freedom (I found on the web the Angry Birds Lite for my SGS:), and Froyo on the way.
You also have free sat nav as long you stay in your home network with Google maps, not to mention that you can watch FULL Avi/DivX/etc movies (larger files than 2GB). The only problem of the SGS (in fact of Android
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- hayato
- t7X
- 13 Oct 2010
phones fan, 13 Oct 2010I am very proud of my samsung wave ,it's HD video capturing... moreYes you should. I like wave too. There's a chance that i will get wave over n8 cause it's cheaper.
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- Anonymous
- 3LU
- 13 Oct 2010
so what if the browser sucks...
you only need it to download opera or some other 3rd party browser
video player not perfect
well, smartmovie, coreplayer?
limited 3rd party software
how many apps do you really need? i prefer quality over quantity
and keep in mind, nokia will release at lease two updates for n8
after which it will be perfect
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- phones fan
- fwM
- 13 Oct 2010
I am very proud of my samsung wave ,it's HD video capturing with video light support makes it the king in this category.
but I liked nokia n8 and I gladly recommend it for any body.
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- H%Y
- 13 Oct 2010
spyros, Athens, Gree, 13 Oct 2010Question: How come you point out N8's battery life as one o... moreFully agree with you. See the preview of Windows Phone 7. How the reviews said good inspite of missing out of multiple features. I guess it will be sold to ppl who will be locked to the phone and network. They will have no other choice when they latter realize they have been swindled.
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- hayato
- t7X
- 13 Oct 2010
Anonymous, 13 Oct 2010N8 have a great camera, but it is to bulky and looks ridicu... moreI do believe that editing is not a problem on low pixel resolution. But rather on a small screen. The only advantage is text will look sharper and smoother on high res screen. Let's say, if the app requires that amount of text to be displayed. It will be displayed regardless of how many pixels there is. If you'll use the full potential of wvga, the minimum size of text it can display will be hard to read because it's too small anyway. So that's what you call pointless. But for a matter of decorating the spec sheet, it's quite inevitable. Especially when geeks are too delusional on everything that sounds high-end. I'm not saying it's bad, it's good actually. But calling nhd useless is nonsense to me.
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- hayato
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- 13 Oct 2010
Anonymous, 13 Oct 2010Android has greater Freedom!I have htc sense as my homescreen on my symbian. I use droid sans condensed as my font(for today) I know where all my files are saved. I can transfer any file over bluetooth. The option to install apps on sd cards has been there long ago.
To put it short, let's say symbian has no restrictions, any limits, at all. Except accessing system and private folders which needs hacking.
But i'll be honest, i don't know any about android except those things that can be read on paper. And based on what's written on paper, symbian has absolutely more freedom. Correct me if i'm wrong.
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- DSRL-USER
- T4d
- 13 Oct 2010
Are you cojmpletely blind? Right side of the image is totally washed out and blurry! Left side is pretty OK. I couldn't stand photos with unsharp spots. This one fails totally. Look better at the synthetic resolution images.
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- Damian Dinning
- nGY
- 13 Oct 2010
subho, 13 Oct 2010Seems like n82 is still the king of night photography.Hi, just wanted to clarify something.
The flash module component in the N8 is 30% smaller than that used in the N82. However the flash power is effectively the same.
You'll get a lot more detail with the N8 vs the N82 and in practice cover the same distance or greater.
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- Anonymous
- n4x
- 13 Oct 2010
JP, 13 Oct 2010You can have Android and the iPhone and it's beautiful fluf... moreAndroid has greater Freedom!
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- Anonymous
- n4x
- 13 Oct 2010
N8 have a great camera, but it is to bulky and looks ridiculus on the back of N8. USB on-the-go is completely pointles on a phone that only have a 360x640 screen becaus watching movies is not a pleasant experience, even thogh N8 can "handle" most codocs, and editing documents on 360x640 is a real pain because the onscreen qwerty takes most of the already to few pixels on screen. DLNA is a better, cable free, choice than HDMI. Only 256 mb ram is not enough and the processor is to slow and the battery is to small.
Conclusion, N8 is a good "middleclass" phone but it is very far from being able to compete with the world market best top phones. Nokias flagship, N8, cannot compete against any other companies "flagship" today, but Nokia is a contender for the cheaper massmarket.
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- Anonymous
- niD
- 13 Oct 2010
Anonymous, 13 Oct 2010Video calls over wifi, 3g, 3.5g and I can hold it any fucki... more"Video calls over wifi, 3g, 3.5g and I can hold it any *censored* way I like!!! sweet."
i think that was for iphone4 users, you should do some research, many apps can do videocalls over 3g now and to all phone models and even phone/computer. you dont have to use apple's own facetime app.
By the way don't be that sure, Finnish users has reported cutted calls because the weak proximity sensor, may have same issue than iphone4 it doesn't shut down the screen when you put it on your ear and your cheek close the call.
Interesting to see what happens when many people have this phone, then we see how small or big problem it really is.