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2011-11-30
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Got an e-mail today saying that the N8 is on sale for $300US on Amazon....is the general consensus that this phone can't touch the N9 minus in the camera department? Just a curiosity since a nearly 50% price drop piqued my interest.
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2011-11-30
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Just some random thoughts about the N8:
300 USD is cheap.
Raw feature hardware wise I'd say the N8 wins. So let's just wait and see what the N8 OS upgrade has to offer to compete with the much more powerful Maemo Harmattan OS.
Some people tend to dislike the N8 Symbian^3 OS, but Symbian Belle has hit Navifirm, http://zomgitscj.com/2011/11/29/symb...p-on-navifirm/
So we will soon know how the better task manager (life program icons) performs on the 680Mhz main processor of the N8.
We also will look out for the web browsing performance.
Web browsing performance experience on the N8 will never touch the N9 and it remains to be seen if the improved web performance reported on the final version of Symbian Belle has a lot to do with the higher clocked 1Ghz processors in the Nokia 701 and other Symbian Belle phones or not.
Surely the N9 Webkit browser made a step backward from the N900's MicroB in terms of delivering today's complete web experience. (never mind HTML5 - flash is still there on the web)
But it is quick and there is the Fennec browser as an alternative which you can't have on an N8.
The display of the N8 is actually sharper to the eye, even though the pixel count is quite (too) low.
That is an observation I have made after seeing the N9. I always found the screen of the N8 inferior to the one on the N900 due to resolution and colour cast but since I got to know the N9 I know resolution is not everything.
It is too bad that we can't just pick a custom screen that fits our eye / usage scenario better.
After seeing the N9 I actually started liking the N8 more and I am thinking of getting one. Or maybe the rumoured N8-01 with higher res display.
In many ways I find the N8 to be one of the last real Nokia phones.
At release, I used to be disappointed that Nokia did not include a higher res screen a hardware keyboard together with the N8 package. It would have made it an instant classic.
But I have forgiven them and understood that they had to compete Nokia and Symbian out of the market to start all over with Windows Phone.
BTW, The Nokia N8 cannot float in the air. But I sure can land better than the N9. No nursing required here.
300 USD is cheap.
Raw feature hardware wise I'd say the N8 wins. So let's just wait and see what the N8 OS upgrade has to offer to compete with the much more powerful Maemo Harmattan OS.
Some people tend to dislike the N8 Symbian^3 OS, but Symbian Belle has hit Navifirm, http://zomgitscj.com/2011/11/29/symb...p-on-navifirm/
So we will soon know how the better task manager (life program icons) performs on the 680Mhz main processor of the N8.
We also will look out for the web browsing performance.
Web browsing performance experience on the N8 will never touch the N9 and it remains to be seen if the improved web performance reported on the final version of Symbian Belle has a lot to do with the higher clocked 1Ghz processors in the Nokia 701 and other Symbian Belle phones or not.
Surely the N9 Webkit browser made a step backward from the N900's MicroB in terms of delivering today's complete web experience. (never mind HTML5 - flash is still there on the web)
But it is quick and there is the Fennec browser as an alternative which you can't have on an N8.
The display of the N8 is actually sharper to the eye, even though the pixel count is quite (too) low.
That is an observation I have made after seeing the N9. I always found the screen of the N8 inferior to the one on the N900 due to resolution and colour cast but since I got to know the N9 I know resolution is not everything.
It is too bad that we can't just pick a custom screen that fits our eye / usage scenario better.
After seeing the N9 I actually started liking the N8 more and I am thinking of getting one. Or maybe the rumoured N8-01 with higher res display.
In many ways I find the N8 to be one of the last real Nokia phones.
At release, I used to be disappointed that Nokia did not include a higher res screen a hardware keyboard together with the N8 package. It would have made it an instant classic.
But I have forgiven them and understood that they had to compete Nokia and Symbian out of the market to start all over with Windows Phone.
BTW, The Nokia N8 cannot float in the air. But I sure can land better than the N9. No nursing required here.
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2011-12-01
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I almost pulled the trigger today, but then I remembered that it was virtually impossible to use languages for typing that are not bundled with the market-specific firmware in Symbian (I need cyrillic), so I didn't. Anyone knows if Belle offers any improvements in this area?
As for browsing on the N8 there is also Opera Mobile which is quite nice actually, except for flash.
Last edited by Val Demar; 2011-12-01 at 06:57.
As for browsing on the N8 there is also Opera Mobile which is quite nice actually, except for flash.
Last edited by Val Demar; 2011-12-01 at 06:57.