The Nokia N8, Nokia's most advanced smartphone, intuitively connects to the people, places and services that matter most. This is one of Nokia's new phones where, people can create compelling content, connect to their favourite social networks and enjoy on-demand Web TV programs and Ovi Store apps.
This amazing new phone is available in select markets during the third quarter of 2010, the N8 touch screen phone has an the estimated retail price of the Nokia N8 is €370, before applicable taxes or subsidies.
“The Nokia N8 offers better imaging capabilities than any other mobile device in history,” says Jo Harlow, Head of Smartphones at Nokia.
With a supreme 12 megapixel Carl Zeiss optics with Xenon flash, the Nokia N8 smartphone introduces the ability to record HD-quality videos and edit them with an intuitive built-in editing suite. Doubling as a portable entertainment center, people can enjoy HD quality video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by plugging into their home theatre system. The Nokia N8 smartphone also offers Web TV services that deliver programs, news and entertainment from channels like CNN, E! Entertainment, Paramount and National Geographic, additional local Web TV content is also available from the Ovi Store.
“Social networking is second nature to the Nokia N8,” adds Harlow.
With Facebook and Twitter feeds live in one view on the homescreen, people can comment, read and send messages, update their status, share their location and photos. Missing meet ups become a distant memory with the Nokia N8 smartphone transferring your Facebook events directly into your calendar.
The Nokia N8 comes with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation, guiding people to places and points of interest in more than 70 countries worldwide. It will be hosted on Check out more at www.nokia.com/n8.
Symbian^3 in action
Powering the Nokia N8 is the latest edition of the world’s most used smartphone software, Symbian^3. This latest version introduces several major advances, including multi-touch and support for gestures such as pinch-to-zoom. The Nokia N8 offers multiple customizable homescreens which can be loaded with applications and widgets, and moved with a simple flick. The new 2D and 3D graphics architecture takes full advantage of the Nokia N8’s hardware acceleration to deliver a faster and more responsive user interface. With greater memory management and a visual task manager, Symbian^3 raises the bar in multitasking performance, allowing more applications to run in parallel for a faster multi-tasking experience.
Getting Qt for Developers
The Nokia N8 is Nokia’s first new device model to be integrated with Qt, a software development environment that simplifies the development and makes it possible to build applications once and deploy across Symbian and other software platforms. Nokia has also made the powerful and simple to use Nokia Qt SDK available, in its initial beta, to enable developers to start realizing the potential of Qt.
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