Comments on: Video: Nokia N8 on (Russian) TV?

By: Sergey

Sergey — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:18:05 +0000

sorry . i didn’t see tranlation

By: Sergey

Sergey — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:15:12 +0000

i’am from russia. in this video talking about nokia N8. They say this phone not so good, because what he can do, another phone already doing. Multiple homescreen, integreted social network, multitouch and more

By: qwenjis

qwenjis — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:15:33 +0000

“N900 (with Maemo 5) flies with just 256mb RAM (though it does have +768mb virtual RAM)”
It’s a swap to be specific.Also don’t forget Maemo5 is linux-based system multytasking and doesn’t work the same as on symbian devices.

Back to the topic,it’s indeed one of major russian tv stations. Full translation of the video:
A future flagship of communicators by world market leader is already in Moscow. Nokia has introduced N8. However, the index is glued up and phone isn’t in the market yet and its software is constantly changed.Actually,software is what should have been if not a revolution but at minimum a big step forward.At least for Nokia.
N8 is the first phone based on Symbian^3. The most noticable changes from customer point of view are a few desktops and all of them can be customized with widgets. There are only 3 desktops but it’s a great improvement compared to the previous versions of Symbian.Multi-touch appeared across almost all applications.
The phone has integration with social services.There is an e-mail client and application called webTV for playing streaming video from tv-stations’ sites.
All in all the most part of improvements is implementation of possiblilities that has been used in other operating systems for a few years.However,it’s doubtful it can help with share of the market increase for Nokia.
Speaking to the hardware,N8 and Symbian^3 introduces the capability of disp;aying video and sound on TV with HDMI(supported HD and 5.1 multichannel sound),that makes the phone a pocket home-theater player.It’s not clear whether it becomes a popular feature considering the unusual HDMI-port size and constant need of carrying the special cable with you to show the power of the phone.
Another cable will allow customers to connect any USB flash-drive to the N8 to increase storage capability.The phone has 16Gb of internal memory and microSD slot.
It could be possible to call the phone thin but it has 12 mpx camera built on top of the phone body.
The phone should be for sale right afrer the new OS and its russian version gets rid of bugs.So it’s approximately at the end of the summer.

By: Jay Montano

Jay Montano — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:43:06 +0000

Sure thing boss. We’ll become iPhone blog for you, yes?

By: Jay Montano

Jay Montano — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:42:13 +0000

It pains me to agree that these cost cutting measures were not properly considered in the final LONGEVITY of the device’s performance.

Some argue that the N8 has enough for the majority of its target market. But why just “enough”?

N900 (with Maemo 5) flies with just 256mb RAM (though it does have +768mb virtual RAM). i8910 seems to run fine with 256mb – but with future apps that are more RAM hungry, multitasking those may prove difficult.

By: GordonH

GordonH — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:10:09 +0000

It must be a sin for Nokia to put extra ram in symbian devices. Symbian is the most mature mobile platform. But an unrewarding experience to depend on Nokia’s product decision makers. The OVI desktop is another big negative on Symbian’s image.
All I am trying to say is “Again Symbian is not at fault”

By: kaiwangailan

kaiwangailan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:35:16 +0000

please,turn it to iphone, don’t talk about nokia anymore,

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:31:30 +0000

ooops phone as in C:\ and not RAM

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:31:04 +0000

182 should be adequate when you consider the memory management and supposed writeable data paging aka virtual memory that S^3 is supposed to support but then again, given the N97 debacle I wouldnt be so sure.

By: Jay Montano

Jay Montano — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:23:50 +0000

Yup. Unless there’s a may to automatically force update, all these N8s are probably under different firmwares.

Even at the Nokia event in Singapore, handsets were performing at different levels to each other. Some fast and nippy, stable, whilst others crashed.