Rumours resurface: Nokia N8 Camera successor, Symbian, WVGA, Spring 2012.
We’ve been following news of the supposed N8 successor for a long while. Already around April fools, we heard of some 14mp qHD N8-01 that of course never surfaced.
An N8 successor though is completely out of the question. We know Nokia is working on something called True-Zoom (something they had mentioned) and earlier in August, we heard rumours of this possibly in the works with Symbian. Note, that additional rumours from the same source was true – 700 was available as predicted in September (all before 700 was even launched).
Later, some rumours with less substance came up, the 801.
Anyway, history refresh done, rumour-mill begins again on the N8 camera successor, coming by way of unwiredview.
- bigger camera sensor (not sure about resolution),
- optical zoom,
- 3.5” WVGA Clear Black display with Gorilla Glass,
- 1GHz CPU, 512MB
- Symbian
N8 to this day over 1 year on is still the best camera you can get on any phone. That’s a testament to Nokia’s brilliance in imaging, but we should always be striving to be better. We really need Nokia to step up again with N8 because what’s currently representing Nokia now in camera is the N9 and 800, neither of which can really pull off the magic of the N8.
Source: unwiredview
Cheers Mapantz and Aymen for the tip!
Category: N8 Successor, Nokia, Rumours, Symbian
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Operating system: Symbian-Accenture
CPU : Dual Cortex Arm CPU 1GHz.
RAM : 1GB RAM
GPU : PowerGL
screen : 4.3” Capacitive Clear Black IPS LCD screen, curved glass display
batery:1650 mAh.
camera: 16MP AutoFocus Lens Carl-Zeiss / Schneider-Kruznach / LEICA
Internal Memory: 16GB
Phone Memory : 1GB
Lights : Dual LED with Xenon.
hopefully, although I prefer to be a screen of 4 “
Good, the contrast in AMOLED’s is still better. And I don’t think it should exceed 4″ for a camera phone.
where did you get this info?? thanks…
Awwww keep the screen with AMOLED, we need a good AMOLED screen for the quality of photos
I agree. Get lost backlit LCDs, I like screens that can show me a clock and notifications without having to press anything.
Hahahahahahaha…
Or a Broadcom BCM2763 GPU, it can support 20MP and 1080p 30fps
:D:D
keep dreaming. If the past is any indication with nokia everything will be half what you listed except camera maybe.
Sorry to disappoint you, but the new N8 will be like the new C7 (now Nokia 701), with 1 GHz single-core CPU, 512 MB RAM, NFC and 12 MP camera with optical zoom. Nothing else.
I agree with that. Nokia will not deliver a Symbian phone with a fast processor and plenty RAM. That would be to stiff competition for the WP models. On the other hand the N9 will probably be my last Nokia phone. Good luck to Nokia selling locked in WP phones to idiots. At least thats a good business model/ It is born one every minute…
The next successor should have a 14mp camera with better and more advanced optical zoom. It should also have full HD 1080 recording with the possibility of zoom (even if its x2) in video mode.
Nokia should also improve their screen resolution. All this is available in the market, nokia just needs to combine everything and come up with something brilliant.
PS I wish the next successor has the above features.
it should have a 16:9 screen!
Dam, i hope they put a 12MP + n8 style optics phone for windows, cause thats their future, if they put a 12MP on a windows nokia 900 and a 16mp on a symbian n8-01 then thats still even better!.but we need better zooming, somthing like optical but way less bulkiness. Cant wait for MWC regardless, i wasnt too excited with mobile world apart from the windows OS itself, the mobiles statts were pretty average, its the 900 series im dying to see!
wondered what kind of nokia n8 successor
If they’re ever going to release a N8 successor i guess they would do it with the next release of Symbian (You know the one starting with C). They did it with all major releases. X7 with Anna, 700/701 with Belle.
I’m sure Nokia would love to put it into a WP7 phone but luckily (for us few symbian fans) WP7 can’t handle it and the other phone manufacturer’s are inching closer to Nokia photo quality (though the N8 optics is faaaar ahead still)
I would like to see MHL 1080p video output through USB instead of HDMI.
Why? Isn’t it better to have separate USB and HDMI ports?
exactly. so we can have HDMI output while charging at the same time
hmm, good point. Let’s just hope Nokia will not decide to sacrifice HDMI to save some space (or to make device thinner).
Bads news for those of us who expect an N8 successor sporting Symbian instead of Windows Phone… Windows Phone can use 12+ megapixels sensors, just look at the Fujitsu IS12T, it use a 13.2 megapixel sensor, but only record vids @ 720p (Qualcomm MSM8655 limits).
Of course still I don’t know if the Imagin Software in Windows Phone can really take advantage of that big sensor or if it can handle in a way that really make the N8 camera look outdated.
Sorry for Windows Lovers, but I’m crossing my fingers for the N8 succesor being a Symbian phone with really high specs; If Symbian has to die it deserve to leave the world with a BIG punch/kaboom.
Ah, forgot that phone.. so where do these claims that WP could not handle a top end Nokia camera stem from (besides the current 720p limitation)? I gather, if it is true, and as you also speculate it would have to do with porting and integration of Nokia propriatary camera/imaging code to WP? Or is it something else?
I don’t how much can do Nokia with the integration of its own camera/imagin code into WP for the MWC at february when the succesor of the N8 should be shown to the public.
I’m not wrogn the allege Nokia stamp on Windows Phone will appear in the next big update, but the thing is, when is expected the next update of Windows Phone???, no Windows 8, it’s far from being ready until 2013 at least. It Windows Phone Apollo/Tango isn’t ready for first half of the next year then the N8 sucessor will be a Symbian device, have in mind that there is an update for Symbian called Symbian C, and that software will need a new Hardware. But who know, I’m only making an excersice of imainagination…
You are very likely right though.
+1000
JAY, wanted to ask you something O.o ! Which plugin are you using for the “subscribe box” at the top right ?
My only question is; what happened to the N8-01′s qHD display? The one seen on Ovi Publish? Why downgrade? Why change the ratio from current 16:9 and 4:3?
What I’d really like to see isn’t really a higher pixel count for the still camera. 12 Mp is plenty for a sensor this size. A larger sensor sounds interesting though, and if we could even attach external lenses… Why not Nokia, go out there and be a bit crazy.
Also a way to manually control aperture and shutter speed would be nice.
Of course 1080p res for video clips would be nice, if only to be able to claim competitiveness.
Higher quality stereo mics would be great as well – and please place them both on the front! The ones on my N8 are good, but could definitely be improved.
And finally better app support for the camera would be nice, heck better app support in general would be nice.
Such features would be differentiators, though clearly geared towards a niche market.
And then there’s Symbian. We will have Belle soon, but what comes next? Jay, maybe it’s time to start talking about that? Will there be a sucessor to Belle? And what will it feature? We know that Office is coming next year anyhow, so Symbian won’t be dead, might as well keep improving it.
I hope that next version of Symbian phones support USB hub through USB-OTG so I can connect all keyboard, mouse, flash drive and external hdd at one time. Well, this only just a hope.
Why bother with Symbian at all?
If they are not going to with WP as the OS for this camera phone, why not go with Harmattan/Meego/Maemo (whatever it is now called!)?
That would be a true QT flagship phone instead of the N9.
I want them to, ’cause I already own one
Besides, the Symbian app store is still bigger than the Meego one and there are some interesting Microsoft apps coming in the spring. With Symbian/Meego they can still do some crazy stuff, that they won’t be able to with WP because of the restrictions on that platform. I really digg the ability to just hook the phone up to my pc and transfer any file as if i was a normal harddrive, I use the FM transmitter regularly and I love the camera. With Belle it sounds like Symbian is finally nearing an acceptable user experience level, though a faster processor would probably help in certain cases.
Nokia already has significant investment in Symbian and have put out the N8, which they could refine at potentially less investment than if they were to try and make an equivalent Meego device. (I don’t know enough about the inner workings at Nokia to state anything like this, but there you go).
As long as WP hasn’t taken off for Nokia, they need to keep Symbian alive as that is still their biggest smartphone platform. If they were to let it go and linger, they would face huge risk if the success of WP is delayed (or never materializes) – IMHO.
Hope this helps explain why I still think that a Symbian based N8 successor would be able to add something valuable to the market. Whether I’d actually buy it, depends on the execution and on the alternatives of course
waiting Nokia i am waiting for this one….
I have seen the n8 make iphone lovers speechless
wonder what this beast will bring with it ……
IMO
a 4 in cbd display
better battery more RAM
as someone has already written speakers on front or on sides much better
AND DEAR NOKIA as emerging markets are still your biggest strengths put WIRELESS FM
Looking at Nokia’s current design philosophy I tend to believe the N8 successor would be radically different then the current N8. Think the N9 running Symbian Belle with a newly designed Carl Zeiss 14mp camera, it would make sense from a design standpoint.
Nokia likes to throw off the competition now a little but I like your idea of the N9(curved glass) and I’ll throw in the N9′s OS on top, because of current N9 sales numbers. I think this is really ACE.
keep dreaming.. nokia is rolling out a mega(150+ features like !new icons..)update once a year and you already want them to craft a supercameraphone to make ultraHD video with optical zoom.. be more realistic, if you want to take great photos just buy a camera(with better performance and price).. For moments you don’t want to miss the already existing phones capture them with quite a good quality.
nokia just takes time with their software. when it comes to hardware, they are amazingly quick, just like how they showed the kinetic phone just with poor software support.