The Nokia N8 is a Symbian smartphone from the Nokia Nseries.

Featuring Carl Zeiss optics and xenon flash, the N8 is the first Nokia camera phone to utilize a 12 megapixel camera sensor size of 1/1.83 , making it the largest image sensor in a camera phone at the time of its launch.The N8 display features a 3.5-inch (89 mm) 360 x 640 pixel color touchscreen, and is the first Nokia smartphone to run on the Symbian operating system with single-tap interaction, featuring the addition of multiple home screens, customization abilities, and multi-touch capabilities with gesture support. Among its connectivity features are HDMI out, Dolby Digital Plus sound, and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n support; the N8 is also the first device to feature a Pentaband 3.5G radio.

The Nokia N8 smartphone was made available at the official Nokia Online Store on September 23, 2010 and was released in select markets on October 1, 2010 The N8 became the product with the most customer pre-orders in Nokia's history up to the point of its release. To highlight the capabilities of the Nokia N8 camera, Nokia created a short film, The Commuter, in October 2010. Directed by the McHenry brothers and starring Dev Patel, Ed Westwick, Charles Dance and Pamela Anderson, the seven-minute film was shot entirely on the phone's 720p camera.

Design
Body
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Anodized aluminium unibody shell Available in silver white, dark grey, orange, blue and green (colour availability varies by country). Size: 113.5 59 12.9 mm Weight (with battery): 135 g (4.8 oz) Volume: 86 cm3 (5.2 cu in)

Keys and input methods

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Physical keys (menu key, power key, camera key, volume keys, lock slide) Finger touch support for text input and UI control On-screen alphanumeric keypad and full keyboard Possibility to use capacitive stylus Handwriting recognition for Chinese

Display
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3.5" capacitive touchscreen with Active-matrix OLED technology 640 360 pixels nHD (16:9 aspect ratio) 16.7 million colours Gorilla glass protective layer[14]

Sensors
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Orientation sensor Digital Compass (Magnetometer) Proximity sensor Ambient light detector

Personalisation
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Up to three customisable home screens Widgets Themes Customisable profiles Ring tones: MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB Video ring tones Themed icons, wallpapers, screensavers, audio themes Changeable colour themes

Hardware
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680 MHz ARM11 processor (ARM v6 architecture) Broadcom BCM2727 GPU[15] VideoCore III Multimedia Engine with dedicated 3D Graphics HW Accelerator with OpenGL-ES 1.1/2.0 support. 32 Mtriangles/sec[16][17] 16 GB internal memory MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 32 GB 256 MB RAM

Power Management
Althought the procedure is not endorsed by Nokia, [5][18] the battery has proven to be replaceable quite easily by removing two screws.[19]
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BL-4D 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery. Standard Nokia 3.5 mm charger connector Talk-time (maximum): o GSM 720 mins o WCDMA 350 mins Standby time (maximum): o GSM 390 h o WCDMA 400 h Video playback time (H.264 720p, 30 FPS, maximum): 6 h (via HDMI to TV) Video recording time (H.264 720p, 25 FPS, maximum): 3 h 20 mins Video call time (maximum): 160 mins Music playback time (offline mode, maximum): 50 h

Data Network
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GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 33 HSDPA Cat9, maximum speed up to 10.2 Mbit/s, HSUPA Cat5 2.0 Mbit/s

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WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g/n TCP/IP support Capability to serve as data modem Support for MS Outlook synchronization of contacts, calendar and notes

Connectivity
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Bluetooth 3.0 HDMI mini C connector High-Speed USB 2.0 Micro USB connector with USB charging o USB On-The-Go with built-in support for mass storage devices and HID keyboard and mice. 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector supporting the connection of hands-free headsets, regular headphones, or a Nokia TV-out cable. FM radio Short range FM transmitter

Operating Frequency
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Quadband GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 Pentaband WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 Automatic switching between WCDMA & GSM bands Flight mode

Software & applications

Software platform and user interface
The N8 will be the first device by Nokia with the Symbian^3 operating system. Symbian^3 was scheduled for the second quarter of 2010 but was pushed back to the third quarter.[11] Symbian^3 supports three home screens, each with up to six widgets that the user can customize. As with older versions of Symbian, multitasking is supported.[21] Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's Executive Vice President for Markets, said in an interview that quality control will be better than for the N97.[10] There is a greater emphasis on the user interface and easier usercontrols with Symbian^3 (such as consistency between menus, a commonly criticised factor of Symbian^1 devices). Contrary to rumours,[22] future Nseries devices have a strong possibility to be coupled with Symbian platform, specifically, Symbian^4.[23] Other software that will work on this mobile phone will be:
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Java MIDP 2.1 Qt (framework) 4.6.2, Web Runtime 7.2 o HTML 4.1 Software updates Over the Air (FOTA) and over the internet Flash Lite 4.0[24][unreliable source?][25] (Note: Flash Lite 4 has been made available via partner Calsoft)

OMA DM 1.2, OMA Client provisioning 1.1

Applications
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Key built in applications: calendar, contacts, music player, photos, videos, video and photo editors,[26] office document viewers with the possibility to upgrade to editing functionality at a cost, radio with RDS support PC Applications: Nokia Ovi Suite, Nokia Ovi Player

Personal Information Management (PIM)

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Detailed contact information Calendar To-do list Notes Recorder Calculator Support for iSync

Communications
Email and messaging
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Easy-to-use email client with attachment support for images, videos, music and documents .doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf, .zip HTML support for email Unified email client for multiple protocols: Yahoo! mail, Gmail, Windows Live, Hotmail and other popular POP3/IMAP services, Mail For Exchange, IBM Lotus traveler Editing of key office documents Email web widget for home screen Unified MMS/SMS editor

Sharing & Internet

Browsing and internet
Full web browsing of real web pages
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Web browsing with touch control Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS Supported protocols: HTTP v1.1, WAP TCP/IP support Visual history, HTML and JavaScript support, Flash Lite 4.0 and Flash video support Nokia Mobile Search RSS reader Support for streaming video

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Unified home screen access to Facebook and Twitter through Ovi by Nokia Social client Social networking profiles visible in phone contacts Upload and view photos and video and see locations via Ovi by Nokia Social client Social networking events visible in phone calendar

Navigation
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Integrated GPS, with A-GPS functionality Ovi Maps with free car and pedestrian navigation Wi-Fi Positioning Compass and accelerometer for correct orientation of display Nokia Map Loader application via PC to upload maps to the device memory

Photography
Camera
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12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics Xenon flash Focal length: 28 mm Aperture: f/2.8 Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy-to-use touchscreen parameters Camera sensor size: 1/1.83 [5] Autofocus Smart Zoom up to 3 (digital) for still images Smart Zoom up to 2 (digital) for video Secondary VGA camera for video calls

Image capture
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Automatic location tagging of images and videos Images automatically taken in the correct orientation Still images file format: JPEG/Exif View photos by tag cloud, month, album, slide show Face recognition software Photo editor Online Share with connectivity to popular sharing services

Other
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Internal mass memory: 16 GB MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 32 GB High-Speed microUSB to PC connectivity

Video

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Main camera o Video capture in 720p 25 FPS with codecs H.264, MPEG-4 o Settings for scene, white balance, colour tone o Dual microphones for stereo audio recording Secondary 1.3 megapixel (Carl Zeiss Optics[citation needed]) camera for video calls

Video sharing and playback

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HD 720p Video playback on HD TV through HDMI cable Dolby Digital Plus surround sound when played with HDMI & a home theatre Support for download, streaming, and progressive download Video editing software Access to last-played video and easy resume Videos application: collection of stored videos On demand Web TV widgets to watch local and global internet streaming TV Support for Flash video Support for Xvid/Divx video format for a maximum resolution of 1280720, officially Divx certified.[27] YouTube browsing and streaming Web TV Video call and video sharing support (WCDMA network services) Video codecs and formats o H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, Sorenson Spark VGA 15 FPS, Realvideo 10 QVGA 30 FPS, Matroska[5] o Streaming: H.264, Flash Lite 4, Flash 10 compatibility for video, On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark

Music & audio

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Cover flow user interface to browse the albums in your music collection Comes With Music service on selected markets Nokia music player Ovi music store Music codecs: MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB o Bit rate up to 320 kbps Digital rights management support: Windows Media DRM and OMA DRM 2.0 Short range FM transmitter Stereo FM radio (87.5108 MHz/7690 MHz) with RDS Wolfson sound IC

Accessories
The Nokia Mobile TV Headset provides DVB-H TV.[28]

Development support

Development can be done using the Nokia Qt software development kit.