Nokia N8 Black

Nokia N8 Black

The Nokia N8 Black is a smartphone/camera phone powerhouse. It has a truly brilliant 12-megapixel camera Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and a large sensor that Nokia claims will rival those found in compact digital cameras. The N8 Black also allows people to create their own HD quality videos, watch on-demand web TV shows and connect to their favourite social networks.
Symbian 3 operating system
Symbian is the world's most used smartphone software and this latest version supports multi-touch, flick scrolling and pinch and zoom gestures. It also means that you can customise your Nokia homescreen which can be loaded with a host of apps and widgets and run these different features at the same time.
12-megapixel camera
This speaks for itself – it is a truly impressive camera and will take mobile photography to the next level. The camera Carl Zeiss optics, auto focus and Xenon flash.
HD video recording The Nokia N8 allows you to shoot and edit HD-quality video recordings with its video recorder and intuitive built-in editing suite. You can then share your videos over Facebook or watch it on your home entertainment system in Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by plugging your phone into it.
TV on your phone
The smartphone enables access to web TV channels and programmes from the likes of CNN, E! Entertainment, Paramount and National Geographic. And more local web TV content can be found in the Ovi store.
Ovi Store
Nokia's Ovi Store is home to heaps of great applications and will soon have a football channel aimed at helping customers to celebrate the World Cup.
Social networking
Update your various profiles, share photographs and view live feeds from Facebook and Twitter in a single app on your homescreen. Calendar events from your various social network diaries can be added to the N8's calendar so you really have no excuse for forgetting a date or gig.
Touch screen
The Nokia N8's 3.5-inch AMOLED touch screen display is large with bright, vibrant colours and its capacitive technology responds solely to your fingers for a more responsive experience – there are even multi-touch capabilities and an accelerometer.
Great connectivity
The Nokia smartphone has 3G, HSDPA (mobile broadband) and Wi-Fi providing an excellent mobile internet experience.
GPS
There's no need to get lost with the Nokia N8's inbuilt GPS that acts as a general Sat Nav device when used with mapping software and it's optimised for use with Google Maps.
Music Player
The Nokia N8 has a music player that supports most digital formats including MP3 and AAC. It also supports 32GB MicroSD cards letting you store thousands of tracks on the mobile phone.