that's why i don exactly plan to get first batch....

but if it's a hardware problem it cant really be solved apart from throwing it back to service centre to fix/exchange

the 5800 incident tells me to beware of first batch....

n95 no issue..the older products all have good QC, recent though, dunno why phones would have problems one

better not, cos nokia's marketting is never as good as apple, launching at the same time will only cause direct comparison with iphone 4G which somehow apple's marketting gonna make it looks 10x better then the N8...so better avoid that

it has, it promotes it's phone as a very wide function, simple to use smartphone, which is capable to provide from home user multimedia functions to businessman's email functions

well of coz it has office document readers and pdf readers la....just is the MAC version of it

well...see the sales amount, that's why i say it's pure marketing, although most user are happy with it...
most ppl, including me, interested in iphone is just purely because of the amount of apps, and the game graphics...of coz, this phone will beat my purpose to it, if the game titles keep coming that it

well, yeah, they manage to con consumers to get, then drag a whole bunch of software company to develop for them, and right now, even with lacking of key feature and outdated hardware, it still sells like hot cake, it's because of application availability...the only one that can match in near future is gonna be android

still depends, nokia need to create a lot of hypes on this phone, make consumers tempted, and then try to drag major devs to develop for OVI store, just like apple's tactic...or else i'd say the number will grow, but it will not be rapid...

well, it's said to be Q3 this year, no detail on exact date yet
suit sure can suit, it's just the matter of getting used to it...

i tot the left port is the 3.5mm jack?

to put it simple, Dobly is about how u do it, the method, where THX is what u product, the result

Dobly doesnt care the result as long as u implement your sound processing using their method, where THX, doesnt really care how u process the sound, as long as it meets their defined standard in sound quality

this one have many factor, the profile they use, the bitrate, the compression method...
i believe that it could play smooth in 720p, cos even with OMAP 3430, 720p playback is already smooth, not to mention playing it on OMAP 3630, which is higher spec

from my understanding on existing symbian^1 and the N8's symbian^3, the kernal will still be similar, if not the same, all they did was optimize the codings, polish the UI, so i bet most the symbian^1 apps would still work on it, personally, i hope garmin would work on it...don really wanna rely on that OVI maps, i heard the accurate aint as good...

however i think they could just use some prettier icons, cos although the s60v5 icons are nice to look, it kinda feels out dated when it was used on a new OS..

hmm..2k, maybe can make it by then....yeah

btw just read back about the arguement in CPU vs GPU decoding...for those that don understand, pls google software decode vs hardware decode or something..GPU, even low ends ones, are capable of much higher computing power compared to ur CPU, there's various sites that benchmarked, with CPU, 1080p is laggy and frameskipping, and it's on full load(100% usage), and when they turn on hardware acceleration(GPU decode), not only did the CPU usage went as low as to almost idle(cos there are other programs that are running as well), the video played smoothly...hardware acceleration is very good in terms of performance and also cutting down battery usage, and imagine something that can render OpenGL2.0 graphics, i bet the performance is dunno how many times better then the 680Mhz CPU...so, yeah, GPU > CPU

This post has been edited by BBXiong: May 24 2010, 09:36 AM

well, what u said is true, power consumption is another angle to see this..i guess the GPU with 720p will drain battery fast...but look at it this way as well, to be fair, i don think that mere 680Mhz CPU will be able to deliver the smooth 720p , as a Atom 1.6Ghz also failed to do so..so for N8 it's more like GPU is the only way to archive that..so, if u really wanna cut down the battery usage...i suggest, don use 720p at all

nor the HDMI playback....
so u're safe...but spamming the camera also will drain battery quite fast one

using HDMI to output to HDTV and play video lor...in other words, playing 720p on ur plasma

had to send back to nokia
i wish it has some external battery pack solution, or the traveller charger that nokia once manufactured..those would be good for prolonged usage

well to be fair its res is already sharp enough...extra pixel would bring more stress to GPU on gaming, and smaller fonts...
i think 600 x 360 is best for its screen size