Hope that the delay in the shipping date means that Nokia will improve the UI more. Nokia will not want the N97 fiasco to happens again right?
OTOH, the firmware used in the vid were beta, prototype ones right?
If so, then it can explain the sluggishness in the UI.

Arm11 processor listed as the engine behind this beast on GSMarena
I'm somehow skeptical bout it...If im not mistaken, Nokia said that it was powered by 3rd gen mobile processor (or sumthin sounded like that)...And we know that Arm11 was so yesterday...
Please Nokia, not ARM11 please...Use the ARM Cortex A8 or better Snapdragon units please...Dun let N97 fiasco happened again because u skimped on the innards just to safe a few penny...PLEASE

Quoted from here

Yep...as long as there are no official announcement from Nokia regarding the processor used in this phone, I'll hoping dearly that Nokia will be using those newer processor, not the ARM11 based one...

If Nokia truly used ARM11 proc in this phone, I think they just shoot their own feet

Hmm...but does ARM11 processor support HDMI out and 720p recording?
Just curious

p/s: Build Quality? Doubt? Lol just 1 thing needed to be said....Anodised Aluminium

That's why I'm feeling skeptical as well.
If Nokia really used ARM11 based processor in N8, the only logical explanation I can think off was that Nokia was using Tegra in Nokia N8

Tegra 600 specs:


Copied from GSMArena N8 comments

ARM Cortex A8 running at 600mhz is equal to the Qualcomm Snapdragon running at 1Ghz

That will tell how powerful the processor is.

Damaged X6? Well lets say that we shares the same woes...the built quality of my X6 sux big time too...
But N8 was being crafted from a single aluminum piece...kinda like those Unibody Macs were...
Which is COOL

It seems that GSM Arena quote the processor to be an ARM11 type...which is weird as I dun think that ARM11 processor support HD recording + decoding

LOL...kinda remind me of the iPhone 2g and the fatty iPod Nano

AFAIK, anodised aluminium was used to build N8...hence, it is scratch resistant

Well it never hurt to have extra oomph readily available for usage right?

@Leo The Lion & ZeneticX

Yep...I also ran across a lot of comment saying that the processor used were the Omap3 ones...Lets keep our finger crossed shall we?

+1
The famous self harming N97 lens cover
But now been using X6 as my main device, N97 as backup

LOLwut?
Very true

*cough N97 cough*

Anyway, will wait for more reviews throughout the internet first before deciding whether to buy of not to buy...as of now, more inclined to buy N900 rather than this

This post has been edited by zero_kbom: Apr 28 2010, 12:42 AM

Yep..loves it lol
Now, Nokia, do the same event for the launching of N8?

Yup, it seems like both Nokia and Symbian Foundation skipped the Symbian^2
But some of the features already been ported to Symbian^1
Such as full kinetic scrolling in N97, X6, 5800 etc.
and the Homescreen Widgets on n97/ n97 mini

So basically, we already get a taste of Symbian^2

To be honest, the ARM11 processor cannot handle HD recording and decoding....Hence, there were some that says N8 actually running on Tegra 600 chipset, which also incorporates ARM11 processor....
Again, just speculating



Symbian^4 will be announced around next year I suppose...
To put it more simple, Symbian^3= Improves Symbian^1 (S60v5)
Symbian^4= The real deal



Well, Nokia positioned N8 as Media Creation and Consumption device...Hence, as a device that can record in HD, it also have to output it too rite?
Just my 2pc

LOL...Now you know rite why we were so thrilled on Symbian^3 and Symbian^4
Symbian Foundation really working hard on Symbian^4 so we can expect something good from them I hope

As Olli Pekka Kallasvuo (Nokia CEO) said:

"Symbian^4 will leapfrog the competition"

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Added on April 28, 2010, 3:46 pmHmm found this here



Maybe we can expect that the processor of N8 is quite good after all

This post has been edited by zero_kbom: Apr 28 2010, 03:47 PM

Woot woot...look what I've found when lurking around talk.maemo.org here

N8 hands on here
p/s: Well only Google Translated but better than nothing though





Sup! Poison2

Looking good eh?

Apparently, this hands on said that N8 was equipped with ARM11 processor + Broadcom GPU

This post has been edited by zero_kbom: Apr 28 2010, 04:37 PM

Maybe can install...as Symbian^3 maintain legacy app support whilst providing new tools to develop app (QT)
On the other hand, either it will be usable without any bug what so ever......we can only hope

But to be honest, I rarely used my Garmin anymore, Ovi Maps just simply awesome

Nokia N8 Question and Answers:

here

Hoping that the processor didn't bugger up the phone so much...after all the GPU was there to support it rite?

This post has been edited by zero_kbom: Apr 28 2010, 06:53 PM

Yup...the important thing was the OS optimization in the phone.
But again, there was really no fault in having extra oomph readily available under the hood rite?