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Digital Camera class (10MP)- Canon’s s90 Digital Camera - 1/1.7
Smartphone class (12MP)-Nokia N8 - 1/1.83 (12MP)- Sony Ericsson Satio– 1/2.5″ (12MP)- Samsung Pixon12 – 1/2.5″ (8MP)- Nokia N86 8MP – 1/2.5″ (8MP)- Sony Ericsson Vivaz – 1/3.2″ (5MP) - Iphone 4 - 1/3.2"
The lower the number the better.
The size of a camera sensor will have a big impact on the quality of your pictures. The lens gathers light and directs it towards the sensor, and the sensor records the light to create the image. Large sensor produces better images
All things being equal, a larger sensor will receive more light than a smaller one, and produce better images. This is especially important in low light photography.
When light levels are low, a smaller sensor will generate a higher amount of noise, which will decrease the quality of the images. This is why the best low-light setups include a camera with a large sensor (usually a DSLR) and a lens with a large aperture.
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Firmware Release History
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1. Release: PR1.0, V011.012, Date: 18 Sep 2010
Nokia N8 Product Codes List
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General Product Code List: 0599324 : APAC1 BLU CAMBODIA 0599322 : APAC1 BLU INDONESIA 0599321 : APAC1 BLU MALAYSIA 0599320 : APAC1 BLU SINGAPORE 0599247 : APAC1 DG CAMBODIA 0599246 : APAC1 DG INDONESIA 0599245 : APAC1 DG MALAYSIA 0599243 : APAC1 DG SINGAPORE 0599300 : APAC1 GR CAMBODIA 0599299 : APAC1 GR INDONESIA 0599298 : APAC1 GR MALAYSIA 0599297 : APAC1 GR SINGAPORE 0599338 : APAC1 OR CAMBODIA 0599337 : APAC1 OR INDONESIA 0599336 : APAC1 OR MALAYSIA 0599335 : APAC1 OR SINGAPORE 0599267 : APAC1 WH CAMBODIA 0599266 : APAC1 WH INDONESIA 0599264 : APAC1 WH MALAYSIA 0599261 : APAC1 WH SINGAPORE 0599326 : APAC2 BLU AUSTRALIA 0599329 : APAC2 BLU BANGLADESH 0599328 : APAC2 BLU EMERGING ASIA 0599327 : APAC2 BLU NEW ZEALAND 0599325 : APAC2 BLU PHILIPPINES 0599249 : APAC2 DG AUSTRALIA 0599254 : APAC2 DG BANGLADESH 0599251 : APAC2 DG EMERGING ASIA 0599250 : APAC2 DG NEW ZEALAND 0599248 : APAC2 DG PHILIPPINES 0599302 : APAC2 GR AUSTRALIA 0599305 : APAC2 GR BANGLADESH 0599304 : APAC2 GR EMERGING ASIA 0599303 : APAC2 GR NEW ZEALAND 0599301 : APAC2 GR PHILIPPINES 0599340 : APAC2 OR AUSTRALIA 0599344 : APAC2 OR BANGLADESH 0599342 : APAC2 OR EMERGING ASIA 0599341 : APAC2 OR NEW ZEALAND 0599339 : APAC2 OR PHILIPPINES 0599271 : APAC2 WH AUSTRALIA 0599277 : APAC2 WH BANGLADESH 0599275 : APAC2 WH EMERGING ASIA 0599273 : APAC2 WH NEW ZEALAND 0599268 : APAC2 WH PHILIPPINES 0599902 : BALKANS BLU 0599903 : BALKANS BLU SERBIA 0599774 : BALKANS DG 0599775 : BALKANS DG SERBIA 0599850 : BALKANS GR 0599851 : BALKANS GR SERBIA 0599925 : BALKANS OR 0599927 : BALKANS OR SERBIA 0599831 : BALKANS WH 0599832 : BALKANS WH SERBIA 0599904 : BALTIAN BLU 0599776 : BALTIAN DG 0599852 : BALTIAN GR 0599930 : BALTIAN OR 0599833 : BALTIAN WH 0599234 : BRAZIL BLUE 0599221 : BRAZIL DARK GREY 0599229 : BRAZIL GREEN 0599241 : BRAZIL ORANGE 0599225 : BRAZIL WHITE 0598807 : CHINA PRC BLUE 0598797 : CHINA PRC DARK GREY 0598804 : CHINA PRC GREEN 0598810 : CHINA PRC ORANGE 0598800 : CHINA PRC SILVER WHITE 0599901 : CIS BLU 0599003 : CIS BLU BELARUS 0599773 : CIS DG 0598983 : CIS DG BELARUS 0599849 : CIS GR 0598999 : CIS GR BELARUS 0599921 : CIS OR 0599008 : CIS OR BELARUS 0599830 : CIS WH 0598992 : CIS WH BELARUS 0599892 : EURO1 BLU ALPS 0599891 : EURO1 BLU FRANCE 0599857 : EURO1 BLU ITALY 0599890 : EURO1 BLU MALTA 0599001 : EURO1 BLU UK IRELAND 0599758 : EURO1 DG ALPS 0599756 : EURO1 DG FRANCE 0599750 : EURO1 DG ITALY 0599751 : EURO1 DG MALTA 0598980 : EURO1 DG UK IRELAND 0599840 : EURO1 GR ALPS 0599839 : EURO1 GR FRANCE 0599836 : EURO1 GR ITALY 0599838 : EURO1 GR MALTA 0598997 : EURO1 GR UK IRELAND 0599911 : EURO1 OR ALPS 0599910 : EURO1 OR FRANCE 0599907 : EURO1 OR ITALY 0599908 : EURO1 OR MALTA 0599006 : EURO1 OR UK IRELAND 0599817 : EURO1 WH ALPS 0599816 : EURO1 WH FRANCE 0599814 : EURO1 WH ITALY 0599815 : EURO1 WH MALTA 0598986 : EURO1 WH UK IRELAND 0599893 : EURO2 BLU 0599894 : EURO2 BLU GERMANY 0599895 : EURO2 BLU TURKEY 0599761 : EURO2 DG 0599762 : EURO2 DG GERMANY 0599764 : EURO2 DG TURKEY 0599841 : EURO2 GR 0599842 : EURO2 GR GERMANY 0599843 : EURO2 GR TURKEY 0599912 : EURO2 OR 0599913 : EURO2 OR GERMANY 0599914 : EURO2 OR TURKEY 0599819 : EURO2 WH 0599820 : EURO2 WH GERMANY 0599821 : EURO2 WH TURKEY 0599896 : EURO3 BLU 0599766 : EURO3 DG 0599823 : EURO3 DS 0599844 : EURO3 GR 0599915 : EURO3 OR 0599906 : HISPANIA BLU 0599778 : HISPANIA DG 0599855 : HISPANIA GR 0599933 : HISPANIA OR 0599835 : HISPANIA WH 0598806 : HONG KONG BLUE 0598794 : HONG KONG DARK GREY 0598803 : HONG KONG GREEN 0598809 : HONG KONG ORANGE 0598799 : HONG KONG SILVER WHITE 0599330 : INDIA BLU 0599255 : INDIA DG 0599313 : INDIA GR 0599346 : INDIA OR 0599278 : INDIA WH 0599905 : ISRAEL BLU 0599777 : ISRAEL DG 0599853 : ISRAEL GR 0599931 : ISRAEL OR 0599834 : ISRAEL WH 0599231 : LTA BLUE 0599232 : LTA BLUE ARGENTINA 0599219 : LTA DARK GREY 0599220 : LTA DARK GREY ARGENTINA 0599227 : LTA GREEN 0599228 : LTA GREEN ARGENTINA 0599239 : LTA ORANGE 0599240 : LTA ORANGE ARGENTINA 0599223 : LTA WHITE 0599224 : LTA WHITE ARGENTINA 0599456 : MEA1 BLU 0599387 : MEA1 DG 0599435 : MEA1 GR 0599469 : MEA1 OR 0599422 : MEA1 WH 0599464 : MEA10 BLU 0599397 : MEA10 DG 0599443 : MEA10 GR 0599479 : MEA10 OR 0599430 : MEA10 WH 0599465 : MEA11 BLU 0599398 : MEA11 DG 0599444 : MEA11 GR 0599480 : MEA11 OR 0599431 : MEA11 WH 0599466 : MEA12 BLU 0599399 : MEA12 DG 0599445 : MEA12 GR 0599481 : MEA12 OR 0599432 : MEA12 WH 0599467 : MEA13 BLU 0599400 : MEA13 DG 0599446 : MEA13 GR 0599482 : MEA13 OR 0599433 : MEA13 WH 0599468 : MEA14 BLU 0599401 : MEA14 DG 0599447 : MEA14 GR 0599483 : MEA14 OR 0599434 : MEA14 WH 0599457 : MEA2 BLU 0599390 : MEA2 DG 0599436 : MEA2 GR 0599470 : MEA2 OR 0599423 : MEA2 WH 0599458 : MEA3 BLU 0599391 : MEA3 DG 0599437 : MEA3 GR 0599471 : MEA3 OR 0599424 : MEA3 WH 0599459 : MEA4 BLU 0599392 : MEA4 DG 0599438 : MEA4 GR 0599472 : MEA4 OR 0599425 : MEA4 WH 0599460 : MEA6 BLU SYRIA 0599393 : MEA6 DG SYRIA 0599439 : MEA6 GR SYRIA 0599474 : MEA6 OR SYRIA 0599426 : MEA6 WH SYRIA 0599461 : MEA8 BLU 0599462 : MEA8 BLU SUDAN 0599394 : MEA8 DG 0599395 : MEA8 DG SUDAN 0599440 : MEA8 GR 0599441 : MEA8 GR SUDAN 0599475 : MEA8 OR 0599476 : MEA8 OR SUDAN 0599427 : MEA8 WH 0599428 : MEA8 WH SUDAN 0599463 : MEA9 BLU 0599396 : MEA9 DG 0599442 : MEA9 GR 0599478 : MEA9 OR 0599429 : MEA9 WH 0599230 : NAM BLUE 0599218 : NAM DARK GREY 0599226 : NAM GREEN 0599236 : NAM ORANGE 0599222 : NAM WHITE 0599002 : RUSSIAN BLU 0599900 : RUSSIAN BLU BULGARIA ROMANIA 0599899 : RUSSIAN BLU HUNGARY 0599898 : RUSSIAN BLU MOLDOVA 0599897 : RUSSIAN BLU UKRAINE 0598981 : RUSSIAN DG 0599772 : RUSSIAN DG BULGARIA ROMANIA 0599771 : RUSSIAN DG HUNGARY 0599769 : RUSSIAN DG MOLDOVA 0599767 : RUSSIAN DG UKRAINE 0598998 : RUSSIAN GR 0599848 : RUSSIAN GR BULGARIA ROMANIA 0599847 : RUSSIAN GR HUNGARY 0599846 : RUSSIAN GR MOLDOVA 0599845 : RUSSIAN GR UKRAINE 0599007 : RUSSIAN OR 0599920 : RUSSIAN OR BULGARIA ROMANIA 0599919 : RUSSIAN OR HUNGARY 0599918 : RUSSIAN OR MOLDOVA 0599917 : RUSSIAN OR UKRAINE 0598988 : RUSSIAN WH 0599829 : RUSSIAN WH BULGARIA ROMANIA 0599827 : RUSSIAN WH HUNGARY 0599826 : RUSSIAN WH MOLDOVA 0599824 : RUSSIAN WH UKRAINE 0599005 : SCANDINAVIA BLU 0598984 : SCANDINAVIA DG 0599000 : SCANDINAVIA GR 0599009 : SCANDINAVIA OR 0598996 : SCANDINAVIA WH 0598805 : TAIWAN BLUE 0598786 : TAIWAN DARK GREY 0598802 : TAIWAN GREEN 0598808 : TAIWAN ORANGE 0598798 : TAIWAN SILVER WHITE 0599334 : THAILAND BLU 0599258 : THAILAND DG 0599316 : THAILAND GR 0599360 : THAILAND OR 0599281 : THAILAND WH 0599332 : VIETNAM BLU 0599256 : VIETNAM DG 0599314 : VIETNAM GR 0599359 : VIETNAM OR 0599280 : VIETNAM WH
Country Variant Product Code List:
059B823 : APAC2 BLU NEPAL 059B939 : APAC2 BLU SRI LANKA 059B819 : APAC2 DG NEPAL 059B936 : APAC2 DG SRI LANKA 059B822 : APAC2 GR NEPAL 059B938 : APAC2 GR SRI LANKA 059B825 : APAC2 OR NEPAL 059B940 : APAC2 OR SRI LANKA 059B821 : APAC2 WH NEPAL 059B937 : APAC2 WH SRI LANKA 059D358 : CIS KAZAKHSTAN BLU 059D355 : CIS KAZAKHSTAN DG 059D357 : CIS KAZAKHSTAN GR 059D359 : CIS KAZAKHSTAN OR 059D356 : CIS KAZAKHSTAN WH 059B3X6 : LTA BLUE CHILE 059B3W9 : LTA DARK GREY CHILE 059B3X4 : LTA GREEN CHILE 059B3X7 : LTA ORANGE CHILE 059B3X3 : LTA WHITE CHILE 059D236 : MEA OMU BLU 059D239 : MEA OMU DG 059D237 : MEA OMU GR 059D235 : MEA OMU OR 059D238 : MEA OMU WH 059D624 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Austria AT Dark Grey V1 059D7G3 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Austria AT Green V1_COLOR 059D7G4 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Austria AT White SIlver V1_COLOR 059D003 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Belgium BE v1 Dark Grey 059C9Z4 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Belgium BE v1 Silver white_COLOR 059C819 : 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N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Norway NO Dark Grey 059D4R0 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Norway NO Green_COLOR 059D4Q5 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Norway NO Silver White_COLOR 059D753 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Singapore SG Blue V1_COLOR 059D0W6 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Singapore SG Dark Grey v1 059D0W4 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Singapore SG Green V1_COLOR 059D752 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Singapore SG Orange V1_COLOR 059D0W9 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Singapore SG Silver White V1_COLOR 059D9H2 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Sweden SE Blue_COLOR 059C852 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Sweden SE Dark Grey 059D5P4 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Sweden SE Green_COLOR 059D9H0 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Sweden SE Orange_COLOR 059D5N7 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Sweden SE Silver White_COLOR 059D8L8 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Switzerland CH Blue V1_COLOR 059D1K6 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Switzerland CH Dark Grey V1 059D8L5 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Switzerland CH Orange V1_COLOR 059D1V6 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Switzerland CH Green V1_COLOR 059D1W3 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Switzerland CH Silver White V1_COLOR 059D576 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Turkey TR V1 DARK GREY 059D956 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Turkey TR V1 GREEN_COLOR 059D954 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant Turkey TR V1 SILVER WHITE_COLOR 059C5Q6 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant United Kingdom GB CU Blue_COLOR 059C5Q4 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant United Kingdom GB CU Green_COLOR 059C5Q5 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant United Kingdom GB CU ORANGE_COLOR 059C5Q7 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant United Kingdom GB CU SILVER/WHITE_COLOR 059C5Q8 : N8-00 RM-596 Country Variant United Kingdom GB V1 Dark Grey 059D3Q2 : N8-00 RM-596 DNA Finland FI Sim-lukittu MSG Dark Grey 059D3Q9 : N8-00 RM-596 DNA Finland FI Sim-lukittu OMU Green 059D380 : N8-00 RM-596 Mobilkom Austria AT Dark Grey V1_COLOR 059C7Q9 : N8-00 RM-596 Mobilkom Austria AT Silver White 059C073 : 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White_COLOR 059C951 : N8-00 RM-596 Tesco UK GB v1 Dark Grey 059C5C2 : N8-00 RM-596 TIM IT IT dark grey 059D4X3 : N8-00 RM-596 T-Mobile Germany DE Dark Grey - V1 GV 059C0T6 : N8-00 RM-596 Vodafone UK GB Contract Graphite 059D4T9 : N8-00 RM-596 Vodafone UK GB Contract Green_COLOR 059D196 : RM-596 3HK HK Blue_COLOR GV 059D192 : RM-596 3HK HK Dark Grey_COLOR GV 059C4D7 : RM-596 3HK HK Green GV 059D198 : RM-596 3HK HK Orange_COLOR GV 059D190 : RM-596 3HK HK Silver White_COLOR GV 059D1F9 : RM-596 Country Variant Malaysia MY Dark Grey v1 059D1G2 : RM-596 Country Variant Malaysia MY Green V1_COLOR 059D1G4 : RM-596 Country Variant Malaysia MY Silver White V1_COLOR 059D605 : RM-596 Country Variant Taiwan TW Blue V1_COLOR 059D012 : RM-596 Country Variant Taiwan TW Dark Grey V1_COLOR 059D010 : RM-596 Country Variant Taiwan TW Green V1 059D611 : RM-596 Country Variant Taiwan TW Orange V1_COLOR 059D011 : RM-596 Country Variant Taiwan TW Silver White V1_COLOR 059D7C4 : RM-596 Maxis MY Silver White 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1.Insert SIM and Memory Cards
2.Use the touchscreen
3.Make a call
4.Make a video call
5.Set up social networks
6.Multitask
7.Take pictures
8.Personalise your phone
9.Connect to a TV
10.Save your battery
11.Browse the web
12.Watch Web TV
Hang and Dead Issue
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If ever your N8 failed to boot up (mean pressing the power button but no response), do as follow:
1. Verify is it a SW hang by long press the power button >7.5 seconds to force shutdown the N8. This is for SW hang scenario 2. Plug in the charger and wait for AT LEAST 15 minutes, then try to boot up. This is for depleted battery scenario 3. Plug in the USB (connect the phone through USB to the PC), wait for a minute then un-plug the USB (repeat a few times would help), then try to boot up. This is for weird "DEAD N8" scenario
From experience, the N8 can't be Hard Reset once it's failed to boot up normally or so call "DEAD N8".
credit to sklchan
How to Sign App?
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1st u need a cer. and key. file ( u get it from the link given)
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If you felt your browser is sluggish when surfing heavy websites like Engadget, here is what you need to do
1. Open the Nokia stock browser 2. Go to Options and select Settings 3. Then go to General and disable Java/ECMA script 4. Go back and surf the websites like Engadget (or other heavy websites), check any differences
This is due to JavaScript unable to process flash, and other features of the web perfectly. You turn these off, you can browse with ease
N8 AMOLED Screen Power Usage Table
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Lost your Ovi Map?
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No worries. Here are the step to overcome it:
1. Install the latest Ovi Suite to your PC/Mac 2. Connect your N8 to your PC and set your connection to Ovi Suite [Activate] 3. Then, open your PC and start connected. Once connected, Click the Map icon 4. Choose the country map you want to download and click Download 5. Finish download, and then unplug your phone and test the Ovi Map, check if the map is there or not. 6. Then you're ready to go
How to take great pictures for beginners
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As a beginner, we know how bad we take pictures. Here are the tips to get things right.
1. Learn the curve, functions of the camera inside the N8, get to understand the scene mode, flash mode, exposure, white balance, light sensitivity, contrast. 2. Then, take alot of pictures with different light sensitivity, exposure or other settings. Compare the pictures. This is basically trial and error. 3. Next, take alot of pictures with different angle, positions and distance and scenery. Try with different setting as well. Compare the pictures, and choose the best among the best 4. Finally, share the best pictures with your friends.
It will take some time to learn, even professional DSLR user choose the best pictures from alot shot that have taken. Some video to share
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New Camera Quality & Sound Mods, please read through before use any of the mods
This mods are modify from hyperX camera mod:
Camera Mod HQ.sis: 1. video 864x480 change 25FPS to 30FPS 2. photo quality: high quality change from 85 to 100 3. photo quality: mid quality change from 75 to 85 4. photo quality: low quality change from 60 to 75 5. photo estimate size update to reflect more accurate file size 6. photo capture profiles update, remove 1152x864 profile from low/mid quality, included 4000x2248 and 4000x3000 profile into low/mid quality. 7. Disable camera focus/shutter sound when silent profile or warning tone off selected
Camera Mod MQ.sis: 1. video 864x480 change 25FPS to 30FPS 2. photo quality: high quality change from 85 to 95 3. photo quality: mid quality change from 75 to 85 4. photo quality: low quality change from 60 to 75 5. photo estimate size update to reflect more accurate file size 6. photo capture profiles update, remove 1152x864 profile from low/mid quality, included 4000x2248 and 4000x3000 profile into low/mid quality. 7. Disable camera focus/shutter sound when silent profile or warning tone off selected
Camera Mod LQ.sis: 1. video 864x480 change 25FPS to 30FPS 2. photo quality: high quality change from 85 to 90 3. photo quality: mid quality change from 75 to 85 4. photo quality: low quality change from 60 to 75 5. photo estimate size update to reflect more accurate file size 6. photo capture profiles update, remove 1152x864 profile from low/mid quality, included 4000x2248 and 4000x3000 profile into low/mid quality. 7. Disable camera focus/shutter sound when silent profile or warning tone off selected
Camera Mod Restore.sis: 1. Will restore back the Original N8 default camera setting.
Installation Steps: 1. Download the attached .zip 2. Extract the zip file 3. Sign the .sis it with your own cert 4. Install and have fun!! 5. If want to change the level of quality fix, uninstall the previous mods then intall the prefer mods then restart. 6. For restoration, uninstall all the mods then install the "Camera Mod Restore.sis" to restore back the original camera setting.
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Ok, sometime you have difficulties connecting 3G and wifi with your phone and you're opt to use desktop instead to download. Here are some tips of how to download apps using your desktop Download apps. from Ovi store using desktop browser
This post has been edited by Leo the Lion: Oct 22 2010, 01:54 PM
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My Nokia N8 Review
Just a humble review
Homescreen
The new home screen is very nicely put together with some very nice features. The default all-in-one reminder for calls, smses etc is a really helpful one. Each page allows a maximum of 6 rows of widgets and you can either select a full row widget or 4 shortcuts. There's even an option to turn off the data usage for these widgets.
Multi-tasking preview looks good rite? Not all the time. I would say 2 out of 5 times when I actually get into multi-tasking preview, it will show just MENU, WEB ETC with no preview at all. There's more work needed in this app.
Complaint : I really not fancy of those webtv stuffs, therefore those widgets is pretty close to useless to me, ontop of being a battery eater for always looking for data to update itself. With the exception of Facebook widget which is scrollable, others were pretty much useless and only show a few words. Perhaps there is a need for more flexibility to the widgets like half/full page mode and the ability to insert empty space into the 4shortcuts widget instead of the mandatory four when you just want an extra only.
User Interface
Once you get into the menu, nothing much changed except the side bar has been relocated down to the bottom in landscape mode. You probably feel a little disappointed. However, they do make it up with slight changes with user interaction to the touch screen. I really like that they implement this HOLD-and-SELECT thing, which really minimise the overall movement you need to do, in comparison with S60V5. They also fix the annoying problem with the MENU ORGANIZER whenever you start moving apps from folder to folder. It no longer jump to the destination folder like it did in S60V5.
Contacts, SMS
Contacts remains the same but with the added Facebook connection to each contact. The best tweak is the inclusion of alphabetical scroll when you scroll with the scrollbar. You can even get to Contact from Keypad now, awesome.
With the SMSes, you get the usual SMS app plus a conversation mode SMS app. I still prefer the usual one as I usually delete spam messages quite frequently and only saves those that are relevant BUT is a pretty nice app nonetheless.
Complaints : The kinetic scrolling really sucks here... It was like a turtle crawling. It was saved by the alphabetical scrolling but what a mess. Even so, the default mode which shows the contact's number is lagging to show up.
Browser
The loading time is pretty good and it even plays GIF animation which is a plus. It now support Flash Lite and works better than the stock Flash Lite on my Legend too. It seem pretty faultless until you zoom it with pinch and zoom or double tap as usual. There appear to be simple rendering error or just simply the font is too big to accomodate itself suddenly.
But I do really encounter a strange thing with it. What happen was if I didnt close the web, and lock the phone the by side-lock, the 3G connection still goes on and my phone went from full bar (maybe not 100%, 90% or so) to just 30% when I realised it 1hr+ later.
Complaints : KS sucks again here when in ZOOM mode. The browser was not very good at picking up CLICKS, which is perhaps a different variation of programming. On a normal webpage with huge button for SELECTION, this was not a problem. However, it was most apparent in forum like LYN. Moreover, there is a keyboard bug with the browser. Double space when you press space once which inturn also make auto-cap after fullstop non-existent. Still no fit-text-to-width implemented.
Sometimes the 3G connection will hang and not responding. How to fix? Need to disconnect the 3G and let it reconnect again.
The downloads stop when you switching to other app like MENU... What was that for?
Multimedia
I think I do not need to say much here. Classy GPU providing acceleration for both games and HD video (yeah, HD is possible, I learned something new). The camera even more so classy with its BIG sensor producing breath-taking photos and videos. There's an option to upload them to Fb as well which is nice (although FB compress pic so much).
Coverflow animation is nice too, but I had to say not my cup of tea. I really dont organise my mp3 much. But the headphone is slightly underpower perhaps? It plays quite awfully with mylar1b and I had to use a headamp to compensate for it. 5800 had much better output if my mind serve me well.
Complaints : Just one, FAT32 limitation. Not your fault but Im hoping that you could possibly design/code your own 64bit file system to satisfy us? Or at least include movie splitter in your Ovi Suite?
Keyboard
HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY DONT GIVE US A POTRAIT KEYBOARD???? WHY~~~~???? (Oh yeah, Glen reminded me there will be Swype, thanks you... but I never like them even with Android)
OK, I have to admit I really cant shake this off in a matter of days. I never really like them at all, those keypad. Why? If I type wrong spelling with the keyboard, and still continue typing, it will offer a suggestion. But if Im with the keypad, straight away it will come up with a ? and ask me what I want and cant goes any further (I will just be honest here and what I was trying to spell was satellite and I was going satte, which the both keyboard and keypad dont understand but if I continue with 'lite' on the keyboard, it will suggest satellite). Ultimately I have to force myself to rotate the phone especially when Im using the browser. And I have to be content with the double space bug. And I had to be content with the even worse scrolling in landscape mode.
Anyway, there's credit where its due. There is an option to make the word suggestion become default and your wrong spelling become suggestion.. which means you can just continue with your space instead of having to move your hand over to choose the suggestion.
Battery
I usually dont comment on this but I start my phone at 8am and even with little usage, it gets to about 30-40% by noon. I mean, I thought Android is worse and I had even more widgets which rely on internet connection but its not even this bad.
Overall Impression
In this, I had to include some comparison with my current phone. I wished I could had Desire and it play the 720P just fine, it had full flash, much better gaming, but no, all I got is a Legend.
So, the gaming and video playback is not really comparable to N8, and with the N8 taking such beautiful pics/videos, it would be stupid to say Im not tempted.
However, there is just too much to take for me right now. It will be much easier to read in point form.
1) Battery life is nowhere as poor as N8 even with 3G always on. 2) N8 widgets is really not much of use except FB.. Legend has much better widgets. 3) Browser, I dont even want to compare them... just annoying on N8 4) Keyboard, in landscape and portrait, but what makes it fun to use is the automatic word completion. Type a few characters and if the suggestion is correct, just type space and viola... With N8, you had to move your hand over to choose the word or continue typing till it finish. 5) Contact and Call (Keypad) integration... type a few number or character using the keypad and it will offer suggestion on the keypad based on your contact, no such option in N8. The scrolling bug in N8 on top of that.
P.S. Will you let N8 keyboard designer know that he sucks... the BACKSPACE key is in the position of ENTER key in QWERTY and without color to better distinguish them... it sucks. Hard to choose... but for me, I had to say Legend...
It feels really cool showing the pic/video quality to others, it feels really cool showing the HD video, and the good looking games.
But thats not what I do daily, what I cant live without is Internet for even a day. Do let me know if Nokia released an updated firmware to address some of these problems. I will re-evaluate them of course.
This post has been edited by Leo the Lion: Oct 21 2010, 01:04 PM
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Can't, don't think I have much time for design T-Shirt.
QUOTE(hsyong @ Oct 19 2010, 02:31 PM)
Lost some Ovi Maps data?
I connected to Ovi suite and then saw there are updates for maps data. Then I update it but Ovi suite wiped all maps data from the phone first, then only I can choose the maps data to install... so I chose Malaysia and a Voice (female UK) files ... total about 50MB.
I didn't see the original maps data on the phone but I think it was well over 400MB.... so what am I missing now??? From over 400MB down to 50MB now haha.
Add me in to the greyblack list. Enjoying the moment with the phone. Anyway, who know how to do setting for digi bb to be use in this phone. I can't seem to get it work.
done.
anyway, im out. PM me if there is people who is not in the user list
Oct 18 2010, 11:05 PM, updated 16y ago
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