The N8 comes with a connectivity cable, stereo headset, an adapter cable for HDMI CA-156, a charge, a cable for USB OTG CA-157 and a Nokia Stylus SU-36.

The screen is made of gorilla glass and is scratch resistant and the excellent pixel density and good viewing angles gives sharp and bright screen. The 3.5 inch size is pocket friendly without becoming too tiny. However, the menu button is placed in the left hand corner instead of the middle which proves a little problematic when using it single handedly.

The Nokia N8 has the ARM 11 microprocessor with a 256MB RAM which is an improvement form the previous devices. The Symbian also seem to have better memory capacity. However, N8 isn’t particularly a very speedy device and often takes time to load larger websites when compared to iPhone or Android phones. N8 runs on Symbian^3 which is an upgraded version of the Symbian^1 and has several features like multiple homescreens, multi-touch pinch-to-zoom, visual multi-tasking and a more streamlined menu structure. It is the top version of the Symbian but still has to be perfected.

One disappointment is that it does not have a portrait keyboard. There is an onscreen keypad and if you turn the phone sideways you can use the QWERTY keypad. This takes some time to get used to and many people do not prefer it.

If you are looking to buy a phone with a good camera the N8 excels as a camera phone. It boasts of a 12 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and Xenon flash for low light conditions. The digital zoom feature in N8 gives excellent result unlike most phones. The images are clear and of excellent quality.

The call quality is clear and loud. The speakers are located in the back and are pretty loud. The new features in the music player are cool. The sound quality of the headsets is good and gives a good bass effect.

N8 is an efficient smart phone with solid hardware and superb camera however it still has certain drawbacks and scope for improvement.

• The Sony Ericsson interface is built on Symbian S60 5th edition with the home screen resembling an Android with many screens to scroll about left and right. The 3.5-inch TFT touch screen does justice to the 16 M colors that pop up on it along with an Accelerometer sensor. There are quick links on the home screen that lead to Google search and the contents of the phone. It uses a resistive screen rather than a capacitive one.
• It has a built in radio with pre-loaded and downloadable games. The Global Positioning System comes with support of A-GPS. It is Java enabled for Google maps, video player (plays WMV/MP4/RV/3GP formats), music player (supports P3/ WAV/WMA/ AAC /RA/M4A formats), an organizer and gesture controls.
• It provides a healthy talk time of up to 11 hours on 2G. It has GPRS, EDGE, and 3G as data connectivity options. It also has wireless LAN with Wi-Fi and DLNA. The Bluetooth is a v2.0 with A2DP support.
• A special mention is required of the primary camera of the feature-rich Satio loaded with tons goodies under the hood. It boasts of a 12.1 mega pixel camera with auto focus, xenon flash and video LED flash. It shoots video at 30 fps. So with this phone, you can click with a lot more clarity and it does just enough to replace a regular digital camera. It also has some special features like geo-tagging, Touch focus, face with smile detection.
• The apps let you look at dictionaries and off course buy music and movies online. Some of the best among them are Worldmate, MyLook and Labyrinth.
• When talking about memory, we see it has 128 MB as internal storage and a 256 MB RAM, while the external microSD card can account for another 32 GB of storage space.

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