Nokia N8 Vodafone

Nokia may not have been able to really make a dent in the smart phone market in the last year, but they've been having plenty of success with mid-range feature rich handsets being offered at a good price. The company still really want to make waves in the far more lucrative smart phone market however, and the Nok8ia N8 has been released in the hope of bringing more people on board with the idea of a Nokia smartphone. Of course, being Nokia is uses the Symbian OS rather than the vastly more well known iPhone OS and android, so have Nokia got it right, this time?

The Nokia N8 Vodafone design is stylish and comes in a range of very bold colours. It's a pretty sturdy phone though it's overall profile is fairly chunky, mostly thanks to the size of the flash which comes with the phones 12 megapixel camera. It'll still fit in your pocket and despite its width is surprisingly light. It's immediately recognisable as a smartphone, though it's not as stylish as some of the newer offerings from companies like Samsung, nor as iconic as a BlackBerry or iPhone.

Symbian 3 is the OS that is shipped with the N8, but it's thankfully been updated this time around and has had several major changes to both usability and interface, making it much more fun and easy to use than we've previously seen. The icons look much nicer, the menus make a lot more sense, the Ovi store is more accessible and it's generally just a much nicer system to pick up and use, backed up by a very bright, clear screen.

Symbian has also been doing some catching up, allowing users to view text messages as a conversation rather than just isolated parts, a spacious and easy to use qwerty keyboard that's responsive and the excellent and free Ovi Maps software which is one of the best GPS software solutions available for any phone and not found anywhere but on Symbian. Of course, most of this is playing catch up with Android and the iPhone, and revolutionary it is not. However, it's a step in the right direction and now feels like a viable alternative to the other systems.

The stand out feature on the N8 though the previously mentioned 12 megapixel camera. As far as smartphone cameras are concerned the N8 is clearly well out in front in terms of pure megapixels, but it's also in the lead in terms of features and quality as well. Although it can't quite compete with high end compact cameras when it comes to action shots or low light shots, it's far and away the best camera available on any smart phone on the market today. If you like the idea of the iPhone but we're disappointed by how little effort went into the camera both in terms of hardware and software, the N8 is well worth a look, and for casual snappers, it's good enough that buying an additional compact camera may no longer be necessary at all.

Overall, the N8 shows that Nokia can not only make a smartphone, but they can make an intelligently designed, easy to use phone that can compete in the market. Forget Nokia's mistakes of the past, they really are starting to grasp what consumers want from a phone and have delivered with the N8, especially for those people with whom taking pictures and picture quality is a big part of their purchasing decision. Once Symbian stops imitating Android and starts to come up with it's own ideas tailored to Nokias own handsets, the company could really start to become a force in the smart phone market.

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