Shoot your masterpiece in HD
Film, edit and perfect your high-definition masterpieces, then share them with the world. Add music, images, text and transitions - all from the phone. With a large 12 MP sensor and Carl Zeiss optics you can capture great images. The Xenon flash allows you to take good pictures in low-light conditions as well.
You can record high-definition video with Nokia N8. If you are recording video to a memory card, for the best performance, use fast, high-quality micro SD cards from known manufacturers. The recommended micro SD card Class is 4 (32Mbit/s (4MB/s)) or higher.
Powered by Symbian^3
With Symbian^3 you can enjoy over 250 exciting new features such as HD video playback on your compatible wide-screen TV, organising your life online across three home screens. Multitask easily with the new visual task manager and switch between open apps with a single tap. All of this and more without sacrificing battery life.
Connect to your home theatre
The Nokia N8 features an HDMI connection so you can easily show off your images, videos and music on compatible televisions and projectors. All in stunning high-definition digital 720p resolution. It also features premium-quality *Dolby Digital Plus technology - compatible with home theatre systems - so movies will sound as good as they look.
*Dolby Digital Plus technology. Dolby is a registered trademark of Dolby Laboratories.
Integrated social networking
The Nokia N8 brings your friends together, by pulling feeds and updates from Facebook and Twitter to one handy application. Photos and videos can be shared the moment they're captured, Facebook events added to your calendar with just one click. Live updates are shown on your home screens, making it even easier to stay in touch.
Make it your own
Personalise your phone by adding your own widgets. Not one but three live home screens – make one for work, use one for fun, and have one with your favourite picture as the wallpaper. Swipe between the home screens with an easy gesture. Download more widgets from Ovi Store.
Download thousands of opportunities
Turn your Nokia N8 into a tool for showing off, having fun and being creative. In Ovi Store you’ll find thousands of different applications to constantly upgrade and improve your device. Download apps, games and videos. The possibilities to make your phone smarter, more useful and simply more fun are endless.
National Geographic in your pocket
The Nokia N8 with on-demand Web TV. Access your favourite TV channels like CNN and National Geographic and get them piped to your phone from the comfort of your bus seat. Visit Ovi Store to find even more Web TV channels.
Navigation. For free. Forever.
Voice-guided navigation wherever you are in the world. Absolutely free. Simply enter where you want to go and Ovi Maps with voice guidance will tell you how to get there, turn by turn. By car or on foot.
Fifty hours of music playback
You can browse smoothly through all your favourite albums and once again get thrilled by the album artwork. Re-experience your record collection for over 50 hours straight.
Make a good thing even better.
Hear voice-guided navigation from Ovi Maps conveniently through the Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-608. Or go all out and make your flight a pleasure with the Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-905 with eight microphones for cancelling up to 99% of background noise.
Dimensions
- Size: 113.5 x 59 x 12.9 mm
- Weight (with battery): 135 g
- Volume: 86 cc
 Display and user interface
- Screen size: 3.5"
- Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels) AMOLED
- 16.7 million colours
- Capacitive touch screen
- Orientation sensor (Accelerometer)
- Compass (Magnetometer)
- Proximity sensor
- Ambient light detector
Keys and input methods
- Physical keys (Menu key, Power key, Lock key, volume keys, Camera key)
- Finger touch support for text input and UI control
- On-screen alphanumeric keypad and full keyboard
- Dedicated camera and volume keys
- Possibility to use capacitive stylus
- Handwriting recognition for Chinese
Colours
- Anodized aluminium casing, available in:
- Silver white
- Dark grey
- Green
- Colour availability varies by country
Personalisation
- Up to three customisable home screens:
- Widgets
- Themes
- Shortcuts
- Icons
- Menu
- Customisable profiles
- Ring tones: mp3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB
- Video ring tones
- Themes
- wallpapers
- screensavers
- audio themes
- pre-installed themes
- changeable colour themes
Power Management
- BL-4D 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery
- Talk-time (maximum):
- GSM 720 mins
- WCDMA 350 mins
- Standby time (maximum):
- Video playback time (H.264 720p, 30 fps, maximum): 6 h (via HDMI to TV)
- Video recording time (H.264 720p, 25 fps, maximum): 3 h 20 mins
- Video call time (maximum): 160 mins
- Internal memory: 16 GB music playback time (offline mode, maximum): 50 h
Operation times may very depending on radio access technology used, operator network configuration and usage. Memory
- Internal memory: 16 GB
- MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 32 GB
Operating Frequency
- GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
- WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100
- Automatic switching between WCDMA & GSM bands
- Flight mode
Data Network
- GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 33
- HSDPA Cat9, maximum speed up to 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA Cat5 2.0 Mbps
- WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n
- TCP/IP support
- Capability to serve as data modem
- Support for MS Outlook synchronisation of contacts, calendar and notes
Requires data service. Data Services may not be available in all networks. Data transmission speeds may be as high as HSDPA 10.2 Mbps, but may vary based upon network capabilities and other conditions. The establishment and continuation of a data connection depends on network availability, provider support and signal strength. Connectivity
- Bluetooth 3.0
- HDMI
- 2mm Charging connector
- Micro USB connector and charging
- High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)
- 3.5 mm AV connector
Software platform & user interface
- Symbian ^3 for Nokia
- Java MIDP 2.1
- Qt 4.6.2, Web Runtime 7.2
- Software updates Over the Air (FOTA) & Over the internet (FOTI)
- Flash Lite 4.0
- OMA DM 1.2, OMA Client provisioning 1.1
Personal Information Management (PIM)
- Detailed contact information
- Calendar
- To-do list
- Notes
- Recorder
- Calculator
- Clock
Email and messaging
- Easy-to-use email client with attachment support for images, videos, music and documents .doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf, .zip
- HTML support for email
- Unified email client for multiple protocols: Yahoo!® Mail, Gmail™, Windows Live™, Hotmail and other popular POP/IMAP services, Mail for Exchange, IBM Lotus traveler
- Editing of key office documents
- Email web widget for home screen
- Chat instant messaging support: Yahoo, AIM, Windows Live, Gtalk, MySpace*
- Unified MMS/SMS editor
- Conversational view for SMS
- Push email and expanded portal support available through Nokia Messaging for Email and Instant Messaging
Call management
- Contacts: advanced contacts database with support for multiple phone and e-mail details per entry with personal thumbnail pictures and video clips
- Smart dialling to find phone numbers quickly
- Speed dialling, voice dialling (speaker independent) and voice commands
- Logs of dialled, received and missed calls
- Conference calling
- Integrated hands-free speaker
- Video calling
Browsing and internet
- Full web browsing of real web pages
- Web browsing with touch control
- Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS
- Supported protocols: HTTP v1.1, WAP
- TCP/IP support
- Visual history, HTML and JavaScript support
- Flash Lite 4 will support a majority of Flash Player 10.1 content
- Nokia Mobile Search
- RSS reader
- Support for streaming video
GPS and navigation
- Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers
- Ovi Maps with free* car & pedestrian navigation
- Wi-Fi Positioning
- Compass and accelerometer for correct orientation of display
- Use Nokia Ovi Suite to get the latest country maps for Ovi Maps on N8 for free
Camera
- 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics
- Large 1/1.183" optical format image sensor
- Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy-to-use touchscreen parameters
- Xenon flash with automatic red-eye removal
- Face recognition software
- Autofocus
- Focal length: 5.9 mm (equivalent to 28mm in 35mm film format)
- F number/Aperture: F2.8
- Still images file format: JPEG/EXIF
- Zoom up to 2x (digital) for still images
- Zoom up to 3x (digita) for video
- Secondary camera for video calls (VGA, 640 x 480 pixels)
- Favourite settings feature
- Still camera manual controls for white balance, scene mode, exposure compensation, colour tone, viewfinder framing grid, sharpness, contrast, flash control, light sensitivity (ISO), self-timer, face detection
Image capture
- Automatic location tagging (Geotagging) of images and videos
- Images automatically taken in the correct orientation
- Pinch zoom in Photos image viewer
- View photos by tag cloud, month, album, slide show
- Photo editor
- Online Share with connectivity to popular sharing services
Other
- Internal memory: 16 GB
- MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 32GB
- High-Speed microUSB to PC connectivity
Video cameras
- Main camera
- 12 megapixel with Carl Zeiss optics
- HD quality 720p resolution
- Shoot 16:9 videos in HD
- 3x digital zoom
- Video capture in 720p 25 fps with codecs H.264, MPEG-4
- Ambient stereo audio recording in video (AAC 128kbps, 48 kHz sampling) plus new algorithms to reduce wind noise and control recording level in harsh environments
- Settings for low light (reduced frame rate), video light, white balance, colour tone
- Secondary camera VGA for video calls
- You can record high-definition video with Nokia N8. If you are recording video to a memory card, for the best performance, use fast, high-quality micro SD cards from known manufacturers. The recommended micro SD card Class is 4 (32Mbit/s (4MB/s)) or higher.
Video sharing and playback
- HD 720p Video playback on HD TV through HDMI cable
- *Dolby Digital Plus surround sound when played with HDMI & a home theatre
- Support for download, streaming, and progressive download
- Video editing software
- Videos application: collection of stored videos
- On demand WebTV widgets to watch local & global internet streaming TV
- Support for Flash video
- YouTube browsing and streaming
- Video call support (WCDMA network services)
Video codecs & formats
- H.264 (base profile, main profile, high profile), MPEG-4, VC-1, Sorenson Spark, Real video 10
- Streaming: H.264, Flash Lite 4 (Flash 10 compatibility for video), On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark
Music features
- Flick scroll to browse the albums in your music collection
- Ovi Music Unlimited service on selected markets
- Nokia Ovi Player
- Ovi Music store
- MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, E-AC-3, AC-3
- Bit rate up to 320 kbps
- DRM support WM DRM, OMA DRM 2.0
- FM transmitter
Radio
- Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz/76-90 MHz)
Gaming
- Use the touch UI to play games
- Dedicated graphics processor with OpenGL 2.0 enables 3D graphics
- Java games
- Use the accelerometer to play games
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