Nokia N8 Shipping September 30 with Pamela Anderson Promo

Nokia’s upcoming N8 will be shipping on September 30 to those who had pre-ordered, according to Senior Communications Manager Tapani Kashkinen. There are some Google ads showing up that say that it will be shipping even earlier to UK buyers on September 23, though it confirms they’re a week early. The last rumours we had heard about a release date pointed to September 25, so it sounds like the right ballpark. If the device itself doesn’t get you excited, maybe the chance to be in a short, sexy movie with Pamela Anderson will change your mind. “The Commuter” will be shot entirely on a Nokia N8, and filming will start in the UK on September 20. The ladies may be more interested in being in a film with Ed Westwick, who will be filming something similar on September 26.

The N8 will be the first handset to run Symbian^3, which introduces some now-standard features, like multiple home screens, multi-touch zooming, and hardware-accelerated graphics. The spec line is nice enough: 12 megapixel camera with 720p video recording at 25 FPS, a 3.5″ 640 x 360 AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16 GB of internal storage, 256 MB of RAM, 680 MHz ARM 11 processor, Wi-Fi b/g/n, GPS, and 3G. Nokia tends to make really good cameras, so that will likely be a big pull for for those who aren’t especially impressed with the moderate improvements in Symbian^3.

[NokNok, Kauppalehti via Engadget]

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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.

hary

Another example of your deliberate bias:
You say: “The N8 will be the first handset to run Symbian^3, which introduces some now-standard features”. So you didn’t lose an opportunity to mention “now-standard” features.

But you didn’t mention about some now non-standard unique features that N8 has which are not in any or most smartphones?
- Pentaband 3G (1st phone to have it, iphone 4 was 2nd)
- Dobly plus surround sound.(Probably the 1st phone to have it?)
- 12 MP camera with a very good sensor(never seen in any mobile phone before)
- USB On-The-Go. (another now non-standard feature)

So, once again as usual IntoMobile Team only mentions negative or downplaying comments when it comes to Nokia and choose to purposely ignore the positive aspects.
It’s fair if you include both negative and positive, but unfair if only negative.
http://www.intomobile.com Stefan Constantinescu

Well Harry you’ve got Simon in a pickle. He gets kickbacks from RIM for shitting on Nokia products. I do too, but from Apple.

Pentaband 3G? Awesome feature that few people, think jet set crowd, will use.

Dolby Plus Surround? Ummm, yea, because most people listening to music on this thing will use plain old stereo headphones.

12 megapixel camera? Granted, this is the sole reason many people are going to buy the device, and we’ll see how well it performs when final hardware is out.

USB on-the-go? Again, useful feature few people will use.

Thanks for your comment though, we always need a swift kick in the ass as many of the opinions expressed on IntoMobile are biased because hey, we all pick our posions.
Leticia

Symbian had multiple home screens years ago! The N900 had hardware accelerated graphics a year ago. The writer has obviously never used any Nokia phones. Please correct this error.

Here’s how the N8 stacks up to much more expensive iPhone4, Samsung Captive and the similarly priced Nexus One in graphics benchmark tests even with its pre-release firmware a few months ago. The N8 kicks their asses!

http://i53.tinypic.com/8xlf15.jpg

You are as daft as you are arrogant Stefan. Pentaband ensures that the phone will work on either AT&T or T-Mobile in the US as well as any GSM network in the rest of the world. It has nothing to do with being Jet set!

Dolby Digital PLus 5.1 surround sound is for when you want to view an HD movie on your TV via HDMI-out. Here’s a demo that I found on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_D98g-JRU

I suggest you guys check out youtube out sometime to fill in your lack of knowledge. It’s really a great resource.

USB OTG is another great feature that stands out but not for you huh! The ability to plu any USB memory stick or External hard drive into the N8 and watch a movie from there or copy files to and from the N8 is in Apple’s words, “MAGICAL” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra-p9N-UOWk&feature=related

Oh, and don’t forget it supports a ton of video formats that no other phone supports like MKV.

Stop being so damn arrogant and learn from your commentors. We clearly know a lot more than you.
moot

USB-OTG coupled with HDMI-out is revolutionary since it turns your N8 into a Home Cinema system. If you buy this phone you won’t need an Apple TV! Trusted Reviews did a walkthrough with Dolby showing off just how it works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TIj0HAHrAM
hary536

Ok 2 more comments from other readers approved, but my 2nd comment yet not approved?
Was it a vulgar or nonsense comment?
http://www.intomobile.com Simon Sage

Hary, I’ll be the first to admit that Nokia stuff isn’t my usual beat – Stefan wasn’t around to cover it, but I used his old posts as research for this one. I don’t think this piece is quite as one-sided as you make it out to be, though. “Ho-hum software versus freakin’ sweet camera” sounds balanced (if cursory), doesn’t it?
http://www.intomobile.com Simon Sage

I should have mentioned HDMI-out, but you’re really going to ream me out for not including smaller technical details in a paragraph that’s general background information for the real news (it’s shipping September 30)? I certainly appreciate the value you guys are putting into all of these other features, and I definitely know more about the N8 than I did yesterday. Like I said to Hary, I’m definitely not a Nokia expert by any means. That being said, I’ve used the N86, N97, and N900 for a couple of weeks each and feel qualified enough to write up a simple post about launch dates.
hary

I can’t waste my time anymore, since you guys did not approve my 2nd comment in reply to Stefan’s post. I don’t know the reason? May be it caught Stefan off the guard?
As i don’t think there was any bad word in the comment that it cannot be approved.

So,why was it not approved?
P.S: The comment had a link in it.
http://www.intomobile.com Stefan Constantinescu

no comments in my backend queue pending approval, can you try retyping it?

i don’t mind people slamming me. i welcome it. you should see some of the hate mail i get, it’s wonderful!
Marin Perez

You guys are all missing the point. Pam Anderson is the perfect spokesmodel for Nokia because they’re both over the hill. Also, both are very loose. Ok, that last one’s not true.
hary

Ok,am trying again. Btw, was not slamming you, but just a discussion or argument like the other post. Also my comment does show up on my browser as “waiting for moderation” even now.
This is the 2nd or 3rd time it has happened to me exactly the same way.
**************
“Sure, you pick your positions. But… only when it comes to Nokia, it is all reverse direction no matter what.
Ok, so this article was not giving a review of N8, it just listed out some specs, which was completely fine if it had not tried to downplay by saying “now-standard”. If you tell the public that it has now-standard features, then i personally think it would only be fair if you also mention “now non-standard” features too in the same article along with other specs, irrespective of how imp the feature is to others. Let people decide what is imp. to them from the available list. Also it’s all in marketing, how they make look some feature more imp. (You easily know Apple falls in this category who through their marketing make look some basic feature as so imp and revolutionary, Nokia definitely lacks that kind of marketing).

Well, how many people are going to care about difference between iphone4 IPS screen and other 800*480 screens that we see in other higher end phones? Yet you all always give so much importance to it, though the general public doesn’t care nor recognizes the difference.

So bottom-line: when it comes to Nokia, you all always try to downplay the positives and over-highlight the negatives, but when it comes to anyone else, you over-highlight every good feature it has(irrespective of how useful is that to general public) but with Nokia, you give an excuse that not many will use or care about “X” feature.

I am surprised that you don’t have a single Nokia-biased member in your team. (I know they call you(Stefan) a Nokia fan, but your articles resemble Nokia fan turned anti-Nokia).
P.S:Look at this link: http://www.intomobile.com/2010/06/07/intomobiles-take-on-apples-iphone-4/ See Stefan’s comments:
Out of all the features iphone 4 has, you chose to mention 2 features specifically, one of which you tried to downplay above for N8 though, by citing the above reasons.”
hary

Ok, i have now posted the comment again, it currently says waiting for moderation. Will see, if it makes through or not.
http://www.intomobile.com Stefan Constantinescu

still can’t see it in our moderation queue, though admittedly we are in the process of ironing out kinks in the commenting department. just send me an email: stefan at you know where dot com.