The boys and girls over at iFixit have taken their skills at disassembling nearly everything on the face of this planet and applied it to Nokia’s latest device, what many are calling the new flagship, the N8. What they found doesn’t really come as a surprise to anyone with a pair of eyeballs. The camera is absolutely huge, the Xenon flash takes up a lot of room, and the screen is incredibly average. It uses the same touch screen controller that’s found in the BlackBerry Torch and Microsoft’s short lived Kin. The glass and touch screen element are not fused together like they are on the Apple iPhone 4 and any device that uses Samsung’s Super OLED technology. That makes it easy to replace should the screen crack, but it also introduces the potential risk of dust particles finding their way between the two ultra thin layers and making your display look straight up ghetto.
The sealed battery is super easy to replace and requires the removal of just two screws, but that shouldn’t even be a problem as many of the people I follow on Twitter on Facebook who have the N8 say that the battery life is just superb. Other things of note are the creative placement of the antennas and EMI shield, which iFixit calls “genis”. We don’t take apart our mobile phones to gawk at their motherboards, but hey, if that turns you on then you’re going to love your Nokia.
Do you have a Nokia N8? Are you enjoying it? We recently pitted it against the iPhone 4 to see which had the better camera, and it really was no question. Nokia’s put a lot of time and effort into making the N8 the best camera phone on the market. It’s a sad shame it doesn’t Android, and if I had to pee my pants to get Google’s operating system running on an N8 I probably would.