A Look At The Nokia N8
Sep 1, 2010 Tech News
You can find plenty of new innovations with the new Nokia N8 touchscreen phone. For starters, the Symbian^3 OS is introduced to the Nokia line of phones with this release, as well as a 12 megapixel camera, which is the best quality camera Nokia have ever put on one of their phones. With Nokia making these improvements, and many more besides, it is no surprise that they come up with a cool new design too, making the N8 phone look very much unlike any phone you have seen before.
Nokia’s target market for the N8 will not be let down by the impressive 3.5″ 360 x 640 pixel OLED touchscreen display. While higher end touchscreen phones sport an 800 pixel screen, they also sport a higher price tag, like the HTC Desire. For consumers searching for a mid-line touchscreen phone, they will certainly get bang for their buck.
With the 12 megapixel camera, you can find Carl Zeiss optics, a Xenon flash, and the ability to get 720p HD video recorded onto the phone. What’s more, the sensor on the N8 can beat many high end digital cameras, which is another fantastic feature – besides, the sensor and the optics far outweigh the megapixels when it comes to quality pictures.
You can even play various types of media on this phone. With the help of the Nokia N8, you can watch MPEG4 video, as well as Flash and Real video, and listen to WMA, AAC and MP3 music files, letting you have music on the go. The FM transmitter on the phone allows you to play your audio files through an FM radio completely wirelessly.
The 16 gigabytes of internal memory is more than enough for the vast majority of users of this phone, but you can enhance it with microSD cards in the integrated slot, so you can add as much as 32 gigabytes of hard drive space if you need to capture a lot of high definition video. You can get 3.5G support along all of the UMTS bands, and have 10.2 Mbps HSDPA download speeds. With the N8, you can even enjoy wifi at 802.11b,g, and n bands, allowing you to experience unprecedented wireless support.
Nokia delivers more than just impressive hardware on the new N8. The newly unveiled Symbian^3 operating system delivers a notable array of software options with a high level of customizable features. The Symbian^3 provides the user with multiple homescreens, 2D and 3D graphics acceleration, multi-touch support, pinch-to-zoom capability, and kinetic scrolling.
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How You Ever Lost Your Mobile Phone
Mar 4, 2010 internet technology
None of us expect it to happen to us, but then it inevitably does. In my case this has happened twice. I am, of course, talking about losing my mobile phone.
The first time I lost my mobile was clearly due to too many drinks on a boys night out. Thinking back I was using my mobile phone on my way home and must have left it on the back seat of the taxi. When I realized what had happened, the following day, I called the cab firm but unfortunately they didn’t have my valuable telephone.It suddenly became very clear how much of my life was actually stored on that little device.
I vowed that I would be far more careful in future and get myself some mobile phone insurance to cover the cost of replacement. The expense was actually the last thing on my mind as I’d lost a whole load of important telephone numbers and contact details that weren’t stored anywhere else.
Everybody does it. When we run into an old friend or make a new contact we immediately enter their contact details into our mobile phones and often don’t even think about transfering those details to an address book.
I then went and lost my replacement phone on another night out, but this time I wasn’t drunk. I am convinced that a pickpocket was operating in the club and they had expertly removed the phone from my pocket. It’smore likely that I dropped it on the floor when getting some cash from my pocket at the bar. I told the nightclub staff but, not surprisingly, my phone never re-appeared.
Stupidly, I hadn’t taken out the mobile phone insurance policy that I’d intended to. But, subsequent to my previous experience I had kept a record of all the new phone numbers and contact details that were on the device so the loss wasn’t quite as disastrous as it had been the previous time.
I suppose there is a moral to this sorry tale? Maybe a small one. But I strongly suggest that you backup all of your telephone contact details and maybe get yourself some insurance to cover the cost of a replacement.