After having used the Nokia N8 to take pictures while I was visiting Edinburgh, no doubt remains in my mind that the Nokia N8 is the absolute best camera phone that you can buy in the market today. We took a ton of pictures and video in very trying situations, without bothering to stop and compose a shot properly. Most images you see here were taken while walking around the city, N8 in hand simply snapping away. Some were taken from within a car, a bus, while actually walking (without …

After weeks of speculation, the controversy over the N8′s arrival has finally been settled. The Nokia N8 is now shipping from Nokia factories in Finland and China and what’s more some lucky folks who pre-ordered their N8′s will even be getting them before the weekend!
The N8 is Nokia’s most pre-ordered device till date and this means that those of you who pre-ordered late, might have to wait a week or more for the devices to reach your door. If you are in India, my educated guess is that the N8 …

Consuming high megapixel photos on a mobile is never fun. The phone, no matter how fast it is, can never seem to keep up when you start flicking through them in the gallery. The Nokia N8 takes humongous 12 megapixel images, which as you can image must be a nightmare to load.

Even the latest 1 Ghz Android devices with their 5 Megapixel Cameras have trouble making those images fly, so you can image what it must be like on the supposedly ‘low spec’ N8?
Its blazing fast. You can keep swiping …

Twitter on the Nokia N900 has always been a mixed bag. There are a lot of options, the web app Dabr, Witter, TweeGo and so on, but there was always a compromise here and there. The best way to tweet and consume tweets from the N900 in my book has been the web app TweetGo.net.
Enter an all new Qt Web Runtime based Twitter client for the N900 in the form of TwimGo by Tommi Laukkanen. It is adept at all the basic Twitter functionality such as auto-refresh, replies, retweets, favourites, …

At Nokia World, Nokia gave out 1000 N8′s to all those who attended the first developer session. The devices have the production hardware and the PR 1.0 software, however even the PR 1.0 on those was not the commercial version with which the N8′s will ship soon.

I was unlucky to miss out on the handsets, fortunately my friend Iain Wallace at Do It Different was able to get his hands on one and was kind enough to let me have a go at the N8 for the entire time I …

In addition to the Ovi Store, another thing that will benefit immensely on the N8 and other Symbian^3 devices is Ovi Maps. Not only has it been updated with a bunch of improvements to maps and the search functionality but the new 3.06 beta also brings pinch to zoom into the fold making Ovi Maps an even more compelling service.

I lay everything down in the video below.

At Nokia World last week I was able to catch up with Nokia’s camera king Damian Dinning (@PhoneDaz) for an interview. Not only was it a sheer pleasure interviewing someone so deeply involved with Nokia’s camera phones, but it was also a perfect opportunity to see what the Nokia N8 was capable of when it came to video recording.
The conditions were as bad as they get. Strong moving lights, a ton of noise and background music. So was the conversation we had audible? I’m glad to say that the N8′s …

One of the new things that the N8 brings is a completely revamped Ovi Store which offers a much more pleasing experience that not only makes finding content easier, also makes sure that you don’t have to go through hoops trying to download an application.
Gone are the options within menus, the overall speed of the Ovi Store is much faster and easily comparable to the competition. It is finally something that you would expect of a company like Nokia. You can seamlessly transfer old purchases to the new phone and …

I have wanted this on my smartphone since 2007 and when I finally had the N8 in my hands, hooking it up via HDMI and connecting a bluetooth mouse and keyboard was the first thing I did. At first I glance the ability to connect a bluetooth and mouse seems like something you wouldn’t use very often. However, over the last few days of sight seeing around Edinburgh, I have found the N8 plugged in to the television more often than not to see how the day’s photos and videos …

The number one thing that I have wanted Nokia to do for a long time is shout about its products, tell the world how awesome they were instead of letting them speak for themselves, have powerful aggressive keynotes and take the competition head on whenever, wherever they could and this precisely why this Nokia World came as a very pleasant surprise.

Just one day before Nokia World Anssi Vanjoki quit, which was two two days after OPK had left. I imagine that does dent the morale and bring at least a …