Size: 113.5 x 59 x 12.9 mm
Weight (with battery): 135 g
Size: 86 cm

Physical key (menu key, power key, lock key, volume keys, camera key)
Finger Touch support for text entry and control interface
On-screen alphanumeric keypad and full keyboard
Dedicated camera and volume buttons
The ability to use the stylus capacitive
Handwriting Recognition for Chinese

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I finally got my N8 today – but can’t seem to find the shutter sound setting to disable it. I know the US doesn’t have the crazy-stupid European law about forcing sounds, but suspect Nokia saddled us with it anyway.

Could you describe the steps you took to turn that off? If it’s just the in-camera settings – mine only shows the four obnoxious sounds.

Taken it back and got an Experia X10 – no wonder Nokia are now making quarterly losses.

Got one today to take photos silently and without flash (mystery shoppers) but can’t yet find out how to stop the red focus light coming on – any ideas really appreciated, can’t find it in user guide

The pics by Engadget weren’t taken into consideration, I knew off the bat their pictures were bad and not representative of what the N8 was capable of. Fair enough on the re-evaluation by the shopaholicdaily site, they shed more insight on the method to the madness done by Engadget.

@ the_accidental,

“For whatever reason you are unable to view it correctly…” I’m not sure what’s going on with that, but all is well. In the search for the truth, we have come to conclusions on our own based on the information we have at hand. Such is life online.

At the end of the day I’ve been a fan of Nokia’s imaging performance since the N70. I just need to get my hands on one and evaluate it myself. Thanks for your time.

The EXIF info is in all the pictures, I know this for a fact. For whatever reason you are unable to view it correctly.

The two you list here:
http://thehandheldblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Nokia-N8-Image-Samples-25.jpg
and
http://thehandheldblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Nokia-N8-Image-Samples-04.jpg

Both have EXIF info in them. I’ve just checked. No need to redownload, you can check you have the same files, the md5 hashes are as follows:
MD5 (Nokia-N8-Image-Samples-04.jpg) = 3254d7900f7d83259d8f758dcc016e6d
MD5 (Nokia-N8-Image-Samples-25.jpg) = ff17156688f8c62237fe551865902aaa

I don’t have a copy of CS5 on this machine to replicate your viewing method, but you can see some of the EXIF info in plaintext opening them in a text editor.

A quick google reveals this site:
http://regex.info/exif.cgi

Which will show you the EXIF info. You can either paste the URLS in or upload the copies you downloaded. As i say above though, you can see they are unchanged by checking the md5 hashes.

@hdvidman, i presume when you said elsewhere you mean engadget right, it has been proven, engadget rigged the whole iphone4 vs n8 photo comparison, i really wouldnt call them credible anymore..jeez the length those guys at engdget do to discredit the n8 capabilities..if you still want proof that the n8 takes good pics here you go: http://shoppaholicdaily.com/n8/…using the crappy photos taken by engadget, the n8 still stood out…also the pictures posted in this site are actually consistent in quality with the quality of sample photos posted in earlier previews( by damian minning, etc)if youve read upon previous articles of the n8 picture quality im pretty sure even without viewing the exif files on these, you really wouldnt be surprised

You go from concerned professional blogger to condescending, name caller in just 4 short minutes. Wow.

Just based on my accusations alone, stating that the EXIF information is missing is a clue that I’m not incompetent in any capacity. I’d be willing to bet by Canon T2i that most people who have a concern for mobile phones or even those who are into basic photography don’t know the heck EXIF is, what it stands for or how the hell to find it. Give me some credit on that end.

Not a flamer of any sorts, just pointing out missing facts that I came across on my end. Equipment: Windows 7 PC, downloaded via right click and viewed with Adobe Photoshop CS5. The 2 pics I downloaded are Nokia-N8-Image-Samples-25.jpg and Nokia-N8-Image-Samples-04.jpg.

You can post any EXIF information you want ex post facto, but in the pictures I’m seeing it’s not there originally.

Like I said before, the pictures taken with the PR firmware posted on this site are so much more smoother than than the final firmware pictures I’ve seen elsewhere. It would be hard to fathom that the final firmware was tweaked for the worse for picture quality.

Maybe your blogger software did remove the EXIF information, I’m just pointing out what I see and the results didn’t add up.

Which ones do you claim don’t have the EXIF data?

Here you go, here’s one of the originals:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8462768/17092010314.jpg

It’s got the EXIF info in it…

Aperture Value: 2.96875
Color Space: sRGB
Custom Rendered: Normal process
Date Time Digitized: 2010:09:17 17:46:45
Date Time Original: 2010:09:17 17:46:45
Digital Zoom Ratio: 1
Exif Version: 2.2
Exposure Mode: Auto exposure
Exposure Time: 1 / 119
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto mode
FlashPix Version: 1.0
FNumber: 2.796875
Focal Length: 5.898438
Gain Control: None
ISO Speed Ratings: 100
Light Source: unknown
Pixel X Dimension: 2248
Pixel Y Dimension: 4000
Scene Capture Type: Standard
Shutter Speed Value: 6.894
Sub-second Time: 731
Sub-second Time Digitized: 731
Sub-second Time Original: 731
White Balance: Auto white balance
AFInfo:
Compression: JPEG compression (thumbnails only)
Date Time: 2010:09:17 17:46:45
Make: Nokia
Model: N8-00
Orientation: 1 (Normal)
Resolution Unit: inches
X Resolution: 300
Y Resolution: 300

Happy to upload another if you want to pick one?