What happens when the person who single handedly supported the i8910, when Samsung had forgotten about it, gets a Nokia N8? Mods. It has been barely a day since hyperX got himself a N8 that the mods have started to flow. He has managed to mod the N8 to shoot at 30 frames a second instead of the 25 FPS that it does out of the box. This results in a video that looks very smooth even during fast pans.
He’s been kind enough to upload the raw sample so that …

The heads just keep rolling at Nokia. After OPK and Anssi Vanjoki, Ari Jaaksi becomes the latest of Nokia’s top brass to leave the company. Ari Jaaksi was the VP incharge of Nokia’s MeeGo devices and had been at Nokia since 1998. Since 2003, he had been working on the Linux-based Maemo OS that first powered Nokia’s Internet tablet devices and then the N900.

According to Nokia spokesperson Tapani Kaskinen, Jaaksi’s resignation won’t affect MeeGo’s rollout with the first device still expected before the end of the year. The move …

After what seems like ages, Skype has finally made to Android devices running Android 2.1 and above. To download Skype you will have to visit skype.com/m from your mobile phone or hit the Android market. The app brings the ability to make Skype calls via WIFI or 3G, but if you are in the US your calls will be restricted to WIFI.
In addition to calling phones, you can make Skype-to-Skype calls and send and receive IMs, one-to-one or with a group. The app has been tested on HTC and Motorola …

You know what, forget the iPhone. Lets put the N8 up against some serious firepower, a DSLR which in this case is a 18 Megapixel Canon 550D, fitted with the 18-55mm kit lens. You’ve seen unedited pictures and video that Iain and I took with the N8 around Edinburgh. However I was also carrying my Canon 550D along and we decided to put the N8 to test and see how it fares against a full blown DSLR, nevermind those pocket point and shoot cameras. The results may surprise.

But before we …

Yesterday you saw the beautiful pictures the Nokia N8 is capable of producing, today we put its HD video capture to test. The N8 is Nokia’s first device that is capable of capturing video in the 1280 x 720 resolution. It records at around 90MB a minute capturing 25 frames a second. Another thing that Nokia has brought back from the N93/N93i era is stereo audio capture, powered by its dual microphones.

To give you a real world scenario of the quality you can expect from the Nokia N8′s video camera, …