{"id":545145,"date":"2010-04-27T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:betanews.com,2007:article-1272381906"},"modified":"2010-04-27T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:25:06","slug":"introducing-the-first-symbian3-device-nokia-n8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545145","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the first Symbian^3 device, Nokia N8"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tim Conneally<\/a>, Betanews<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Symbian Foundation’s 100% open source mobile operating system<\/a> Symbian^3 has officially made its debut today on the new Nokia N8 handset.<\/p>\n

Unlike Google’s Android, which launched on a mid-range smartphone in late 2008<\/a>, Symbian^3 is being ushered into the market on a device with cutting-edge equipment.<\/p>\n

The N8 is built from a single piece of anodized aluminum and has a 3.5″ (640 x 360) OLED touchscreen. It has a 12 megapixel camera with 28mm wide-angle Karl Zeiss optics, a xenon flash, and the ability to capture 720p HD (16:9, 25 fps H.264\/MPEG-4) video. There is also a forward-facing VGA camera for video calling.<\/p>\n

It has 16 GB of internal memory, and a MicroSD slot with support for cards up to 32 GB in size<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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In terms of wireless standards, the Nokia N8 supports quad-band GSM and WCDMA 850\/900\/1700\/1900\/2100, Wi-Fi with support for 802.11n, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS and A-GPS receivers, and an FM radio\/transmitter. <\/p>\n

Physical I\/O on the device includes Micro USB with support for USB on-the-go (a.k.a., phone-to-phone connections<\/a>) HDMI, and a 3.5mm AV jack. It also includes an accelerometer, proximity sensor, ambient light detector, and magnetic compass.<\/p>\n

Despite all of the top-notch accessories, the N8 is reportedly based on a 680 MHz TI OMAP processor with 256 MB of RAM. It’s by no means a weak foundation for Symbian^3, but it’s not quite up to the latest gigahertz-level ARM processors being employed by other high-end smartphone manufacturers. We’ve contacted Nokia this morning to find out exactly which chip the device is based upon, and we’ll let you know what we find out.<\/p>\n

The N8 will be available for €370 in the third quarter of this year, reflecting Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo’s statements last week that the company “will not ship [Symbian^3] before the quality meets the end user’s needs and demands.”<\/p>\n

However, Nokia’s video preview today shows a bit of what users can expect from Symbian^3 when the N8 is released later this year, including a three-screen home screen layout with drag-and-drop personalization, multitouch, 3D gaming and a unified social networking and Ovi service interface. <\/p>\n

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