Nokia N8 Pre-Ordre starts today USA

We are talking about the upgrade capability.. which can be done with iOS & Andriod. Don't expect phone manufacturers to jump the gun right away when Google releases a new OS version. They will have to port their customizations along with carrier's to upgrade & that will take time.
 
Wow, so the phone reeks of mid-range hardware, obsolete junk OS, but, because it has a 12MP cam with Xenon, it's worth $450?

And Nokians aren't cameraphone geeks. :lol:
 
I use about 3GB per month on average and that's not even tethering. I stream tons of video and music all day long and email lots of photos. I could use up 200mb's in a few hours.
 
That is exactly my point, you have an option to do it. It is up to you to opt for upgrade or not. My friend upgraded his 3GS to 4.0 & it didn't slow down the performance et all.
 
I never understood the propensity of manufacturers to release end-of-the-road devices. To be fair, Nokia isn't the only manufacturer that's guilty of this (I'm looking at YOU Samsung and Sony-Ericsson).


Besides, I just find out that Nokia Messaging in the N8 is still half-a****. For some bewildering reason, they're limiting the amount of messages you have access to in your Email inbox from 100 original, to 250 now.

That's barely two weeks of messages! Why the artificial limitation? Give me my whole inbox!

Seriously, somebody in the Nokia Messaging department in Espoo, Finland needs a b**** slap.
 
Good camera on a mobile phone was a innovation 3 years ago(N95), But not anymore as almost every decent camera phone takes good quality pics these days. Samsung, HTC, Motorola, SE & Apple moved on with high end CPU, more RAM & eye candy UI, software support is a different story. But what is Nokia doing? They are singing the same old song with little variation .. 5MP, 8MP, 12MP with the same hardware? Well.. somehow they were able to to go up to 680MHz CPU & 256MB RAM!! More over they want to sell it for more than their official announcement price?
 
Nokia USA is shipping pre-orders on October 1st; I just spoke to Nokia representative. It is first time that they give exact date for shipping, usually they would just say end of September.
 
$450 is a good price. i don't get why everyone thinks this phone should be had for under $350 (or even $300 LOL). feature-wise it already blows most (if not all) of the mid-range devices away. i don't think you can find another phone that has everything the n8 has for that much. the 5800 is a midrange device. compare that to the n8.
 
I have learned never to take the word of a nokia rep. I asked them last week about the other colors and they told me only dark grey when their own website says they will get the other colors too.
 
Who cares about capability if it doesn't materialize.



I've been using a Motorola Milestone as a backup evening/weekend phone to my e72 for about a month now and the phone was advertised as Flash ready.

http://mediacenter.motorola.com/content/detail.aspx?ReleaseID=12193&NewsAreaId=22


Now Motorola is undecided if they want to upgrade to or not. (Kinda important since 2.2 supports flash)


http://androidspin.com/2010/07/21/motorola-undecided-about-android-2-2-on-milestone/



The link above is just one of the many recent links that are leaning towards not upgrading. (with the exception of the random German tweet out there)



Don't get me wrong it's still a good phone, and it will probably hold me over till the N8 or Meego (depending on the launch issues of the N8) but why would a consumer like me care about the capability of an upgrade? I suppose that I could just be happy that it has at least the capability to have flash and the capability to go to 2.2 right?...:lol:
 
Ya any kind of heavier media user 2GB isn't that hard to reach. I only upload photos (along with email, web etc) and on heavier months can get past the 2GB mark.
 
Oh, not the upgrade capability argument. Symbian is CAPABLE of being upgraded, Nokia has just chosen not to upgrade devices. There were N95's running around with FP2 demoing products at trade shows. We will see, now that Symbian is open sourced and no longer has licensing fees attached to it, if Nokia is going to allow software upgrades to their products. Also, Android and iOS need the updates since since they've all come to market lacking features and functionality. If Symbian had the app market support and high end hardware to run it we would be having far fewer of these discussions.
 
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