Nokia N8 being announced mid-April

We've just been told by a trusted source that Nokia will announce a new flagship device dubbed N8 in the middle of next month. That's not around any major trade shows that we're aware of, but it is just before the company's Annual General Meeting in Helsinki -- and naturally, it doesn't hurt their relationship with major investors to have just introduced a killer new device. For what it's worth, we just saw a leaked photo yesterday morning of a Symbian^3-based phone purporting to be the N8, so this lines up rather nicely, doesn't it? Announcement certainly doesn't equate to availability in Nokia's world, so until we hear otherwise, we'll assume that Eldar Murtazin's claim of a September retail launch is likely accurate.

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[Johnny Tremaine Posted Mar 24th 2010 12:48PM]

@bustafone
Yep, and it's going to take five firmware updates just to make it usable. Classic Nokia: use your customers as beta testers. Then once something is halfway useable, release another buggy, crash prone device.

[minceyfresh Posted Mar 24th 2010 12:12PM]

If Nokia's gonna start a new numbering convention with this phone, why not call it the N1?

[Suomaa Posted Mar 24th 2010 1:08PM]

@minceyfresh
cheap < N5 < pricey.

Smaller number means it's cheaper.

[Mr Bojangles Posted Mar 24th 2010 12:14PM]

Yep I understand the N900 might have been the geek phone. But where is their high end phone for the everyday user, at a reasonable cost?

Nokia seems content with either low end phones, or higher end 'test' phones.

Windows 7 mobile, iPhoneOS, WebOS, Android, Sense IU. Thats 4.5 x solid mobile OS's on the market in good hardware, with actual everyday folks hammering away, giving good feeback.

I think the problem Nokia appears to have is you dont want geeks giving you feedback on phones, and especially OS's. You want the everyday end user give you feedback, and THEN geeks taking that info and applying it into coding.

[Biggs Posted Mar 24th 2010 12:23PM]

Rumor has it that the N8 will come with an nHD 3.5" screen = FAIL!

[Suomaa Posted Mar 24th 2010 1:12PM]

@Biggs In my opinion it's just fine for device with 3.5" screen. Anything bigger "needs" WVGA screen.

[CMA Posted Mar 24th 2010 12:27PM]

Better N8 than never.

[Johnny Tremaine Posted Mar 24th 2010 12:43PM]

Well, the water mark now is the Nexus One and the Evo. Will the N8 be able to match them, spec for spec? Doubt it.

Maybe I would buy it if I could dual boot Android on it. It's the OS of the future for both mobile and probably desktops at some point.

Symbian was cool in 2005, but time and the world moved on.

[cashclientel Posted Mar 24th 2010 12:45PM]

why when ameircan's discuss handsets do they always have to talk about networks? the only differentiation in question is gsm/cdma (cdma which no-one wants to use and is hopefully dead soon).

[Johnny Tremaine Posted Mar 24th 2010 12:52PM]

@cashclientel
No American loves the carriers....except their own employees. We just put up with them. Loving your carrier is like loving your cable company---just doesn't happen.

What we do is love cool tech, like Android and HTC, a match made in geek heaven.

[Sii Posted Mar 24th 2010 2:47PM]

Sorry Nokia,

No hardware in the world could temp me back to Symbian....

[Mr w00t Posted Mar 25th 2010 2:21AM]

@Sii then go with MeeGo ;)

[Nrde Posted Mar 24th 2010 3:11PM]

The same comments about Symbian, try to understand that Symbian != 5th ed touch UI.

It's like saying you don't like Android because you don't like Sense UI.

And Nokia is not going to make another CDMA phone, ever. Ask Qualcomm...

[Johnny Tremaine Posted Mar 24th 2010 4:30PM]

@Nrde
Then what's that basic flip phone that Verizon sells with the gigantic digital clock on the cover that runs S40? Because I could swear that it's a Nokia.

[Nrde Posted Mar 25th 2010 4:08AM]

@Johnny Tremaine

Does it even run Symbian? I thought 7705 was a Verizon specific experiment and it's already like 9 months old.