Nokia N8 to drop in late September?

By on Sep 6, 2010 at 10:52 AM
General September 6, 2010

It isn’t any surprise that Nokia will be releasing the Nokia N8 in the near future — Nokia World is being held September 14-15 in London after all — but this is the first time we’ve seen a hard date. Nokia’s senior communications manager, Tapani Kashinen, told Finnish newspaper Kauppalehti that the Nokia N8 could begin shipping as early as September 30th. The N8 is being billed as the company’s latest and greatest hardware technology wrapped in the Symbian operating system. We’re sure we will have more details to report after Nokia World, but seeing a projected release date in under thirty days is definitely good news.

[Via Engadget]

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  • JM

    Nokia just does not get it….

    • http://www.em-zero.com m0

      Agreed. If you were to ask someone what smartphone they’d like, free of charge, 0% of people would say “a Nokia!”… they just don’t have the presence they once had.

    • ThisGuy

      Everyone that is posting how bad Symbian is, is an idiot. Its the first phone with the new Symbian ^3, so really no one has tried out this OS yet. Its funny to see how people can judge a product without ever using. Keep drinking that Apple kool aid kids.

  • Tyler

    Seriously, what a piece of crap. They should have bought palm. Nokias hardware has always been excellent but they desperately need a new os. The pairing couldn’t have been better as palms hardware was third rate.

    • Flim-Flam

      You are right!

      It can’t hold a candle to the Behold II or CLIQ

      Not even Cliq XT!

  • Mr. Bill

    Any other OS on that and I would be interested.

  • happy pillmore

    Seriously…who cares?

  • AT33

    @JM, Tyler
    Ohh you Americans.. what mobile century ya live at!

    What this phone does:
    -sync wirelessly
    -it can transfer files over bluetooth
    -you can even drag and drop files/songs from your pc right into the memory without cables
    -it can display the next calender entries right on your home screen
    -it does FM transmission
    -you can buy a memory card and extend your on board memory space by another 32gigs
    -free lifetime voice nav, no data required
    -true multitasking
    -oh and it does apps
    -how about a 12MP cam
    -and, and, and.. for much cheaper then the iphone.. i don’t have time to name the other two thousand things it does the iphone 4 doesn’t.

    believe me this phone is the SHI**!!! highly customizable! i guess it’s too complicated for 95% of americans since ya’ll education system sucks big time! don’t blame nokia blame the politicians ya vote for!!! i have an iphone 4 sadly and thinking about kicking it to the curb for either this or the upcoming N9. i’m very disappointed that i gave in to pay sooo much dough for an iphone and it can’t even do half the things i did on my old E71.

    • Mr. Bill

      Again, Nokia what?

      This can’t be targeted like most of nokia stuff to thrid world countries as they can’t afford the premium, and here in N/A, it’s sub par.

      Nokia who?

    • wallyson

      wtf? “education system”, “politicians” – find another website to post on.

    • X Glansburg

      Oh, wow, here is your typical Euro-trash elitist defending Nokia. I will give you five reasons why this phone blows. Ya ready??? Android OS, iOS, WebOS, Windows Phone 7 OS, and Blackberry OS.

      Nokia’s Symbian OS sucks. It’s ancient. It’s comparable to somone still running dos to show how tech you are. You can cram as many specs as you want on this thing, but it will still fall short on the implementation aspect. Notice the rest of the OS’s I mentioned.

      They all have usable and very enjoyable interfaces. Using Symbian is like eating cereal with chopsticks.

      • Ragged Glory

        I know it hasn’t been released yet, but I’m guessing you have actually used it.

        Yeah, I know. I guessed wrong.

    • mememe

      You silly goose. The iPhone and any android can do all of those except for FM radio, 12mp cam, and memory slot. Let’s be realistic. Would u really pick FM radio over Pandora? Do you really need over 32GB of disk space?Last time I checked, my i4 wirelessly syncs with iTunes and yes I can drag and drop music and video and any other files into my iPhone, wirelessly. Sure Apple’s multitasking sucks but hey there’s backgrounder. Go ahead and name 1000 things u think the i4 can’t do and I’ll come up with 1000 ways to say “you’re wrong”. Please know what you’re talking about first b4 you speak.

      • ThisGuy

        Can you send music files over bluetooth from phone to phone on the iPhone 4? ALL NOKIAS can do that, even the cheap prepaids.

      • blkrabb1t

        Any Bluetooth phone can do OBEX nowadays. This isn’t 2002.

      • Jim

        A crappy old Motorola Razr or a Sony Ericsson dumb phone could do that, not to mention every Android phone since the HTC G1/Dream from, like, three years ago.

        Bluetooth file transfers aren’t exclusive to Nokia phones.

    • blkrabb1t

      -sync wirelessly
      …So can my HTC.

      -it can transfer files over Bluetooth
      …Yeah, OBEX transfer is a bit old hat buddy.

      -you can even drag and drop files/songs from your pc right into the memory without cables.
      …Isn’t this the whole point of Bluetooth?

      -it can display the next calender entries right on your home screen.
      …Just about every smartphone OS has this.

      -it does FM transmission
      …Yep, my HTC can do that too.

      -you can buy a memory card and extend your on board memory space by another 32gigs
      …My HTC has 8GB on-board and supports up to a 32GB micro SD card.

      -true multitasking
      …Yep so does Android and Blackberry.

      -oh and it does apps
      …Just like every other smartphone OS.

      -how about a 12MP cam
      …How about picture quality? 12MP doesn’t do much good if the picture ends up being a hazy mess at the slightest tremble of your hand.

      Don’t get me wrong, the N8 is a good phone, but I don’t see anything in the phone that would make me want to chuck my current Android device out the window and buy one. I’m guessing that MeeGo would be more up my alley since I enjoy fiddling with ROMs on my Android device, and MeeGo would offer more customization than Symbian would offer.

    • david

      Funny how you talk down to “us” “Americans” because we are stupid and pay too much for things that don’t do half of what your old E71 does. Coming from the same idiot who also bought the iphone 4. Think before you speak.

  • justin

    Oh yeah that’s right americans doesn’t know any other phones other than an iphone or a droid device which by the was made or designed by europeans and asians…sorry I only use Vertu which is made by nokia by the way

    • Mr. Bill

      Nokia to most people is the phone you find on display at Target, Wal-mart and gas stations as a pay an go terrorist phone of choice.

      Really classy stuff.

      Honestly, they should stick to the cheap plastic phones they sell in the discount stores an countries.

  • JM

    Don’t make the mistake of thinking that by saying Nokia doesn’t get it I think they make bad products. They make some of the best hardware available actually. I have owned the E71, E72, and will probably buy an E73 soon. better yet, the E5, as that battery life stat. is enticing! But the N8 does not have my interest at all. It is a phone with all kinds of high-end gadgetry but it has an OS that needs upgrades to be truly useful…every Nokia smartphone I get has out-of-memory problems. No categories in contacts, calendar, tasks. No HTML in-line with email. S60 doesn’t have the interface appeal to keep many non-business consumers interest either.

    Like I said they don’t get it. They need to be introducing updated devices like the N900, but thinner, and with a better keyboard. They really are falling behind.

  • http://www.healinghemorrhoid.info/ gigabytes

    Nokia 3310 anyone? LOL

  • dbrown

    680 mhz chip 1st reason not to get and symbian is the 2nd! Im ready to burn my nokia n95 8gb because of the lack of apps alone!!!

    • Flim-Flam

      I guess the rest of the buying public thinks differently cause they really snapped up phones like the Aria, All of the My Touch Phones, Wildfire, Hero, Droid Eris, Cliq, Cliq XT, Behold II and more

      All phones with slower CPU’s, hungrier OS’s & Skinned to death with crapware

    • Nokia Guy

      you can hack your phone and go to websites to download many apps. just use google. i used to have IRremote on my n95. i used to control tv’s,dvd players and all that

  • Nokia Guy

    I’m not European but the phone is amazing to me. I order screen protectors on ebay and I will buy this phone when its released. I loved every Nokia phone I had.

    • wtf

      who cares if you order screen protectors on eBay? haha

      • Nokia Guy

        i prepare up for when i get the phone. mind as well as protect the screen before touchscreen goes bad. Ex: behold, mytouch,iPhone

  • mingkee

    It’s better nokia to add mobile hotspot function into N8 like nexus one and G2.

    • Nokia Guy

      actually it is added on to it. they did it since the n97. its called joikuspot…

  • Ragged Glory

    Even though it’s a total piece of crap and can’t really do anything or has any worthwhile features, I think I’d rather keep my Samsung Behold II.

    Cause golly gee-wiz, it’s an Android!

  • Wobbly

    “Sept. 30th at the earliest” ?!?!? Does that mean this phone may be delayed *again* ? It was supposed to be out in June, then they delayed it, saying it would be released in 3Q – and Sept. 30th is the last day of 3Q. Seeing as how the SoC is similar to most other N and E series, it’s probably not a hardware delay. I hope they make some real progress on the OS before it’s released.

    Honestly, penta-band HSPA is appealing in and of itself, there aren’t any other phones that will work on both AT&T 3G and Tmobile 3G.

  • Turbocooper

    I like the Nokia phones but there just never gonna catch on in the U.S. unless a big carrier picks them up and subsidies the price of them. Just look at what happened with the Nexus One…great phone but at the same time not alot of ppl want or have $500+ to spend on a cell phone. Then theres the OS…while it may be big in other countries no one is gonna drop there iOS4, Android, or even blackberry for this. Plus this is looking like a better plan anyway ———> New HTC Android Phone Hits FCC

  • Akash Rahi

    I feel like this device was pushed out in the worlf because Nokia wanted to see if anybody is really even interested in Nokia..

    I’ll stick to the iPhone 4 rather than an N8.

    • Nokia Guy

      Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are mainly Nokia users running on the Symbian OS. T-Mobile’s hottest phone back in 2005 or so was the Nokia 6600. It ran on Symbian OS6 I want to say. America isnt a heavy market for Nokia but they do produce the best phones

  • Mike D

    Apparently they are because Nokia sells more phones worldwide then any other manufactuer.

    Probably a good idea to do some homework before ya make statements.

    • Nokia Guy

      Did you know Nokia’s Symbian OS has over 50% of the market sure overseas? Thats only Symbian based Nokia. Imagine the basic Nokia phones as well

      • Mr. Bill

        McDonalds sold over 50 Billion burgers, doesn’t make me want at all.

        Nokias a disposable Gas station side rack phone,where you get chips an pop an such.

        Looks sexy in a lada.

      • Ace Of Space

        Can’t be anymore disposable than the Samsung Behold 2 or Motorola Cliq LOL

        Both stinky, stinky, stinky devices.

        But they were sold by the carriers, so it made them quality units

        LMAO

      • Mr. Bill

        True to a degree.

        Though you forgot, them companies Motorola an Samsung did not make their entire fortune off of crap phones as your implying.

        Nokia has, and in third world countries an lacks a decent os to meld into N/A with, plain and simple, it don;t cut the mustard, and yes even the iphone is more capable.

        That pains me to say a lot.

        So wax up your lada, it’s still a legacy of crap.

  • Dave

    Nokia has no street cred in the US though. Look when the average consumer would call me a bad nerd for owning an n900 instead of an iPhone, you know the general public in the US doesn’t know who Nokia is or what products they have.

    • Mike D

      They have no cred because they haven’t aligned themselves with the U.S Carriers.

      If HTC or Samsung Devices were not subsidized by the U.S Carriers NOBODY would be buying them. I don’t care if they had next years version of Android.

      Americans by the overwhelming majority do not buy unlocked/unsubsidized phones.

      The carriers dictate how phones are sold in the U.S. Not the manufacturers.

      Thats just the way it is and it’s not going to change soon.

    • bob

      Unfortunately, the hardware on the so-called ‘mainstream’ iphone 4 destroys the geeks’ dreamphone we know as the n900. My galaxy s is a mainstream android phone; it too destroys the n900 spec-wise. if nokia’s n900 came out 12 months earlier than it did, it would have been fine. but nokia is truly falling behind at the forefront of phone development.

      • Ace Of Space

        Specs on paper don’t matter.

        Only performance in the real world does.

  • Lee

    ~~~ I would Buy it, Just because IT WOULD lOOK good laying on my Office Desk!! (hiddenmeaning)

    L.

    • Rick

      Definately!

      I’d put it right next to my Vibrant Paperweight. It would make a nice compliment!

  • Zenith

    It’s amazing to still find people defending nokia. Their browser sucks next to android or the ios. Maps… seriously? You are going to pit the Nokia half assed Maps program against google maps? I’ve owned the e61 and e71 and the e72 . Great hardware, but out of date OS. (Instant messaging? very lame ovi store, and don’t get me started on text messages) – The only thing keeping them viable is google writes gmail.com and google mail apps for symbian. If they stop doing that, game over.

    • Moe

      I agree that Nokia maps are nothing special. But neither are Google maps. LOL

      At least you can use Nokia maps without data. That might come in handy if you are lost in the Nevada Desert and can’t get a signal.

      • Mr. Bill

        I can see theres a big city about so many miles that way but here I am in the desert with just a phone an no coverage.

        Seems to me, those in that position are meant to expire.

        Least the buzzards will have maps now.

    • HillBill

      They addressed all of the complaints you have in Symbian 3 and you are quick to put down this phone before even trying it.

      • Zenith

        Except they havent – Maps still sucks. Ovi store still a mess. I supposed you can finally do a firmware update w/o wiping your phone, so thats nice.

        Nokia isnt a software co. They are a hardware co.

        Apple is both, Google is software. So they dont build phones.

  • Dave Who

    As someone who doesn’t want to get locked into another contract just to get a cheap phone I’ll at least check this phone out and read some user reviews and see how it performs in real life/real time with real users and not by people who have never seen it much yet used it.

    I’ve used Symbian devices in the past as well as WM and Android. I have a My Touch 3g now. I like it, but I’m not wedded to it or any of them as I’ve found each has their own strengths and weaknesses.

    What matters to me is that it does what it says it will do and not make promises it can’t keep and that it will last and offers good value for my money.

  • counsel

    Now i have to deal with idiots talking about mhz or ghz who, obviously, don’t understand the freq. isn’t it all…

    People have opinions… Most just aren’t educated. Nokia makes nice phones. You can want something simple like the iphone-if you like it fine, but it isn’t all that functional for me. Perhaps i just need more from my phone than you?

  • Jim

    I’m sure the N8 sell great in the Middle East and Asia, it’ll do just okay in Europe, and it’ll sell five units in the U.S.

    • Capt. Amorica

      Thats what they said about the 5800. I think it’s going on what? About 10 mil sold worldwide? And thats 10 mil sold, not “shipped” A few more than 5 sold in the US i’m pretty sure.

      Once this phone gets to Amazon and Dell and sheds some $$ it will sell pretty well as an unlocked phone like the 5800 and X6 has.

      Pretty remarkable in a country where the the people still buy into the fable of the subsidized phone being the carriers way of looking out for them.

      • Mr. Bill

        The what?
        Wtf is a 5800, how is it going to impress me over whats here.

        Fail.

  • Bob

    Maybe one day, HTC or Samsung or maybe even Motorola will have the guts to produce and offer an unlocked worldwide pentaband device that will allow users to use it’s features to it’s full capabilities without being told how they’ll use it by the carriers.

    How cool would that be!

    • Mr. Bill

      The worldy travelers with the lower end nokia are known as immigrants.

      Hence no need to try an sell a hi end phone to them, no service at sea anyway.

      • Jerry1ken

        Am not surprised that Americans don’t get the advantage of world travel and pentaband devices – I mean how many own passports again – 10%??

        Yeah migrants are getting more travel action than the average American!

      • Mr. Bill

        SO we should buy nokias if we plan a Vacation once a year, and where our GSM/HSPA phone will more then likely suffice.

        We should purchase on the radio augmentation aspect and forget that the rest of it is useless as a smartphone here for the other 364 days?

        Yeah, that makes sense like the euro.

      • Dara

        A one day vacation every year?

        I knew America’s working conditions were bunk, but you need to switch jobs.

        Between foreign pay as you go sim cards and the integrated voip calling, I’ve saved more money than any subsidy ever would have covered on my unlocked Nokia.

      • Mr. Bill

        I frakked that.

        I know it was a low slam on Nokia, though the radio option isn’t a big deal to the majority it is to some like yourself an pays. As in the space alone of Canada, you could have a 100 smaller countries using all sorts of bands an radios, but as it is, there is a couple different technology at play across N/A and its all good.

        Though to break big here, an maybe they can, I would hope they take at least one hi end model an put android on it or WP7 or Web os, show us in our field it can play ball.

        Otherwise it’s like driving on the left hand side for us imo.

  • ras

    This device has a *chance* to be something special with Zeiss optics married to a 12 MP camera. I just hope they support 32GB memory cards in the N8.

  • offdayjb

    I’m more curious bout Nokia World. my N1 can still demolish ALMOST all of the hardware inside this n8..ALMOST a yr l8r..

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