Nokia N8 Benchmark is much faster

May 23 — The N8 Benchmark of Nokia is its first Symbian device. The phone has a hardware graphics accelarator as it is in Omnia HD, Vivaz and Satio.

In Nokia N8 an application is designed called Speedy Go!. This application improves the performance of Symbian based phones. It comes with speed utility test and it can be compared to the performances with other devices.

From the comparison it was found that the unaccelerated phone speed of N8 is 54% greater than the Omnia HD and it was also proved that it was greater by 180% to the N97 of Nokia.

One more thing worth noting down of N8. Based on the graphics, the phone pushes 32 million triangles on paper where as the iPhone 3GS of Apple pushes only 28 million. Nexus One pushes 22 million and Motorola Droid at 7 million.

Apart from all these, the other attractive features of N8 is that it has 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. The phone has a Xenon flash and also a sensor that compact digital cameras have. One can make HD-quality videos with this phone and also edit the videos with built-in editing suite. N8 has a Dolby Digital Plus surround after it is plugged into home theatre system.

With N8 one can also access the Web TV services along with the local Web TV content from the Ovi Store. Social networking sites feature is also enabled in it so that user can be in touch with all friends on their go.

Via: (MobilesRoom)

First real Symbian^4 screen shots emerge

We'd argue that the "wow" factor still isn't there quite yet, but we'll admit: Symbian^4 is clearly going to be a bit of a departure from the versions that came before it. The Symbian Foundation has posted the first handful of home screen UI shots on its developer wiki recently showing redesigned widgets, app categories and search, pop-up menus, and a standard-issue numeric touchscreen keypad -- and unlike Nokia's concept videos from before, these are from a real emulator running real code. While MeeGo is still expected to dominate the high end of its range, Nokia's expecting to use Symbian^4 in at least some of its devices by early 2011 -- and knowing how these guys like to go big with global roll-outs spanning tens or hundreds of millions of devices, this is a UI you might end up getting to know extremely well within a year or two.

Via: (Engadget)

N8, DivX playback with USB OTG (video)

After the demonstration video of the movie in mkv, comes a new demonstration video playback from N8 function as USB On The Go
This time, the external memory used is our beloved N900, while the movie is a DivX.

Unfortunately, the results do not sound like those videos are good, probably for encoding (as reported by the user DOLL): missing the AC3 support, the N8 has problems playing the audio encoded movies so (unless you use The Dolby Digital Plus via HDMI).

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Symbian is 're-arranging the deck chairs,' losing buoyancy fast

We all know that Symbian is still holding the fort as the globe's most widely used mobile OS, but anyone interested in criticizing it nowadays will have to get into a queue. Nick Jones from Gartner is latest to launch a broadside against the apparently complacent market leader, opining that its user experience has been surpassed by iOS and Android, and arguing that future iterations do not promise enough innovation to make the platform stand out. He underpins these observations with his firm's latest estimates, which indicate Symbian's decline in share is accelerating, before positing the idea that the Foundation sets aside some talent for skunkworks projects in order to give itself fallback options should Symbian^4 not be blindingly marvelous. Nick might be going a little overboard with the bleakness of his outlook, but there's no questioning his "Android iceberg" analogy -- if Symbian doesn't find the right course soon, Google might well end up collecting a big chunk of its exasperated users.


Via: (Engadget)