Nokia N8 Sim Free Mobile Phone

I absolutely love this phone. The camera is amazing especially with the Symbian Anna updates and the beta labs extra patch. And talking of Symbian Anna its a hell of a lot better, faster and more user friendly than people say, in my humble opinion way better by far than the iOS if a little lacking in certain apps (I love iOS don't get me wrong but I want widgets and fully customisable homescreens not a locked down format and half a million apps). The large internal storage plus Micro SD slot and USB on the go make it so easy to store and swap everything onto and off the phone. USB O.T.G. is particularly useful when people notice how good the camera is as they'll be forever asking you to take pictures for them and its then fantastically easy to just put them on a USB stick straight from the phone. The battery life is also really impressive, with widgets online, email and social churning away, playing games, listining to music and reading ebooks and with the brightness up on full I still get two days, how many smartphones can say that these days. The Screen is Vibrant and bright even in direct sunlight and touchwise its a joy to use, I could go on but I haven't got time to list everything I love about this phone, it was well worth the £290 I paid and will stay with me for years. Also when the Symbian belle update comes out I'll update my review to reflect it. Can't recommend this phone enough buy it now!

I have been in the market for a Mp3 player for a while but the current players available seem to be degenerating and reducing in specs. I was looking for a decent interface that I can quickly find and play music with no hassle. I want drag and drop & SD card slots. I was looking for Bluetooth connectivity & a FM transmitter built in. It also has to have a legacy headphone AUX out. The N8 ticks all these boxes. I recommend this as a Mp3 player in the current market. Its not a perfect player. But Nokia's in built music playing software is ok and above average. The N8 has 16gb phone memory and 32gb sd slot. Nothing to mega but its ok for me at the moment, until someone makes a Mp3 player that I want. The N8 was a fantastic phone in its day. I loved it. The camera is excellent. Its a bit fiddly sometimes. I wouldn't recommend the N8 as a smart phone in 2015, its 3G and the SYMBIAN store has been closed down. I put a cheap Sim card in the phone to stop the annoying messages. I put the phone in Offline mode. It only plays music now. No hassle . The battery life in offline mode is very good. I get around 24 hours of music play from the N8 with the inbuilt FM transmitter. The FM Transmitter is the N8`s party piece. I don't know any phone or (Decent) Mp3 player that has this option. Bluetooth works fine with my Bluetooth headphones. It connected ok with my works ford stereo also. Overall Im very please with my purchase.

I picked a Nokia because I wanted a device that was a phone first and PDA/smart device 2nd. The N8 is a well made, solid feeling device, with a metal case. It feels good and solid to hold, although it is quite slippery to hold, so I bought the silicone case for it. It does the phone basics well, better than average reception, very quick on 3G connections,good call quality, and voice announcements of calls when the number matches a phonebook entry, and voice dialing too. As a smartphone it is good, but perhaps not quite as nice a user interface as the iPhone. It has 16Gb of memory too. Operation is quick, and there are lots of widgets and stuff to play with. One or two apps I tried from the OVI store are a little temperamental, but most work well and a lot are free on line. The OVI PC client is not as slick as iTunes but it syncs my calendar and contacts from Outlook 2010 just fine. the FM radio works well and has a cool interface, and the FM transmitter is an added bonus. The camera is great and takes good still and video although it produces noisy pictures in low light. The flash works well though. Compared with my Canon D400 it is average but for a phone camera it is great. Battery life is good, two days with a fair bit of fiddling with the apps and camera shots. the battery is built in though like iPhone. All in all this is a great alternative to the iPhone or Android, with better battery life and most importantly it works well as a phone!! Only reason I didn't give it 5* is that the price came down £30 the day after it arrived :-( Cheers Update May 2011 - still really like this phone and the camera in particular, but disappointed that it failed completely after only six months. It wouldn't charge or turn on. Took it back to Nokia approved repair centre and a week later picked up a replacement, which so far (fingers crossed)is fine, new Symbian version loaded which has made it a little quicker in operation and more stable too. I really want this phone to work well for the future 'cos it has lots of nice features and is generally good quality - but Nokia need to sort their quality control.

I bought it less than 1 month ago and it's a great phone. Very flexible and easy to use. Slightly more cumbersome than my Iphone 3G that I had for 2 years but I prefer it by far. Camera is impressive, media capabilities amazing. You can plug to pc and use it as a normal Hard Drive and control all the files, which for example is impossible with Iphone. Widgets are very useful and much better than the bare list of applications that you find on Ifone OS. Built quality is top notch. Browser is not great though but will be upgraded soon. Nokia don't know how to market this product but I am really surprised how good it is. Solid, reliable, good looking. Battery life also great, normal use it lasts me 2 days, much better than my Iphone. Thank you

too low quality

I moved from an Android phone to the N8. I had read the reports about the symbian system not being as good as Android, but I must say the phone has been superb. The camera, email system and GPS with Nokia maps are all outstanding. The 12MP camera takes better pictures than most compact cameras and means you don't need to carry a separate camera. The battery life is also much better than most smart phones and it is as fast as my last Sony Ericsson Experia really zipping between applications. I have never had any problems with freezing and since upgrade to Bella - the latest operating system - it has transformed an already good phone to an outstanding one. I am at an age when I don't want or need the latest app. If you can get one at a good price you won't regret it and distances you from the iPhone or Andriod crowd.

I ordered 2 Nokia N8 handsets on the amazon.co.uk website on 23 October 2011. One handset was supplied by Ish and arrived on 25 October 2011. I was very happy with this handset. The other handset was supplied by marry1253. This handset arrived on 29 October 2011. It was clear this handset was a counterfeit Nokia product. I had the handset inspected by Lyn-Comm (IW) Ltd ( a Nokia dealer ) and was given a written confirmation that the handset was counterfeit. Despite all efforts to inform Amazon about my problem, I am still stuck with the handset.Amazon stated they are unable to contact the supplier marry1253 as they decided to leave the amazon.co.uk platform and are not eligible to receive further email communications. Amazon has investigated on 2 occasions but come back with the same result each time: Unable to do anything as they are unable to contact the supplier. This is after I ordered on the Amazon website and the payment was received by Amazon. They are really not caring about me as a customer.

I've never used the iphone but this phone has everything I'm looking for.It is flashy and the phone memory is about 16G,it's touchscreen, and responds very well but may be slow at times and I have been able to download a lot apps. The voice navigation is good, it has a secondary camera so you can take shots of yourself, though this does not come out very well but the primary camera shots are superb. You can do a lot things at the same time. I love this phone and and am really enjoying. My spouse is thinking of getting one for himself.

When I decided to buy this mobile phone, I assumed that it will be built in Finland or elsewhere in Europe. It turned out that it is collected in China. camera did not like, the battery holds its charge too one day. In the end, I was not very happy with, it is better to buy Samsung models