I want to live in a parallel universe where this level of fidelity in hardware won (with great fidelity in the software) instead of stuck into the one where there is zero competition left anymore (on the software side) and monopoly on hardware.
I'm still using my Nokia N8 as a call and text phone until now. The camera is still awesome after 11 years. Even better than some phones released this year.
Meego is amazing and ahead of it's time but they choose wrong ceo who destroyed meego (the best os ever made by Nokia), at lastly meego died after a release of one phone, but intel and samsung tried to make a os like nokia's meego but they failed
was my favorite phone I've ever owned for sure... I wish they made a new version of it with the option of android... the built in FM transmitter was amazing
I still go bonkers whenever I think about Nokia ditching MeeGo and going with windows OS. We all know what happened to the giant after that. Nokia would have still be at No. 1 had they had gone with MeeGo or Android. I have very good memories with my Nokia N9.
It's a shame that windows phone didn't really capture any market. It was definitely a mis-step on Nokia's part. But the Os itself was actually really good imo. Fast, fluid, and worked well on budget hardware. It's just that then as now, everybody wants iPhone and Samsung. Market share after those 2 in the western world is slim pickings. Only company to have any chance now with a 3rd os is Huawei. But it's likely that will only really be successful in China. Again as with harmony os as windows os found out, it all boils down to app support
@@lawrencejb6829 for me it was the privacy aspect. I used Nokia to get away from apple and google. By teaming up with Microsoft, I couldn't use their phones in good conscience
Its the last Nokia phones to sell two digits. Nokia N8 sold 12 Million Units on its entire lifespan. Correction : 6 Million units only, but still the last Nokia Smartphone to sold this high.
Bringing back the memories when Nokia is still the king of smartphones.. I would not use a smartphone if it's not a Nokia ofcourse. Coming from 5110 in the year 2000, i can still enumerate all of the Nokia phones i've used.. lol 😹 here they are: 5110, 3310, 3530, 2100, 3100, 6630, 6680, 3220, 3230, N70 (Music Ed.), N73 (Music Ed.), N82, N96, N8.. then Lumia 1020 the last of former Nokia brand smartphone i've owned before moving to iPhones. Then, when they returned as android, i tried the Nokia 7 plus & 6.1 plus.. but with both?.. I'm just not happy/satisfied using them, I just have that feeling that they are not the brand i loved before. Anyway, it's really a nostalgic feeling everytime i remember bragging my new Nokia phone with my friends during my college days.. 😁👌
Thats a really nice journey of cool Nokia phones. Sadly a part of what made Nokia phones so special before is hard to replicate these days, which is a special software experience. Android is boring in my opinion, and unless they actually develop their own skin for it, it will continue to be boring. They still make nice hardware though!
You forgot to mention about the FM Transmitter (great function!) and xenon flash 😉. I used this phone for more than 4 years. One of the best camera available on mobile phones back then, i took many beautiful pictures with it. Even today pictures taken with N8 can be considered very good 💪. Good job, nice material! 👍
I still have my Lumia 720 man that os was fantastic I really did out of the crowd. But today I have the 5.3 and I am enjoying it but it is a bit more expensive by 1000 rupees but Nokia's quality is great.
First time when I had a Nokia phone , it was 1998 :)) those years we had no problems with our phones.. Nokia was king of the world :) We like to talk about old Nokia days with its pros and cons .Nokia should learn from it's mistakes in the past but the matter is that what Hmd is doing now? I think the situation is worse now. For a long time no news from HMD. I would prefer them to pass on the company to a better team than botching the logo.
Nokia had so much power back then and then completely threw it away thanks to an incompetent management, internal conflict, and so on. Its a shame :( I don't like many things HMD are doing, but I can't help but feel bad for them because they are technically a start up, which has massive fan expectations due to the legendary brand they are carrying. Its the fault of Nokia as well for not helping enough.
N8 was my first touch screen phone❤❤...I got it from my elder brother... I was so excited for this phone bcz it was going to be my first camera as well as touch screen phone.... The camera was superb.... The least I can say is the best camera phone in my life....If flash was used when capturing photo the skin tones were absolutely amazing...it processed skin like digital cameras...completely natural and full of details unlike todays android phones which only makes your screen smooth and fair not but does not capture that much detail and pixelate with little zoom. .. Sadly it is not working now...
What a nightmare N8 became to me within just 3 days of purchase. I noticed lag and some errors so I decided to reformat thinking it was a new device and everything would restore to normal. But it was far from truth. Widgets of news and national geographic feeds disappeared. OVI maps stopped. Sync mail stopped and then evey day was a new level of struggle. None of the application on OVI Store were optimised. Every app that you could imagine using won't work as designed. Push mail was another level of nightwear. To have it work again if disconnected wasn't easy ever. Nokia's intent and situation was very clear out of the release of N8. They being in extreme pressure launched a half ready phone and used people like us who were Nokia's fan as beta testera. After 6 months of use my brother thought of getting a new phone for himself. Considering the trauma I had with Nokia I bought HTC Desire S for him but after looking at my N8 he decided to take my N8 itself as he wanted good camera and tank like built quality. He still regrets his decision. Since then I never looked back at Nokia. Unfortunately, they are still the same - chaep and rip-off's. Just as a collection, I still have it with me. But over all I felt cheated by Nokia in the way they did business. I really had so much hopes with this phone and what it turned out to be.
I had this in my later school years, I basically borrowed it from my father after his misuse of it lol….ohh boy it took the beating and came up like a champ….I ordered a one on ebay not sure of it’s authenticity 🤞🏻…basically satisfying my curiosity and jogging my nostalgia in 2023 using this masterpiece…
honestly still one of my favorite devices to use just for it's other features like the camera and the fm transmitter is always hilarious to bust out and everyone thinks you're hacking the gibson lol
To be honest... I think a lot about older Nokia’s phones and I’m happy that there are profiles like this one. I can satisfy my curiosity. Years ago I couldn’t buy them, because of my miserable money status (I was unemployed school student) 😂 I remember my last device from “old Nokia” was C5-03. Not completely featurephone but still not smartphone. Before that one I got a lot of feature phones of Nokia... good memories 😌 Couple of years later, as an undergraduate I bought Lumia 925, unfortunately I sold it when it became clear that Windows 10 for mobile was next failure. To be honest, my heart was devastated 🥲 That lumia was one of the best devices I ever had. MS Store wasn’t a problem, cuz it wasn’t my daily phone. I used to use during that time also Xperia Z1 and (after Z1) iPhone 6S+. Lumia was a nice escape from Android and iOS ecosystems. Plus, 925 had great design, beautiful OLED display and nice camera. I’m really thinking of buying older Nokia phones. Not only as sentimental time travel. I’m curious of them, because couple of them were my “youthful dreams”. X7, E7, N8, N9, (unofficial N900), Lumia 1020 and 1520. I hope that someday I’ll find something good about them on TH-cam, maybe here ;) I’m thinking of lumias 1020 or 1520 - are they worth of buying as second device that I could use as a cheaper version of vlogging camera? Is software usable after the time. Questions like this... Hopefully, I’ll find the answers sooner or later ☺️☺️
Thank you for sharing your experience with us :) Regarding 1020 and 1520, sure you can use them for vlogging, especially if you use them on a tripod. They struggle a bit with white balance is you move a lot though
I loved loved loved this phone. I got this after the n97 mini which I did not hate actually. I was going on an interrail trip and had a new black nokia n8 with me. It was my music player, camera, GPS with downloaded maps and internet To book trips and hostels on WiFi. Still have great photos and memories from that trip and this phone was the perfect companion!!
I had this phone in the colour you have and I’m sorry, but I loved it! I thought it was gorgeous and the shade of green is exactly my favourite! The camera is to this day, one of the best I have ever used! The only thing I was disappointed with at launch was the fact that they didn’t launch with android! At the time I didn’t really use the browser on the phone, it had a twitter and Facebook app so I didn’t even need to go into the browser for anything. I stick with the N8 for such a long time, I mean the thing was indestructible! But I eventually gave it up for the Galaxy S3 and have been with samsung since then, but if Nokia pulled their finger out and actually brought out some worth while devices, I could switch back.
The reason I moved from the Galaxy S (1) to the N8 was because of the design, green color, and camera :) I was just disappointed with the software compared to the S1
@@AbdullaZaki What was so disappointing is that Android was actually a thing when they released it and in some markets it did release with Android I believe. I mean the update they pushed really improved the phones usability, but it would have been such a different story if Nokia went with Android, instead of the disaster that turned Microsoft turned out to be! 😂
Had one of these for review back in 2010 (my first year of college), alongside my personal Sony Ericsson Xperia X10i (my first Android) and Nokia 5800XM (the phone I was coming from). Really liked the build of the N8 but you could tell Symbian S60 was hitting its limits in terms of usability on touchscreen, such a pity as this beast was very efficient on power usage and that camera was amazing, but yeah, Symbian was feeling very archaic, such a shame. I always wonder what would have happened if the Symbian UIQ had not been killed off a few years before this, as it had a touch screen based interface though it was stylus driven but SE P910 for example was fantastic.
you are spot on with your analysis. I switched from a Samsung Galaxy S to this and it was a step back in terms of usability (not functionality), but the hardware was lovely which is why I switched in the first place. Nokia badly mismanaged symbian at so many different levels. Had they had the correct vision and leadership at the time, Android would have never become the biggest player as the core of Symbian was more efficient and much more advanced. Symbian UIQ was an example. But Nokia also had Maemo, later MeeGo which was incredible. They also didn't know how to integrate it into their main OS. Maemo / MeeGo were about 5 years ahead of their time.
@@AbdullaZaki of course not in the browser=).i don't use it as a smart phone.it has a nice camera even in 2020.and i use it as a music player and camera.you can even play your music throw radio.
Got my N8 at launch and used it until 2014 when i got a Lumia 635 and stuck with Lumias(735 & later 950) until december of 2018 when i got a Nokia 5.1. :P Actually used my trusty silver N8 for 2 weeks this summer, the camera is still surprisingly good and some apps still work(weather & google maps).
Thats a cool history of phones :) I loved the Lumia 735's design! The N8's camera is still capable today, but the autofocus isn't great unfortunately haha.
If I understood one developer on Reddit, the downfall of Symbian wasn't really its UI or UX, it was that developers needed to remake their apps for every new iteration of Symbian. For instance, apps from OS 60 V2 couldn't run on 60 V3..or any of those apps couldn't run on ^3, Anna, Belle. Too bad, I still cherish Symbian to this day, and I mean to repurchase 808 if I have the chance.
Qt was going to fix that problem on S60v5/S^3/Anna/Belle. They were easier to port to both Symbian and MeeGo. Most later Symbian apps were made on Qt and had the same UI on both Symbian and MeeGo versions
Indeed, there were high expectations for the Nokia N8, perhaps even exaggerated. I remember the massive campaign of this phone that was supposed to push Nokia forward. Unfortunately, it failed. The phone, despite having good specifications on paper, was nowhere near the quality of its competitor at the time, the iPhone 4. Nokia missed an opportunity to return to the phone pedestal. And the purchase of Nokia by Microsoft made it even worse, unfortunately. Thanks for this video, I share your opinion about Nokia N8.
Would love to see remaster of this phone. Keep camera same, maybe change screen to atleast HD+ use cpu something like snapdragon 720g and give it gcam. Would be amazing
Aaaah ,trip down memory lane ,yes Meego way ahead of it's time ,so to was Nokia,let's hope HMD invests in its own ecosystem!! On a side note ,Android is based off of Linux ,yet the Android system takes up almost half of the space on a phone when Linux is super compact?? I wonder why?? Yes Google,I'm taking to you !!! Thanks for a banging vid Mr Nokia!!!
Still have three sitting in a drawer...all the batteries long since removed, of course. Also, an E90. Great phones for their time...but long since obsolete. About the only thing they can do well today is to serve as a pocket camera.
I love the N8... I switched from the Samsung Galaxy S to it. That green :D Anyways, what was your experience with the N8? p.s Most non static video shots of the N8 were captured with the Nokia 8.3 5G ... can you tell? :)
I think making touch-screen-Symbian feel as fluid as iOS and Android was a struggle for Nokia's programmers at the time. It seems like they had to do separate implementations of e.g inertial scrolling for home screens, menus and apps, there was never a way of coding it 'system-wide'. Granted, if they had spent more time on this instead of building Symbian for the myriad of S60 5th edition phones that came out in 2008-2010, their business might have lasted longer.
Yesterday i bought Nokia n8 in brown color. Little problem with camera focus, when shaking the phone phone, voila problem solved. I am really impressed with Picture quality. Very close to my Nokia 808 pureview pureview 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂bought in perfect condition for 20 us dollars
This was good! Nokia 808 now! So sad! Wish they went with Meego and I was so curious to see what could happen with Symbian, anyways thought maybe sunshine is still developing it somewhere!
I bought one 10 years ago when they were released. It had the power issue and died within a day. I got a new one under warranty but after a year it fell and the screen smashed. It was my last Nokia. I loved it and it was excellent, but I replaced it with a used Galaxy S and have been on Android since. Symbian was awesome, I had a N82, N79, 5800, N79 and C6-01, the N8 was the pinnacle of Symbian for me so I ended it on a high note.
I had the opposite journey to you, I had the Galaxy S, then sold it and got the N8. It was a step backwards in terms of usability, but a huge step forward in terms of hardware. Out of your ex Nokia's, the N82 has to be my favourite. Such a cool phone with an excellent camera and xenon flash :)
@@AbdullaZaki definitely top notch hardware. I did a video about 6 months ago about the FM transmitter in my N79. The N8 also had one if I recall correctly. I recently got a 4K monitor and only now, a decade later, I can see the photos from the N8 in all their glory. Marvelous camera.
btw are you gonna review the New originals? the 6300 4G and the 8000? that would be great to see a in depth review and can see all what kaios is capable of
i remember choosing between this nokia n8 and iphone 4 during that time. . i had the ipod touch and when i went to Nokia store to supposedly preorder the N8 i tried the demo N8 and I couldn’t believe how horrible scrolling was on Nokia touchscreen compare to Apples so it made me decide to go with iPhone 4 and ever since I never looked back currently using Iphone12 pro
Hey Abdullah bro... Please make video on Symbian for keypad phones . Is there any chances to bring back Symbian for low end keypad phones . Can it replace kaiOS and series40 . Both are very inferior in front of Symbian s^60 . Symbian is still unbeatable on keypad phones .
@@AbdullaZaki I have a Nokia C5 (keypad) and a Nokia N79 . And they are proper smartphones . Both are still usable because 3G network is still supported here . Things that I think I need are Microsoft sync( however I can get my contacts with Bluetooth but can't get my outlook calendar enteries), WhatsApp or Telegram messenger , Some trusted online Wallet app and it's complete for today's basic needs . I think it's fine to not to have many apps, I don't think a person who uses a keypad phone would need a huge list of apps .
I had this phone for a while....I loved it ❤️❤️❤️... I get People's frustrations with it over the Years at this point but it was Just a Bad Time for Any Phone except the iPhone....Every user interface was Trash compared to the iPhone back then...BUT Nokia had the most pressure to Compete since they were the Ex-King....They failed to Keep up with Apple even though they had a Couple of Chances with the N900 and N9....Those Phones were Absolutely Amazing...Crashed Most iPhones and Early Androids... Nokia Fumbled the Bag so Hard OMG.
I still have an n9. For sure meego was way ahead of its time. Most of its greatest features obviously are now to be found on iOS and Android. Truth is that they needed to jump on the bandwagon of Android much sooner. And yes.... If they wanted a home grown os, they should have been bold like you said much sooner. But Android in 2010 would have saved them for sure.
I just got a brand new one off the internet, came with Anna. Wanna flash it to belle or CFW. Could you or anyone reading this point me in the right direction to a tutorial on how to go about it? It’s been a decade since I’ve touched one of these and I’m kinda lost 😅
Have you used a htc phone? Htc were one of the best when it came to design and user experience (both of which you hold in high regard) at the time. I know ur a nokia guy, but I would love to know ur opinion on those phones :)
I'm also a former hTC fan. Because of their design & their built-in amplifier (Beats Audio/Boom sound).. i used hTC One X, Butterfly, M7, Butterfly s, M9, U11 & U11+.. if only hTC still exist, then maybe i will not even try using/buying Samsung Galaxy devices.. 😹
Why won't HMD revisit these devices? These form factor is the innovation that HMD lacks. Also the camera tech that these devices had were superb unlike the recent Nokia which is meh.
Disappointingly once pioneers of technology now build 8.35G with a LCD panel for $700 while those days before community barely knew AMOLED nokia get them in to devices :(
It is quite a story to see how Nokia went from the absolute ruler of the market to the complete disaster... But, they really knew how to make an interesting mobile phone!!!!! There is nothing that can compare to their design and build.
@@AbdullaZaki N96 was a big step down from the N95. It had worse CPU and no GPU etc. Though the GPU (PowerVR MBX, the same one as in iPhone 2G and 3G) in the N95 (and few other models) was only used for games etc. Nokia N97 didn't have a GPU either. Most Symbian^3/Anna/Belle phones used the Broadcom GPU for pretty much everything which is why they ran so well with the slow CPU (680MHz ARM11 in N8 and other first gen S^3 phones). Belle was a big upgrade from the og S^3 and Anna. Even on the N8 it feels smoother than most 1GHz Android flaships from 2010, if we don't talk about the web browser which Nokia never fully fixed. But some phones like the Nokia 500 with 1GHz ARM11 and no GPU feels a lot slower and laggy than the N8. But tbh even the Nokia 500 wasn't that bad when compared to some of the cheap Android phones from that time
I want to live in a parallel universe where this level of fidelity in hardware won (with great fidelity in the software) instead of stuck into the one where there is zero competition left anymore (on the software side) and monopoly on hardware.
I completely agree...
I'm still using my Nokia N8 as a call and text phone until now. The camera is still awesome after 11 years. Even better than some phones released this year.
That camera and software quality is so much better than many phones in 2021
I still have mine in some drawer. So many memories
I still use my beloved Nokia 808 pureview
Meego is amazing and ahead of it's time but they choose wrong ceo who destroyed meego (the best os ever made by Nokia), at lastly meego died after a release of one phone, but intel and samsung tried to make a os like nokia's meego but they failed
MeeGo is so innovative. Its hard to create something this special by anyone.
@@AbdullaZaki yeah, from this we can understand that nokia was so innovative at that time which Samsung is not in 2020
@@khaifmd3412 man, i feel you. i always felt when it comes to samsung vs nokia in innovative design, support,etc nokia was in a different league
@@rajakrishnan7662 yeah Nokia Innovation is ahead of it's time but sadly they not exist in today's date
Meego was continued with Sailfish. Look it up
I remember in 1st grade my teacher using this, but unfortunately, she dropped it in water. The next day she had the Nokia n9 🤣
Bhai my father had this phone.Just think if this phone was made accorfing for pubg.This phone would have nailed it
@@piupiu634 yes, I know right! 😎
She just needed a reason to replace one with another 😀😀
Nah, I always heard her complaining about it 😆
Lmao ur teacher doesn't deserved the N8...
I think meego still has potential to be an option for Nokia if they experiment with it at present.
I still have my E63 with me which I consider as one of the best phones that I have ever used..
Currently I am using 5.1plus from past 25 months 🙂
How's your 5.1 plus?
@@hinatandon2064 its still working like a new phone 😁
Even I'm using 8.1 since 24 months, just got a new battery :D
was my favorite phone I've ever owned for sure... I wish they made a new version of it with the option of android... the built in FM transmitter was amazing
I still go bonkers whenever I think about Nokia ditching MeeGo and going with windows OS. We all know what happened to the giant after that. Nokia would have still be at No. 1 had they had gone with MeeGo or Android.
I have very good memories with my Nokia N9.
the mistake is choosing a wrong ceo
@@khaifmd3412 yeah
It's a shame that windows phone didn't really capture any market. It was definitely a mis-step on Nokia's part. But the Os itself was actually really good imo. Fast, fluid, and worked well on budget hardware. It's just that then as now, everybody wants iPhone and Samsung. Market share after those 2 in the western world is slim pickings. Only company to have any chance now with a 3rd os is Huawei. But it's likely that will only really be successful in China. Again as with harmony os as windows os found out, it all boils down to app support
@@blackhawk69100 Apps were the major problem in windows OS to crash badly. As you rightly said the OS was not bad at all.
@@lawrencejb6829 for me it was the privacy aspect. I used Nokia to get away from apple and google. By teaming up with Microsoft, I couldn't use their phones in good conscience
Its the last Nokia phones to sell two digits. Nokia N8 sold 12 Million Units on its entire lifespan.
Correction : 6 Million units only, but still the last Nokia Smartphone to sold this high.
Nokia had such a strong reputation back then :)
Wrong,Nokia lumia 520 sold more than 6 million figure
Lumia 520 sold 12 million units. It's the last best selling phone.
10 years later " Snapdragon 865 was a slow processor. It's far behind my Snapdragon 4937G".😀
Funny, but the N8 wasn't smooth for its time :)
Bringing back the memories when Nokia is still the king of smartphones.. I would not use a smartphone if it's not a Nokia ofcourse. Coming from 5110 in the year 2000, i can still enumerate all of the Nokia phones i've used.. lol 😹 here they are: 5110, 3310, 3530, 2100, 3100, 6630, 6680, 3220, 3230, N70 (Music Ed.), N73 (Music Ed.), N82, N96, N8.. then Lumia 1020 the last of former Nokia brand smartphone i've owned before moving to iPhones. Then, when they returned as android, i tried the Nokia 7 plus & 6.1 plus.. but with both?.. I'm just not happy/satisfied using them, I just have that feeling that they are not the brand i loved before. Anyway, it's really a nostalgic feeling everytime i remember bragging my new Nokia phone with my friends during my college days.. 😁👌
Thats a really nice journey of cool Nokia phones. Sadly a part of what made Nokia phones so special before is hard to replicate these days, which is a special software experience. Android is boring in my opinion, and unless they actually develop their own skin for it, it will continue to be boring. They still make nice hardware though!
You forgot to mention about the FM Transmitter (great function!) and xenon flash 😉. I used this phone for more than 4 years. One of the best camera available on mobile phones back then, i took many beautiful pictures with it. Even today pictures taken with N8 can be considered very good 💪. Good job, nice material! 👍
I was just waiting for n8 retro review.. And here you just made that..
Ahh the good old Nokia days!!
Hope you enjoyed it :)
All your videos are great. I already subscribed ur channel.
Thanks a lot 😊
I think Nokia Belle was the 2nd update on Symbian 3. The first was Nokia Anna if my memory serves me right.
You are correct. I considered Symbian^3 the first update even though you cant update S60 V5 into it.
As a 19 yo at the time I loved it..then.upgraded to...the Nokia n9 when it came out , prolly Nokia's best phone at the time
I still have my Lumia 720 man that os was fantastic I really did out of the crowd. But today I have the 5.3 and I am enjoying it but it is a bit more expensive by 1000 rupees but Nokia's quality is great.
Glad you're enjoying the 5.3 :)
First time when I had a Nokia phone , it was 1998 :)) those years we had no problems with our phones.. Nokia was king of the world :) We like to talk about old Nokia days with its pros and cons .Nokia should learn from it's mistakes in the past but the matter is that what Hmd is doing now? I think the situation is worse now. For a long time no news from HMD. I would prefer them to pass on the company to a better team than botching the logo.
Nokia had so much power back then and then completely threw it away thanks to an incompetent management, internal conflict, and so on. Its a shame :(
I don't like many things HMD are doing, but I can't help but feel bad for them because they are technically a start up, which has massive fan expectations due to the legendary brand they are carrying. Its the fault of Nokia as well for not helping enough.
I dreamt of a collaboration between Nokia and the Pixel , A phone with Nokia built quality with Pixel software
I miss my N8.
The feel of its aluminun chassis, buttons and glass is unforgetable.
Nokia ❤️❤️❤️ forever and ever...
you made me go back in time. I found my n8 and plugged in the charger. It works after 11 years!!
Isn't that just incredible?
@@AbdullaZaki yes
N8 was my first touch screen phone❤❤...I got it from my elder brother... I was so excited for this phone bcz it was going to be my first camera as well as touch screen phone.... The camera was superb.... The least I can say is the best camera phone in my life....If flash was used when capturing photo the skin tones were absolutely amazing...it processed skin like digital cameras...completely natural and full of details unlike todays android phones which only makes your screen smooth and fair not but does not capture that much detail and pixelate with little zoom. .. Sadly it is not working now...
What a nightmare N8 became to me within just 3 days of purchase. I noticed lag and some errors so I decided to reformat thinking it was a new device and everything would restore to normal. But it was far from truth. Widgets of news and national geographic feeds disappeared. OVI maps stopped. Sync mail stopped and then evey day was a new level of struggle. None of the application on OVI Store were optimised. Every app that you could imagine using won't work as designed. Push mail was another level of nightwear. To have it work again if disconnected wasn't easy ever. Nokia's intent and situation was very clear out of the release of N8. They being in extreme pressure launched a half ready phone and used people like us who were Nokia's fan as beta testera.
After 6 months of use my brother thought of getting a new phone for himself. Considering the trauma I had with Nokia I bought HTC Desire S for him but after looking at my N8 he decided to take my N8 itself as he wanted good camera and tank like built quality. He still regrets his decision. Since then I never looked back at Nokia. Unfortunately, they are still the same - chaep and rip-off's.
Just as a collection, I still have it with me. But over all I felt cheated by Nokia in the way they did business. I really had so much hopes with this phone and what it turned out to be.
Congrats on 4k subscribers! :)
Yay, thank you!
I had this in my later school years, I basically borrowed it from my father after his misuse of it lol….ohh boy it took the beating and came up like a champ….I ordered a one on ebay not sure of it’s authenticity 🤞🏻…basically satisfying my curiosity and jogging my nostalgia in 2023 using this masterpiece…
Even now if original Nokia will start releasing phone with meego or some other OS user's are still there to buy (die hard fans like me)
Me too :)
Me being one of those fans 🙋🏻♂️
Count me in!!
honestly still one of my favorite devices to use just for it's other features like the camera and the fm transmitter is always hilarious to bust out and everyone thinks you're hacking the gibson lol
Haha things brings me back to when I was rocking the FM transmitter in every car I get into :)
To be honest... I think a lot about older Nokia’s phones and I’m happy that there are profiles like this one. I can satisfy my curiosity.
Years ago I couldn’t buy them, because of my miserable money status (I was unemployed school student) 😂
I remember my last device from “old Nokia” was C5-03. Not completely featurephone but still not smartphone. Before that one I got a lot of feature phones of Nokia... good memories 😌
Couple of years later, as an undergraduate I bought Lumia 925, unfortunately I sold it when it became clear that Windows 10 for mobile was next failure. To be honest, my heart was devastated 🥲 That lumia was one of the best devices I ever had. MS Store wasn’t a problem, cuz it wasn’t my daily phone. I used to use during that time also Xperia Z1 and (after Z1) iPhone 6S+. Lumia was a nice escape from Android and iOS ecosystems. Plus, 925 had great design, beautiful OLED display and nice camera.
I’m really thinking of buying older Nokia phones. Not only as sentimental time travel. I’m curious of them, because couple of them were my “youthful dreams”. X7, E7, N8, N9, (unofficial N900), Lumia 1020 and 1520. I hope that someday I’ll find something good about them on TH-cam, maybe here ;)
I’m thinking of lumias 1020 or 1520 - are they worth of buying as second device that I could use as a cheaper version of vlogging camera? Is software usable after the time. Questions like this...
Hopefully, I’ll find the answers sooner or later ☺️☺️
Thank you for sharing your experience with us :)
Regarding 1020 and 1520, sure you can use them for vlogging, especially if you use them on a tripod. They struggle a bit with white balance is you move a lot though
I loved loved loved this phone. I got this after the n97 mini which I did not hate actually.
I was going on an interrail trip and had a new black nokia n8 with me. It was my music player, camera, GPS with downloaded maps and internet To book trips and hostels on WiFi. Still have great photos and memories from that trip and this phone was the perfect companion!!
I still use my beloved Nokia 808 pureview, in 2021.808 camera still better than today cameras in a phones
I still have it and it works like butter
Love it❤
My Nokia N8 is sadly dead. First the screen started burning in, then the charge port failed making it not charge anymore. I miss that phone so much.
I had this phone in the colour you have and I’m sorry, but I loved it! I thought it was gorgeous and the shade of green is exactly my favourite! The camera is to this day, one of the best I have ever used! The only thing I was disappointed with at launch was the fact that they didn’t launch with android! At the time I didn’t really use the browser on the phone, it had a twitter and Facebook app so I didn’t even need to go into the browser for anything.
I stick with the N8 for such a long time, I mean the thing was indestructible! But I eventually gave it up for the Galaxy S3 and have been with samsung since then, but if Nokia pulled their finger out and actually brought out some worth while devices, I could switch back.
The reason I moved from the Galaxy S (1) to the N8 was because of the design, green color, and camera :) I was just disappointed with the software compared to the S1
@@AbdullaZaki What was so disappointing is that Android was actually a thing when they released it and in some markets it did release with Android I believe. I mean the update they pushed really improved the phones usability, but it would have been such a different story if Nokia went with Android, instead of the disaster that turned Microsoft turned out to be! 😂
I never put a case nor a screen protector on this, yet I dropped it countless times and it never gave me any problems.
how about nokia make new n8..with same original body but uses new screen and new prosessor...coz nokia n8 has simply beautifull compact design...
I have great memories with my Nokia N9. Beautiful.
Which color did you have it in? :)
Had one of these for review back in 2010 (my first year of college), alongside my personal Sony Ericsson Xperia X10i (my first Android) and Nokia 5800XM (the phone I was coming from). Really liked the build of the N8 but you could tell Symbian S60 was hitting its limits in terms of usability on touchscreen, such a pity as this beast was very efficient on power usage and that camera was amazing, but yeah, Symbian was feeling very archaic, such a shame.
I always wonder what would have happened if the Symbian UIQ had not been killed off a few years before this, as it had a touch screen based interface though it was stylus driven but SE P910 for example was fantastic.
you are spot on with your analysis. I switched from a Samsung Galaxy S to this and it was a step back in terms of usability (not functionality), but the hardware was lovely which is why I switched in the first place.
Nokia badly mismanaged symbian at so many different levels. Had they had the correct vision and leadership at the time, Android would have never become the biggest player as the core of Symbian was more efficient and much more advanced. Symbian UIQ was an example. But Nokia also had Maemo, later MeeGo which was incredible. They also didn't know how to integrate it into their main OS. Maemo / MeeGo were about 5 years ahead of their time.
my dad used this phone for almost 8 years without case screen is not cracked
and dropped from 3 meters and it still works!
Dude i still use my nokia n8 some times.and after all this years i,ve almost never experienced any lag.it always was so smooth!
Even in the browser? :)
@@AbdullaZaki of course not in the browser=).i don't use it as a smart phone.it has a nice camera even in 2020.and i use it as a music player and camera.you can even play your music throw radio.
I used Nokia N9 till today it’s awesome ❤️
Got my N8 at launch and used it until 2014 when i got a Lumia 635 and stuck with Lumias(735 & later 950) until december of 2018 when i got a Nokia 5.1. :P
Actually used my trusty silver N8 for 2 weeks this summer, the camera is still surprisingly good and some apps still work(weather & google maps).
Thats a cool history of phones :) I loved the Lumia 735's design!
The N8's camera is still capable today, but the autofocus isn't great unfortunately haha.
If I understood one developer on Reddit, the downfall of Symbian wasn't really its UI or UX, it was that developers needed to remake their apps for every new iteration of Symbian. For instance, apps from OS 60 V2 couldn't run on 60 V3..or any of those apps couldn't run on ^3, Anna, Belle. Too bad, I still cherish Symbian to this day, and I mean to repurchase 808 if I have the chance.
There were a lot of things happening behind the scenes that we sadly had no access to, and this might be correct.
Qt was going to fix that problem on S60v5/S^3/Anna/Belle. They were easier to port to both Symbian and MeeGo. Most later Symbian apps were made on Qt and had the same UI on both Symbian and MeeGo versions
Indeed, there were high expectations for the Nokia N8, perhaps even exaggerated. I remember the massive campaign of this phone that was supposed to push Nokia forward. Unfortunately, it failed. The phone, despite having good specifications on paper, was nowhere near the quality of its competitor at the time, the iPhone 4. Nokia missed an opportunity to return to the phone pedestal. And the purchase of Nokia by Microsoft made it even worse, unfortunately. Thanks for this video, I share your opinion about Nokia N8.
I admit the software issue but I still love how the N8 was made and the quality of pics it produces compared to the Nokia today.
I legit thought that the title card read "Nokia N8 | the seaweed flavour", it made sense at first with that green colored N8 😂
Are you thinking of sushi? 🤣
Hahaha I love the green :)
You were hungry 😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑
I have mine right next to me.It survived a hammer drop,it works like new,just cracked
they were built differently back then.
Would love to see remaster of this phone. Keep camera same, maybe change screen to atleast HD+ use cpu something like snapdragon 720g and give it gcam. Would be amazing
That would be amazing indeed
Aaaah ,trip down memory lane ,yes Meego way ahead of it's time ,so to was Nokia,let's hope HMD invests in its own ecosystem!! On a side note ,Android is based off of Linux ,yet the Android system takes up almost half of the space on a phone when Linux is super compact?? I wonder why?? Yes Google,I'm taking to you !!! Thanks for a banging vid Mr Nokia!!!
Android is butchered Linux with God knows how many things Google have added beneath the surface to sell ads, thats why :) Thanks for watching!
My sister used N8 until 2-3 years ago.
Ha my battery is still half decent in mine, but am thinking of finding a new one for it and just using it for music in the car
Wow 😍 I llllove how it looks
I've still got mine but sadly my brother broke it's screen and I'm having trouble finding an original screen.
Still have three sitting in a drawer...all the batteries long since removed, of course. Also, an E90. Great phones for their time...but long since obsolete. About the only thing they can do well today is to serve as a pocket camera.
I want this phone to be back with latest feature but with same design and slightly bigger
Would love a modern N8 myself :)
Opera webbrowser is what I used with it
Got one. With the original box from when I got it new!!
I loved my N97, and I used my E7 until 2013
I love the N8... I switched from the Samsung Galaxy S to it. That green :D
Anyways, what was your experience with the N8?
p.s Most non static video shots of the N8 were captured with the Nokia 8.3 5G ... can you tell? :)
2:18 😂
I want to send you a bunch of emails, how can i?
Hey bro what do you think about the unrealsedmeego phone n950
please make an video on nokia old phone which support what's app,
None of them do now...
I think making touch-screen-Symbian feel as fluid as iOS and Android was a struggle for Nokia's programmers at the time. It seems like they had to do separate implementations of e.g inertial scrolling for home screens, menus and apps, there was never a way of coding it 'system-wide'.
Granted, if they had spent more time on this instead of building Symbian for the myriad of S60 5th edition phones that came out in 2008-2010, their business might have lasted longer.
Yesterday i bought Nokia n8 in brown color. Little problem with camera focus, when shaking the phone phone, voila problem solved. I am really impressed with Picture quality. Very close to my Nokia 808 pureview pureview 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂bought in perfect condition for 20 us dollars
N9 was the perfect upgrade. But sadly it also died 😭
This was good! Nokia 808 now! So sad! Wish they went with Meego and I was so curious to see what could happen with Symbian, anyways thought maybe sunshine is still developing it somewhere!
I hope we see Symbian again in the future, at least on keypad devices.
iPhone设置点东西也需要进入菜单一层一层去找，现在也是。无非多了搜索快速接入。那就是个功能API加一段代码很好解决的问题。
I bought one 10 years ago when they were released. It had the power issue and died within a day. I got a new one under warranty but after a year it fell and the screen smashed. It was my last Nokia. I loved it and it was excellent, but I replaced it with a used Galaxy S and have been on Android since. Symbian was awesome, I had a N82, N79, 5800, N79 and C6-01, the N8 was the pinnacle of Symbian for me so I ended it on a high note.
I had the opposite journey to you, I had the Galaxy S, then sold it and got the N8. It was a step backwards in terms of usability, but a huge step forward in terms of hardware.
Out of your ex Nokia's, the N82 has to be my favourite. Such a cool phone with an excellent camera and xenon flash :)
@@AbdullaZaki definitely top notch hardware. I did a video about 6 months ago about the FM transmitter in my N79. The N8 also had one if I recall correctly. I recently got a 4K monitor and only now, a decade later, I can see the photos from the N8 in all their glory. Marvelous camera.
Which modern Nokia do u think is the best? I'm thinking of buying a few Nokias such as nseries eseries xpress music . Ty
Hopefully nokia 9.3 carries the legacy of nokia again
btw are you gonna review the New originals? the 6300 4G and the 8000? that would be great to see a in depth review and can see all what kaios is capable of
I still don't know, but we will see :)
Tech companies should bring back keyboard phones
I still have this phone
which color?
I love the dubstep ringtone
i remember choosing between this nokia n8 and iphone 4 during that time. . i had the ipod touch and when i went to Nokia store to supposedly preorder the N8 i tried the demo N8 and I couldn’t believe how horrible scrolling was on Nokia touchscreen compare to Apples so it made me decide to go with iPhone 4 and ever since I never looked back currently using Iphone12 pro
That sums up the story of the Nokia N8. Brilliant on paper, but not great to use sadly.
I've had lumia 710 but sell it and bought N8. Love this device so much despite lagging of Symbian belle. P.S. What's music in your video?
Hard to imagine the difference in fluidity between the Lumia and the N8 :)
I just use stock TH-cam studio music. I will try and find the name for you.
Hey Abdullah bro... Please make video on Symbian for keypad phones . Is there any chances to bring back Symbian for low end keypad phones . Can it replace kaiOS and series40 . Both are very inferior in front of Symbian s^60 . Symbian is still unbeatable on keypad phones .
Stay tuned :)
@@AbdullaZaki I have a Nokia C5 (keypad) and a Nokia N79 . And they are proper smartphones . Both are still usable because 3G network is still supported here .
Things that I think I need are Microsoft sync( however I can get my contacts with Bluetooth but can't get my outlook calendar enteries), WhatsApp or Telegram messenger , Some trusted online Wallet app and it's complete for today's basic needs .
I think it's fine to not to have many apps, I don't think a person who uses a keypad phone would need a huge list of apps .
Im surprised u didnt mention E7.
I loved the hardware of the E7, but maybe that deserves its own video :)
@@AbdullaZaki It does :D. Maybe You could do some series using these old phones in 2021 and what to do to make them as functional as possible.
Symbian 3 is so much better than even Android nowadays, and especially back then, it was worlds better than Android!
watching this video on a black N8 ❤️🙏🏻❤️
I had this phone for a while....I loved it ❤️❤️❤️... I get People's frustrations with it over the Years at this point but it was Just a Bad Time for Any Phone except the iPhone....Every user interface was Trash compared to the iPhone back then...BUT Nokia had the most pressure to Compete since they were the Ex-King....They failed to Keep up with Apple even though they had a Couple of Chances with the N900 and N9....Those Phones were Absolutely Amazing...Crashed Most iPhones and Early Androids... Nokia Fumbled the Bag so Hard OMG.
If Nokia went with the meago or meamo OS things could have gone better for them. N9 was so good but underrated.
I still have an n9. For sure meego was way ahead of its time. Most of its greatest features obviously are now to be found on iOS and Android. Truth is that they needed to jump on the bandwagon of Android much sooner. And yes.... If they wanted a home grown os, they should have been bold like you said much sooner. But Android in 2010 would have saved them for sure.
I agree, but they could have also gone with the 2 OS strategy. MeeGo deserved a chance.
@@AbdullaZaki maybe Huawei will have better luck with harmony
I just got a brand new one off the internet, came with Anna.
Wanna flash it to belle or CFW.
Could you or anyone reading this point me in the right direction to a tutorial on how to go about it? It’s been a decade since I’ve touched one of these and I’m kinda lost 😅
It's unfortunate HMD has failed to keep up with Nokia's trend of doing the best devices
How to upgrade or downgrade its software. Kindly tell me. Nokia N8🧡
Have you used a htc phone? Htc were one of the best when it came to design and user experience (both of which you hold in high regard) at the time. I know ur a nokia guy, but I would love to know ur opinion on those phones :)
Of course :) I had the HTC 10, and used the M7 and M8 extensively. Loved their approach and hardware.
I'm also a former hTC fan. Because of their design & their built-in amplifier (Beats Audio/Boom sound).. i used hTC One X, Butterfly, M7, Butterfly s, M9, U11 & U11+.. if only hTC still exist, then maybe i will not even try using/buying Samsung Galaxy devices.. 😹
I HAD the N900
Maemo 5 was very very advance for that time I liked it so much
And want to purchase it again if I it is available to sell
I really really miss the 2-stage camera button, wish nowaday phone has it, but nope...
Nokia should make its own ui like meego and should also use a xenon flash 👍👍
That would be awesome.
@@AbdullaZaki yes 😀😀😀e
I have to disagree on that :D It's still my favourite phone, I remember back at the time it felt to have a little PC in my hands :)
My favorite mobile on earth 😍
The cat 😻😻😻
Why won't HMD revisit these devices? These form factor is the innovation that HMD lacks. Also the camera tech that these devices had were superb unlike the recent Nokia which is meh.
Disappointingly once pioneers of technology now build 8.35G with a LCD panel for $700 while those days before community barely knew AMOLED nokia get them in to devices :(
It is quite a story to see how Nokia went from the absolute ruler of the market to the complete disaster... But, they really knew how to make an interesting mobile phone!!!!! There is nothing that can compare to their design and build.
Absolutely. Learning from past mistakes is crucial
Will nokia 8.3 launch in india??
I owned the n8 back in 2011, bought it for 1400 dh, but honestly, the nokia N96 was the best nokia I've ever had
I didn't have the N96 but I felt like it was a small step down from the N95 8GB, specifically the battery. Did love the design of the N96 though
@@AbdullaZaki N96 was a big step down from the N95. It had worse CPU and no GPU etc. Though the GPU (PowerVR MBX, the same one as in iPhone 2G and 3G) in the N95 (and few other models) was only used for games etc. Nokia N97 didn't have a GPU either.
Most Symbian^3/Anna/Belle phones used the Broadcom GPU for pretty much everything which is why they ran so well with the slow CPU (680MHz ARM11 in N8 and other first gen S^3 phones). Belle was a big upgrade from the og S^3 and Anna. Even on the N8 it feels smoother than most 1GHz Android flaships from 2010, if we don't talk about the web browser which Nokia never fully fixed.
But some phones like the Nokia 500 with 1GHz ARM11 and no GPU feels a lot slower and laggy than the N8. But tbh even the Nokia 500 wasn't that bad when compared to some of the cheap Android phones from that time
How do I get this mobile ?
Where did you get it ?
Ebay
I'm currently using a Pixel 4A but I definitely would but a Symbian Nokia phone