Nokia launches its latest smartphone ‘N8′

Nokia has come out with its latest smartphone N8 which operates on Symbian ^3, the latest edition of the world’s most used smartphone software, and boasts of 12MP camerawith  Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and a large sensor. Nokia N8 will be made available in select markets during third quarter of 2010 and its estimated retail price is EUR 370. With the Nokia N8, people can create compelling content, connect to their favorite socialnetworks and enjoy on-demand Web TV programs and Ovi Store apps.

The Nokia N8 offers the ability to make HD-quality videos and edit them with an intuitive built-in editing suite. Doubling as a portable entertainment center, people can enjoy HD-quality video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by plugging into their home theatre system. The Nokia N8 enables access to Web TV services that deliver programs, news andentertainment from channels like CNN, E! Entertainment, Paramount and National Geographic. Additional local Web TV content is also available from the Ovi Store.

Nokia N8 Highlights:

HD quality imaging and cinematic sound

•Shoot and edit photos and video with supreme clarity of a 12 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics • Dolby Digital Plus Surround Sound and HDMI connection to a homeentertainment system

Personalization capabilities for a truly individual experience

•Personal touches come to life on three fully customizable home screens.   •Instant access to Ovi Store’s apps, games and other cool content   • Web TV delivers local and global TV favorites right to the home screen

A seamless and fully integrated social network experience

•Get live updates from Facebook, Twitter, and RenRen pushed right to your home screen, with feeds visible at a single glance.  •Connect from anywhere on your phone—your home screen, contacts, or map.•Enrich your social network experience with content from your phone including pictures, location and more

Free navigation, forever

•Free worldwide satellite car and walk navigation from Ovi Maps in over 70 countries.•Built in premium guides from Lonely Planet and Via Michelin for tips on travel, restaurants, weather, and hotels.

With Nokia N8 People can update their status, share location and photos, and view live feeds from Facebook and Twitter in a single app directly on the home screen. Calendar events from social networks can also be transferred to the device calendar. The Nokia N8comes with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation, guiding people to places and points of interest in more than 70 countries worldwide.

The Nokia N8 also offers multiple, personalizable homescreens which can be loaded with apps and widgets. The new 2D and 3D graphics architecture in the platform takes full advantage of the Nokia N8’s hardware acceleration to deliver a faster and more responsive user interface.  Symbian^3 also raises the bar in performance by delivering greater memory management allowing more applications to run in parallel for a faster multi-tasking experience.

The Nokia N8 is Nokia’s first device to be integrated with Qt, a software developmentenvironment that simplifies the development and makes it possible to build applications once and deploy across Symbian and other software platforms.  Nokia has also made the powerful and simple to use Nokia Qt SDK available, in its initial beta, to enable developers to start realizing the potential of Qt.