Nokia is the major developer of Symbian mobile phones. Symbian ^ 1 phones like 5800, N97 and 5230 are most popular Symbian handsets in the market.  Symbian ^3 that was announced couple of months back is the open source Symbian platform. Nokia announced its first Symbian ^3 device Nokia N8 which be available in Q3.

Features of Nokia N8

• Better Screen resolution – Nokia goes Samsung & HTC way by using AMOLED screen which gives better brightness and contrast than TFT.
• With already available features like Proximity sensor and Accelerometer sensor now there is Multi touch interface with features like drag, flick and pinch zoom and Scratch resistance Screen.
• Record and play videos at 720p (16:9) up to 30 fps and LED video light for video recording.
• Faster ARM 11 680 MHz processor and 3D Graphics (OpenGL 2.0) accelerator helps to do more multitasking and 3D gaming easy.
• HDMI out with Dolby Digital Plus audio that makes movie viewing great on TV and can easily connected to Laptops and even Projectors.
• 12 MP cameras with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash, face and smile detection.
• Data transfer rate of 24 Mbit/s with Bluetooth 3.0.
• Now forget double tap to play a song in music player or opening a contact.  Single tap to open anything with Single tap interaction model.
• Customizable multiple home screens with separate widgets for each screen. Switch to another screen with a Flick.
• Uploading videos and unified home screen access of Twitter and Facebook made easy with Nokia Social Client.
• Edit images and videos with inbuilt photo and video editors and watch TV streaming with web TV widgets.
• Music integration with radio which makes easy to find the song playing and to buy it.
• Now connect your mobile phone to External Hard disk and other device directly with “USB on the Go” feature.

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