Recently there are so many news and gossips regarding new mobile devices that I’m lost sometimes. This time leaked information described new Nokia N8 and it was shortly followed by official announcement. If you want to know full story have a look at PhoneReport but now let’s see how does it compare to N900.

Nokia N8

The Nokia N8 Camera

First of all Nokia reveals N8 as superior multimedia device with full variety of cver colors, 12 megapixel camera with high definition video recording capability. In comparison with N900‘s 5 megapixel it’s quite big leap, but I’m really satisfied even with that. In my opinion (as photography is one of my hobbies) I think that putting such high-resolution sensor inside such small device doesn’t make big sense, but that’s another story, twelve is bigger number than five, that for sure.

Common Features between the Nokia N900 and Nokia N8

We have some features in common like FM transmitter, 3.5mm audio jack, most of connectivity like Bluetooth 2.1, microUSB port, only WiFi is improved to be usable with 802.11 n standard, while N900 uses only 802.11 b/g. Multimedia capabilities are nicely improved to be mostly HD compatible, including video playback via HDMI connector.

What’s really revolutionary from my point of view is Qt support on N8. Along with the fact that N900 already has this feature and Qt is pretty straightforward framework it seems that software developers will have easier work when this will become standard in all Nokia mobiles. Still I don’t feel very comfortable hearing that N8 still has Symbian on board (highly improved by completely new interface with multitouch which N900 doesn’t have at the moment) and maybe I’m stubborn, zealous Linux freak, but I prefer to have full control in Maemo .

Conclusion

I cannot tell how it will influence current Nokia position on mobile market, reading opinions on specifications gives the idea that people are rather dissapointed. Nevertheless N8 seems like a big step ahead in multimedia area. And me… Let me play with N900 a bit more

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