Nokia has announced an official launch date and pricing for its Symbian^3 smartphone, the Nokia N8. The device will be available at the Nokia Online Shop “during the last week of September,” and it will appear in UK’s physical stores on October 1.
Nokia N8 touts a 3.5-inch, 640×360 pixel capacitive touchscreen, 16 GB of on-board storage memory, as well as a 12-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and Full HD capability.
The 680 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 256 MB of SDRAM memory are lagging (on paper, at least) behind the current top smartphones on the market, but the biggest selling point for Nokia N8 is the camera. Nokia recently hired actors Pamela Anderson and Ed Westwick to film, together with two lucky fans, a promotional short movie for the device.
The price for the device will be £429 ($662) SIM free, or with a contract starting from £35 ($54) per month. You can expect to see it at the Carphone Warehouse, O2, Orange, Phones4u, T-Mobile, Tesco Phone Shops, Three Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone. Pre-orders are available now at
www.nokia.co.uk/N8