Holding for the first time Nokia 808 in our hands, two things are what impressed me. First, you can see the phones side view in the below picture and find that the side view is not that much good. Certainly will not win any design award (unlike the Lumia 800/900), but neither is as bad as initially thought personally. And secondly, the camera is pretty thin.The latter does not mean that it is lightweight. It weighs 169gr and essentially o key compromise that had to be done to place the sensor of 41mp. 808 In contrast to its predecessor the N8 is made ​​entirely of plastic. This is not necessarily bad because the plastic used is very good quality with excellent tactile sensation.

At the bottom of the screen we have the classic three hardware buttons on Symbian, while the upper part is the entrance to the headphones and the doors for microUB / microHDMI. On the right side we have the spinners and audio capture key. Finally there is the package charger, headphones, mini usb cable, but unfortunately no HDMI cable 

Features
Behind the protective Gorilla Glass The Nokia 808 features a 4-inch ClearBlack AMOLED screen resolution 360 x 640 (RGB). The ClearBlack technology is essentially a set of polarizing filters which are designed to eliminate the blur, eliminating specific wavelengths of light that are responsible for this phenomenon mainly outdoors. It also gives the opportunity for higher contrast, deeper black while the other colors you create the sense that popping out of the screen. Generally, the display 808 is excellent with very good viewing angles and only minus the low resolution. Theoretically Symbian supports higher resolutions but the situation this time around functional and minimal support from the developers an increase in resolution would create even more problems. At the other technical characteristics NOKIA used an ARM 11 processor uninucleate running at 1.3Ghz, 512 MB ​​RAM and 16GB of storage which can be expanded up to 32GB via microSD card. compass, NFC, FM tuner, FM transmitter (very useful and highly underrated feature), GPS, front camera 0.3mp (VGA ) for which unfortunately there is no option to turn it through the UI camera, Wi-Fi (802.11 b / g / n), Bluetooth 3 and accelerometer is currently composing a complete package. Regarding autonomy thanks to its 1,400 mAh battery available in 808, the numbers given by Nokia is 6.5 hours talk time and 540 hours stand by. Minutes with normal use you can make comfortable without the need charging as we have seen from personal experience. Then of course if you play with the camera ready to see these numbers decrease dramatically. 

Softwares
 The 808 runs the new version of Symbian, known by the name Belle Feature Pack 1. Key features are the 6 homescreens, better multitasking, more widgets, support for Dolby Digital Plus, enhanced drop down menu both for me and for enabling / disabling wifi / mobile data etc. and the new version of Web Browser. Lets start first the positive. The scrolling between homescreens is finally quite smooth (not at levels wp7/ios) and the same can be said for navigating through the menus, the list of programs and the interface of the camera. including Nokia has always offered a variety of applications with order to overcome shortcomings of operation. The two most important applications are the Nokia NOKIA Drive and NOKIA Maps. The first is a complete application offline navigation with turn by turn instructions the maps that are available for free download. Provides 3D and 2D maps and some points of interest include spaces parking, gas stations and also historical monuments.



And the NOKIA Maps is essentially something equivalent of Google Maps, the maps do not need an Internet connection and over the hundreds of landmarks displayed around your location. , are available many useful widgets (weather forecast, meter data, music player etc.) and social application gives you access to twitter and facebook. Unfortunately the latter although with improved performance in scrolling in response relative to previous versions, remains away from where it should be. And the widget would not characterize it as the definition of usability and the messages appear cut, thus forcing you to run in the app to see the entire message, which cancels the need for the widget. Other useful applications are DLNA Play by which you can show your photos and videos to your DLNA-compatible devices (eg TVs) wirelessly removing cables. addition to the Big Screen application you can turn your phone into a media player, connecting it via HDMI cable to your TV. For movie buffs there is the application Nokia trailers which, as you can understand from the name, has a large collection of movie trailers, which if you want to save them to your phone. Symbian-not no built-in capability for Internet Sharing and it gives Nokia the free version of Joikuspot. Unfortunately the specific application we could not make it work with the sim that we had in our possession. Under the cooperation of Nokia and Microsoft last brought the Office platform Symbian. So after OneNote, Lync 2010, Document Connection and PowerPoint Broadcast is now available via the Software Update Word Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile and Excel Mobile.


Finally there preinstalled apps like CNN, Shazam, Quickoffice, Youtube (miserable, prefer FastTube), Silent Film Director (you can create little videos with effects and make them share the Youtube / Facebook), Vlingo Nokia Internet Radio (since there is not the Tunein is the best you can find in Symbian as a replacement), Adobe Reader and National Geographic. Let's go and negative views. The keyboard is unacceptable. The letters in portrait is very close to one another, thereby typing errors are commonplace. Worse doing things that language change is the whole process. Solutions like langswitch not always work successfully. Fortunately the situation improves with the use of Swype. Of course if you do not like Swype will run on the classic keyboard which looks as a nightmare. Basically forget comfortable browsing to pages that do not have a mobile version. Particularly in heavy html5/javascript pages scrolling and pinch to zoom are snail's pace, while it is not uncommon to completely crash the browser. Sure many will say that there is a solution to the Opera. On some pages behave worse even than the default Symbian browser (eg does not support html5 page Youtube), and although there is the potential to become the default browser of operating the majority of applications ignore him. Generally the experience of browsing on Symbian is very poor and virtually repels to use the phone for such a purpose.

Finally we reach the perennial problem of Symbian. The applications. NOKIA as we saw before offering a wide variety of applications that are considered essential for a smartphone. From then on, however you should take the job developers. Unfortunately the Symbian never was their favorite OS and now to finish could not change the situation. So the remarkable applications are few and are mostly too expensive, while some are not available in the Store for 808 While supporting the belle  Generally if you are used to have in your mobile phone that was released by newest theme applications / games on Symbian transition will be difficult. 

Camera and Video
 Result of five years of research and development, technology PureView manages to bring stunning clarity images, large zoom without loss quality and excellent performance in low light conditions. particular, the very strong sensor analyzer 41mp (1/1.2 "intses/2.5 times greater than that of the N8!), combined with lens Carl Zeiss allows the so-called pixel oversampling , which like trying to describe in simple terms the people of Nokia, allows a combination of many pixels in a perfect pixel that holds all the information of the image but removes the noise.

Nokia 808 Pureview users will have the following advantage:-

• Strong growth in sensor
• On how to combine a good zoom with the small size of a mobile phone and
• the architecture of the device, which ultimately allows the management of such a large volume of data.

 This was exactly the reason why the development of PureView lasted five years. Result of all this was to create images of 5 megapixels with only 1MB size and with less noise than anything else we've seen so far . course it must be noted that the 41MP constitute the entire surface 7728 X 5368 pixels, which can cover the sensor apparatus. The maximum resolution that can reach the photographs in real reaches 7152 X 5368 (38MP) in 4:3 ratio and 7728 x 4354 (34MP) to 16:9. More specifically, support for 4:3 shots at 3 MP, 5 MP, 8 MP and 38 MP and 16:9 in 2 MP, 5 MP [Default device], 8 MP and 34 MP. Finally impressive camera 808 of fill necessary for night photos Xenon flash, and normal LED flash for use in video capture. The latter can be used as a flashlight and holding for a few seconds the lock slider. transition to The camera becomes like in WP7 pressing the shutter key. Here you come into contact with the UI of the camera which also has undergone huge changes for the better. So there are three different functions. Automatic mode is ideal for new users or for when you want to take a picture in a hurry without being interested in the various options (the only thing you can change is the flash on / off). All photos are at 5mp and se 16:9 ratio.



In operation scene you can select presets like Landscape, Close-up, Sports, etc. depending on the occasion for which you want to take pictures. And here the analysis remains at 5mp. Finally there is the creative mode which provides a variety of options such as the ability to disable the technology and selection Pureview Full Size to 38mp (4:3) and 34mp (16:9), ISO from 50 to 1600, Contrast, Saturation, Sharpness, shooting and many other more. Outstanding is also the possibility that we can save 3 different states options for quick access. Closing UI field to name one big mistake that has been made ​​in the Greek translation. On Quality JPEG» there are two options (Normal / Superfine ). The Greek translation is Normal / Low . Superfine course does not mean minimum and hopefully in the next firmware to correct this mistake. Let's see now what happens in practice. As you can see in the photos above the 808 actually has no rival. Even the former King of cameraphones N8 is forced to bow before him. Noise is minimal, the colors rendered correctly, while the possibility of zoom (2x without loss in quality 8MP) offers great flexibility to get just the picture you want. There, however, that goes far beyond the N8 is in low light thanks to the large aperture (f/2.4), the larger sensor (1/1.2 vs. 1/1.8), the most powerful xenon flash, but the technology Pureview . single point in having a 'problem' in 808 is in Macro mode. The NOKIA says that mobile can make focus from 15cm to infinity. In reality, however, will have no problem to focus closer than 25cm. Of course, thanks to the possibility of lossless zoom can focus 808 from farther away, without any problem in quality of the final result. Unsurprisingly Pureview applied technology and recording video. The UI remains the same, so again we have opportunities for Auto (in 1080p) / Scenes / Creative with similar options for photos. But there are two extra choices, which is to activate or not the LED flash and the CAF (Continuous Autofocus). The camera supports video capture FullHD 1080p at 30 fps and 720p at 30fps. The coding is done in the video The two hundred sixty-four the bitrate to touches on the 21st Mbps and supports stereo recording . The large sensor allows 4x zoom and 6x at 1080p at 720p, while worth mentioning the  Slide to Zoom , which allows the holder the device can easily focus on a specific point of the image. This function can be very useful when you need to do zoom during video capture. Video quality is excellent as expected with minimal noise while traffic remains smooth at 30fps (do not forget that one of the two nuclei GPU is used exclusively by the camera).

Conclusion
The Nokia 808 is the best cameraphone market by far. The combination of technology Pureview with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics leaving no room for doubts. For Symbian users who are satisfied with this functional, the 808 is a dream come true. Also comparing it with the previous flagship of the Symbian N8, the 808 excels in all areas. Better camera, faster CPU / GPU, powerful Xenon flash, double the RAM, larger screen and improved in combination with the latest and best version of Symbian (which continues to hold the lead as the most complete functional market) make the 808 worth replacement N8. For other users who come from but functional as Android / iOS / WP transition to Symbian will be difficult and need to make several compromises if they want to get the 808. Applications and games as we are few and those few that are worth quite expensive. Both the Symbian browser and Opera is well behind the competition. If you are not satisfied because the Swype will stay with the default keyboard is not ergonomic. The resolution of 360 x 640 in the year 2012 is really low and if the screen quality is so good that you can easily make a retreat on this issue. Finally, the fact that Symbian has an expiration date is not helping the situation.