How long does n8 battery last

Typically, even the most budget of blowers comes with a series of grandiose claims attached to its camera. Talk of phase detect autofocus, backside illuminated sensors and all sorts of other exotic tech end up in marketing pitches, and yet rarely to any real effect. Both cameras have a flash, and both also have a middle of the road resolution at 13MP and 5MP for the rear and front respectively, and that is it.

In decent lighting, and with a static subject, the autofocus will lock on quickly enough, and produce shots that are reasonably true to life — but that is the best that can be said for them. In most conditions, the focus will hunt continuously, completely unable to get a lock on anything moving faster than an asthmatic snail.

Curiously, the phone also really struggles to get a focus in macro shots, particularly with red flowers. This essentially allows a camera to take three shots and combine them, for better dynamic range, colour and details.

We managed to easily knock out two days' use with the phone, although it wouldn't have managed to get far into the third day. However, it should be noted that we found ourselves hitting the internet a lot less frequently than on other devices we've had on test, simply because it's a poorer experience so idly flicking through web pages while Neighbours is on becomes less of an attraction.

It should be noted that the power management of the Nokia N8 is likely down to the decent performance of the CPU - Nokia's decision to put a MHz power core in the N8 shows that it's not looking to rev the phone as fast as other devices, but we rarely saw many examples of slowdown in the OS to show this relatively low-power processor.

It would have probably pushed the phone into three or maybe even four days' use, and that's ridiculous by today's smartphone standards. We also tested the phone thoroughly offline - the battery performance held up, despite hammering the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi with data transfers to assess performance, and using it for long stints as a music player. The only downside when it comes to battery life we could see is the fact it's sealed in the phone - we don't know why Nokia's chosen to do this, but it means you can't replace it easily should the power centre go wonky.

The Nokia N8 is full to the brim with high-end connectivity: Bluetooth 3. Apart from the odd decision to put the older style of Nokia charger in the box, there's nothing we can fault here.

We were sadly quite excited to try out some high end Bluetooth 3. I am not very much heavy user of it. My general uses are like — 15 — 20 minutes phone call, Web browsing through WIFI 40 — 50 minutes, video watching 15 — 25 minutes, gaming 15 — 20 minutes, audio playing 15 — 20 minutes, photo shooting with flash 5 — 15, video recording 5 — 10 minutes. What you think? Is it ok or I have to visit Nokia showroom.

Please advice. You wasting your times. Anonymous, 01 Nov Have a very simple question. I have been using the Nokia N91, , N95, since long and kno Yeah, everybody round here knows, who are spammers, gsma forum is flooded with people like u. Looks like Brian has had his prayers answered! But in spite of packing in so much hardware, the Nokia N8 put out some decent battery life numbers. And this is a bit surprising considering the fact that the N8 comes packed with the same mAh BL-4D battery as the decidedly lower end E5!

Now down to the performance numbers. As mentioned earlier, the N8 unfortunately has the same browser as the E5 and as such, shows similarly poor performance.