Nokia N8 is a GSM smart mobile phone with touch screen. The display of Nokia N8 is 2.2 inch wide. The screen resolution is 360 X 640 pixels with 16 million colors. This candy hand set uses a powerful BL-4D 1200 mAh Lithium-ion battery that provides talk time up to 12 h and stand by up to 400 h. Nokia N8 thickness is 12.9 mm, weight 135 gm and volume 86 cc. Nokia N8 has a memory card slot to support micro SD which is used to enhance the memory up to 32GB.

The Nokia N8 carries a full set of entertainment features including FM Radio, Preloaded games, audio player, Video player, music player. Nokia N8 has an excellent 12 mega pixel camera with 5. 4 X zooming facility. The camera system of the Nokia N8 has auto focus, LED flash, automatic red eye removal with Xenon flash, face recognition software and the amazing secondary camera for video calls. The video recording is done with an ease. Nokia N8 has a finger-operated touch screen for text input and user interface control and also has Chinese handwriting recognition.

The Nokia N8 operates at the following frequencies: Quad band GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100. The Nokia N8 also allows automatic switching between GSM bands and WCDMA and supports Flight Mode.

The Nokia N8 supports full web browsing of html pages, support streaming video, flash lite, the connectivity feature includes Bluetooth, USB Connector, GPRS, 3G and WAP. Nokia N8 has smooth access to social networks like Face book, MySpace, and YouTube etc. makes the Nokia N8 appealing to those who like social networks. The users of Nokia N8 gets integrated GPS Navigation with free Ovi maps and pedestrian navigation too.

A leading player in mobile communications in the Asia Pacific, Nokia with its regional corporate headquarters in Singapore first started operations in the region in the early 1980s. It has since established a leading brand presence in many local markets, and business has expanded considerably in all areas of the telecommunications industry.