Review: Nokia N8
Camera
Anyone who's ever used a Nokia camera phone will feel right at home with the N8's 12 megapixel monster. The camera can be opened either from the dedicated button or main menu. It launches quickly.
Once open, there are a number of on-screen controls. The bottom left offers access to a general Options menu. On the right side of the screen, Nokia has positioned quick access to the video camera, flash settings, and then the full settings tool.
The full settings menu looks identical to that of devices such as the N95, N96 and N97. Here, users can adjust scene modes, face detection, white balance, exposure, color balance, contract, sharpness, light sensitivity, and so on. Everything defaults to the "Auto" setting.
Once your settings are all in place, taking shots is a breeze. Unlike some of the N8's predecessors, it focuses quickly and shoots pictures quickly, getting you back to the camera faster. Each image is previewed after taken, and users can at that moment choose to edit it, view it, save it, or send it somewhere.
Gallery
The gallery application is a grid of thumbnails. The thumbnails are pretty small, and it's actually a bit tough to see enough detail to know what image you're looking at. Pressing any of them opens up the image on the screen.
Swiping left or right pages your through your image library. The editing tools are quite robust. Some of the options include rotating, resizing, cropping, as well as a number of effects, such as bubble text, clip art, stamps and so on. For the control freak, there's also fine tuning of exposure, white balance, contrast and so on. There's also a funky effect that lets users stretch, compress, and otherwise mash the image. Think of this as a great tool with which to embarrass your friends.
Once images appear as you want them to, the N8 allows for easy attachment to outgoing messages.
Hands-On: Nokia N8
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