The Nokia N8 continues showing its endurance in the cruel smartphone market. I mean there are many handsets packed with more powerful features, but the demand on it doesn’t reduce. However, different mobile operators and retailers require rather affordable prices for it. One of such retailers is Carphone Warehouse, which asks £199.95.

Our good old-fashioned Nokia N8 is still the only smartphone with a 12MP camera on board. I believe it’s the key feature of this handset, though no one will disagree with me if I say the design and many other specs of this handset are not less interesting or powerful. Yes there were some “faulty” features most of which are corrected at the moment (the rest will be corrected in the near future). I am talking about Symbian^3 platform, which was the Achilles’ heel of the Nokia N8. However, the phone is currently running Anna and will soon get Nokia Belle, thus we have no holes.

For detailed information visit Carphone Warehouse’s web site.

The long awaited Nokia N8 is now available for pre-order in Europe. The price of this new smartphone ranges from 459 to 479 EUR: so in Italy it will cost 469EUR, In France – 459EUR, in Germany – 479EUR, and in the USA its price will be about $549. The price differences are caused by different tax rates  in the countries. Smartphone users in these countries now can pre-order and reserve one of Nokia’s new smartphones for themselves. And be sure, many will do it. Of course, the price of Nokia N8 is higher than it has been expected.

Now let’s have a look at the technical specs of this new handset and decide if it’s the phone we have been waiting for such a long time,or not. So:

• 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flask and HD 720p video recording
• OS: Symbian^3.
• 3.5″ AMOLED display with 640×360(nHD) pixels resolution
• HDMI
• Dolby Digital Plus 5.1
• 16 GB internal memory.
• 256 MB RAM
• 680 Mhz

 It’s obvious that the price will go down on the next month and many will wait for its true price, but those who want to own Nokia N8 as soon as possible, will pay a little more to be one of first owners, because pre-ordered phones will be delivered in September.