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Nokia N8 Vs Apple iPhone 4: N8 is £299 Cheaper!
By Phil Barker on October 18,
 2010 at 00:00,

The Nokia N8 has already proved itself capable of taking on the best smartphones in the business. With the greatest camera and one of the toughest designs, it could easily command a higher price tag. Thankfully, the N8 is surprisingly affordable, with prices starting at just £25 per month. Join us after the cut for the cheapest Nokia N8 deals...

The Nokia N8 is the best smartphone we've seen this year, going head to head with Apple's iPhone 4 and coming out top. It's the only one of the two to escape reception issues, for a start, and the anodised aluminium casing is a lot more robust.

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It's easy to make a case for the Nokia N8 then, but once price comes into it there can only be one winner. Again, it's the Nokia N8, but this time it's an even more comprehensive thrashing.

Head over to the Tesco Phone Shop, and you'll be able to get the Nokia N8 for free on a £25 per month contract. You'll also get unlimited text messages, with either Vodafone or O2.

Looking at the O2 shop, and on similar £25 per month deals, and you'll have to fork out a scarcely believable £299 to get your hands on the Apple iPhone 4 – a handset with considerably poorer specs. We know where our money would be going!

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  • xiaoa

    Nokia is still the smartphone king, I think a nokia is cheaper than a iphone, and which is very practical.
    I get used to use a Nokia phone, I think just the people who chase after fashion may buy a expensive iphone in our country. meantime, I think the High-resolution Nokia display is right for me to watch movies , I like watching movies with my nokia with the help of Aneesoft Nokia video converter

  • chris

    xiaoa which nokia high resolution screen are u watching coz i havent heard of any? the n8 is the same resolution as the older iphone models where as iphone 4 is 4 times better. 640×480 compared to 960×640. nokia n8 spec may look good but id give it a few handsets before i try symbian 3 coz nokia have a tendency to throw out incomplete buggy and annoyingly crash prone operaring systems.

  • wendy woo

    We have the HTC Desire and Sony Minipro X10 and the N8 Nokia in my family. All I can say is I liked them all and each can hold themselves out for different reasons. Of all the phones, the Sony minipro is the smallest and so convenient to carry around. The nitpicks are poor bluetooth, terrible frequent camera blurs and awful youtube images. I really liked my brother’s HTC Desire for nice youtube images and basic office purposes and it’s really superior compared to the minipro. The Nokia N8 which I had to wait for ordering turned out to be a pleasant experience for me. It was well priced and so far I am glad to say I have been using it to surf the internet everyday when I am not using my pc. My sister have given up surfing on her too- tiny minipro which was purchased 3 weeks ago.

  • zenobi97

    @ chris……take a look at this post I copied… forgot who wrote it :)

    Screen/User Interface:
    iDon’t have themes support.
    iDon’t have a scalable OS, apps on the iPad are simply stretched to fit.
    iDon’t have a desktop, entire UI is organized as a single “start” menu.
    iDon’t have parallax (finger/screen offset) adjusting – low precision especially on small objects.
    iDon’t have a touch friendly screen, gloves, pens, styluses and not even fingernails work!
    iDon’t have neither haptic nor any other type feedback whatsoever.
    iDon’t have any precision compared to resistive touchscreens.
    iDon’t have a standard(16:10, 16:9, 4:3) aspect ratio only Apple custom ones(3:2) will fit my screen.
    Power:
    iDon’t have USB charging without a dock adapter.
    iDon’t have any safety garment for the battery(1) melting is known to occur in Apple products(2)
    iDon’t have warranty for damage made by “external” force aka. the above.
    GSM connectivity:
    iDon’t have full 3G HSDPA speed (7mb/s vs. 2008 smatphones that have 10mb/s).
    iDon’t have full GPRS/EDGE speed (CLASS 10 is four times slower than CLASS 33!)
    iDon’t have a decent GSM/GPS/WiFi signal(1) the connection is far worse than on 3GS(2)
    iDon’t handle videocall via the network, gTalk etc.
    WLAN connectivity:
    iDon’t have DLNA (streaming HD content wireless on a HDTV).
    iDon’t have UPnP technology (automatic WiFi setup) some networks simply don’t work.
    Bluetooth connectivity:
    iDon’t A2DP right (BT stereo) right: lags on videos(1) and games(2).
    iDon’t have rSAP, Remote SIM Access Profile(1) – iDon’t work with your in-car hands free(2).
    iDon’t fully support AVRCP (BT remote)(1) industry standard(2) can’t skip tracks.
    iDon’t support any Bluetooth services when pairing with a MacBook.
    iDon’t have any BT file sharing my BT is almost useless!
    Cable connectivity:
    iDon’t have standard USB connectivity(1) only custom cables(2)
    iDon’t give a damn about the environment: short cables but tons of iAccesories.
    Misc connectivity:
    iDon’t have PC/MAC/LINUX connectivity without iTunes.
    iDon’t have IR, can’t control: basic household items(1) TV, HDTV(2) DSLR camera(3) MAC(4)
    Media/camera:
    iDon’t have stereo speakers.
    iDon’t have radio.
    iDon’t have FM transmitter.
    iDon’t have decent camera (small sensor and 72 DPI, which is less than most 5mp phones)
    iDon’t have fine detail in pictures, high noise reduction smears the finer details.
    iDon’t have video stabilization.
    iDon’t have exposure control (ISO).
    Design:
    iDon’t eject my sim without a special key.
    iDon’t have a removable battery.
    iDon’t have hot swappable memory.
    iDon’t sell cheap but my value at FOXCONN in China(1), where I am made, is ~190$(2)
    iOS 4.0
    Web:
    iDon’t have audio/video streaming for 90% of the multimedia sites.
    iDon’t offer a real web experience, various sites only offer a phone version.
    iDon’t have Flash or Flash Lite – flash sites, apps or games simply do not work.
    iDon’t have push idle so battery drains fast even on push.
    iDon’t have push e-mail if i’m jailbroken, even if you pay!
    iDon’t render HTML5 graphics, nor can iHandle HTML5 controls.
    iDon’t process HTML attachments correctly.
    File management:
    iDon’t have access to my internal folders by any means – no app in the iStore allows this!
    iDon’t even have access to set mp3s as ringtones.
    iDon’t have MIDP/JAVA support.
    iDon’t handle DivX, XviD, FLV native video.
    iDon’t handle ZIP, RAR or SFX – no app in the iStore allows this!