As part of its promotional activities for the N8, Nokia is releasing a series of overview videos presented by Chris Bennetts, a Senior Product Manager at the company. The third video covers the Music application and the N8's HDMI out functionality; rather than just linking to it or embedding it, we've broken this video down in detail to offer you some insight into the N8's music software and HDMI-out feature. Read on for further details.
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Good breakdown, guys.
I have a question though, in the second-to-last screenshot towards the left side on the first album art is that a mouse pointer or am I imagining it?
Good breakdown, guys.
I have a question though, in the second-to-last screenshot towards the left side on the first album art is that a mouse pointer or am I imagining it?
you are not imagining it, You can also see it moving (albeit laggy) in the video.
does the music player finally support gapless playback?
Much better than the ealier Gear 50 levels review 😊
"including some first hands-on impressions of near-production hardware, later this week." - very interesting but only hardware? I mean .. what more is to be said about the hardware? Talking benchmarks? You guys have been talking up Nokia through the whole of s60.5, push them for doing the software review!
On a sidenote, the depth have been stated by nokia to be 12.9mm - is this including the camera bulge or .. ?
No gapless playback as far as I am aware.
And yes there does seem to be something there. Wonder if there's Bluetooth mouse support, or if this is a result on the demo set up being used.
The hardware will be pre-production - as will the software, but we should have a brief chance to look at both - sorry for the confusion there. Keep an eye on @aas (Twitter) tomorrow for possible previews 😊
I'm not sure how much extra this is going to tell us / you... but at least we should get an idea on how things are progressing.
Nowhere near enough attention is being given to the software and the GUI, while all the videos make a point to list the hardware specs.
Haven't we all learned that Nokia makes good hardware, but their software implementation leaves much to be desired?
I'd prefer a video giving only a tour of Symbian 3 on the N8. Show me the money shots, Nokia.
I think nokia need to develop HDMI over the air. maybe a small box connected to TV HDMI to transfer the HDMI over the air.
Lots of teasers... too bad it's not going to be out for a while... I wish release times were considerably shorter at Nokia...
At the risk of asking a stupid question: what happens if somebody calls you while you're in the middle of shooting an amazing scene with the HD recording capabilities of your N8? Is the call sent to voicemail or is the video recording interrupted?
Unregistered wrote:Much better than the ealier Gear 50 levels review 😊"including some first hands-on impressions of near-production hardware, later this week." - very interesting but only hardware? I mean .. what more is to be said about the hardware? Talking benchmarks? You guys have been talking up Nokia through the whole of s60.5, push them for doing the software review!
On a sidenote, the depth have been stated by nokia to be 12.9mm - is this including the camera bulge or .. ?
Yes the 12.9mm includes the camera bulge.... The sensor was too large for them to fit it in a 10mm body
... too bad it's not going to be out for a while... I wish release times were considerably shorter at Nokia...
I'm with you on that last comment - the more I see of the N8, the more I'm certain that I've finally found the replacement for my beloved N95😊
That said, if Nokia are using the intervening few months to iron out as many of the remaining bugs as possible, I can live with the delay...
adi_pie wrote:Good breakdown, guys.
I have a question though, in the second-to-last screenshot towards the left side on the first album art is that a mouse pointer or am I imagining it?
Unregistered wrote:At the risk of asking a stupid question: what happens if somebody calls you while you're in the middle of shooting an amazing scene with the HD recording capabilities of your N8? Is the call sent to voicemail or is the video recording interrupted?
And no, it is not a stupid question 😊
malerocks wrote:Its not a pointer. Its a way to come out of the full screen mode (similar to what we have currently in the web browser when surfing in full screen)
I think he meant the much smaller moving cursor. Based on how it moved, I think it was moved with cursor keys on a keyboard.
malerocks wrote:Its not a pointer. Its a way to come out of the full screen mode (similar to what we have currently in the web browser when surfing in full screen)
you are looking at the right top corner. look at the left center 😊 abive the album cover...look really hard
Things I would love to be able to do with the N8 are
* using my E51 as a remote control for the N8,
* browsing the web (via native browser or Opera) at 1280x720 on HDMI, and
* connecting the N8 to the older TV sets that still populate so many hotel rooms.
M.
Unregistered wrote:Things I would love to be able to do with the N8 are
* connecting the N8 to the older TV sets that still populate so many hotel rooms
boxieblue wrote:you are looking at the right top corner. look at the left center 😊 abive the album cover...look really hard
There *is* absolutely Bluetooth mouse support in Symbian^3 - code-wise anyway. I have also heard several reports from current N8 users on Twitter saying that they've tried it and it works.
Bluetooth mouse support. Folks - it's there - check the video around 3:55 onwards - there's a mouse pointer being moved around bottom left, no question. And it's present sitting on the leftmost album cover from 3:22.
> from current N8 users on Twitter
Who are these people exactly? Presumably Nokia folk, Symbian folk, those testing for the operators?
Yes, some Nokia employees do have them to use at the moment.
"At the risk of asking a stupid question: what happens if somebody calls you while you're in the middle of shooting an amazing scene with the HD recording capabilities of your N8? Is the call sent to voicemail or is the video recording interrupted?"
-- Good question. As far as I remember my N97 puts the calls in the "unanswered" list while filming. One know is that I have never experienced being interrupted during video-filming - if it is by pure chance or not, I can't really remember.
Unregistered wrote:Things I would love to be able to do with the N8 are* using my E51 as a remote control for the N8,
* browsing the web (via native browser or Opera) at 1280x720 on HDMI, and
* connecting the N8 to the older TV sets that still populate so many hotel rooms.
M.
1. Can anyone confirm if it is possible to browse the web at full HD on HDMI? Technically, it shouldnt be a problem but is this a native feature of the broser?
2. I dont think there is the regular output in the box. Thats what I read in another post: "In the box you can find Nokia N8, a charger, a USB cable / USB microphone, In-Ear Headphones, HDMI adapter"