Leaked photos and specs available

Mar 24, 2010 15:31 GMT  ·  By

Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia is already known to be working on devices that will run under the Symbian^3 operating system, and it seems that the company might officially announce the first such phone no later than next month. According to the latest rumors around the Internet, the handset in question would be the Nokia N8, of which we've already heard before, and which has emerged now in a series of alleged leaked photos.

Nokia seems set to officially unveil its first Symbian^3-based mobile phone by the middle of next month, right before the company's Annual General Meeting in Helsinki, a recent article on Engadget notes. Moreover, it seems that the new device might turn into a highly appealing handset, at least this is what the available images with it, as well as the leaked specs, show.

Among these rumored specifications, we can count a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen display, supposedly of WVGA resolution, coupled with a 12-megapixel photo snapper that should also boast Xenon flash and Carl Zeiss optics. Considering the fact that other handset vendors already delivered 12MP behemoths to the market, it doesn't come as a surprise that Nokia will make a step in this direction too, that's for sure.

Other specifications of the upcoming device include an HDMI port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, 720p video recording at 30 fps, DivX playback, support for multi-touch gestures, and other more, but most of these are only suppositions at the moment, it seems. However, some of the newly leaked specs seem to be in line with what has been rumored before, and they might actually pan out in the end.

One way or the other, we'll still have to wait for mid-April to arrive to learn whether the handset is real or not. If rumors indeed pan out, the Nokia N8 will certainly prove a killer device, and it might become much more popular than the Nokia N97, that's for sure. You can view more photos with it here.