Nokia N8 Offers 180% Performance Boost Over N97

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The Nokia N8 may be the most anticipated Nokia smartphone in years. A website has gotten their hands on an advance unit and ran some benchmarking tests on the Symbian^3 smartphone. Big surprise – it’s a lot faster than it’s predecessors.

FinestFones.com has gotten their hands on a Nokia N8 and used the Symbian app “Speedy Go!” on the device, measuring the device’s speed. Unsurprisingly, it blew the older Nokia N97 out of the water. Speedy Go! found that the Nokia N8 had a 54% improvement over the Samsung Omnia HD Symbian device, and a 180% increase on the Nokia N97. (I’d like to see the Nokia N8 go head to head with the N900. I have a feeling that would be a much fairer fight – but the N900 runs Maemo.)

According to Mr. X, who writes at FinestFones, Symbian^3 can take better advantage of a phone’s graphics processing power than Symbain S60, which explains the drastic performance increases. Then, Mr. X used a Symbian app called “FPC Bench 3D” which put the Nokia N8 through a series of rendering tests. On all eight tests, the Nokia N8 achieved the maximum score, 60 fps.

It’s worth noting that the N8 could actually do better than these benchmarks. Like that Russian blogger who got his hands on a Nokia N8 earlier this year, Mr. X warned that his Nokia N8 was running an unfinished version of the Symbian^3. It’s also worth saying that Mr. X is breaking somebody’s embargo by publishing this content to the internet – those who were given advance N8′s still aren’t supposed to publish info about it publicly. Ooops.

Are you anticipating the Nokia N8? Do you think it can compete with the likes of Android phones, the iPhone, and BlackBerries?