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The Symbian Foundation's 100% open source mobile operating system Symbian^3 has officially made its debut today on the new Nokia N8 handset.

Unlike Google's Android, which launched on a mid-range smartphone in late 2008, Symbian^3 is being ushered into the market on a device with cutting-edge equipment.

The N8 is built from a single piece of anodized aluminum and has a 3.5" (640 x 360) OLED touchscreen. It has a 12 megapixel camera with 28mm wide-angle Karl Zeiss optics, a xenon flash, and the ability to capture 720p HD (16:9, 25 fps H.264/MPEG-4) video. There is also a forward-facing VGA camera for video calling.

It has 16 GB of internal memory, and a MicroSD slot with support for cards up to 32 GB in size.

n terms of wireless standards, the Nokia N8 supports quad-band GSM and WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100, Wi-Fi with support for 802.11n, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS and A-GPS receivers, and an FM radio/transmitter.

Physical I/O on the device includes Micro USB with support for USB on-the-go (a.k.a., phone-to-phone connections) HDMI, and a 3.5mm AV jack. It also includes an accelerometer, proximity sensor, ambient light detector, and magnetic compass.

Despite all of the top-notch accessories, Nokia tells us that the N8 is based on an ARM1176 680Mhz CPU. It's by no means a weak foundation for Symbian^3, but it's not quite up to the latest gigahertz-level ARM processors being employed by other high-end smartphone manufacturers.

"The raw numbers in the processing power should not be compared as such," Nokia told us today. "There are optional ways to achieve great performance and user experience. Alongside the main processor, Nokia N8 features a graphics accelerator which has significant effect on perceived experience. The overall hardware system and graphics performance coupled with Symbian^3 software will be comparable or better in comparison to other leading solutions on the market."

The N8 will be available for €370 in the third quarter of this year, reflecting Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo's statements last week that the company "will not ship [Symbian^3] before the quality meets the end user's needs and demands."

However, Nokia's video preview today shows a bit of what users can expect from Symbian^3 when the N8 is released later this year, including a three-screen home screen layout with drag-and-drop personalization, multitouch, 3D gaming and a unified social networking and Ovi service interface.

Nokia's N8 flagship could have a more definitive ship date through a leak. A purportedly credible source has the first Symbian^3 phone shipping on August 24th, slotting it at the end of Nokia's official "summer" window. The Engadget contact didn't say if this date would involve the US or focus on Europe first, as Nokia often has in the past.

Although no confirmation has come from Nokia, Amazon's Germany branch has already begun taking pre-orders for the N8 to satisfy early adopters

Multimedia Monolith

The back of the phone houses the rather large Carl Zeiss 12-megapixel camera and Xenon flash. That 12-megapixel snapper-the largest sensor on any phone according to Nokia-takes incredible photos, too. I took a few photos during my demo and was impressed how bright and natural colors looked and how sharp details appeared.

Additionally, there's a front-facing camera which ideally will work for video calling. Nokia said that while Fring and Qik apps do exist for the previous version of Symbian, they'll have to be rewritten for S^3.

The camera also captures 720p HD video, which looked great on both the phone and played back on an HDTV. Yes, the N8 has HDMI out so you can play high definition videos from your phone to your home theater. Even better, the HDMI adapter is actually included in the box (unlike another HDMI-capable smartphone I can think of). Overall, the video-watching experience is brilliant on the N8. The phone not only supports HD quality video, but Dolby Digital surround sound as well. This is a boon for movie junkies and I hope that Nokia makes purchasing movies a simple process-and available to American audiences.

Stale Software

I'm just going to come right out and say it: I really dislike Symbian's typography. The boxy, small text just looks so late 1990s to me and simply isn't easy on the eyes. When Nokia announced the Symbian S^3 revamp, I had hoped for cleaner, more modern-looking typography and aesthetically-pleasing icons. S^3 more or less looks the same as the previous version with some tweaks and added features here and there. The software also felt a bit slow, but according to Nokia, these particular demo review units were loaded with preproduction software. That's a relief, seeing as both the browser and social networking client crashed on me during my hands-on time.

There were a few features in the software that didn't strike me as user-friendly. For example, unlike the iPhone OS, Android and webOS, you can't upload photos or videos to your social networks directly from the camera or gallery app. Instead, you must go into the dedicated Ovi social networking client, which aggregates your social networking accounts into a single app, to share your photos. Additionally, the on-screen keyboard felt too small and cramped-even more so than the native Android keyboard.

There are some improvements in S^3 from older versions of Symbian like multitouch in the browser and photo gallery, fewer taps required for navigation and a simpler multitasking system. And of course, Nokia's excellent, free navigation service Ovi Maps will be loaded on the phone. I'll have to spend more time with the N8 before making a fair assessment of S^3 and the N8 itself.