Nokia N8 vs Samsung Wave 578 S5780

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Comparing the Nokia N8 vs Samsung Wave 578 S5780 across display, camera, battery and storage to help determine the better smartphone.

Here is the summary of the results:

Display: Nokia N8 offers a screen size of 3.5 inches, while Samsung Wave 578 S5780 offers 3.2 inches, making Nokia N8 the larger display of the two. Nokia N8 features a AMOLED display compared to Samsung Wave 578 S5780's LCD, making Nokia N8 the better display of the two.


Rear Camera: Nokia N8 offers a higher rear camera resolution with 12 MP, while Samsung Wave 578 S5780 offers 3.2 MP, making Nokia N8 better for rear camera photography.


Front Camera: Both Nokia N8 and Samsung Wave 578 S5780 feature a 0.3 MP primary front camera.


Battery: Both Nokia N8 and Samsung Wave 578 S5780 offer the same 1200 mAh battery capacity.


Storage: Nokia N8 offers higher internal storage with 512 GB, while Samsung Wave 578 S5780 offers 100 GB, making Nokia N8 the better option for storage.

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Nokia N8
₹25,239
(Discontinued)
Samsung Wave 578 S5780
(Discontinued)
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Summary

Release Date

04 Oct, 2010
26 Jul, 2011

Performance

(upto 680 MHz)
N/A
256 MB RAM
N/A

Display

3.5 inches (8.89 cm)
3.2 inches (8.13 cm)
AMOLED
LCD
360x640 px
240x400 px

Rear Camera

12 MP
Primary Camera
3.2 MP
Primary Camera

Front Camera

0.3 MP
0.3 MP

Battery

1200 mAh
1200 mAh

Storage

512 MB
100 MB

User Ratings

4.3/5
(173 ratings)
N/A

User Feedback

General

Operating System

Symbian vBelle
Bada v2

Performance

Processor

680 MHz, ARM 11
N/A

Graphics (GPU)

Broadcom BCM2727
N/A

RAM

256 MB
N/A

Display

Display Type

AMOLED
LCD

Screen Size

3.5 inches  (8.89 cm)
3.2 inches  (8.13 cm)

Resolution

360x640 px
240x400 px

Pixel Density

210 ppi
146 ppi

Screen to Body Ratio (calculated)

50.4 %
49.16 %

Screen Protection

Corning Gorilla Glass v3
N/A

Display Colour

16M
N/A

Design

Height

113.5 mm
107.9 mm

Width

59 mm
54.9 mm

Thickness

12.90 mm
12.50 mm

Weight

135 grams
99.8 grams

Rear Camera

Resolution

12 MP
Primary Camera
3.2 MP
Primary Camera

Autofocus

Yes
N/A

Flash

Yes LED Flash Xenon Flash
Yes

Image Resolution

4000 x 3000 Pixels
2048 x 1536 Pixels

Camera Features

2 x Digital Zoom
Face detection
Digital Zoom
Smile detection

Video Recording

1280x720 @ 25 fps
320x240

Front Camera

Resolution

0.3 MP
Front Camera
0.3 MP
Front Camera

Battery

Capacity

1200 mAh
1200 mAh

Battery Type

Li-ion
Li-ion

TalkTime

Up to 5.8 Hours(3G) / Up to 12 Hours(2G)
Up to 6.83(3G) / Up to 12.5(2G)

Storage

Internal Storage

512 MB
100 MB

Expandable Storage

Yes Up to 32 GB
Yes Up to 16 GB

Network & Connectivity

SIM Slot(s)

Single SIM
Single SIM

SIM Type

SIM1: Mini
N/A

Network Support

5G Not Supported
5G Not Supported

Wi-Fi

Yes Wi-Fi 4 (802.11 b/g/n)
Yes Wi-Fi 4 (802.11 b/g/n)

Wi-Fi Features

N/A
Mobile Hotspot

Bluetooth

Yes v3
Yes v3

GPS

Yes with A-GPS
Yes with A-GPS

Multimedia

Audio Jack

3.5 mm
N/A

Video Player

Yes Video Formats: 3GP H.263 H.264 MPEG4 WMV
N/A

Ring Tone

Music ringtones Polyphonic ringtones Vibration
N/A

Music

Yes Music Formats: AAC AMR MIDI MP3 WAV
Yes Music Formats: Yes Music Formats : MP3 WAV eAAC+ with Loudspeakers and 3.5mm Audio Jack

Sensors

Other Sensors

Light sensor Proximity sensor Accelerometer Compass
Proximity sensor Accelerometer

Games

Yes Java games + Downloadable
+ Downloadable

Java

Yes MIDP 2.1
Yes MIDP 2.0

Browser

Yes Flash HTML WAP 2.0 XHTML
Yes

Phone Book

Yes Practically unlimited entries and fields Photocall Practically Unlimited
Yes Photocall

SMS

Yes Threaded View
Yes

MMS

Yes
Yes

Email

Yes Push e-mail
Yes IMAP POP3 SMTP Microsoft Exchange Push e-mail

Instant Messaging

Yes
N/A

Other Facilities

Voice command/dial Document viewer (Word Excel PowerPoint PDF) Video/photo editor Flash Lite support T9
Organizer Voice memo Predictive text input