Nokia N8 vs Sony Ericsson A8i

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Comparing the Nokia N8 vs Sony Ericsson A8i across display, camera and storage to help determine the better smartphone.

Here is the summary of the results:

Display: Both Nokia N8 and Sony Ericsson A8i offer the same screen size of 3.5 inches, but Nokia N8 features a AMOLED display compared to Sony Ericsson A8i'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 Sony Ericsson A8i offers 5 MP, making Nokia N8 better for rear camera photography.


Storage: Nokia N8 offers higher internal storage with 512 GB, while Sony Ericsson A8i offers 200 GB, making Nokia N8 the better option for storage.

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Nokia N8
₹25,239
(Discontinued)
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(Discontinued)
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Summary

Release Date

04 Oct, 2010
07 Nov, 2010

Performance

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

Display

3.5 inches (8.89 cm)
3.5 inches (8.89 cm)
AMOLED
LCD
360x640 px
480x854 px

Rear Camera

12 MP
Primary Camera
5 MP
Primary Camera

Front Camera

0.3 MP
N/A

Battery

1200 mAh
N/A

Storage

512 MB
200 MB

User Ratings

4.3/5
(173 ratings)
N/A

User Feedback

General

Operating System

Symbian vBelle
N/A

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)
3.5 inches  (8.89 cm)

Resolution

360x640 px
480x854 px

Pixel Density

210 ppi
280 ppi

Screen to Body Ratio (calculated)

50.4 %
48.89 %

Screen Protection

Corning Gorilla Glass v3
N/A

Display Colour

16M
N/A

Design

Height

113.5 mm
117 mm

Width

59 mm
59 mm

Thickness

12.90 mm
14.00 mm

Weight

135 grams
136 grams

Rear Camera

Resolution

12 MP
Primary Camera
5 MP
Primary Camera

Autofocus

Yes
Yes

Flash

Yes LED Flash Xenon Flash
Yes LED Flash

Image Resolution

4000 x 3000 Pixels
N/A

Camera Features

2 x Digital Zoom
Face detection
Digital Zoom
Smile detection

Video Recording

1280x720 @ 25 fps
N/A

Front Camera

Resolution

0.3 MP
Front Camera
N/A

Battery

Capacity

1200 mAh
N/A

Battery Type

Li-ion
N/A

TalkTime

Up to 5.8 Hours(3G) / Up to 12 Hours(2G)
Up to 5(2G)

Storage

Internal Storage

512 MB
200 MB

Expandable Storage

Yes Up to 32 GB
Yes Up to 32 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 3 (802.11 a/b/g)

Bluetooth

Yes v3
Yes v2.1

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 AAC eAAC+ WMA WAV with 3.5 mm audio jack

Sensors

Other Sensors

Light sensor Proximity sensor Accelerometer Compass
Proximity sensor Accelerometer Compass

Games

Yes Java games + Downloadable
N/A

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 Threaded View

MMS

Yes
Yes

Email

Yes Push e-mail
N/A

Instant Messaging

Yes
N/A

Other Facilities

Voice command/dial Document viewer (Word Excel PowerPoint PDF) Video/photo editor Flash Lite support T9
Call list Conference calls Vibrating alert Video calling Predictive text input Alarm clock Calculator Calendar Dictionary Document readers eManual Flight mode Notes Tasks Synchronisation