The N8 features a brilliant 3.5-inch AMOLED touch screen. It's body is made of Anodized aluminium casing and is available in multiple colors like Silver white, Dark grey, Orange, Blue and Green. It comes with a single button below the touch screen that lets you switch between the home screen and menu screen. It comes with the 3.5 mm audio socket & HDMI port, and a Carl Zeiss 12-megapixel camera & Xenon flash.

The N8 features a brand new Symbian^3 OS which looks refreshing (compared to earlier Symbian versions). Symbian^3 is much more stable and faster than the previous versions and has almost zero-lag. Other improvements include multi-touch in the browser and photo gallery and simpler multitasking system. With Symbian^3 you can Personalize your phone by adding your own widgets and setup three live home screens.

Best feature of N8 is its camera. It is definitely the best camera phone available in the market as of date. Photo quality of N8 is almost as good as any high end digital camera. With is powerful Xenon flash, it is capable taking great photos in dark as well. It also scores high on video recording which is the best ever on a phone. N8's camera captures 720p HD video, which looks great on both the mobile and connected HDTV (It comes bundled with a HDMI cable to connect your phone to your TV).

Nokia N8 is also designed for High Definition gaming. It comes with a dedicated graphic processor with OpenGL 2.0 for unmatched gaming performance. N8 also supports on-demand Web TV that can stream live television (where ever the service is available by the local telecom provider). Nokia N8 has huge 16 GB of internal memory with up to 32 GB expandable memory with a Micro SD card slot. It also has a good battery life and can play up to 50 hours of music. It comes with free for lifetime GPS navigation.