Introduced in April 2010.
Long time competitors of Nokia in the Chinese market: Samsung, Motorola.
New upstarts that are a threat: Huawei, Lenovo, Tianyu.
N8:
3.5 inch active-matrix OLED touchscreen (rivals the AMOLED screen on the Samsung Galaxy S)
12 Mega-pixel camera (highest resloution on any current smartphone)
16 Giga-bytes internal flash
Symbian^3 OS
TI applications processor
Samsung memory
4-Gbit OneNAND flash
2-Gbit Mobile DDR DRAM
TI ARM11 core based application processor underclocked at 680 MHZ (spec: 772 MHZ)
[iphone4: 1-GHZ A4 processor (more ARM A8 core)]
[Samsung Galaxy S: 1-GHZ Hummingbird (more powerful A8 core)]
high definition video: Broadcom BCM2727 graphics processor with 3D graphics accelerator
AMOLED touch screen: Synaptics T1021A controller
TI WiLink6.0 songle chip WLAN, Bluetooth, and FM solution
TI NaviLink 5.0 single-chip solution for GPS
TI baseband processor (for analog baseband)
NXP Semiconductor IP5130 power management
Toshiba memory controller
HDMI output
Reference:
EETimes Design article: "N8: Solid start for Nokia's Symbian^3 strategy" by Allan Yogasingam
