Gizmodo HQ Video Throwdown: How Usable Is Nokia’s New N8?

Nokia is in trouble . In the US , the blade ’s gone from omnipresent to the stuff and nonsense of tech nostalgia . Its next ( last ? ) pang at American relevance ? The N8 . We pitted the N8 ’s serviceableness against two rivals , and the results are n’t pretty .

Nokia Is the McDonald ’s of Phones

To conduct our extremely - nonscientific example in interface usability , we recruited two savvy smartphoners from around the Gizmodo office to go head to head ( to point ) with the N8 . After familiarizing myself with the N8 for an ample amount of clock time , our triad competed in three dim-witted smartphone tasks — air the same email , single-valued function centering to the same place , and taking a exposure of the same object — we want to see which equipment is the king of useableness mountain . Spoiler qui vive : not Nokia ’s . The ironware itself is decent , but in term of port design — whoo boy . Again , keep in mind that this is by no means an accusative benchmark or actual review — but Nokia has clear grasp itself into a design hole , and it ’s a trouble made flagrant with some linguistic context .