What the Nokia N8 is all about: video walkthrough released

In case you were wondering what all the hype surrounding Nokia’s N8 was all about, here’s a video overview (the first of three, apparently) demonstrating what you can do with it. The video gives us our first look of the Symbian^3 OS, featuring a slick, customizable interface that’s chock-full of widgety eye-candy.

The rest of the interface should be easy enough for anyone who’s ever used a touchscreen smartphone, with online browsing and GPS navigation features that could make it stand toe to toe with Apple’s iPhone and the rest of the Android Army, although the screen transitions seem to be a bit laggy. But they did show that it’s able to run Flash animations, so that’s at least one confirmed leg up on Apple.

Source: Nokia Conversations