The Nokia N8 is sure to lead the way in the constantly changing and evolving world of smartphones. Once used only for conversations, smartphones have introduced entertainment and functional abilities beyond imagination. Now complete media devices, cell phones are constantly undergoing change and improvement, so it is wise to purchase a smartphone that is ahead of the curve.

Smartphones today provide the viewer with so many options that a large, readable screen is vital. The N8′s impressive screen features a 3.5-inch, OLED touch screen display. Due to the fact that it supports over 16 million colors, wallpaper, pictures, video, and widgets appear more lively and bright than ever on the N8′s screen. A 12-megapixel camera is responsible for these colorful pictures and even someone who snaps everything they see can feel confident that there is plenty of room inside the phone’s 16 gigs of installed memory. This is expandable to 48 GB with a micro SD card. The camera has similar abilities to those of a standard point and click model.

Videos are just as lively and are recorded in HD at 720p. The N8 comes equipped with an editing suite allowing the user to quickly and easily adapt the video to his needs. Because playback is one of the most important aspects of a device capable of video recording, the large screen offers more accurate response of playback controls than most touchscreens.

You’ve probably heard that there’s an app for that, and this is certainly the case with the Nokia N8. Amongst the applications, you will find one dedicated to Web TV so that you never miss a news event or the latest Hollywood gossip. Sports and television shows are presented in Dolby Digital Plus surround sound. And the phone can be connected to a home theater system, presenting the video in unmatched sight and sound.

It may seem that the N8 is primarily a means to stay entertained, but that is certainly not true. Its functions are matched only by the most highly advanced devices. It operates on the new Symbian^3 platform and features advancements like multi-touch and pinch-to-zoom. Free for life Ovi Maps available in the Ovi Store take the fear and stress out of travel in unfamiliar territories and they are supported in over 70 countries.

The Nokia N8 will certainly not be faced with future shock. Not only is this phone on the fringe of advanced cell phone technology, it has helped shape its future. It is sure to remain valuable and relevant for years to come.

If you want to see how startling fast technology is progressing these days, here’s a simple exercise for you: list all the things that your phone still can’t do.  Of course, you’ll be able to list plenty of things.  But each year, it seems like a few more things get crossed off.  Following are a few features that have either been recently crossed off or most likely will be in the future.  Hopefully it will get you as excited as I am for whatever the next big thing will be.

You know all those amusing phone apps that show that your phone knows precisely when and how it gets moved around, not unlike a wii remote?  That’s due to an accelerometer in the phone.  It’s what’s behind your navigation system being able to track your movements so well.  It’s also ripe for new innovations, like automatic collision response.  Since your phone knows how it’s getting moved around, it knows very well when you get in a car accident.  One of the most innovative phone apps of late uses this information much like Onstar does, but independent of what you’re driving or riding.  And there’s no reason to think that the innovation with accelerometers stops there.

Another new technology which has been around slightly longer, but is still developing, is GPS.  Knowing your latitude and longitude alone means very little, but new applications keep being developed to show you where everything else is, too.  Now you can navigate almost anywhere in the world and find the nearest, well, anything.  Paired with other technologies, the potential uses for personal GPS start to grow.  You can be alerted automatically if there is severe weather nearby, for example, or if you enter a high crime area.  These technologies already exist, but imagine what other ideas might be floating around today that will become commonplace within the next 10 years.

Internet on your cell phone?  If you could ask some people in the 80′s when they thought that that could happen, you wouldn’t get very accurate answers (even assuming that they knew what the internet was).  Not only has internet arrived on phones faster than we could’ve imagined, it’s much, much cooler than handheld Pacman.  You no longer need to be stuck in your living room to have the world at your fingertips, and this is only in the first few years, relatively speaking, that wireless internet has existed.

Rest assured, with all the competition to see which phone company can impress you more, the future will keep coming faster and faster.  The icing on the cake is that the motivation behind it all is to cater more and more to us, the consumers.  Never in the history of the world has a single generation seen so much change in how the world works, and we can only imagine what new idea will be next.

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