Nokia N8 | An Awesome Handset with Dolby Digital

Nokia N8

The aluminium designed Nokia N8 introduces a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss* optics and Xenon flash, HD-quality video recording, film editing software and Dolby Digital Plus**.

Sound: Dolby Digital

 

Nokia N8 Cable

Nokia N8 is the first device to sport a full implementation of Dolby Digital Plus. This is not just a stripped down version of what you'll find in your living room, this is the real deal. This means the Nokia N8, along with delivering HD quality video, offers full 5.1 surround sound. Of course, it is unlikely the Nokia N8 will take the place of disc spinner at home, but hit the road and together with an HDMI cable, anyone can be watching great movies anywhere he finds himself in front of a TV.

Nokia N8 Camera

The Nokia N8 can power USB speakers, meaning you can listen to music at a great quality and sound level whilst on-the-go. Thanks to Nokia's USB on-the-go technology. Many people probably didn't think it was possible, however the video below proves otherwise – the Nokia N8 is powering and using the USB speakers without external power.

 
Double Microphones

 

Damian Dinning touched on this in his post on the Nokia N8's camera. You'll find two microphones on the Nokia N8: one on the rear of the device and one on its face. Both microphones will record when you're capturing video. The result? Audio that's both rich and clear as day, in video voice-overs, video recording and calls.

 
Audio outputs

Naturally, the Nokia N8 comes with a 3.5mm headphone jack. Plug in any pair of buds or cans to enjoy your tunes. There is also a micro USB connector for an additional microphone or specialist audio equipment.

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* Carl Zeiss (11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German maker of optical instruments commonly known for the company he founded, Carl Zeiss Jena (now: Carl Zeiss AG). Zeiss made contributions to lens manufacturing that have aided the modern production of lenses. Raised in Weimar, Germany, he became a notable lens maker in the 1840s when he created high quality lenses that were "wide open", or in other words, had a very large aperture range that allowed for very bright images. He did this in the city of Jena at a self opened workshop, where he started his lens making career. At first his lenses were only used in the production of microscopes, but when cameras were invented, his company began manufacturing high quality lenses for cameras.

** Dolby Digital Plus (DD+ or E-AC-3 (Enhanced AC-3), and sometimes incorrectly as EC-3) is a digital audio compression scheme. It is an incompatible development of the technologies used in the earlier Dolby Digital system. E-AC-3 has a number of improvements aimed at increasing quality at a given bitrate compared with legacy Dolby Digital (AC-3). While legacy AC-3 supports up to 5 full-range audio channels at a coded bitrate of 640 kbit/s, E-AC-3 supports up to 13 full range audio channels at a coded bitrate of 6.144 Mbit/s peak.

Dolby Digital Plus bitstreams are not backward compatible with legacy Dolby Digital decoders, and decoders that output audio over legacy S/PDIF connections must transcode the bitstreams to an older format such as PCM, AC-3, or DTS.