Nokia N8 power problems surface

‘When it rains it pours,’ so the saying goes, but this is a scrupulous problem Finnish mobile giant Nokiacould have done without. It has materialized this past week that the Nokia N8 has been suffering power problems that have rendered the gadget practically hopeless for a subset of its punters.

UNSPECIFIED NUMBER OF AFFECTED consuMERS

Speaking to Reuters, Niklas Savander, who is Nokia’s sales chief, said the Nokia N8 power issue, where the phone would turn off by itself and not come back on, was experienced by ‘a limited number of N8 users’. A spokesperson later said the problem arose in production, and has since been fixed, so it is likely to affect early adopters only, with Savander reaffirming that ‘the total number of affected users was “a small number.”’

TROUBLED HISTORY

The Nokia N8, which was supposed to mark the Finnish mobile phones giant’s comeback, has been distressed since initiation. Though it was scheduled to reach customers as far back as June, Nokia only began a staggered rollout in November. These problems were attributed to Symbian^3 development timelines slipping, only to later have the mobile OS slated for not being up to modern standards.

COMMONPLACE

Before appropriating unnecessary blame to Nokia for this manufacturing fault, one needs to be mindful that these types of issues accompany many high profile smartphones. Apple, for instance, has had various issues, as well as antennagate and glassgate, with its iPhone 4, as have a number of high profile Google Android handsets.

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